The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-21

whether of. the old slave. territory or the
virgin prairies, except that their people
have not the t full ocGu2a1on at 5he fu
THE great trouble in this country is that
we have not enough TO do for our people.
had every man employed in this country in
1892 at the best wages that had ever been
What is the matter now? tvoice-'Why.
the mills are all shut down.D 1t is the
same country and the same population, the
prise and skill that we had four years ago.
What is the matter with the country now,
commercial men of Cincinnati? (Cries of
Lack of confidence.D Ii is the lack of con-
ndence you all with one voice say, ana why
eial men of Cincinnati? What we want in
this country in the first instance is restor-
alton of confidence-you are right about
that-and the only way to have confidence
in the government and among the people is
icy that will supply enough money TO pay
its expenses. CApplause)
HOW TO CREATE CONFIDENCE.
You cannot create confidence among the
people if you have no confidence in the
public treasury. Our dollars now are all
full and sound, and all we want is an op-
portunity to earn them. (Vociferous cheer
ing and cries of That's right.D How
this be secured? "a voice Elect McKin-
ley!D Well. do not know what you may
think about it, but l believe the best way
to restore prosperity to the people of the
United States is to do all our work at home
at the American scale of wages and on the
basis of American institutions and ideals.
fully recognizing, the necessity of free,
enlightened and dignified citizenship.
Cincinnati, the Queen City of the West
great appaluse) has pointed the way for
the right to all the people of the great Mis-
sissippi valley in many important contests.
In the old time her influence was great in
the first uprising of the people of the West
a protective
in the days of William Henry Harrison. In
border city, her voice was for Lincoln
tremendous applause.) And her attitude
during that struggle was always firm and
patriotic. In the fiat-money craze of 1868
her Republicans won signal triumph, and
again in 1873 and 1875 her example was
More than once Hamilton county has saved
the State of Ohio in a close fight "a voice
and / doubt not that voice will be strong
and clear and emphatic this year applause
and cries of You bet!l for national honor
in opposition to reputation You have
many men in Cincinnati of proud business
record. No city anywhere in the Union
has better stood the shocks of panics than
yours. city that passed through the
great panics of 1857 and 1873 with fewer
in this country. and that is now safe and
panic of 1898 and 1894 may safely be de-
pended upon to set a good example in the
future to all her neighbors. applause and
cries o OF Ely You u are re- right not+er eo,,nea
in extensive manufacturing plants, better
provided with railroads, mas steadier
elements of substantial prosperity than
Cincinnati. (Appause) Her travelling men
rection and built up a wholesale trade of
vast proportions Let them but promul-
gate the same. safe ana conservative, but
actuate her business men and they will
have done much for the right and for the
country Continuous applause) Cincin-
natl can again lead, and she owes 1T to
her creditable and glorious past to do so.
Il thank you, my ellow-citizens, for this
CALL 1 thank you for the honor that your
great city has done me more than once.
the great power of the commercial travel
ers They are so powerful that 1 do not
want them against me or against any in
with yog5, Mfajor!l !, thank YOU an ana bid
lasting several moments.)
HUNGARIAN-AMERI
After the Pittsburg commercial travellers
came the Hungarian Americans, of Cleve-
land To them the Ex-Governor said:
My Fellow-citizens, Hungarian Aneri-
can Citizens-I am indeed grateful for this
ances. which your spokesman has given
me of your support in the political cam
pride and boast of America is that every
man, native born or naturalized, mo mat
politics or place of birth. is equal before
the law and entitled to the enjoyment of
in a word that we ali stand upon the
platform, enjoying the largest lib
erty and widest opportunity in whatever
d CAppiause and cries Of that's a i1 rightly
Those of you who we're born in some for
eign country came here because you love
our free institutions and want to enjoy
equal privileges with those who were, al
liberty, ana because you believed that
there was a wider and better field for you
here than in the country from whence you
L
having come here to better your condi-
to tt'i Stand by the honor of the country yo and
| for the preservation of our free inStitu-
lions And want d, to say Just one thing
carrying the right flag, and with patri-
otism in your hearts and that flag in your
lean liberty, and our free institutions will
never perish.
of the people of this country. (Cries CT
| We want work!D Yes. you want work,
steady. You Want those wages good. and
then when you are Pala you want ln6 those those
| and good everywhere in the world. Great
cheering and cries of 'Hurrah for McKin-
| leyl) That is the kind of money we have
! now, and that is the kind of money we
propose to have in the United States, for
| we think that we are entitled to have the
assurances assn Of f'ii Sympathy and support of
the Hungarian American citizens. CCries
| the bottom of my heart for this call. !
| appreciate it; ii means something. 1t will
| be an encouragement to the men who
| stand for public honor and against re-
| pudation in every part of our country.
| (CheerS.)
LAST SPEECH OF THE DAY.
The last delegation of the day was the
Hardware Mems Club. of Cleveland. Major
| Mckinley spoke as follows:
My Fellow-citizens-I regret that you
| did not reach here earlier in the day.
! (CrieS of You are all right any time.
However, want to assure you that though
| you have come late, you are most welcome.
! 1t has given me pleasure to hear from your
! spokesman that the hardware men of the
| city of Cleveland. employers and employees,
| have joined together to promote the inter-
] ests and the honor of the country and the
| prosperity of the people. / do not know of
] any industry anywhere in the United
States that so fully and completely justifies
| the great doctrine of a protective tariff as
| the hardware industry of the United States
| (Cries of That's right.O l remember, and
| on the shelves of the American hardware
| merchant there was not to be found
/ single article of hardware of American
| manufacture, and that was only about
| thirty years ago. The shelves of the hard
| ware merchants of this country were
| crowded with foreign ware made in foreign
| work shops by foreign workingmen. When
| we had only foreign product We paid very
| much higher prices than we have paid since
! we commenced making our own hardware.