Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-31


voice of the people, the policy was changed,
under which we had lived for more than
so years, and there came a change to the
business of the country, very much to its
injury Everybody knows that. The great
heart of this country yearns for return of
that prosperity. / do not know that we
shall be able to bring 1t all back again,
but we can overturn the policy that de-
nrived us of 1t, and take back the policy
that gave 1t to us.
"It is the country's business and our
chief concern to see to 1t that our great
family Is protected from the competition
of the outside world. What we want is to
do our own work, pay our own wages to
our own workingmen, and we have discov-
cred that just to the extent that we have
our work done in Europe, to that extent
we deprive the American workingman OF
the wages that are his by right.
I'VE must return to that policy which
protects our own workingmen, and make
no apology to any man anywhere for hav-
ing through all my public life stood for the
protection of the American workingman
and American industries.
II want tariff high enough to protect
out industries against foreign industries
which compete with ours; tariff that will
bring cheer and happiness to every Amer
lean home! High enough to raise enough
money for this government to pay as 1t
goes.
Then, when we work all day for our en-
ployers and night comes, we want to be
paid in dollars that won't change in value
before morning. We ought to go home
Feeling that we can hold that money as
long as we want to without fear of its
depreciating in value. This is the kind of
money we have now, whether gold, silver
or paper, every dollar worth 100 cents and
every one good in every market place of
the world"
j. S. Tustin, of ST. Louis, spoke in be-
half of the Railroad Mems Sound Money
club of Missouri, in whose delegation
there was a considerable sprinllling of
southern Illinois voters. In response
Maj. Mckinley said in part:
when l was in Missouri in 1894 the motto
[ saw everywhere paraded was: Stand up
for Missouri. Tremendous applause and
waving of flags.l The motto this year, re-
gardless of section or party is: Stand up
for the United States. [Applause.l When
we from our respective states stand up for
the recreated we are standing for the
highest and best interests of our respective
states and the highest welfare of all the
people,
mo matter to what party you have
belonged in the past, this is no year for
the voice of the partisan. The voice of
the partisan Is hushed in the chorus of
patriotism that sounds from one end of our
country to the other.
II is a voice appealing Tor country, Tor
the country'S honor, for the country'S
prosperity, and nobody knows so we'll as
the railroad men of the United States when
this country Is prosperous and when de-
pressed. You cannot have traffic on your
great railroad systems If there is no conf
dence in the business world. You cannot
get anybody to invest money in making
products If he has not confidence that he
can sell his products at profit. If he can
rot be induced to make those products then
there is little for you to haul. Cheering
When there are no products for you to haul
his train and that is abandoned, the crews
are laid off and their wages stopped. When
trains are stopped employees are dropped.
Am l not right? [Vociferous shouts of:
You are; you arep1
What we want is restoration of public
end private confidence. You can never get
that by defiantly declaring that this is a
nation of repudiators, and that we propose
10 pay our debts with 52-cent dollars.
Tremendous applause
Missouri is the third state in the union
IN the value of her agricultural products.
Missouri farmers want good home mar
'Iet and a good foreign market, and when
Missouri has a good home market, you have
all you can do to transport her products to
the fields of consumption in the east or
across the sea. When Missoui had, with
tho other states of the union, a reciprocity
that opened up the foreign market to the
you were busy transporting those products
20 the seaboard, and in returning you
brought back the manufactured products
of the east, and so you had haul both
ways, and you had fare both ways. Tire
mendous applauSe.l
Il send by you my message to Missouri:
This is not campaign of sectonalism,
but campaign of patriotism 1 say to
Missouri Your interest is our common in
terest; no longer is there a north, a south.
an east or west, but one glorious union for
ever Tremendous cheersl
Hundreds of employees of the Penn
| sylvania Railroad company arrieved on
special train over the Fort Wayne,
and were joined here by the Toledo &
Hooking Valley railroad employees, the
| Toledo & Ann Arbor railroad employees
and railroad men employed on different
roads entering Tiffin and Mansfield.
| The delegations were introduced by r.
M. Burgess, foreman of the Pennsylva-
mia freighthouse at Toledo, and listened
to the following speech:
| II rejoice that the railway men of the
country believe in a sound, honest, unde-
| preciating dollar; that when they have
| performed their service for the railways
they want to receive dollars that are good
| when they are Seceived and good for all
| llHle IHlS Is the KIM OF money we nave
to-day. Every kind of dollar is just as
good as any other dollar and there is no
| better money anywhere in the world.
| what you want, in common with your
| fellow citizens everywhere, is employment.
| You all want your railroads to be busy;
| when they are, men are busy, and when
| men are busy they receive wages which
| bring comfort and happiness to their
| homes. When the railroad business of the
country is dull then labor is unemployed,
and when trains are taken off the roads
great numbers of railroad men are taken
What we want in the United States
no matter what our politics has been in
the past is more business activity.
1--WE want all our spindes humming, all
our mines and all our factories busy, and
when they are busy and products are be-
Ing made, you have employment in haul
ing those products from one end of the
country to the other. We want in short,
n return to such prosperity as we had In
1892. l do not know whether we can get II
back at once or not. hope we may speedily
and fully restore 1t, and certainly the only