New-York tribune., 1896-10-24
FROM KANSAS ITO CANTON.
WITH PLEDGES TO MKINLEY.
VISITORS TRAVEL A THOUSAND MILES
TO CHEER THE CANDIDATE.
OTHER DELEGATIONS COME FROM PENNSYLVANIA.
OHIO AND INDIANA TO LISTEN TO MAjot
MKINLEY's ELooUENcE-sIxrEENp DEL
EGArIoNs EXPECTED TO-DAY.

Msio Mckinley, and had been the cars Tor
thiry-four hours. but their enthusiasm was un-
bounded. They cheered and shouted and applauded
TO- several minutes The committee with the dele
cation W +. Simpson, T.. Cunningham ana H.
B. Morse. all OF Emporia Mr.. Morse. who is prcsi-
dent of the Railway Mems Sound Money Club OF
Emporia selected spokesman. and A. NJ
Baird. of Topeka a foreman in the railroad shops
there introduced him.
SPEECH TO KANSAS VISITORS.
This delegation ca ne a greater distance TO vis!i
Major Mckinley than any OF his other callers. lie
addressed 1t as follows:
You have journeyed further than any other
delegation of The United States that has non"
orcd me with visit at my home. and apprc-
cate it more than / can find lords to speak. 1t
shows better than any words that could be ut
tered what is in your minds and hearts and what
your purposes arc in the election to held on
November j. You are Interested IN me
prosperity of your country There was time
when some men were in the habit of saying II
did not make any differe- to the railway men
Of the country what kind Of a financial policy
had or what kind of n tariff policy we pur-
| sued have heard it a thousand times from the
rostrum that while the tariff might help the
men engaged in the factories, it had no inf1u.
ence upon the wages of the men who were en-
gagged upon the great TRANSFORMATION lines of the
country.
If any Of you believed that statement four
years ago. you do not believe it now. (Cries OF
That's right") Because You know that upon
the prosperity of our great railroads. and upon
their prosperity depends your employment and
wages. In the last three years and half no
property has suffered more than the railroads.
Many Of them have been compelled to go into
bankruptcy: many of them have been unable TO
pay either their bonds or their interest on them:
and that is only because the change Of lS''2 set
tied paralysis upon the business of the United
States. Now what we want to do Is 10 get back
our prosperity. and whatever will do that is what
all Of us ought to be I'm favor of. matter what
may be our several occupations and employ
ments.
A number Of reasons are offered for this
gested condition Of business. and number Of
prescriptions offered for its cure. and the
most prominent one is that we will all he made
prosperous and happy II we only open our
| mnts TO the coinage Of all the silver in the
| world. Will it Increase your traffic or trans
| portation? VIII it increase the wages of any
| workngman to have this Government declare
| that piece of silver that you can buy any
| where in the world for - cents shall be coined
a dollar by this Government without ex-
| pense. and fool ourselves by calling them
| dollars? Il is not the mints we want to start.
| II is the great industrial enterprises OF the
United States that must start. (Applause)
| What we want is. first. a market for tho
| products of the great West, so that you can
haul these products fror' the West to the East
ern shores and not have products sent from
| the other side of the Atlantic. You want that
as interested railroad men; but you do not want
cheap dollar anyhow. This is not cheap
| country "a voice And this is not a. cheap
| crowd.D And. my friend says. this is not
| cheap crowd daughter and applause)
| We have to-day the best money In the world
the gold dollar the silver dollar and the paper
| dollar-each OF them 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 trouble is 1t
does not circulate. AS have said before, money
| does not make business-business makes money.
Money does not bring work: work brings money.
So all the years Of my public life have been ad-
vocating an industrial policy that Will protect
| the American producer against the cheaper
products of other countries and other lands
| 1Cries Of "Hurrah for Mckinley")