The herald., 1896-10-27
ANGELES TUESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER

| tion, the one working with the other for
the public good and for their advan-
| tage. We do not want IN this country
antagonism between capital and labor.
They ought to be close together all the
| time. They cannot go on without each
other and, instead of their being enc
| mics. they ought always to be friends
| Instead of encouraging sympathy be-
tween them, which we all ought always
| to advance, there are those who would
create antipathy between them; for
example, between railroad managers
and those who are employed by the rail-
roads.
Now, I do not believe in any such doc
trine myself. 1 believe in the common
brotherhood of man; believe that labor
gets on best when capital gets on best
and that capital gets on best when
labor is paid the most. Instead of there
being a natural antagonism, there is
natural alliance between them, and the
people who are forever seeking to create
antagonisms between those who en-
ploy labor and those who are employed
are the people who never gave any en-
ployment OF labor at all Now. what we
want in this country-and I am now ad-
dressing the Sound Money club of the
Baltimore and Ohio Western railway
alone-is confidence in each other. conf
dence in the credit of the country. con-
fidence in the future, confidence in our
money, confidence that if we invest our
money today we win get something out
of it at the end of the year. If we have
not any confidence Of that kind. no one
will feel like investing money and If
money is not invested there Is no en-
ployment for labor.
Now, what we want to do not as par
tfsans. but as patriots, is to stand for
that policy which is best for ourselves,
our homes, our wives and our children.
as well as our state and our country, and
then we want to teach a reverence for
public law and to stand firmly fer tran
guilty as against violence. We want
to stand by the great incorrupt>Sle ju-
dietary of the country, which is our bull
wark OF safety in every hour of trouble
and peril. We do not want any dishon-
est dollars.
Major Mckinley, i'll the course of his
response to Engineer George Menish of
North Judson, Ind. who spoke on be-
half of the employees of the Erie system,
said:
I want the people of this country this
year. as in all the years of the past, each
for himself and for his family, to cast
his ballot so as to subserve his own
highest and hest interests. There is al
most panic among some people in this
country because employees and employ
ers are marching under the same flags,
as though there was something un-
American in a fraternity between the
men who employ labor and the labor
they employ.
Why. there is no union anywhere that
should be stronger than the union be-
tween labor and capital. The one cannot
get on without the other. and labor,
thank God, is the foundation of all the
wealth and prosperity beneath our flag
Capital won't run a railroad without
profit any more han a conductor will
run his train without pay Capital will
no more work without profit than an en-
gineer will run his engine without pay.
What we want in this country is a res
toration of that confidence that will give
capital profit and have it make liberal
investments and employ labor at liber-
al American wages. Whatever policy
will do that should be the policy of the
American people for all time to come
We want further to have it under
stood by all mankind that this is not
nation of repudiators; that we believe In
paying our debts in good. sound, honest
dollars-not only our public debts, but
our private ones, too; not only paying
one body Of our people in good money,
but all classes of the people in the same
money. and all Of it unquestioned and
undepreciating forever This is the
kind Of money we have today-gold ST.
yer and paper, all alike. equal, and all
worth 100 cents to the dollar everywhere,
and that's what we propose to continue.
Then. my citizens another
thing we want in this country. We
want public peace and tranquility, ana
we want each man to have respect for
our laws, for our institutions, the
grandest and best beneath the sun.