The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-09
TRUSTS IN THE PEOPLE.
Mckinley Does Not Believe They Can
Be DeIuded Always.

Major Mckinley S response to Judge John
w. Reed, who spoke for delegations from
Jefferson, Clearfield, Clarion and ARM
strong counties, Pennsylvania, follows:
MY Fellow citizens-It gives me great
pleasure to meet the citizens of Jefferson,
Clearfield, Armstrong and Clarion counties,
Pennsylvania. From what your spokes-
man has said, that Clearfield county,
come into the Republican column, and
from what has been said to me from time
to time in behalf of other delegations from
your State, 1T occurs to me that Pennsyl-
vania is about ready to move to make it
unanimous / bid you welcome to my
home and congratulate you on the bright
confidence which will give to this country
Increased industrial activity and greater
sentiment sometimes expressed by good
people of Doubt about the future of the
United States Nobody need be troubled
about that. The United States will take
care of itself, and in its own good time
and prosperous way, through constitution
al forms, restore this country to its former
greatness, glory and prosperity.
1.-The United States, with its wealth of
resources of the skill, energy and enter
e epss or in It's de%ard mare there arg
some citizens in all the States who seem to
be seriously concerned, but l. for one, 40
not share in their apprehensions. The
great body of the people is safe; they are
steady; they are not moved by wild i'm
pulses. Dismal forebodings OF what might
happen will not be realized.
"Demagogues there are in the country
who try to inculcate the doctrines or dis
trust and diSmay among the unemployed,
and iii great part the men who are incul-
eating that doctrine are the men who adj
vocated a policy that first created IDLE
ness in the United States. Extremists
there are who talk glibly about the war
of the classes against the masses, iced
less of the effects of the logical outcome
of their false and pernicious, their de-
grading and dangerous doctrines Fool
ish men these are who innocently dissem-
nation, and thus do the bidding OF the
better posted but more designing men,
whose dupes they are.
''Still. there need be no alarm; there need
be no excitement; there need be no ABUSE
or exaggeration for all these false doc
trines and unworthy influences f ices n wl MOI
ent and the intelligent citizens OF the
United States. The great majority OF our
people are religiously devoted to law and
order. the public peace and public tran
quillity. They love their homes, and their
wives, and their families too Well to stand
by any policy that will lead to pubic as
order and disregard of law. They are m
favor of respecting the right of property:
the right of contract the lnxlo1a ID oL
CORRUPTED and incorruptible courts of JUS
tice. They are focling to the standard OF
but from all parties, with an eernestness
and unanimity creditable TO our patriotism
and a splendid testimonial te the strength
and glory of our free institutions
NV fellow-citizens. I have always be-
lieved in the people, but I am stronger TO-
day in my faith in the American people
than / ever have been before. They have
been true in every crisis of the past, they
have been uniformly on the right side IN
tain their country and those public poll
cies which insured its peace ana hlgheSt
welfare. The great heart OF American p Pee,
of what is best and wiseSt and most bene-
fetal to the Nation.
I'm the discharge of every public trust
~ which 7 have been called. whether as Il
Representative in Congress or Governor OF
Ohio, ] have always found that an honest
people never failed TO receive a warm and
favorable response. 1t is a mistake to inn
agne that the great body OF &c our r people a,,l
try They are not caught with the sug-
gestions of dishonesty, either in our public
or private transactions. They belleVe IN
the old maxim that honesty is always the
best policy in government, as Well as III
individual life. and those who think other
wise underestimate both the intelligence
and patriotism of the American people:
There is to-day as ardent and abiding
n patriotism ever mustered men under
the glorious stars and stripes. Whether
they be native born or were born under an
other flag and have pitched their tents with
us to become part OF our splendid cltl-
Zenship, the average man of all these ma
tionalities is interested in what will do most
good for himself and wife and family and
exalt the honor and name of his adopted
country. The detriment, the damage. the
distress which has been felt by the people
both the policy already executed and the
policy now threatened. has injured not only
the men who toll. but has injured the men
who employ labor. We have discovered
that we cannot strike down the owner of
the factory or the owner of the mines
without striking down the labor that is
employed with him.
pennsylvania is a State where manu-
featuring and mining occupy first rank.
Yours is the second manufacturing State
in this great Union. Every interest you
have is linked with the restoration of the
protective policy. You have not single
interest which is or could be benefited by
free trade. You have not a sin
gle interest that is not benefited
by a protective tariff You prospered
most from 1870 to 1892. and we were then
under a splendid American protective pol
lev and on the bedrock of sound finance
You have shared since that time in the
general loss which has fallen on the coun-
try Your hills and mountains are Yet
filled with coal, your forests have yet some
OF the best of timber. Your hills are COW
ered-or used to be-with fiockS of sheep
Your iron mills. steel mills, potteries and
glass factories, your every variety OF man
ufactories scattered all over your State. are
only awaiting the return of that confidence
in business which win make a demand for
your products. That IS all you want When
that demand comes there will be a demand