The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-14

manufacture products. to employ labor.
is the policy that ought to commend
itself to every patriotic citizen, and If
the tariff viii do these things, the
tariff surely is what by our votes three
weeks from today we ought to sustain
(Applause)
pennsylvania has always been a
protection state James buchanan, a
Democrat, when he was president of
the United States. gave some very
good advice which is applicable to the
present situation. lie said: No states
man would advise that We should 90
on increasing the national debt to meet
the ordinary expenses of the govern
ment This would be a ruinous policy
F" In case of war our credit must be
our chief resource at least for the first
year and we would be greater impair
ed by having contracted a large debt
in time Of peace 1t is our true policy
our expenditures; it would be ruinous
to continue to borrow
THAT is the position Of the Republi-
can party today. Mr.. Randall, a Dem
ocrat Of great distinction, a man of
wonderful power, who was always for
Pennsylvania. and the people of Penn
sylvania, and for the Workingnen of
Pennsylvania, declared in 1887 in the
last speech that he made in the congress
Of the United States in opposition to
the mills bill: If the farmer cease TO
buy the products of the manufacturers
he viii certainly not sell to them,
the market where he buys what
he consumes himself Suppose last
year We had manufactured
thousand millions worth less than
we did and had gone abroad FOR
these products, could a thousand mill
lions more of agricultural products
have been sold abroad at the price
which products brought here2 We sold
all the wheat and corn and meat pro-
ducts that Europe could take at the
price that prevailed. We can't tell
ken 500 millions or even 100 millions
more of our agricultural products than
she did take. The mere statement of
the proposition is enough to disclose
the error on which it is founded and
shows the Importance of uniting man
ufacturers with agriculture, or, as eff
fersOn states it. putting the manufac-
tureTs by the side of the farmer
In fact both must in our country
depend almost exclusively on the home
market. lit is folly, if not a crime, to
attempt to change it in these respects
1t would bring ruin and bankruptcy
without the possibility of having such
a result accomplished The greater the
diversity of Industries in any country
the greater the wealth producing pow
er of the people, and the more there is
for labor and capital to divide, the
more independent that country be-
comes. Now. my fellow citizens, 7 take
III that on the matter Of the tariff you
need no argument, but it is said our
trouble is not the tariff, but the money,
and that the way to have prosperity,
is to set our minis to running (Laugh-
ter and applause) I do not believe
they would employ any portion of the
idle miners OF the anthracite region IL
every mint in the United states was
started. Now j take IT Whatever may
be our employment. We want good
money. A money that will buy an
purchasing things whatever they are
is better than a money that viii not
Is not that so2 (Cries of. Yes, yes-)
A money good only in Ohio at its face
value as it used to be in the days of
old state banks, is not as good money
to have for all purposes as money that
VIII pass at its face value in every
state of the union Amt that SOP
(Cries Of. That's right-) Nov. is
money that is only current ia the uni
ted States ait face value and which
must stand discounted everywhere else,
as good as a money current good in
every civilized country? Which would
you rather have for your wages, the
money with q purchasing power equal
the world over, or a money whose value
and purchasing power is limited TO one
country? The thing called money and
which we give our laborer our products
for is more valuable to US At At is good
not some where else only, but every
where-nOt in one place, but every
place. (AppIause) Tt is a very COM
forting thing to anybody who has mon
ey. much or little, to feel all the time
that its value cannot be atfected by
hard times or deprecated in his hands
upon solid and Interchangeable value
recognized the world over Great APP
plause) Money does not depend upon
what we can it-it depends upon its
value (Creat cheering and cries Of.
That's right.D When you have earned
100 dollars. you want to feel that you
are worth 100 dollars and that it viii
not be diminished in a day or a week.
or a month, or depreciate while it is
in your hands, or when it goes out of
your hands.
THAT is the kind of money we have
i'm this country now-the best money
known to the civilized countries OF the
world. 1T is 70 the interest of every
workiugman, it is to the interest of
every citizen of the country. no matter
what may be his business. to maintain
that money at its present standard
CApplause.) Now, nay fellow citizens.
having said that much, desire to
thank you again for the pleasure which
this call has given me and wish for
you all a pleasant day in my home city
and a safe return to your homes"