Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-09-18
MAJOR M'kINLEY MAKES ANOTHER
ADDRESS.
So CARLOADS OF VISITORS.
FROM THE EDGAR THOMSON WORKS
AT BRADDOCK, PA.
Tae Republican Nominee Shows That
Prosperity Depends Upon Good
Work, Good Wages and
Good Money-Gener-
ousIy Applauded.

rlOyES
at Braddock, Pa. They came via the Penn
sylvania on a special train of three seq
tions of twelve coaches each. The first
section arrived at Il:i0 and the others
shortly afterwards. Fully 1900 men were
in line in the parade, which marched to
the music of the Sheridan, Sable and st.
Thomas bands There was cheering and
hurrahing all along the line. At the Nc
Kinley home earty congratulations and
assurances of support were offered by ].
L. Jones, OF the clerical force of the conf
pany, who was spokesman Of the company.
Major Mckinley responded and reception
followed. Major McKinley's address was
as follows:
"Mr. jones and My Fellow Citizens
Many delegations have waited upon me in
the last two months. All have been well
ccmed and their visits have been inspiring;
but somehow when an assemblage of work
ingmen come TO pay me a visit it attracts
my interest and touches my heart.
(Cheers.) l bid you welcome to my city
and TO my home. / can well appreciate
why the workingmen of this country
should have a deep and profound interest
in the outcome of the present national con-
test. (Crives of I'VE have"t L cannot
fail to remember that the one thing which
of Europe--the thing which stands between
your workshops and the workshops of the
Old Wcrld-is a WISE patriotic, American
prctective policy. Great cheering and cries
of Right you are"D
81 am very glad to have this large dele
CATION of the employees of the great Edgar
Thomson s.eel works OF Braddock, Pa, al
my home applause and cries Of 1--WE are
glad to be here.'D You have come, as your
Spokesman has stated, to bring me your
good viii and that of your fellow citizens.
w,hcm You represent. / am glad to have
you come in the manner your spokesman
has described-representing all creeds, all
colors and all classes: men who belong to
the Republican party and those who have
heretofore belonged to other parties now
acting together for what they believe to
be the common good. (Cries of 'What's s
the matter with Mckinley? He's all right
This is distinctively the peoples year.
when old lines are effaced and men hereto
fore opposed meet upon common plat
form to sustain the honor of our country.
(Applause.)
political parties are only the agents Of
the people. They are only what the people
make them. and are entitled TO their con-
fidence only 50 long as they serve their
IL -
are an concerned, no matter what may be
our occupations. in our country's welfare.
(Cries of That's so."D
Whatever political views we may have,
however We may differ on minor uues-
tions of public policy, We are all of one
miro in the conviction that something or
other is the matter with the country ZAP
plause) We may differ in our diagnosis:
We may differ about the treatment in de-
tail: but We do not disagree upon what is
essential in the first instance to the restor-
alton of the better conditions of the past.
One thing above all else that is wanted at
this juncture is the return of public and
private confidence applause and cries of
Correctly
Its absence Is our fundamental trouble
Upon that there cannot be two opinions.
and that, my fellow citizens, no class Of
people know better than you. We know
the very day and the hour when this con-
ficence was first shaken, and from that
hour distrust and doubt have hung over
the business of the country.
1T has been aggravated from a variety
OF Causes, but none greater than the as
sault which has been made by the allied
political organizations upon the credit and
currency OF the country. (Applause.) This
new menace must be averted before we
can hope to have any permanent prosper
ity. We know thatsthe present monetary
standard has not stood in the way of our
prosperity in the past. (Cries of No, no,
free trade has.'D You know that we were
prosperous in 1892 and had been for the
preceding ten years. You know that We
have not seen any real measuss Of pros
. perity since. (Applause.)
"Business is so sensitive, 20 quick 10
mt lar.a l.S u L
posed legislation or change Of policy which
would derange or alter or unsettle values
is felt long before the apprehended blow
u given. So that from the very hour It
was determined by the American people
that the Republican party which, with but
smgle interruption, had been in control
OF the government for more than thirty
years, was to go out of power and another
party with a different policy was to come
IN. that moment every business man Of the
ana of fear and anxiety. Applause) While
business men were waiting to know en-
actly what legislation was to be- business
wa was !, ianSuishing i from one end OF the coun-
work. Then We commenced living from
nand 10 mouth and We have been living
sna and 10 crss sus 81 since
"is an old comrade said TO me a few
days ago. The distance seems TO be get
ing greater with each succeeding year
according to a census recently taken by
q newspaper in New York it appears that
In July. 1892, 5T employers of labor in the
United States gave work to 1921 hands.
How was 1t In July, 1895? CCries of Not
50 Geod.D The same employers gave work
TO iS.Io0 hands: 35.53l men who had been
employed in 1892 were thrown out of en-
ployment in 1896 and put in a state of idle
ress. resulting in a loss of more than 30
pe- cert 10 labor. In July, 1892. the wages
PAID 10 the l1i,2Sl hands amounted to s.. s27-
ea. In July. 1896, the earnings of the IS, 200
hands amounted TO only s.. .469, ,7l2 loss to
labor in n a . single month in those establish
Pennsylvania knows it')
YES. and Pennsylvania. like all the rest
OF the country; will vote, this year with
In 1892 the monthly average of wages
1896 only sSl. '''' -
Americans who believe that the American
workshop should be protected so far as
possible from the foreign workshop. to the
end that American workingmen NAV he
constantly employed. and SO protected. too.
as TO be employed at American wages
TREMENDOUS cheering and cries of Whats
risht.'D Nor do want products cheapened
at the expense of American manhood
lApplause) Nor do / think it is economy
to buy goods cheaply abroad if thereby il
enfcrces idleness at home. Renewed ap-
plause.) Such goods are the dearest tha,
tnc american people can buy. (Cries OF
Plight you are, major.D
James C. Blaine (applause). that gifted
statesman. in 1854. spoke words OF wisdom
which seem singularly applicable to ou,
present situation and to the present hour
He said: A policy that would abandon the
field of home trade must prove diSastrou.
10 the mechanics and workingmen OF tn,
United States. Wages are unjustly reduced
when an industrious man is not able b,
his earnings to live in comfort. educate hi.
children. and save sufficient amount FOL
the necessities of age. The reduction o.
wages. inevitably consequent upon throw