Evening star., 1896-10-31
HARRISON TO wORkINGMEN.
He Urges Supporters of Bryan
Show Their CoIOrs.

Show Their ColOrs.
General Harrison closed the first day OF
his second Indiana tour at Fort Wayne,
where he spoke briefly, at o'clock last
evening At Anderson he said in part:
I'VE are hearing good deal in this cam
paisn about coercion, and 1t has seemed to
me that we have a fair illustration of it
here this morning. These thousands of
people, their intelligent and interested
faces. their cheers and enthusiasm, are the
finest possible refutation of the suggestion
that our people are being coerced. You
have been told speak now for the mo-
ment to the men whose Drawn and skill
are exercised in these great manufacturing
establishments. You have been advised by
q man who seeks your votes for the most
honorable office in the gift of free men, to
simulate, to deceive, your employers, to de-
ceive your fellow men, by wearing false
button your breast: by cheering for
principles and candidates that you do not
favor; by marching in parades of a party
whose principles you do not adopt, and at
the end of this campaign of stimulation and
deception to go into the voting booth and
vote for him. 1t is not good advice 1t is
advice that does not recognize the indepen-
dent manhood and individual worth of the
men who toll in these great factories.
say to YOU as republican who believes
that your interest is to be found in the
maintenance of republican principles and in
the election of William Mckinley, that If
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that have been advanced by others more
able to present them, do not convince your
intellect that 1t is to your interest to do so.
leg You as one who esteems the dignity of
man, without regard to the question OF his
employment, to be a man, and If you are
for Bryan to wear the Bryan button. l
beg You not to consent to walk these
streets. to stand at the bench where you
are employed. proclaiming to the world and
confessing to your own conscience that you
have surrendered your manhood and your
political independence. l do not believe
that these Intelligent, earnest worktngmen
in the gas belt will accept that suggestion
as a compliment to their manhood and their
Integrity
What is 1t that draws the workingman
rcw TO march in the parade with the man
that gives him work? Is it not the COM
1nunity of interest? We are listening now
to a gospel of hate. The workngman is
appealed to to oppose bis employer, to vote
another way. Those who have accumulated
capital are denounced as the enemies Of
the people. / ask you to consider first,
would there be any work for anybody to do
in Anderson IL somebody had not had capi-
tai enough to build a mill? 1t Is the essen
tial precedent OF work of mills and fac
tories that somebody should have acCum-
ulated money enough to build the mill and
put the machinery in it; secondly, l want
to ask you whether 4. is not to your interest
that tine man that has put his money into
a mill ard built 1t should make fair profit
on the capital he has invested? Is it not to
your interest that these mills should run
six days in the week and six nights and
give employment not only to one shift &C
men. but 10 two; TO give employment not
only three days IN the week but six, and
rot only six but twelve. counting night
work?
How are you going to bring that about? !?
The man who owns tie mill won't run
1t at all unless he makes some money. You
would not if you were in his place Then
isn't 1t clear that the naxt condition is that
the man who puts his money in the mill
shall make a fair profit upon the use of mis-
money? You should be glad that the man
did build and is making fair profit out of
It II he is not he will shut 1t down That
being so up 10 that point, are not your
interests and his common?'