The Red Cloud chief., 1896-10-02
PILGRIMS TO ANTON.
Major Mri>inir, speaks ABOUT Labor aud
cam gi urI t,ss Prejudice.

Capt gi nui ti,.s Prejudice.
C,NIoN. Ohio. sept. = n special
train bear NJ several hundred ,om.
mrrriai trUvt,cr, from Peoria. Ill
and vicinity reached here at . o'clock
this morning The men were uni.
formed in light Colored linen busters
and black sitN mats and each carried a
large bunch OF red, white and blue
plumcs. They went direct To the Me-
kinley residence where they were
presented by i. V Gran, Congressman
Of 'hr Fourteenth Illinois district.
Major Mckinley responded in part
~ tO,iowS More than l!U years
have passed since the government
was founded aud in every trial OF our
history we have demonstrated our ca
par'ty for self government and shown
It. all mankind the use and udvanta.
gc> OF the great republic. Now and
then IN Our popular elections we may
have been swaycd hy passion, or
movcd by the d~cmagoguc from our
nOOringS. but the American people
are not fooled but once On II subject.
for oucc deceived they never follow
the ipccivcr the second time.
Il have known and SO have YOU
times in our history when the major.
itv of the people were made to believe
that certain policies would serve their
best interests and when it transpircd
that they did not, they turned upon
the parts which deceived them and
turned n out of power. And they
will do II again. The judgment of
the people il swift and terrible
against ,,u>r who mi>icad md dcludc
them lhe people are never led
aStray 10y deceit or Misrepresentation
when they Investigate for them.
selves This they are doing
this year in a marked degree.
II IL OF no avail that party lead
cra appeal to passion when the
people are alive To- their own and the
public interests II will not do TO say
to the men who are poor in this
worlds goods: You must get OF nv
yourselves, form Il class Of your own,
your interests are opposed To those
who employ you That is not enough
this year. The w~orkingnan asks:
What good will that do me, how will
that better my condition. how will
that bring bread 10 my family and
cheer to my children? How will | be
benefited by ~despoihng my employer?
viii 1t give me more employment and
better wages ~ strike those down
whose money is invested in produc.
tive enterprises, who give me York
and wages
EOur years & II was said that
manufacturers were making too much
money. - remember il. But il
cannot be said now. And that the
'robbcr tariff which was euriching
him must be torn up, root aud branch,
to the end that he should lie deprived
OF what some people were pleased 10
call 'ili.gottcn profits The country
seemed to snare in the suggestion and
The trial was entered upon with what
result every manufacturer, com
mcrcial man, travelling man or worh.
ingmau best knows II has been dis
covered TO our hurt aud sorrow tina,
you cannot injure the manufactures
without injuring the laborer.
1t has been found. too. that you
cannot iniurc the manufacturer with
ont inju"iug the whole business Of til,
country. You may close the shops by
adverse tariffs because yon imagine
the manufacturer is making too much,
but with that done you close the doc,
o. employment n the face of the
laborcr whose only capital is his labor.
Naii'N ptAi7ih ~ 'ht ~
Furnishing the other, and our policy
would not iufict the slightest injury
upon either. In such a case, getting
off together does not do either any
good.
"Arraying labor against capital i,
n public calamity and an irrcparablc
injury to both. Glass appeals are dis
honest and dishonogab,e. They cal,
cuiate to separate both when they
should he united. Our economic in
tercsts are common and indivisiblc.
"Gcntlemcn, and ! speak to my
countrymen everywhere, if you have
not yourselves been among the mos,
fortunate, ! pray You think Of your
boys and girls and place no obstacles
in their pathway to the realization o,
every lofty and honorable ambition
which they may have. | pray Goo
that the burdens of classes may never
be imposed upon American manhood
aud American wonanhood."