The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-16
TO NEW WORKERS.
Major Mckinley Responds to Con-
gressman Hcoker's Greeting.

Major Mckinley Responds to Con-
sressman Hooker's Greeting.
| In reply to Congressman Hooker. who
| presented the New York delegation, Major
| Mckinley said:
| Congressman Hooker and my Fellow
| citizens-Your coming is most welcome and
| encouraging. You bring sunshine and good
| cheer. and promises of unprecedented
| Republican majority this year in the great
| Empire State of New York. l recall as L
| speak to you my visit to Dunkirk. in Octo-
| ber, 1894 You were then in the midst of
| great State and national contest l remem-
| then / heard shouts from your voices be-
| tokening coming victory. At that time you
| in New York, to choose member of Con-
gress and determine by your ballots
had been formally submitted to the voters
was a campaign of vital Importance both to
State and country. AS one OF your older
| citizens at the time remarked TO me: Re-
| publican success this year is not for one
| campaign. or single year, but it may in
| voive our distant posterity.' The result OF
| that election was evidently satisfactory.
That grand old citizen and veteran Repub-
| lican, Levi +. Morton, was elected Cover
| nor of New York by a phenomenal ma
| jority, and with him. full Republican
| years-and the new Constitution was rati-
f.aa FED and has since gone into effect. Your
| by an increased majority.
''The great Empire State is now respected
| everywhere for her, free. independent and
| powerful voice in the counses of the Ma
| ton. She stands proudly erect this year
for country, patriotism and national honor.
She refuses to wear party yoke which
would lead TO national dishonor or repudi-
alton The 1 lor us Old ag is her only Oan-
and am told that from the battery to For
ty-second street in the greatest city of the
stripes and stainless stars upon every block
ard square, appealing for national honor
and exaltation of the American name. It
is sight which inspires the young and
makes the old young again. Let it wave
holy banner of the free. 1t was never
stained in defeat and it never will be. 1t
was never lowered in dishonor and never
VIII be; and the government whose
curity and honor is enshrined upon every
fold, emblazoned upon every star. will not
be lowered or dishonored.
In the election of 1884 Chautauqua coun-
" and Dunkirk bore an honorable part.
Both were On the right side both for hon
est money then, as always in the past, and
as they will ever be in the future-for that
is distinct provision of the Republican
code of principles and the unquestioned
of New York without regard to party
Both were for protection and reciprocity.
Both were for the enforcement of law and
order. Both favored the preservation and
sanctity of our courts and were emphatic
ally opposed--or would have been had they
tack upon these revercd tribunals of JUS
tice which have always been our great an
chors of safety and true safeguards of
constitutional liberty, the federal courts of
the United States.
''Dunkirk ! recall a town noted for it's
manufacture of locomotive engines. I'm
agine, If you can. the construction of any
engine without safety valve. and yet there
are some political engineers in this country
who seek to run the I.epublc-the greatest
of all engines for human progress-without
a safety valve. without brakes. or without
other restraint than their own misguided
Will Some of them would run the engine
one way, and some would run it another.
They are divided and inharmonious in the
way to run 1t. They have a surplus of en-
gineers, each of whom has been educated
ffnr c1I1r nj sr,1
of experience. They differ upon very many
propositions, but apparently are united in
and preserving inviolable the obligations Of
the government. They seem to unite in
favoring n reduction of one-half of the saw
ings and salaries and the wages of the
country. for they have expressly declared
in favor of financial policy which would
have just that result
There is one thing the people of this
country will not submit to--that the saw
ings of the poor shall be squandered and
wasted by depreciation of the hard
earned money which they have laid aside
Can the people of Dunkirk or Chautauaua
county for one instant favor such a policy?
loud cries Of No! no! never!) L am glad
to know that you do not.
Let me tell you what think is a bet
ter safer and more honorable policy: Let
US restore the protective-tariff system and
pay as we go. put our laboring people to
work and restore business confidence from
one end of the country TO the other. / am a
protectionist because / believe the protect
i've system is the best adapted to our condi-
tionS and citizenship. 1t does everything
that a revenue tariff does and vastly more
1t supplies needed revenue. A revenue tariff
can do no more, and the present tara has
not done that much. 1t accomplishes this
end with equal, II not greater. certainty
than u revenue tariff, and while doing
that it wisely discriminates in favor Of
American interests and Is ever mindful of
the American people. 1t protects our own
products against those of the allen and the
stranger, While the domestic consumer is
secured reasonable prices through domestic
competition; 1t diversifies the occupations
and multipies the opportunities of our pen-
Ele, secures an unriVaed home market for
agriculture and unequaled wages for labor
1t opposes trusts and combinations to con-
troll the markets and prices to the injury
trade which has been the parent of trusts
and insists that competition with the old
world shall be on equal conditions made so
Ey the tariff.
ours we will meet her in the neutral mar
kets and contend without fear for suprem>
acy. Let her lift her conditions up We
Will not pun ours down. Protection en-
courages skill and genius to the highest ac-
tivity, and under its operations we reached
the foremost rank in mechanism and inyen-
tion and the widest individual and national
prosperity. Protection favors the United
States and the flag of the United States. N
favors the people of the United States and
girl and boy struggling upwards. 1t builds
up-it never tears down. 1t opens but
never closes American workshops. This is
what we want in this distressed country to-
day. This is what will diminish idleness
want and misery and stop deficient reve-
nues. Ii you favor the restoration of pros
perity, the honest payment of our debts
Ind the continuance OF our high rank and
Importance among the great nations of the
world, men of New York, I bid you two