The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-02
CAME FROM THE BUCKEYE
STATE. ssA8
WHILE CAPITAL WAITS ON SOUND
FINANCE, LABOR rs IN DE-
SPAIR.
THE LAW OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND
Illustrated, Says Mckinley. nv the
Complex Interdependence OF
Every Phase OF Activity


brought delegations from Portage
county, Ohio. today, with greetings to
Maj. Mckinley. The first brought
party from the southern part of the
county, coming over the Pennsylvania
lines on regular trains Three were
specials of nine coaches each over the
c. c. & S. No demonstration was made
till the last arrived, when a parade
was organized. After a short parade
a meeting was held in the Tabernacle.
The Introductory address was made by
>. +. Wolcott, state senator from the
Kent, O., district. A delegation from
Springfield, O., arrived on a special
train OF seven coaches at AS this af-
ternoon. It brought the heavy
weight" Mckinley and Hobart club,
other clubs and citizens generally nn-
der the caption 1.-The Clark County
Brigade" After a short parade in the
business portion of the city the crowd
assembled in the Tabernacle, where an
address was made by Judge C. Miller.
NAL Mckinley said in reply:
me manufacturer does not know how to
plan Ior next years business because OF the
nnanclaI uncertainty, created by the attitude
oi one OF the great political parties OF the
country, in combination with two other par
ties. If free silver is to be inaugurated in
tn.s country 1t will change all values disar-
range the relation OF labor to the nrodIIction
OF raw material and unsettle all conditions
OF existing business and prosperity This un-
certainty makes every business man pause:
makes every business enterprise halt and
while they pause and halt the home of every
worklngman is filed with despair CAPITAL
nestates TO invest because 1t sees danger
ahead and Is unable to count with cerfajifv
upon either the safety of its PRINCIPAL or tha
return Of profits, and while capital waits
OUTSIDE the factory, the machinery is silent
Labor is unemployed and poverty presides
about the 1resides Of the men who Ioi1
Take your own city which has heretofore
Deen one OF the busiest centers in the manu-
iacture Of agricultural implements, ernoIcy-
ing 5000 laborers, or once did: frreat lanrb+s.
and applause); to cut that eInploynaent in
Two would be not only g calamity to labor.
=; nul WOULD De calamity to every interest
Ia your city and to every farmer in your
county. Your business fairly illustrates tha
close relation between the manufacturer and
me agricultural producer. When you are
prosperous. the farmer is prosperous When
Ine farmer Is prosperous, yeu have your most
prontabie trade. II your payroll Should be
it,c one-half, its effect would be injur-
iousiy 1elt by every farmer in your county
and the injury thus inflicted upon the farm.
ers would affect the machine works. because
sour customers VINO are farmers would suf-
LEI from the diminished labor you would
employ In the loss of a part OF their homa
market isn't that true, my fellow citizens
OF Springfield? cloud cries Of "Yesl Yesr0
business OF every character is so inter-
woven, so dependent and independent uDon
SVery otner business that hurt to the one Ia
t raTI 20 lne o5ner. In 1892 people used to
th,hK you could hurt the manufactures and
nelp the rest Of mankind They labor under
no sucn deiusfon now. Demand is what
makes makes business activity. You make agricul-
turdi implements because the farmer wants
tnem, but when he does not want then, Won
VIII not make them and when he wants
lever rev or them you will not make as many.
ana When that time comes and you diminish
your output you do not REQUIRE sn nuch
i iaDor. and that is what makes poverty and
STABILITY IN VALUES.
MY fellow citizens, we must have stability
"a xaioes ana confidence in national and in
oIVioual integrity before we can have real
ana permanent prosperity. We must have
connaence that our revenue legislation will
supply adequate money for the public treas
ury ana protect American labor and Amarj
can interests In every part of the country.
Alexander Hamilton once said. 6Thara. 4.
sefsrceiy any point In the economy OF national
andirs OF greater moment than the uniform
preservation OF the intrinsic value Of tha
money unit. On this the security and steady
,o,,ut OF property essentially depends" We
must get over the idea, my fellow eitizens
II we ever had it. that there is any Iererda,,
main IN nnances; that congress- nv ifs r,ero
t n,ea1 !. can make something out Of nothing:
tnat It can decree that 50 cents worth n az
yer snail be worth 100 cents. Congress- ran A.
mucn; 1t can protect the lives and pronerfv
81 e1rlzens. as It should do; 1t can provide
revenue laws which will make the trassnrS1
easy ana protect American producers from
the unrestrained competition Of fine ojd VII
Il oan 90 that and It must do that. Tire
neHuous cheering.) But 1t cannot nv a.
mere scamp, make dollor worth loo cenfs
OUT or piece Of ooin which sells in every
ihT Wa ,r OF the a world for 81 cents.
we want for our country a dollar vorth .
Collar The great senator from New yors'
roscoe Conklng once said: II do not ne
aeve tnat you can legislate up the Eaiue e
anystning any more then l believe YOU can
make all generals heroes nv Isgisist,or I'll
continental congress tried legfslatInr vat,,aS
Ip ny resort TO penalties. but the inexorable
laws or trade as independent AZ tha laws -
graVitatlon, kept them down" IAnnIarss1
Good credit and good currency are as Jndtsll
pensapie to labor as to capital. and he who
our countrys prosperity. T1aod o,nays OF
ewes protection to labor and to everv Amery
rcs.4 interest. as wise protective tariff gives
American farmer anu " Tue
we have good money now. Their. 4, No
T5a 70 pc found anywhere in the world
every dollar Of our currency as good O. laa Is
az ana Tor seventeen years that party has Eant
u SO. and " means &c keep il so n re
people OF this country restor,s II to rr,orar
again. We viii not consent 70 the ,,o,tre =.
tioD OF tne currency OF the country nv mt
ing ing ourselves upon a silver basis and driy-
ins from tne channels Of trade and the cur
rents Of business the good gold dollars and
the good paper dollars which this country has
t 1Uuay; we DO not propose to have the
United States confined to the use of silver
alone We mean to keep our gold, our silver
and our paper and to keep each and every
loIan Of american money worth one hundred
Judge Miller spoke OF the veterans Of The
war VINO are hero to testify their devotion
70 the Republican cause am glad to meet
them. Listen to what your old eonmander
Gen. Grant, said In HIS inaugural address
March 4, 1889. I wish the words might III
carried away In the heart OF every man IN
this audience, and that they might be heard
and Needed by every patriot in the land.
This is the language: ITO protect the ne
tional honor. every dollar of government
Indebtedness should be paid in gold. unless
otherwise expressly provided for. Let Il Be
understood that no repudiator Of one far
thing. Of our public debt will be trusted IN
public place, and It will go far toward
strengthening credit that should be the
best In the world
That Is whore the Republican party put
our credit and that Is where the Republican
party means to keep 1t. Great cheerIng.1
Having settled the currency question on the
side OF honesty, as we will settle 1t this year.
we will then make a tariff an American
tariff, which will provide against deficiencies
in the public treasury, and strong enough
to uphold the American factory and pre-
serve the American market for the American
people. tremendous cheering and three
cheers for McKtnley.l