The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04
TO sOUND-MONEY VOTERS.
Speech to Employees of the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad.


In response to Mr.. W. b. Kirkers con-
gratulations in behalf of the Pennsylvania
Railway Company's Sound-money Club of
Allegheny, Pa, Mr.. Mckinley said:
My Fellow-citizens-I appreciate this
friendly call from the mechanics and
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. I have
been pleased TO note from the public press
and the many railroad delegations that
have visited me in the last six weeks that
the employees of these great railroads are
deeply Interested in the rightful settlement
of the questions which are presented in this
campaign. We have all come to realize, no
matter what may be our employments,
that we are most prosperous when the
country is most prosperous; we have come
to realize that the railroads do the most
business pay the best wages and have the
most work when the farmers have good
crops, good prices and good markets, and
the manufacturers have plenty of orders
and their workingmen STEADY employment
cloud cheering.) You build more engines
you repair more engines, you do more by
way of repairing of equipment when your
railroads do the most business; when they
do the most business you have the steadi-
est employment and best wages; and when
they do the least business you have less
you, like all the other men engaged in the
workshops of the country, are deeply in
terested in having a policy that will en-
ergize every industry of the country, bring
to the widest development of our re-
the West, or the North or the South, or
the East, the largest and most general
PROSPERITY. TREMENDOUS dDDiduSt.t
This year, for the first time in four
years. the people of the country have an
opportunity TO pass Judgment upon the ex-
perience they lavc had since 1892 Gap
piause and cries of We will do it!D You
have an opportunity this year to approve
or disapprove the poli9e;yy which has given
swer be on the Sd day of November? (Cries
of We will elect McKinley!o Democrats
and Republicans alike / ask you do you
want q continuance of policy that has
taken work from the American workshop
and given it to the foreign workshop or do
you disapprove of that policy? tCries of
You bet we doi' and Hurrah for protec-
tion!o You will have an opportunity 20
vote directly upon that proposition. "a
voice You bet we wiliiD
1--WE have the hest country in the world,
and If it does not continue to be the best
it will be our fault. We have the best raj
roads in the world. and we have more rail-
roads than any other nation OF the world,
and we have more Internal commerce tnan
any other nation in the world. and it Is be-
cause we have such vast internal commerce
that the railroads Of this country have been
employment to American labor.
You have an opportunity to vote this
year on another question as to whether you
want good, full. round, One-hundred-cent
dollars in payment of your wages or wheth-
er you want to be paid in 52-cent dollars.
"a voice. We want one-hundred-cent dol
lars every timel Nobody is cheated by a
deprecated currency policy so much as the
man who labors. That is the experience of
mankind the world over; it is our own eX-
perience at every period of our history
when we have entered upon an era or de-
preciated currency, and when we were liv-
ing under that wildcat banking system
which issued State money.
THE workingmen of this country are the
largest creditors in this country. There is
due the workingmen in prosperous times so
vast a sum of money as to make them the
largest creditors of the country. and they
are therefore more interested or quite as
much Interested as any other part OF our
population in having a sound and stable
currency. nnvaryIng in value and good
wherever trade goes.
II thank you, my fellow-citizens, for this
call. / appreciate 1t more than l can find
words to express. am glad to know that
the workngnen of the United States this
year-lS96-are with us no matter what
their political relations have been in the
past and that they mean 10 stand for their
country, their countrys prosperity, their
will secure to the largest number the great
est good. / thank you and bid you good
afternoon.