The herald., 1896-10-24
Fills Up the Weary Hours at
Canton
EMPLOYEES OF RAILROADS
Sent Up From Kansas TO Simulate Som
Enthusiasm
That Mckinley May Not Drop Out of
Sight After Election They Give
Him Looking glass
Associated Press Special Wire


Fe Railroad company and others made
one ofthe most enthusiastic delegations
that have yet visited Canton. Some OF
the party were two days on the road.
They were headed by President H. u.
Morris of the Emporia Railway Mems
Sound Money club. The singular crowd
of the day was the party of poor SUPER
visors of Pennsylvania, who came from
Pittsburg, where they were in conven-
tion. Armstrong county, Pa, was rep
resented by several thousand people.
10 o'clock this morning till this evening
the streets were again crowded with
visitors. Major Mckinley was visited
by five delegations. and to every one he
spoke. They were from four states
Pennsylvania sent two, Indiana one,
Ohio one and Kansas the other, The first
lot of callers was the Indiana delegation,
which arrived here before daybreak.
They awaited at hotels Until $780, when
formal call was made at the Mckinley
residence The second was the party
from Kansas The third party was about
a hundred strong from Pittsburg. They
were residents of Pennsylvania who
had been in the Iron City as delegates
to the annual meeting of the Poor and
Charities. Ohio then had it's inning and
sent a large party from Van Vert and
contiguous territory. The next dele
cation was the largest of the day. 1t
came from Armstrong county, Penn
sylvania, and was made up largely Of
iron tin and glass workers. This dele
CATION presented Major Mckinley a
handsome mirror, the product of glass
factory of Armstrong county.
To delegation from Topeka which
was introduced by A. NJ. Bair, Major
Mckinley said
My Fellow Citizens of Kansas: This
is indeed a very great pleasure to me.
You have journeyed farther than any
other delegation of the United Safes that
has honored me with visit at my home
and I appreciate your call more than l
can find words to express. 1t shows bet
ter than any words that could be utter
ed by any man what is in your minds
and hearts and what your purposes are
touching the election to be held on the
third of November.
You are interested in the prosperity
of your country. There was time when
some men We're in the habit of saying
it did not make any difference to the
railroad men OF the country whom you
represent, what kind of financial legis-
lation we had or what kind of tariff
policy we pursue in the United States.
l have heard it said thousand times
from the public rostrum that while the
We have today the best money in the
the factories, it had no influence upon
the wages of men who were engaged
upon the great transportation lines of
the country. If any of you believed in
that statement four years ago you do
not believe it now, because you know
that upon the general prosperity of the
country depends the prosperity of our
great railroads and upon their prosper
ity depends your employment and
wages. You will have nothing to do if
there is nothing to haul. And the more
there is to haul, the more and steadier
employment will you have and the bet
ter wages you will get for yourselves
and families. In the last three years
and half no character of property has
sacrificed and suffered more than the
railroads. Many of them have been
COIilpelltu " SO lulO lIltO
the hands of receivers. Many of them
have been unable to pay either their
bonds or the interest on them and that
is only because of the change of 1899
settled paralysis upon the business of
the United States. Now what we want
to do is to get back our prosperity.
Whatever will do that is what we ali
ought to be in favor of, no matter what
may be our occupations and employ
ments. A number of reasons are offer
ed for this congested condition of bust
ness and number of prescriptions are
offered for its cure. The most promi-
nent one is that we will all be made
prosperous if we only open up our
mints to the coinage of all the silver in
the world. Can any workingman or en-
ploye of the Santa Fe system tell how
the free coinage of the silver of the world
will benefit him? Will it increase your
traffic or transportation? Will it in
crease consumption in the least, or the
products of the farms of the west?
Will it increase the demand for sim
gle days labor anywhere? Will it in
crease the wages of any workingman to
have this government declare that the
pieces of silver you can buy anywhere
in the world for SO cents. shall be coined
as dollars by the government without
expense, and we fool ourselves by call
ing them dollars? VIII that help any
body? Will that help any American in
terest anywhere? All it will do will be
to increase the production of the silver
of the world and with the increased
production will come certain deprecia-
tion and with the depreciation of silver
will be the still further depreciation of
the silver coins of the United States.
Surely no man wants that. 1t Is not the
mints we want to start, 1t is the great in
dustrial enterprises of the United States
that you must start. You are prosper
Gus when every factory in the country
is busy and every workingman at work,
making products In the east that are
shipped to the west and growing prod
ucts in the west that are shipped to the
east.
We have today tho best money in the
| world-the gold dollar, the silver dolla,
and the paper doilar-each worth q
hundred cents, because each has the
government of the United States be.
hind it. Such money is good enough fol
us and we have enough of 1t. The trou,
BILE is it don't circulate. Everybody thai
has a hundred dollars is boarding 1t to,
| day, for he don't know what the future
is going to bring. Money does not brinf
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