The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-18

The Nominees Response.
There was enthusiastic applause as Ma
jor Mckinley began to speak. He said:
MIR. Jones and my fellow-citizens-M Many
last two months. All have been welcomed,
and their visits have been inspiring; but
SOMEHOW WHet al dsseiilpidoe ot .NoIklliS-
my interest and touches my heart.
(Cheers9 ! bid you welcome to my city
II can well appreciate why the work
ingmen of this country should have a deep
the present national contest (Cries Of
We have!o / cannot fail to remember
that one thing which stands between your
labor and the labor of Europe-the one
thing which stands between your work
shops and the workshops of the old world
lis a wise, patriotic, American protective
policy lGreat cheering and ci-es of Right
T am very glad to have this large dele
cation OF the employees of the great Ed
gar Thomson steel works. of Braddock,
Pa, at my home. applause and cries of
We are glad to be here.) You have come,
as your spokesman has stated. to bring me
your good will and that of your fellow
citizens whom you represent. / am glad to
have you come in the manner your spokes-
man has described, representing all creeds.
all colors and all classes; men who be-
who have heretofore belonged to other
parties, low acting together for what they
believe to be the common good. (Cries Of
What's the matter with Mckinley? He's
This is distinctiveIy the peoples year,
when old lines are effaced and men here
tofore opposed meet upon common plat
form to sustain the honor of country.
(Appause) Political parties are only the
the people make them, and are entitled to
their confidence only 50 long as they serve
plause.) We are all concerned, matter
what may be our occupations. in our coun-
ever political views may have; however
we may differ on minor questions OF public
victon that something or the other is the
matter with the country. fApplause.l We
may differ in our diagnosis; we may differ
about the treatment in detail, but we do
not disagree upon what is essential in the
first instance to the restoration of the bet
ter conditions of the past
"One thing above all else that is wanted
at this juncture is the return of public and
private confidence. applause and cries of
trouble. Upon that there cannot be two
opinions, and that, my fellow-citiZens, no
know the very day and the hour when this
confidence first shaken. and from that
hour distrust and doubt have hung over the
business, of the country. 1t has been ag-
gravated from variety of causes, but
none greater than the assault which has
been made by the allied political organiza-
tions upon the credit and currency of the
country, (Applause9 This new menace
have any permanent prosperity. We know
that the present monetary standard has not
stood u the way Of our prosperity in the
?
You know that we were prosperous in 1892
and had been for the preceding ten years.
measure of prosperity since (Applause.)
BUSINESS is SENSITIVE.
Business is SO sensitive, so quick to
scent danger that any legislation or pro-
posed legislation change cf policy which
would derange or alter or unsettle values
is felt long before the apprehended blow Is
given. So that from the very hour it was
determined by the Americans that the Re-
publican party, which. with but single
interruption has been in control of the gov
ernment more than thirty years, was to go
out of power and another party with a
different policy was to come in, that mo
ment every business man of the country
assumed attitude of waiting and of fear
and anxiety. (Applause and cries of What's
the matters with Mckinley? He's all
right.) While business men were waiting
to know exactly what legislation was to be-
business was languishing from one end of
the country to the other and labor was
from hand to mouth. and we have been liv-
Ing from hand to mouth ever since. Great
applause and cries of We haVe.) As an
old comrade said TO me few days ago
the distance seems to be getting greater
with each succeeding year daughter and
applause)
According to a census recently taken by
a newspaper in New York it appears that
in July 1892 SIT EMPLOYERS of labor in fha
United States gave work to III 2a hands
How was it in July, 1896? (Cries of Not
SO good The same employers gave work
to $500 hands; 35,531 men who had been
employed in 1892 were thrown out OF en-
ployment in 1896 and put in a state of idle
ness resulting in a loss Of more than 30
per cent. to labor. In July, 1892 the wages
pa paid d. to the IL 23l hands amounted to So
1000. In July, 1896, the earnings of the
1S.700 hands amounted TO only s. 469 S12 a
loss to labor in a single month in those es-
adjustments Of $1,4570oe. or 40 per cent
(Applause and a voice: Pennsylvania
knows it. Yes, and Pennsylvania, like all
the rest of the country will vote this year
with that knowledge. Cries of Right
rightD In 1899, the monthly average Of
wages paid IN these establishments was
s34 50; in 1896 only S31.
My conntrymen, 7 am one of those
Americans who believe that the American
workshops should be protected so far as
possible from the foreign workshop. to the
end that Anne fcan wonl1ingmen may be
constantly employed and SO protected. too,
to be employed at American wages
tremendous cheering and cries of What's
the matter with Mckinley? He's ali
right.o Nor do / want products cheapened
at the expense of American manhood. (Ap-
plause.( Nor do / think that it is eeono-
My to buy goods cheaply abroad If thereby
it enforces idleness at home. (Renewed ap-