The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-30
pDrrC D GENTS STANDS
IR1CE CE1N lrRAINs SUNDAYS
INDIANAPOLIS WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER

and the employees of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company and the citizens gener,,
ally who have honored me with this call
this afternoon. (Applause)
The farmers or this country must ap-
preciate, and will appreciate. If they DO
not already. that cannot increase their
markets or decrease their competition.
either at home or abroad, by destroying
cries of Right! right.) That we cannot
cut down the competition which they have
IN india and Russia ana the Argentihe Ike Ike
public or Increase CONSUMPTION at nome
of their products by cutting down the value
of the currency of the United states Ihe
only way the farmers can be benehted Is
through larger consuming class. CAP
plause.) The mints will not furnish the
farmer with more customers. He has the
most profitable market for what he pro-
duces at home and not abroad. cap
plause.) He is met in the markets OF the
world by the products Of other lands be-
yond the sea. The only market he can rely
upon every day of the year is the Ameri-
can market taDp!ausel; and what ne
wants to know is how 70 make that Amer
lean market the best. He cannot do IL by
closing the mills. (Cheers-) He cannot do
1T by putting out the fires of our furnaces.
(Renewed cheering.) He cannot do it by
taking business away from the great rail-
road lines of the country. He can only
improve the American market by faVoring
a policy that will put every man TO work
who lives beneath our flag, and put them
at work at living wages great applause)-
not the wage scale of some other nation OF
the world but the American scale, the best
in the world. ((Ireat aDDlauSe.D anu you
cannot improve that market by destroying
the credit of the country. for the credit of
the country lies at the foundation of capi-
tai and prosperity. The moment you have
destroyed the credit of the country you
have taken away from the manufactures
the ability to get money with which to
duct his business: and when he cannot
conduct his business he cannot employ
men; and when he does not employ men
he does not pay wages; and when men DO
not receive wages they have wages to
spend: and when they have no wages 10
spend they make poor customers for the
can no more increase the value of his
wheat by diminishing. the value of the
American dollar than he can increase tho
quantity of his hay by diminishing the nay
wagon on which he hauls it. Tremendous
cheering and cries of Good! good!)
TO RAILWAY EMPLOYEES.
''The railroads of the country make busi-
ness. They consume fifty million tons of
coal q year. That is what you engineers
burn every twelve months. What does that
do? (Cries of 1t gives us work!) Yes. it
gives you employment while they are dig
ging it. That is the kind of policy we
advocate--let everybody help everybody
else Great applause and cries of Hurrah
for McKinley!) l see that the railway
train service has four distinct organiza-
tions-probably more-that of the engi-
.neers, firemen, trainmen and the Order of
Railroad Conductors, with other organza-
men and telegraph operators. L am in
formed that each of these organizations
has a department of insurance mutual in
its character. and conducted and admins
tered by men of their respective organza-
tions Am right about this? (Cries of
'Yes!D The highest tribute to their busi-
ness capacity and honesty is found in the
fact that not one dollar has been lost
squandered The trainmen have paid out
nearly So, 500. 900. The firemen have paid out
nearly s40oO,0o0. The conductors have paid
out insurance amounting to nearly $500 090.
hi 10 ainI, holt
Oldest organization, have paid out nearly
S6.000,000 The railroad men, too, are in
tions. and have savings in savings banks,
or did have Great applause and laugh
terl
What a deep interest, therefore. the
railroad men have in the rightful settle
ment of the money question. Not only
they interested in preserving the integrity
of their savings for their old age or dis
qualification. and their insurance to their
families in of accident death. but
they are interested in the present and fu-
ture wages. / do not believe that the rail
road men of this country will ever consent
surance money paid at the rate Of 81 cents
on the dollar. tCries of No! No!D Nor
will they be satisfied to receive their wages
in anything but currency which shall be
worth full one hundred cents.
Why. they are talking about the cred
itors of this country. They animad-
verting against them. Who are the cred
itors of this country? They are the men
who labor in 4, this country. Tremendous
country to-day are the workingmen. Aside
from what is due them upon investments
and savings. their current wages make
them the largest creditor class in the
United States The employers of this coun-
try owe their employees every thirty days
in good times tcries of Not now, thought
followed by laughterl. more than the bond
ed debt of the United States Nearly $780,
003, 900 are paid annually to the railroad en-
ployes alone Does the railroad employe
propose to aid any party to enact legisla-
tion which will cut his pay roll from % to
mol nnn n va n n hoo doll sa.0
cloud cries of No, No.D
II have seen it stated somewhere that of
the 100000 railroad employees in the United
States about 40 per cent. of them. are
voters. / cannot be mistaken when I ex-
press the belief that these men will not
cast their votes in favor of debased cur
rency and the reputation either of public
private obligations. Nothing marks the
wonderful progress Of the country more
than it's railroad business. In 1880 461 0o2
men were employed in the railroad bust
ness; in 1890 100000.
1T has been stated by some of the lead
ers of the Democratic party that free coin
age of silver would raise the price of silver
price, to sl29 an ounce: or in other words.
make 81 cents worth of silver actually
wort worth 100 'ese cents. n | do not not believe BEL it Do
don't,O 1 do not believe that the free
coinage of the silver product of the United
States. or the free, coinage of the silver
product of the world. with the fiat of the
government of the United States. could
make a thing worth only 53 cents worth a
hundred cents Great applause and cries
of No!) Such a proposition is contradicted
by reason and experience, and opposed to
common sense and the plain principle of
od-fashioned honesty.
Now, my countrymen. much as I would
be glad to speak longer / must not Other
delegations are coming. / thank YOU for
this call. and for the assurances you have
given me of your support to the great prin-
ciples which. by the favor of a great politi-
cal party. / stand for at this moment I
am GLAD to know that the great State of
indiana. the State of Harrison GREAT ap-
plause) and Morton (renewed applausel
will stand this year. az it has stood in ali
the years of the past for the country and
the countrys honor. and for a po'icy that
Will give to Americans the largest prosper
ity IN their homes the greatest develop
ment OF their resources. and the highest
credit OF the government I bid Won an
good afternoon Great cheering}
Hon. j. W. Foster. Secretary of State
under President Harrison. called to nav his
respects to Major Mckinley to-day. He
was on his way East. and his visit was
purely of social nature