The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-29

nolicv we pursued in the United States. !
have heard it said thousand times from
tbe nublic rostrum that while tariff might
helm the men engaged in the factories 1t
had no influence upon the wages OF the
men who were engaged upon the great
transportation lines of the country. IL
any of YOU believed that statement -FOUR
veors ago YOU do not believe it now, Tor
Won believe that on the prosperity OF the
country depends the prosperity OF our
railroads. and upon their prosperity ae-
nends your prosperity and wages: lou
will have nothing to do if there is noth,
ing to haul, and the more there is to maui
the steadier employment YOU VIII nave
and the better wages you VIII get lor y9oi
services. In the last three years ,, emu q
half no character of property has SUFFERED
more than the railroads. Many OF them
have been compelled to go into bankrupt
/ cy. into the hands of receivers. Many
l. NJ them have been unable to pay either
their bonds or their interest ON their
debts. Now, what we want Is TO get
back our prosperity. Whatever VIII no
that is what all of us ought to be III 1avor
of. no matter what may be our Occupation
or emnloymcnt. A number of reasons
are offered for this congested condition OF
business. and number of prescriptions
are offered for its cure. The most prom
inent is that we viii all be made pros
porous and happy if we only open our
mints to the coinage of all the silver IN
the world. Can any Worklngmah teil
me how the free coinage of silver OF the
world will benefit him: Will It increase
our traffic or transportation! VIII 1t IN
crease consumption in the east or tie pro
duction of the farmers i'll the west! w III
it increase the demand for single uay $
labor anywhere? Will it increase the
wages of any workingman to have this
government declare that with IL ounces
of silver that you can buy anywhere III
the world for 81 cents, shall be coined as
dollars by the government without eX-
pense, and we fool ourselves by gaining
them dollars? Will that help anybody
Will that help any mans interest any
where? All it will do will be to increase
the production of silver of the world, and
with the increased production of silver
will come its certain depreciation, ana
with the depreciation of silver will be the
still further depreciation of the silver
coins of the United States. Surely nc
man wants that. 1t is not the minis we
want to start; it is the great industrial
enterprises of the United States that must
start. You are prosperous when every
factory in the country is busy and every
workingman employed, making products
in the east that are shipped to the west
and growing products in the west that are
shipped to the east. And what we want
is first market for the products of the
great west, so that you can haul those
products from the west to the eastern
shore and not have products sent then
from the other side of the Atlantic. You
do not want cheap dollar. anyhow. This
is not cheap country. | do not know
of any patriotic citizen who wants us L
adopt the financial system of either Next
co or China. We have now the best
money in the world. the gold dollar, thu
silver dollar and the paper dollar, eacf
worth 100 cents because each has the
government of the United States behind
it. Such money is good enough for us
and we have enough of it, but the trou
BILE is it does not circulate. Everybody
that has hundred dollars is boarding il
today. There is not a man in the audi
cnce who, making a hundred dollars, is
willing to loan it out unless he is certain
he will get it back. principal and interest
Is not that so? There is not a railroad
employee who has laid aside a hundred dol
lars that will not hold on to it until ht
knows what the future policy is to be-
Maj. Mckinley also addressed delega
tions from Newcastle and Logansport
Ind.