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

our domestic trade for 1891 was 704 1896 6o9
or more than twenty-nine times as great
Fort what, therefore, should we chiefly con-
tend-the advancement and protection or
this domestic traffic or its practical aban-
donment-or neglect, at least. in the effort
to share England's ocean traffic.
RAILWAYS SUFFER FIRST.
Whenever the property of this country Is
blighted the railroads of the country are
the first to feel it. (Cries of That's rightly
If products are not carried by railroad
transportation there is no employment de-
mand for the operatives on railroad lines.
Let US seek first to increase trade at home
and gradually so improve our merchant ma
rine as to give us greater advantages in
the commerce of the high seas. We will
neglect neither, but by a wise protective
tariff and reciprocity system increase both.
Great cheering.)
THE Pennsylvania lines in 1866 had a
freight traffic of 2,555 706 TONS and in 1897
of more than thirty million tons a rate of
increase under, the beneficent and undis-
turbed policy of the Republican party of
more than LOO per Cent. Great applause.)
So with the other great railway systems,
the New York Central showing rate of in
crease of 100 per cent. and the Erie of 500
in the same period. All steadily advanced
and kept full pace with the increased pros
perity of the country. This is the system,
this policy of protection this governmental
United States of America. Cheers and
cries of 'Hurrah for McKinley!o Will not
the votes of the progressive and industrious
app ause and cries of 'Yesv .YesiO
I'm 1895 the traffic of the Pennsylvania
railroad had reached the enormous volume
of 81 l29.747 tons, but l observe that while
1t was enabled to employ $4,000 operatives
in 1888 it had but $4,000 at work in 1896
You know better than L tell you that
it poor business that caused this army
OF l240oO to be no longer employed, and
reduction rather than an advance of
wages. (Cries of That's right!) The
great manufactures and the farms were
not running on full capacity, and the
much or as profitable business they
ought Ito, to have have been EEL DOING ty ,s. ola
or the new? Cloud cries of We want the
Republican policy.D Decide this question
of We will vote all right!p Your spokes-
man has made an excellent and able ar
gument against the policy of the free coin
age of silver IS it affects your business.
and I need not attempt to enlarge upon it,
Free silver would prove equally as disas-
trous-aye, probably more disastrous-than
free trade has proven to the people of the
United States. (Cries of We have had
enough OF that!) we want neither free
silver nor free trade in the United States
and / know that men familiar with
honest business methods as yourselves will
this latest dcluson of dishonest finance.
(Cries Of We are for sound money every
time!D
Il thank you. gentlemen of Pennsylvania
representing every branch and department
OF industry for the call which you have
made upon me here to-day. and | thank
you for your messages. gracious messages.
which you have brought that you will
stand this year for American honor Amer
lean public faith. American prosperity and
the full employment of every idle man in
the United States. Tremendous and en-
thusastic cheering and cries of 'McKin-
ley,0
What We want in this country is full
ing). and then want after that the freest
and best opportunity to earn 1t. Con
tinued cheering.) I thank you for this call.
and ii viii give me great pleasure to meet
each one of you and shake you by the
hand" Great applausel