The herald., 1896-10-02
CAMPAIGN EXCURS|OA|SIS
Still Find Cars Which Run to
Canton
MANY CLUBS REPRESENTED
But the Little Tabernacle Affords Ample
Accommodation
What the American Farmer Needs Most
is Not a Better Market, But
More Harvesting Machines.
Associated Press Special Wire

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Associated Press Special Wire
CANTON, Ohio, Oct. Flour trains
brought delegations from Portage
county, Ohio, with greetings to Major
Mckinley. The first was a party from
the southern part of the county over
the Pennsylvania company on regular
trains. The other three came in specials
of nine cars each over the c. G. G. and
st. l.. No demonstration was made until
the last arrived, when the parade was
organized. After short march meet
ing was held in the tabernacle. Intro
ductory addresses were delivered by
S. p. Welcott, ex-State Senator kent,
Ohio district. A delegation from Spring.
field, Ohio, arrived on a special train of
seven coaches at 1:45 this afternoon.
1t brought the Heavy Weight McKin-
ley and Hobart club and other clubs
and citizens generally. After short
parade in the business portion of the city
the crowd assembled in the tabernacle.
Addresses were made by Judge John C.
Miller and Major Mckinley. In welcom
ing the citizens of Springfield and Clark
county Major Mckinley said:
I dare not undertake to enumerate the
clubs present here lest 1 might miss
some of them, but all are welcome. 1
never stand before a Springfield audi
ence without having come unbidden to
the lips some precious name associated
with that enterprising city. Shellabar-
ger was not only distinguished lawyer,
but was a statesman, as was that dear
old citizen, ]. d. Baker; and Judge
White, whose learning has enriched the
judiciary, of the state. Names like
those come to me whenever I see a
Springfield audience. 1t is not given
many cities to furnish, as yours has,
such a distinguished soldier and valued
statesman as ex-speaker of the national
house of representatives, ]. Warren
Kiefer (applause), nor is it given to
many cities to furnish such splendid
ideal business men and distinguished
executives as the present governor Of
Ohio, Asa Bushnell.
Cyrus H. Mccormick Of Chicago, who
is at the head of the great harvesting
machine company, whose ste.1ing in
tegrity the country is familiar with, re-
Gently wrote the following: 1--WE never
before have been SO at a loss to lay
our plans for work next season as now.
If we thought the country would go
for the unlimited coinage of silver we
do not wish to run our shops for more
than half their capacity"
We have in this statement descrip-
tion of our business troubles and 1t
teaches a striking lesson which must
impress every thinking man. The man
ufacturer does not know how to plan for
next years business BECAUSE of the
financial uncertainty created by the
attitude of a great political party in
combination with two other parties. If
free silver is to be inaugHrated in this
country, it will change all values, dis
arrange the relation of labor to pro-
duction and raw material to the finished
product. This uncertainty makes every
business man pause, makes every busi-
ness enterprise halt, and while they
pause and halt the home of every work.
ingman is filled with despair. Capital
ger ahead and is unable to count with
certainty upon either the safety of its
principal or the return of profits and
while capital waits outside the factory,
the machinery within is SILENT labor un-
employed and poverty presides about the
fireside of men who toll. 1 do not know
how many hands the firm of Mccormick
& Co. employs, many thousands I am
sure, but whenIle. stateS that Il we have
free coinage he cannot run shops with
more than half the labor now employed
I assume that what would be true in
the case of the harvester company of
Chicago would be true of every harvest
ing machine concern in Springfield and
throughout the country. Take your own
city which heretofore has been one of
the busiest centers in the manufacture
of agricultural implements, employing
many laborers, or which once did (great
laughter), to cut that employment in
two, would be a calamity not only to
labor but calamity, to every industry
in your city and every farmer in your
county. Your business fairly illustrates
the cfbse relation between the manufac-
turer and agricultural producer. When
YOU are prosperous the farmer Is pros
porous, and when the farmer is pros
porous you have your most profitable
trade. If your pay roll be reduced by
half it will be felt by every farmer in
your county and in the injury thus
inflicted on the farmer, would effect the
machine works; because your customers
who are farmers, would suffer from the
diminished labor you would employ in
consequence of loss. of part of their
home market Is not this true fellow
citizens? Cloud cries of "Yes.O Busi-
ness of every character is so interviewer
and so dependent on every other busi-
ness that hurt to one is hurt to the
other.
In 1892 the people used to think you
could hurt the manufacturer and help
the rest of mankind. daughter.) They
labor under no such delusion now. De-
mand is what makes business activity
Sickle andffail would still be in use but
for the pressing demand from the grain
fields of America. You make agricul-
tural implements because the farmer
wants them, but when he does not want
them you do not make them, and when
he wants fewer OF them you make as
many as he wants, and when the time
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