The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-26

that's right,1
If they want to strike a balance
with us. this Popocratic party, we are
willing to do 1t. We are willing to take
the thirty-three years Of this govern
ment when we ran it under a protective
tariff policy and on a sound money
basis and ascertain what these two
policies for the American people, for
the men on the railroads, the men in
the factories and in the mines. and
contrast it with what the free trade
policy has done for the American peo-
pie in the last three years and a. half
and the balance is bound to be in our
favor
IF they want US to believe that this
remedy of a 52-cent dollar win be a
cure for all our ills. I Insist that they
make up the loss that they put upon
US in the last three years and half.
What you railroad men want is to
put all your cars to work, to turn all
the wheels Of your great railroads, and
you know your wheels will not turn
unless the wheels Of industry turn in
the shops also. No man knows better
than the railroad men who stand be
fore me today that when trains are
taken off that some men are taken off
the payroll and trains are never taken
of when they have any business to do.
None of you want to be sidetracked,
and every one Of us wants to be on the
payroll a voice: We want to be on
the main Hne.) and on the main line.
too. You are on the main line this
year
Coercion? Why you would have to
coerce men from thinking, reading and
feeling to keep them away from the
cause Of country and public honor this
year. You would have to make them
insensible to what they have exper-
fenced in their own lives under this
policy.
Now, what we are in favor of is get
ting back confidence, which lies at the
foundation of all business and without
which it Is staEnated. We have had
little or no confidence during the last
three years and a half, and as though
partial free trade and business paraly-
sis were not enough, they now raise as
their shibbOleth that what we want is
to adopt the Mexican or Chinese sys-
TEN of currency. No, [ answer forever,
no.
1--WE want that confidence that win
lead the business man to trust in the
future, and make plans for this years
work We want that confidence that
viii induce the men of capital to put
their money out, having faith that it
viii be paid back to them in as good
coin as they loan and interest and un-
til you get that you will have no per
manent prosperity or business aetiv-
ity We have in this country today
the best money iii the world but the
trouble is we do not get enough Of 1t
Individually and the reason Of that is
because we have no work.
The thing the people of the country
are looking for this year is the lost
job; and you can't get back the lost
job by destroying business. You de-
stroy business when you destroy conf
dence W hen you dehantly propose to
pay off debts. public and private in q
deprecated currency
Now. what win Missouri do this
year? CVociferous shouts; Elect Nc
Kinley.D What Will Kansas do this
year2 (EIect Mckinley Give you $4,000
majority.D What will Iowa dog Gre
mendous yelling, and Give you 10000
maiority.D You are all moved by the
same considerations; you are all in
spired by the same splendid principles.
You want this great government of
ours. the freest and the best in the
world made a more splendid one than
any other nation of the world.
I'VE must get back to that policy Of
confdence=confidenc in each other.
confidence in the future, confidence in
our country-and spurn that doctrine
that would array class against class,
the Ilcn against the poor OF cAAE4D1 GS
against employers.
When you support such doctrines
then there is g. chaos and business pa
ralysis. would rather teach the doc
trine of the common brotherhood of
man. We are all equal, equal under
the law. equal in privilege beneath
that starry banner Of the free; equal
in possibilities and equal in opportu-
nifty.
If the older men in this audience
have not realized all they hoped for in
their own lives, they have boys and
girls for whom they want to realize in
the future. I beg you shut not the door
of opportunity in their young
faces. Encourage their ambitions;
inspire them to struggle to the
front. under our form of government,
they can get the highest title which it
is possible to achieve-that Of being an
American.
You are proud Of your states and
you justly have a right to be proud OF
them; but you are prOuder still to be
citizens of the gratest government in
the world.
II thank you for this call. 1t is an
/ inspiration to the cause which I repre-
sent 1t is an encouragement not only
/ to me but to every patriotic citizen, ev-
! cry patriotic citizen everywhere that
YOU should travel thousands of miles