The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

| comes from a source that FOUR years
ago deceived you. Is not that so my
| feiiow-citizens? Cries of 'Yes, that's
right') If they want to strike a BAL
ance with US, this Popocratic party, We
| are willing to do it. We are willing 20
take the. thirty-three years of Republic
can control Of this government, when
we ran It under a protective tariff policy
| and on q sound money basis, and ascer-
tain what those two policies had done
| for the American people, for you, the
| men on the railroads, the men in the
1 factories and in the mines, and contrast
/ it with what the free trade policy mas
! done for the American people in the
last three years and half, for the bal
ance is bound TO be in our favor. If
they want US 10 believe this remedy Of
a 52-cent dollar will be a cure for all our
ills, insist they shall make up the loss
they put upon US during the last three
years and a half What you railroad
men want is to put all your cars at
work, to turn all the wheels of your
great railroads; and you know that your
wheels will not turn unless the wheels
| OF industry turn in the shops and fac
/ tories also. No man knows better than
the railroad men who stand before me
! today that when trains are taken off.
men are taken off the pay roll and trains
| are never taken off when they have any
business TO do. None of you want to be
sidetracked and every one of you wants
to be on the pay roll "a voice: I'VE want
to be on the main line. ')-and on the
main line too. You are on the main line
this year.
Coercion? Why you would have to
coerce men from thinking, reading and
feeling TO keep them away from the
cause of country and public honor this
year. You would have to make them in
sensible TO what they have experienced
IN their own lives under this policy.
Now. what we are in favor of is getting
back confidence. which lies at the foun-
dation of all business and without which
1t is stagnafed. We have had little or
no confidence during the last three years
end half, and. as though partial free
trade and business paralysis were not
enough, they now raise as their sl1ibbo-
leth, that what we want is TO adopt the
Mexican. or Chinese system of finance
NO, L answer, forever no. We want
that confidence that viii lead the bust
ness man to trust in the future and
make plans for his years work. We
want that confidence that will induce
the men of capital to put their money
out, having faith that it Will be paid
back to them in as good coin as they
loan, principal and Interest; and until
you get that you will have no perma-
nent prosperity or business activity
We have in this country today the
best money in the world, but the trouble
is we do not get enough Of it individual
ly; and the reason of that is because we
have no work. The thing the people of
the country are looking for this year is
nd ont hoc i,Ea nv,
free silver You destroy business, you
destroy confidence, when you defiiantly
propose to pay off debts, public and
private, in a deprecated currency.
''Now, what will Missouri do this year?
Vociferous shouts of: ELECT McKin-
ley.O
What will Kansas do this year,"
(''Elect McKiniey-give you $4,000 ma
jority'O
What will Iowa do this year?' CTre-
mendous yelling and Give you 100000
majority.')
You are all fighting in the same
cause You are all moved by the same
considerations; you are all inspired by
the same splendid principles. You want
that this government of ours, the freest
and best in the world, the government
that for nearly a third Of century af-
ter the war made a more splendid pro-
gress and matchiess advancement than
any other nation of the world; that gave
more to labor and industry than under
any other system since the world be-
gan, to get back to that policy of con-
fidence-confidence in each other, con-
fidence in the future, confidence in our
tountry-and spurn that doctrine that
would array class against class, the rich
against the poor, or employees against
employers. When you support such doc
rrines. then there is chaos and business
paralysis.
Il would rather teach the doctrine OF
the common brotherhood of man. We
are all equal, equal under the law. equal
in privilege beneath that starry banner
of the free; equal in possibilities and
equal in opportunity. If the older men
in this audience have not realized all
they hoped for in their own lives, they
have boys and girls for whom they want
10 realize them in the future. l beg you
shut not the door OF opportunity on
their endeavors. Encourage their am
bitions; inspire them to struggle to the |
front. Under our form of government, |
they can get the highest title which ii is |
possible TO achieve.
81 thank you for this call. IT is an in |
spiration to the cause which / represent; !
il is an encoura cement not only 10 me |
but to every patriotic citizen every |
where, that you should travel thousands |
of miles that you might give evidence of |
your devotion TO the great cause of pro- |
lection, reciprocity, sound money, the |
supremacy Of law, the public honor and |
good government. l am very glad 70 |
meet you and it will give me extreme |
pleasure to grasp the hands OF these |
western friends Of mine. Democrats and |
Republicans. for all are patriots this |