The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-13

these years since 1878. and down to 1882
they were getting better wages. paid in
gold for their labor than ever before
I'm the United States everything has
been cheapened but men and as nearly as
such as Mexico. Central America and
South America, man alone has been cheap
ened, everything he buys having been
steadily increased with constant fiuctua-
tons by steady decrease in the price of
silver. With the gold basis and the pro-
tective tariff from 1879 to 1898 the working
men of this country were never before so
steadily employed: they never before re-
ceived such good wages; they never before
We're paid in better money and their wages
never before bought as many of the neces-
saries, comforts and luxuries of life. Cap
plause and 'Hurah for McKinley!)
If gold standard deprived the Ameri-
can toiler of a single days work or his
family of single comfort, or reduced his
wages, or made life harder for him. I
should be against it. (Applause.) AS 1t
does not. and it promotes the general
prosperity and upholds the national credit
and honor / am for it, and shall steadiIy
favor it as long as I believe it is truly
beneficial and adyantageous to our conn
try. Cloud and continued applause.)
CARLISLE QUOTED.
1.-THE Hon. John G. Carlisle, the distin-
guished Democrat who is at present Secre-
tary of the Treasury, on April 49, 1896 ad-
dressed the workngmen of Chicago in a
speech of great power and eloquence
Among other things, he said: The value of
the silver dollar under free coinage would
huctuate from day to day, moving UP and
down with the rise and fall of the CONNER
cial price of the bullion contained i'm it,
as the Mexican dollar does now and the
premium of the gold dollar would. of
affording an opportunity to bullion brokers
and spectators to buy it and sell it at a
pront. 1t would cease to be used as money
because no man would pay his debts in gold
dollars or in paper redeemable in gold dol
lars worth one hundred cents when the
I.iT n tbnr,o ell
dollars worth only 81 to 80 cents each
The sudden withdrawal says Mr. Car
Isle. of $62o0Co,eoO of gold from the curren-
cy in the country would undoubtedly pro-
duce a financial and Industrial disturbance
far more disastrous to the interests of labor
than has ever been experienced in our his
tory; and no man who has a particle of
sympathy for workingmen and working
women and their dependent families can
contemplate the possibility of such a
calamity without feeling that it is his duty,
whether he occupies private or public sta
his command to avoid it,
These are the words of truth and sober
ness, and L commend them to the working
men of Homestead (applause) and the en-
tire country everywhere, as well, as entitled
to their most serious and earnest consider
alton.
Gentlemen. l have always been, as you
know, in favor of protective tariff Cloud
and continued APPLAUSE and have always
advocated it and believed in it because l
thought it was necessary to protect the
American workingman against the cheaper
labor of the world. (Vociferous cheering)
Applying that great principle, 1 am in favor
of protecting to-day the laboring man of
the United States against degraded cur
rency. / am opposed to free trade because
it degrades American labor. l am opposed
to free silver because it degrades American
money. Continuous cheering.) You work
ingmen who are making in part the great
armor plate for the use of our navies must
use that greatest armor of American citi-
zenship--the ballot-in defending the honor
and credit of the currency of the United
States. (Applause) l thank you more
than I can tell for this call from the men
who toll To feel that they are with me
and the cause which for the moment I.rep-
resent is a source of strength and comfort
to me, for which l cannot make suitable
acknowledgment. applause and cries of
We are all with you, Majori) / am GLAD
to meet and greet you. and it will be my
further pleasure to shake, if possible each
and every one of you by the hand" (Vo-
ciferous cheering)