The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-18
M'KINLEY
TO The MEN
From the Great Carnegie Steel
Works.
Makes a Comprehensive Tariff
Argument
EMPLOYING FIGURES.
His Remarks Received With
Loud Cheering
And Numerous COmmendatOry
Intersections.
FIGURES.

Canton. O., Sept. 1s.-The following is
Major NcKinley's address made to the
Carnegie workmen from Braddock,
yesterday afternoon:
Mr.. Jones and Ny Fellow Citizens:
Many delegations have waited upon me
in the last two months. All have been
welcomed and their visits have been
Inspiring, but some how, when an as
sem blage of WOrk1ngmen come 10 pay
me visit, it attracts my interest and
touches my heart (CheerS.) 1 DID
you welcome to my city and to my
home can well appreciate why the
WOrldngmen of this country should
have q deep and profound interest in
the outcome Of the present national
contest. (Cries of we have"
cannot fail to remember that one
hing which stands between your labor
and the labor of EurOpe-the one thing
which stands between your workshops
and the workshops of the old world, is
a wise, patriotic, American protective
policy Great cheering and cries of
Right you are-'D 1 am very glad to
have this large delegation Of the en-
ployes of the great Edgar Thomson
steel works of BraddOck, Pa, at my
home applause and cries of We are
glad to be here.'D You have come as
your spokesman has stated, to bring
me your good viii and that of your fell
low citizens whom you represent. am
glad TO have you come in the manner
your spokesman has desCribed-repre-
senting all creeds, all cOlOrs and all
classes, men who belong to the Repub-
ican party and those who have hereto
lore belonged to other parties now act
ing together for what they believe to
pc the common good CCries of What's
the matter with Mckinley He's all
right.') This is distinctively the peO-
pies year when old lines are effaced,
and men heretofore opposed meet upon
common platform to sustain the honor
Of our country (Applause.)
Political parties are only the agents
Of the people. They are only what the
people make them, and are entitled to
their confidence only so long as they
serve their highest and best interests.
lApplauSe.) We are all concerned. no
matter what may be our occupations.
ln our coUntrys welfare. (Cries of
That's SOD Whatever political views
we may have. however we may differ
on minor questions of public policy, we
are all of one mind in the convictions
that something or other is the matter
with the country. (Applause.) We may
differ in our diagnosis, we may differ
about the treatment of the detail but
we DO not disagree upon what is essen
tial in the first instance to the restOra-
ton Of the better conditions of the past.
One thing above all else that is wanted
at this juncture, is the return of public
confidence applause and cries of
Correct Its absence is our funda-
mental trouble Upon that there can
not be two opinions, and that, my fell
low citizens. no class of people know
and the hour when this confidence was
first shaken, and from that hour dis
trust and doubt have hung over the
business of the country. It has been
aggravated from variety of causes,
put none greater than the assault which
has been made by the allied political
organizations upon the credit and cur
rency Of the country (Applause.)
This new menace must be averted be-
fore we can hope to have any perma-
nent prosperity. We know that the
present monetary standard has not
stood in the way of our prosperity in
the past (Cries of No, no; free trade
has.'D You know that we were pros
porous in 1892 and had been for the
preceding ten years. You know that
we have not seen any real measure of
prosperity since. (Applause.) Bust
ness Is SO sensitive, so quick to scent
Hanger, that any legislation or proposed
iegisltion or change of policy which
would derange or alter or unsettle val
ues, is felt long before the apprehend-
ed blow is given. So that from the
very hour it was determined by the
American people that the Republican
party, which with but a single Interrupt
ton had been in control of the govern
ment for more than 80 years, was to go
out of power and another party with a
different policy was to come in. that
moment every business man of the
country assumed an attitude of waiting
and OF fear and Of anxiety. applause
While business men were waiting to
be. business was languishfng from one
end of the country to the other, and
labor was without work. Then we com
menced living from hand to mouth and
we have been living from hand to mouth
ever since Great applause and cries
Of We have )As an old comrade said
to me q few days ago: The distance
seems TO be getting greater with each
succeeding year daughter and ap-
plause.1
According to census recently ia
Ken by a newspaper in New York 1t ap-
pears Thar IN July. 1892. 577 employers
OF labor in the United States gave
work to ia 231 hands How was it in
July, 1882 (Cries of Not so good. -
1ne same employers gave work to 7S,-
4uo nanQs; 1851 men, who had been
employed in 1892 We're thrown out of
employment in 1895 and put in state
OF likeness resulting in loss of more
than 80 per cent to labor. In July, 1892.
the wages paid to the 114231 hands
amounted to S3.927. 900. In July. 1895
the earnings Of the 1890 hands
amounted to only 50 469 T12 a loss 70 Ia
Dor IN q single month in those estab-
nshments Of Sl,457 600, or 40 per cent
"a voice. pennsylvania knows it. =
res and Pennsylvania like all the
rest OF the country will vote this wear
with knowledge. (Cries of ssRiphf
FighL') In 1892 the monthly average of
wages paid in these establishments was
$3.50; in 1896. only SS1
Ny cOuntrymen. I am one Of those
americans who believe that the work
shops should be protected so far as pos
slole from the foreign workshop. to the
end that American workmen NAV be
constantly employed and so protected
TOO, as to be employed at American
wages Tremendous cheering and
cries Of What's the matter with Nc
ktnley2 He's all right') Nor do I
want products cheapened at the ex-
penEe Of American manhood CAD-
plause-) Nor de think that It is econ
envy to buy goods cheaper abroad If
thereby il enforces fdIeness at home
(beensUsa applause.) Such goods are