The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-06

teemed and trusted by his fellow toilers.
he made one of the most stirring and eff
fective speeches that has been addressed
to Major Mckinley. He said among other
Things:
The Republican party has never been un-
friendly to the cause of labor and is not to-
day. Some workingmen may have been led
astray by the promises of false prophets, but
the great body of laboring men want work
and honest money and believe that the sue
cess OF the Republican party will bring them
prosperity.
Mr.. Samuel Hamilton also spoke in be-
half of the business and commercial
classes.
Replying to these speeches Major Nc
Kinley said:
This assemblage thoroughly typifes the Ma
tional idea OF great American common
wealth, in this, that ii represents the equality
of all which lies at the basis of popular gov
eminent
After speaking in earnest terms of labor
to-day and all it typifed, Major Mckinley
continued:
The country by vote this year will either
continue the present industrial and financial
policies of the Government or abandon them.
The Republican party stands to-day as it has
always stood, opposed to the continuation of
an industrial policy which cripples industr tries
at home, robs labor of its just reward and sup
plies insufficient revenues to run the Govern
ment [Cries of "Good, good.''l 1t stands op-
posed to any change in our financial policy
which would put US upon a silver basis and
deprive US of the use of both gold and silver
as currency. [Cries of That's right."l In
volved In the contest, too, is that fundamental
question OF whether we are to have a govern
ment by law. The Republican party stands
now, as always for the maintenance of law
and order and domestic tranquility. [Great
applause and cries of chats right, Major.'1
There are two things which deeply and per-
sonally interest the workingmen. They are
work and wages. They want steady work at
good wages. They are not satisfied with irregu-
| lar work at inadequate wages. [Cries of 'No." y
They want the American standard applied TO
both. They are not satisfied with steady work
at poor wages. They want regular employ
ment at remunerative wages, and with steady
work they want to be paid in sound money.
[Cries of GOOD, good.'I
They do not want to lose any part of their
hard earnings through poor dollars Ia oplausel
and they don't want to be paid in dollars
whose value can only be ascertained by the
daily market reports. [Great cheering.l
Whatever work they have now is paid in good
money, and therefore no complaint is made on
tn at score.
They are satisfied with the money but they
are not satisfied either with the scant or the
reduced wages. [Cries of ''That's right, Ma
jor.'l They are satisfied with the present dol
lar bill, but they are not satisfied with the
present tariff bill. Tremendous cheering and
blowing of tin hornsl We have learned from
experience that we cannot increase work at
home by giving it to people abroad [Cr1es OF
"Thats right!'l and it is poor policy to keep
our own men in idleness while we furnish en-
ployment to those outside of our own country
who owe no allegiance to this Government and
who acknowledge no loyalty to that flag
pointing to the American fag.) [Great ap-
plause.l Washington said: There is no
doubt OF the wisdom of the policy of giving
protection and encouragement in any proper
legislative form to domestic industry"
There is not workingman in the United
States who has not learned in the past three
years the wisdom of Washington's utterance
He appreciates it now more than ever before
Now. another Experiment is to be tried. [Cries
OF eve don't want any more experiments. u
No, never, say, never. Your spokesman gave
the whole philosophy of it when he said that
no matter how much money was coined you
would not get it if you did not have work to
earn it. lGreat cheering and cries of That's
rightPl Some people seem to think that
cheap dollar is the best thing for the working
man. The wage-earners are creditors Their
wages are paid to-day in money whose pur-
chasing power is good for 100 cents on the
dollar anywhere in the world. If a dollar
worth less than 100 cents is a legal tender the
| workingman will never get any other kind
| [Cries OF "That's right"l
| Who will raise the workingmen's wages to
meet the rise in the products he buys? fCries
of Nobody; give us Republican administers
! ton, with Mckinney for President" followed
| by cheering and blowing of horns1
| The minis, if they were thrown wide open to
! the coinage of every character of metal and
were multiplied hundred-fold in Capacity.
would neither furnish the workingman job, re-
store his exhausted savings nor give him credit
! [Great applause and cries of ''You're right
major"1 Nothing, my fellow-citizens, will ac-
| complish that but woodwork at fair wages
and that Will only come through confidence
restored by a wise financial and industrial
! policy [Cheers and cries of "Hurrah for Ne
Kinley."l
We cannot have work If we don't have
wealth somewhere, and we cannot have
wealth without work, for work is at the
foundation OF all wealth. [Great applause i
The power to get hold OF some money! don't
| care what business we are in-depends upon
whether the man who owns the money wants
what we have and needs what we have more
| than he wants or needs his money. If we
have our labor we can get pay for it if some
| body wants it who can pay for it, and he never
wants it unless it is necessary to have it for his
convenience comfort, or to produce some
thing from which he can make profit out OF his
money. [Great applause.l
| II we want to borrow money our ability to
get it is measured by the confidence the pos.
SCISSOR has in our ability and disposition to
repay it.
That is true of whatever kind of money we
! have, and there is another thing we ought to
remember, which is that free silver at ratio
of 16 to 1 or any other ratio will not repeal
the great law of supply and demand. [Cheers
| It is grave error to suppose that you can
enhance values by diminishing the value OF
money; that you can increase the value of
| anything by changing its measure. Garfield
uttered great truth upon speaking for the re-
sumption of specie payments, when he said
'Tn the name of every man who wants his
own when he has earned it, 1 demand that we
do not make the wages of the poor man to
| shrivel in his hands after he has earned them 4"
| [Anplause.l
What Garfield eloquently spoke for was
executed by the redemption law CT 1879. The
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