The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-18
M'KINLEY TO WORKINGMEN
CONFIDENT THEY WILL UPHOLD
 THE NATIONS HONOR


 gogy, Either-His Patriotic Utterances Come Straight From the Heart-Earnest Responses Elicited by His Appeals to the Reason of His Auditors-"The Man Who Would Array Capital and Labor Against Each Other is an Enemy of Both," He Says.
 Canton, Sept. 17.-A large and enthu- siastic delegation composed of the em- ployes of the Edgar Thompson Steel works at Braddock, Pa,, arrived on three special trains over the Pennsyl- vania railroad shortly after noon to- by the Sheridan Sabre and St. Thom- as bands. There were fully $500 per sons in the party At the depot the visitors were met by the Canton mounted troop and a large crowd of citizens.
 When the last of the three trains had pulled into the station the line was formed and the delegation marched to the residence of Major Mckinley. The j spokesman of the party was John L. Jones. He made brief speech to the candidate, in which he praised the pro- tective principles of the republican par ty and declared that his people were solidly for sound money.
 
 with a storm of cheering when he ap- peared on the porch. This applause was renewed when the spokesman had finished his introductory remarks and the nominee mounted chair to re- spond.
 Major Mckinley addressed the Worl1ingmen at some length. He said: Somehow when an assemblage of workingmen come to pay me a visit it attracts my interest and touches my h art. I can well appreciate why the workingmen should have deep and profound interest in the outcome of the present national contest The one thing which stands between your la- Dor and the labor of Europe is a wise patriotic American protective policy. (Great cheers.) This is distinctively the peoples year when old lines are ef- faced and men heretofore opposed meet upon a common platform to sustain the honor of our country.
 However, we may differ on minor questions of public policy, we are all of one mind in the conviction that something or other is the matter with the country. One thing above all else that is wanted at this juncture is the return of public and private confidence. We know the very day and the hour when this confidence was first shaken, and from that hour distrust and doubt have hung over the business of the country. It has been aggravated from variety of causes, but none greater than the assault which has been made by the allied political organizations up- on the credit and the currency of the country. (Applause.)
 This new smenace must be averted before we can hope to have any per- manent prosperity. We know that the present monetary standard has not stood in the way of our prosperity in the past. We were prosperous in 1892 and had been for the preceding ten years. Business was languishing and labor was without work. Then we commenced living from hand to mouth and we have been living from hand to mouth ever since. (Great applause.) I believe that the American. workshop should be protected as far as possible from the foreign workshop to the end that American workingmen may be constantly employed at American wages. Tremendous cheering)
 Nor do I want products cheapened at the expense of American manhood. James G. Blaine in 1884 said: "A policy that would abandon the field of home trade must prove disastrous to the me- chanics and workingmen of the United States. Wages are unjustly reduced when an industrious man is not able by his earnings to live in comfort, edu cate his children and save a sufficient amount for the necessities of age. The reduction of wages inevitably conse- quent upon throwing our home market open to the world would deprive the workingmen of the United States of the power to do this. It would produce a conflict between the poor and the rich and in the sorrowful degradation of labor would plant the seeds of public danger
 "The republican party has steadily aimed to maintain just relations be- tween capital and labor. A conflict be- tween the two has always led and will always lead to the injury of both. Whoever arrays the one against the other is an enemy of both. (Applause) Ut is gratifying to be assured by your spokesman that the voice of labor here to-day declares that no party which degrades the honor of the na- ton, no party which stands opposite to law and order or which seeks to array the masses against the classes shall re- ceive its vote and support. (Great cheering)
 "The country has never failed or faltered in the past to meet every crisis. It will never falter or fail to uphold the dignity and independence and the honor and stability of the gov ernment.