The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

SoliieDOdy wants what you nave, you VII
not be prosperous. and unless sometods
| wants coal. coal viii be mined; and i
no coal is mined no miners viii b ON
pIoyed And the more coal that lS de
manded, the more miners will have worl
and wages and the more happiness will b
! in the miners homes. The more steel anG
/ iron and locomotives and turning 10 tl'at
/ part of the delegation composed of bridge
| workers. bridges you make, the more Goa
| that's rightly But you don't want snc
| won't want coal unless somebody wants
! your steel and your iron and your lOcomo-
| tives docking at the bridge workers. and
| your bridges. And we want the least DE- al
| those things when we are the least pros
/ porous. and We are the least prosperous
| when We are under free-trade policy and
when the business confidence Of the coun-
| try is destroyed. That's what is the matter
with now. 1t has been too long 81
ready my fellow-citizens. What want
now is restoration of hat confidence. and
| the way to restore confidence IL to retire
the party and reject the principles that de-
Now. my fellow-citizans. we net only
want good work and good wages, Tut we
want good money. The miner who is here
| this morning cannot sell a ton Of coal that
he has mined under weight and he don t
| propose to receive a dollar in payment or
dollars in payment-for that ION Of eoal of
undervalue. Do you get my idea? tCries of
You bet we do!) And so. when the work
ingman, no matter in what occupation he
may be employed works his fun dav G WORK,
he wants to receive in return lDG-ccnt dol
lars that are not deprecated and never to
be deprecia ted. I thank you for this call
and gracious messages brought to me by
your spokesman. and L must thank you
and say goodbye.
Major McKinleys ninth speech for the
dav delivered to the sound money club
of Massillon and about 900 employees of the
Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad from
points between Erie, Ohio and Wheeling,
w Va. This party was introduced by j
road Major McKinley's response follows:
MIR. Townsend and my Fellow citizens
of no lf1nf Of hos,
have made to-day and the great number of
people I have addressed-for 1 have spoken
many times and to thousands of people
most of them of different occupations, but
all of them alike interested in the honor
wellbeing and prosperity of the country
great length now. / am glad to meet the
railroad men of the Wheeling & Lake Erie
railway, fellow-citizens of Ohio and West
Virginia. You want your money to be
sound: you want every dollar you have to
be as good every good dollar; you want
when you have worked for your railroad to
be paid in money that is worth 100 cents to
the dollar. You do not want to be paid in
want another thing for your advancement.
You want the country to be prosperous.
Railroads are prosperous only when the
country is prosperous; railroads are always
embarrassed when the business of the coun-
try is depressed. You will have nothing to
haul unless somebody wants the products
that somebody else makes along your line,
and the more products you can carry the
Steadier will be your employment and the
better your wages
Yours is a most delicate and dangerous
employment. :! never step off a railroad
that do not feel like making personal ac-
acknowledgement to every railroad employee
gers. Applausel 1 never step off rail
road train that L do not feel like going to
the engineer and taking off my hat to him.
Il am glad to meet and greet you to-day.
You have not come to do me honor person
ally; you have come to do honor to the
which bV the DartialitV q
political party of the country l for the mo-
ment stand. You are interested in the sue
cess of the principles of this party because
you believe that those principles carried
into practical demonstration will be better
for your employment, better for your fam
lies, better for your. railroads, better for
your communities and better for the entire
country, prolonged. cheerng)
Il make an appeal to you that is based
upon what believe is for the public good.
l believe it is the mission of the govern
industrial people of the country. I believe
it is the business of the country to make
everything We can make in the United
1t is the business of the country to protect
every citizen in his employment from the
Of other lands. tCries of 'Good.) 1 believe
that the way to have prosperity in the
United States is to encourage the American
workshop and uphold American labor
tTremendous applause.) And when you up
hold American labor and sustain the Amer
lean workshop you have driven trade and
the arteries of Commerce which in turr,,
give steady employment to the railway en-
lily for this call and bid you all good after
noon. (Three rousing cheers were then
given for Mckinley
Speech No. 10 was to employees of the
Pennsylvania Tin-pate Company, who
came in a special train of fifteen coaches.
Members of this delegation were hand
somely uniformed and carried torches
which were used in the street demonstra-
ton tonight. Their greetings were pre-
scented by Edward Dinkelspeil. Nh. Nc
kinley said:
Fellow citizens-For the generous mes
sage of good will which has been presented
to me by your spokesman l beg to make
most sincere and heartfelt acknowledge
n ent. To be called by laboring men them
selves the workingman's friend is the
highest honor for which l would strive
tCheers) To have been in any way con-
nected with legislation that has furnished
sands of men who stand beside and around
me is worthy the best ambition of man.
! am glad to have demonstration here
to-day that shows can make tin plate
in the United States. Applause) If your
factory and other factories are not as
prosperous as they were three years ago
YOU know the reason why; if your wages
have been reduced in the tin-plate factories
veu know whv as well as | can tell YOU
the rates in the tariff upon foreign i'm
portations it is likely to be followed by a
have had that in your experience. Then
my fellowcitizens, l take it that you are
all in favor of protective tariff. (Cries
of That's what we arei) 1 take it you
know which party stands for protective
tariff. (Cries of We do!) | take it you
know what ticket represents that great
American doctrine.
Now. what you want after that-after
good work and good wages-is that you
want to be paid in good dollars. You
don't want your wages cut and your dol
lars cut. daughter and applause) 1t is
bad enough to suffer reduction in your
money in which you are paid. / take it
that every man who stands before me to-
day is not only in favor of national pros
perity. but he is in favor of national honor
and a national currency that will be as
sound as the Republic and as unsullied as
it's honor has always been. tremendous
applauseD There is no menace to labor
like that of the deprecated and debased
What do you suppose you have in your
savings banks in Pennsylvania? "a voice:
Millions of dollars!) Why, in the year
1895 the savings banks of the State of
depositors. men and women $6S 500 900 in |
tarnings of labor. Would you favor can
you favor any policy which would decrease
which would inevitably destroy one-haif of |
the value of this great sum, the accumula-
tons of your honest and prudent TOLL
Cries of 'No!o There is in my mind some |
thing abhorrent in such Il proposition. If |
it is right to inflict upon the people a |
policy which would depreciate by one-haIf |
the value of those savings it is right to |
take away their whole value, and to such |