The morning times., 1896-09-13
ARMY OF STEEL WORKERS
Continued from First Page.

is that IN any people want IL aud can Onl y
get it by paying a better price than some
who want an article the better price 1t Will
command. The more people who want
your labor, the better wages you will
A GOOD 16 To 1.
II there is one days labor for sixteen
workingmen YOU would not get as good
wages as though there were sixteen days
WORK FOR one workingman: M thal Is
the sort OF 16 to i We want in the United
States. The changes in tfe prices OF
agricultural products or any other COM
modify which have been cheapened In
their production by improved machinery
and more competitive fields with greater
production. does not prove that gold has
advanced in value, but simply that such
A Dushel OF wheat, even at the present
low price, will buy more American COM
Inodities than the same quantity would have
bought thirty or forty yearsago: An, gen
tlemcn. are not he wage S paid labor rather
than the ever changing market price otcom-
modtties the best and most logical test?
Is not the labor OF man rather Than the
thing which his labor creates. the real test?
Have the wages paid TO labor since 1873,
as measured by gold, decreased? That is
the crucial question. We resumed specie
payments on Il gold easis January 1879.
Since that time wages and salaries have
not declined, but have risen. In 1850 the
DuImber OF employees III tie manufacturing
establishments in the United States, men
and youths. was z. 1000. agercgating IN
per capita. In 1890, ten years q aftcrresump-
ton, the number of wage-earncrs was A.
.d2,622; and their aggregate earnings We're
showing would clearly indicate that the
gold basis has not injured labor. Here was
an increase from 1850 TO 1890 of nearly
80 per cent.
Our WORKING people have bought the
necessarics ana comforts of life cheaper for
themselves and families during all these
years since 1873 and down 10 1892 They
were getting better wages, paid in gold
for their labor. than ever before. In the
United States everything has been
cheapencd but men, and as nearly as l
can ascertain it. in free silver countries,
sucn us Mexico, Central and South America,
man alone has been chcapened, every
thing he buys having been steadily increased
win constant fluctuations, by steady de-
crease i'll the price OF silver.
With the gold basis and the protective
tariff from 1879 to $50 the workingIueu
OF this country were never before So
received such good wages: they never
before were paid In better money. and their
wages never before bought as many OF the
necessarles comforts, and Injuries of life.
III gold standard deprived the A american
toilcr or n single days work, or his family
OF single comfort, or reduced his wages,
or made life harder for him, l should he
a gainst 1t. AS ii does not, ard as il
promotes the general prosperity and up.
holds the national credit anu honor, | am
for II and snHh steadily favor il so long as
DeHeNe III Is truly beneficfal and advHH-
taSeouS to our country.
Gentlemen, l have always been, as you
know. in favor OF Il protective tariff. |
have advocated il and believed in II be-
the American workingman against the
cheaper labor OF the old world.
Applying that great principle, am in
favor or protecting toda the .aboring man
OF the United States against Il degraded
i am opposed To free trade be-
cause it deerades American labor. am
opposed TO free silver because it degrades
money.
thank you more than / can tell Tor
his call from the men who toll. TO feel
hat they are with me and the cause |
which for he moment represent isa source |
OF strength and comfort To me FOR which |
cannot make suita bic Acknowledgements. |
TWO MORE DELEGA TIoNs.
1t was 2:30 when the music of advanc- |
ing bands announced the approach OF |
a thousand employees from the offices uf |
The Pennsylvania Railway in Pittsburg |
About the same time the skies darkened, |
he sun disappeared and great masses OF |
black clouds rolled across the SKY. March, |
ng Just behind the railway men was a |
column of seven hundred workiugmen from
Pa.
The two delegations filed into the yard
ogether and before either spokesmen had
aid a word the rain began to fall. thunder
,rashed and flashes OF lightning shot across
he black sky. Instantly Il Thousand UNI
,relIas were raised.
The rain was so heavy and the wind SO
troDS that 10 speaker could he heard and
I was determined ,O go to the tabernacle.
The crowd marched do wn In good orde rand
'erfect good huInor. Major Mckinley was
riveD 10 the hall. When he appeared IN
lie stage the audience stood up and chccred !
or several minutes. Major Mckinley said
n part:
Col Church and my Fellow Citizens:
regret very much that the rain has di-
'lded This great dclegaI ion from the state
If Pennsyly yauia, but / AIN quite sure that
he rain will not divide you on The third
lay of November.
Ii has pleased Inc very much To observe
nat all along the lines OF the railways OF
his country the employees are organizing,
md thank them for il.
But want t. give you one piece Of au- |
ice. Don't-tiss. these great organizations
o coerce your employers To vote the same
ickeu that you do. Also, warn you
gainst any attempt to coercc the officers
your company into voting the Repuh-
can ticket.
ARTERIES OF COMMERCE.
No body of men in the country has
Jhtel States which they always do 80
much to create and promote, than the vast
rmy OF men III our wonderful railway
ervIces. No enterprises feel oppression
1ore quick than the railways-those grand ,
rteries OF commerce and civ ilizatio
which they have united, developed and
the globe. No agency more
ccurately registers the business OF the
ountry than the raIlroa aus. and there
$ none that has so miraculously ad-
anced 1t.
In 1895 the traffic of the PENNSYLVANIA
DAD had reached the enormous volume of |
z ,l2O.7iT tons, hut ] observe that while
was enabled to employ S31 900 opera ,
ives in 1898, it had but T49,0O at
FORK in 1895. You know better than
an tell that ii was poor business tLat
aused this ARMY OF 1874 900 men to he no
usiness that caused Il reduction rather
han an increase OF wages.
The manufactures, the mines. and the
lrnis were not runiiingo on full capacity, and
he railroads, in consequence, were not
DING a $ much. or rs profitable Il business, as
hey ought to have been doing Which :
olicy do you like best, the old or the
ew?
Decide this question for yourselves and
hen vote that way.
Free silver would prove equally n s dis |
strous-ayc, probably more disastrous ,
han free trade has proved to the people
( the United States. And know that men
0 familiar with honest business methods ,
s yourselves will not he affected by the !
alse theories OF this latest delusion OF
finance.
A short time before the arrival OF the :
vo Pennsylvania delegations. forty life ,
men OF Cleveland, Ohio, called ,
4 Maj Mckinley to express their interest q
'ould be elected by big ma ;ority
.
PREPARING FOR VETERANS. a