The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-18
CANTON is
THE MECCA
Pennsylvania Steel Work
ers Pay a Visit to Major
Mckinley.
NEARLY FOUR THOUSAND
VOTERS IN LINE.
Wage-Earners Who Are Opposed
to the Level of Pauper
Labor.
SEE THEIR ONLY SALVATION
IN PROTECTION.
Why Men of Ali Creeds and Glasses
Are Flockigg TO the Repub.
lican Banner.

CANTON, OHIO, Sept. IA large and
enthusiastic delegation composed of the
employees of the Edgar Thompson Steel
Works of Braddock, Pa, arrived on three
special trains over the Pennsylvania Rail-
road shortly after noon to-day. The visit
ors we're accompanied by the Sheridan Sa-
Der and st. Thomas bands. There were
fully $500 persons in the party.
At the depot the visitors was met by the
Canton Mounted Troop and large crowd
of citizens. When the last of the three
trains had pulled into the station the line
was formed and the delegation marched
to the residence of Major Mckinney. The
spokesman of the party was John l..
Jones. He made brief speech to the
candidate. IN which he praised the prolec-
tive principles of the Republican party and
declared that his people were soiidIy for
sound money.
Major Mckinley had been received with
storm of cheering when he appeared on
the porch. This applause was renewed
when the spokesman had finished his in
troductory remarks and the nom inee had
mounted chair to respond. Major Nc
Kinley said:
egations have waited upon Ine in the last two
months All have been welcome and their
visits have been inspiring, but somehow when
an assem- blage of worLingmen come TO pay me
VISIT 1t attracts my interest and touches my
heart. lCheers.l I bid you welcome to my
city and to my home. I can well appreciate
why the workingmen of this country should
have deep and. profound interest in the out
come of the present National contest. [Cries
of 1--WE have."l We cannot fail to remember
that the one thing which stands between your
labor and the labor of Europe-the only thing
which stands between your workshops and the
workshops of the Old Worlds wise, patri-
otic American protective policy. [Great cheer
ing and cries of "Right you are.'l
1 an very glad to have this large delegation
OF the employees of the great Edgar Thomson
Steel Works of Braddock, Pa, at my home.
[Applause and cries of 1--WE are glad To be
here."l You have come, as your spokesman
has stated, to bring me your goodwill and
that of your fellow-citizens, whom you repre-
sent. am glad 10 have you to come in the
manner your spokesman has described-repre-
senting all creeds, all colors and all classes I;
men who belong to the Republican party and
those who have heretofore belonged TO other
parties. now acting together for what they be-
lieve to be the common good. [Appiausel
This is distinctively the peoples year. when
old lines are efaced and men heretofore op-
tain the honor OF the country. [Applause.l
Parties are only agents of the people. They
are only what the people make them, and en-
titled to their confidence only so long as they
serve their highest and best interests, ZAP
plRuse and cries of That's right"l We are
all concerned, no matter what may be our oc-
cupations in our country's welfare. [Cries of
"Thats so."l Whatever political views we
may have, however we may differ on minor
questions of public policy, we are all of one
mind in the conviction that something is the
matter with the country. We may differ in
our diagnosis; we may differ about the treat
ment in detail, but we do not disagree upon
what is essential in the first instance to the
restoration of the better conditions of the
past. One thing above all else that is wanted
ct this juncture is the return of public and
private confidence. [Applauss and cries of
'Correct"
Its absence is our fundamental trouble.
Upon that there cannot be two opinions, and
that, my fellow-citizens,- no class of people
know better than you. We know the very
day and the hour when this confidence was
first shaken, and from that hour distrust and
doubt have hung over the business of the
country. II has been aggravated from a
variety of causes but none greater than the
assault which has been made by the allied
political organizations upon the credit and
the currency of the country. [Applsuse and
cries of That's right."l
This new menace must be averted before we
can hope to have any permanent prosperity.
We know that the present money standard has
not stood in the way of our prosperity the
past. (Cries of No, no; free trade has.'l You
know that we were prosperous in 1892 and
had been for the preceding ten years. You
know that we have not seen any real measure
of prosperity since. [Applause and cries of
"thats right."l
Business is so sensitive, so quick to scent
danger, that any legislation or proposed
legislation or change OF policy which would
derange or alter or unsettle values is felt long
before the spprehended blow is given. So
that from the very hour it was determined by
the American people that the Republican
narty. which with but a single interruption
had been in control of the Government for
more than thirty years, was to go out of power
and another party with different policy was
10 come in that moment every business OF the
country assumed an attitude of waiting and
of fear and anxiety. [Applause.l While busi-
ness men were waiting TO know exactly what
legislation was TO be business was languishing
from one end to the other and labor was With
ont work. Then we commenced living from
hand 10 mouth, and we have been living from
hand 10 mouth ever since. tGreat applause
and cries of ave have
Asan old eomrade said to me a few days ago,
"The distance seems to be getting greater with
each succeeding year" Laughter and ap-
plausel According TO g census recently taken
by newspaper in New York it appears that
in July, 1892, 587 employers OF labor in the
United States gave work to ll4,23l hands.
How was it in July, 1896? lCrles OF mot so
good.'1 The same employers gave work to 49,
700 hands; 50, 531 men mo had been en-
ployed in 1892 were thrown out OF employ