River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-10-01
TALKS MANY TIMES.
Mr. Mckinley Delivers Eleven Addresses
on SATURDAY..


Canton, o, Sept. 2s.-Mai. Mckinley
made IL speeches Saturday and spoke
10 16 delegations numbering in the sg-
gregate about $4,000 persons. The dele
cations vert in the mtin composed of
laboring men and the spokesman in
most cases took occasion to assure Mai.
Mckinley that the men came of their
own free Will, paid their own fares and
in some cases lost half days wages,
The delegation of travelling men from
Peoria, ILL.,, 200 in number was the first
to call at the Mckinley residence. Con-
gresham j. V. McGraff was the spokes-
man. In response to his remarks, Mr..
Mckinley said in part:
1.-The people are never led astray by de-
ceit or Misrepresentation when they in
vestiga+e for themselves This they are
doing this year in a marked degree. 1t is
of no avail that party leaders appeal TO
passion when the people are alive TO their
own and the public interests. 1t will not
do TO say to the men who are poor in this
worlds goods-you must get on by your
selves. form a class of your own. your in
terests are opposed TO those who employ
you. That Is not enough this year. The
poor man inquiries: What good will that
do me? How will that better my condi-
tion2 How will that bring bread TO my
family and cheer to my children? VIII l
be benefited by despoiling my employer?
VIII Ii give me more employment and bet
ter wages to strike down those whose
money is invested in productive enter
prises, which give me work and wages?
Four years ago, it was said that the manu-
facturer was making too much money.
You remember 1t. But that cannot be
said now. And that the robber tariff
which was enriching him must be torn
up. root and branch, to the end that he
Ill ha AAaW raA Of hat 10
were pleased 10 call his 'ill-gotten profits
The country seemed to share in the sug-
gestion, and the trial was entered upon
with what result every manufacturer,
commercial man. travelling man. or work
ingman best knows. 1t has been discov-
cred to our hurt and sorrow that you can
not injure the manufacturer without in
juring the laboIer. II has been found, too
that you cannot injure the manufacturer
without injuring the whole business of
the country. You may close the shops by
adverse tariffs. because you imagine the
manufacturer is making too much, but
with that done you close the door of en-
ployment in the face of the laborer whose
only capital is his labor You cannot pun
ish the one without Furnishing the other.
and our policy would not infiict the slight
est injury upon either"
Shortly after the departure of the
Peoria travelling men from Mai. McKin-
ley's the first of the five special trains
bearing the employees of Jones q Laugh
lin from Pittsburgh arrived. Ii was
shortly afterward followed by the four
remaining trains. About the same time
two train loads of steel workers from
the Carnegie works reached Canton.
Between IL o'clock and noon the Dalzell
club from Wilmerding and the en-
ployes of the New York and Cleveland
Gas Coal company and the Crescent
steel works, of Pittsburgh, arrived. The
scene at the three railway stations of
Canton was one of great spirit and
activity. A score of bands were playing
and dozen marching clubs forming
and deploying.
After two o'clock a large delegation
from Piqua and other western Ohio
towns on the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
DAYTON railroad arrived. Then came
shortly after these, delegations from
Beaver county, Pennsylvania, one COM
posed of merchants and clerks from
Pittsburgh: one composed of the en-
ployes of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie
railway;one from Cleveland; the Buffalo
Real Estate Exchange Mckinley and
Hobart club arrived at two O'Clock.
Mai. Mckinley was not in the least
overfatigued with his week of hard
work when he closed with IL speeches
Saturday He is in excellent spirits,
Dnd saws he has not felt better at any
time during the campaign. 1t is his
purpose to make his speeches consider
ably shorter as delegations increase in
number, and this new plan was resorted
TO Saturday. Maj. Mckinley feels that
the campaign of education has been
comprehensive and thorough on the
part of the republicans; that the argu-
ments are IN the main all in, and that
short, crisp talks to the people who
come to see him will be effective and
satisfactory at this stage of the cam
paign.
In his address to the latter organiza-
ton Mr.. Mckinley said:
ITO strike at the credit of the country Is
to deal a blow at its prosperity. II destroys
confidence, and when that is gone business
stops and the currents of trade are dried up.
Confidence, In a measure, is the capital of
the world. Destroy confidence. ard You in
vite ruin to every enterprise in the land.
Absolute integrity of payment I'm all trans
actions, public and priyate-that Is tine
foundation of confidence, and when conf
dence is once firmly established there is
scarcely any limit to capital. Credit and
confidence cannot be restored by PROPOSE
ton to debase the currency of the country
and repudiate public and private debts.
The American people this year do not nean
10 Mexicanize either their money or their
labor"