The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-27
WHY BRYANITEs ARE SCARED.

you and bid you good morning..
WHY BRYANITEs ARE SCARED.
Employe and Employer Are This ear
Marching Under One Banner.
Major Mckinley responded to engineer
George Menish, of North Judson Ind. who
spoke on behalf of the employees of the
Erie railroad system as follows:
Mr.. Menish and my Fellow citiZens--I
greet you with the sincerest cordiality to
my city and home. Ii is special honor.
and to the great cause which / have been
designated TO represent, to receive this
large body of employees of the Erie rail-
road system, extending from New York to
chicago. l am glad TO note among your
number your wives and families The wonl-
en- or this country are quite as much IN
terested in the rightful settlement of po-
litical questions as the men. They are
quite as much interested in good times.
triotism the men of the country are;
and ii has been pleasure TO me to note
that in all the months of this exciting and
interesting campaign the women or the
United States have manifested a deep aud
profound interest.
You are here to-day numbering thou
sands, from half "a dozen States of the
United States, because one week from to-
most sacred duty of American citizenship.
There is one glory of when we can boast,
and no other nation can, and that is that
ours is a government of the people and of
all the people, and not part or the peo-
pie. The vote of one man, no matter what
may be his surroundings. whether they be
humble, or whether they be exalted. counts
just as much on that supreme day as ths
vote of any other man. 1t is our proud
boast, too that every man owns his own
vote 1t is his priceless privilege which no
man or combination has right 10 assail
or question. | want the people OF this
country this year. as in ait the years of tne
past, each for himself and family. to cast
his ballot so to subserve his own high
est and best interests. ~,
Why. there is almost a panic among
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ployes and employers are marching undera
the same flag; as though there was sonere.
thing un-American about IL fraternity be-
tween the men who employ labor and the
labor they employ. Why there is no union
union between labor and capital The one
cannot get OH without the other, and labor.
wealth and prosperity beneath our flag.
Capital won't run railroad without profit
any more than conductor VIII run ms
train without pay Capital will no more
work without profit than engineer will
run his engine without pay.
What we want in this country is a res
toration of that confidence that will give
to capital profit have it make liberal in
American wages. Whatever policy will do
that should be the policy of the American
De that of that M TO the Tesg
workshop against the home workshop?
sCries of No! No! Never"l No, | ansMer:
forever no. There is just one thing will do
1t. and that is to protect every industry in
this country from runous composition from
did home market and our wage earners this
magnificent wage center Then we want
to open up. by reciprocity provisions, IL for
eign market for our surplus products of
agriculture and manufacture, ana when we
work in this country; and when every man
is at work every home and family in the
land is happy. When every factory and
man is at work in this country the railroads
have plenty. to do. but when they are idle
and silent the railroads have little to do.
THE men standing around and about me
/
how much they have suffered from a pol
industry and transmitted our work beyond
the seas to be done beneath another flag.
You know how much you suffer and YOU
your road one less engineer. is required
and fewer. brakemen and switchmen are
lays off d train ii lays off crew.
and what does that mean? 1t means idle
My fellow-ctizens. we want to vote. il
restore ndu as po We Wan M Further ot to
have 1t understood by all mankind that this
is not a nation of regulators; that we be-
dollars. not only our public debts but our
private ones. too: not only paying one. body
of the people in the same money and all
of it unguestioned and undepreciating for
to -day-gold silver and paper, all alike
equal and all worth 100 cents to the dollar
everywhere; and that's what we propose to
There is no man who thinks for mo-
ment that will not reject the suggestion
that you can enrich anybody by debasng
the dollar, that you can make anybody
under the sun better off by coming piece
where in tie world. and then try to fool
one another by calling it a dollar. If there
Is anything in this world that ought to be
unquestioned and above suspicion it is the
money of the country. We want no false
weights: we want no false balances we
want no false measures of value to cheat
the unwary. and let me tell you that those
who suffer most from poor currency are
always and inevitably the men who toll
There iAnot man in this audience who
was drawing wages prior 70 1860 that does
not remember that he was always paid in
and when he got it at night it may have
been good. but before morning came the
have had no such experience in the last
thirty years, for every dollar in this coun-
try is good as good as the government and
as untarnished as our flag; every dollar
100 cents, and good not only
among our own people. but wherever trade
the world. CA voice: who made it?) It
was made by the Republican party. But
publican party. the administration of Gro
YER Cleveland has maintained it all good,
every ys dollar lar, as good as gold
we want in this country. We want public
peace and tranquility; and want 10
free institutions, the grandest and the best
beneath the sun. i tell you. 1 sometimes
think we don't know how priceless these
free institutions are. sometimes think we
lont appreciate what they are worth.
Think of a government of seventy millions
Of people, all of them equal. equal in re-
But some of you say: I have not had as
good luck as / ought to have had: have
been unfortunate: l have not risen as /
hoped | might. Possibly that's true; the
world is full of disapDointments: but be-
,ause you have not succeeded well as
you would like to have succeeded, you
want your boys and girls who come after
you TO succeed. and therefore bid you
maintain unimpaired these splendid institu-
ions.
And now. my felow-citZens, having
laid this, and thanking you for the long
Quincy you have made to come here TO
estify your devotion to Republican prin-
,iples and knowing | do that no class
" people like a straight track better than
he railroad people, ] am certain you Will
me week from Tomorrow. take the
straight track to public honor and national