The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-13
NEED MORE WORK
This Is What Ais LabOring
Men Says Mckinley.
They Need Employment So as
to Get Money.
NOT THROUGH MINIS.
They Can't Get Their Dollars
In That Way.
Mckinley Pays a Compliment to
James G. Blaine.

Canton, O., Oct. 13-In the course of
his speech to the MonongaheIa people,
Major Mckinley said:
western Pennsylvania is filled with
many proud and historic memories 1t
registers the birthplace of that splendid
parhamentarian, gifted statesman and
great secretary of state James G.
Blaine It is very gratifying to me to
receive from the hands of the Fayette
club this beautiful cane, made from the
wood of Mr.. Blaine's home, where he
was born. and I assure YOU that if
shall always be preserved and kept in
my family as precious souvenir. You
are fortunate, too, in having at one
time among your citizens of Fayette
county that illuStriouS fnancier Albert
Gallatin. who became the first secre-
tary of the treasury under Thomas JEFF
ferson in 1901. and who filed that great
office twelve years and is known in the
history OF our country as one # the
greatest secretaries we ever had, rank
ing with Alexander Hamilton
1t is said the first resolution he in
VrOduced as congressman was a resOlu-
ton lnQulrlng into the condition Of the
treasury resolution which is not
needed at this time He was distin-
gulShed for having always insisted that
the revenues of the government should
be adequate to meet the public expend-
lures and one of the greatest monu-
ments he left is that during his service
as secretary Of the treasury he reduced
about S45. 600 900 in 1871. It was his
proud boast when he made his report
to congress that this wonderful reduc-
ton of the public debt had gone on
without resorting to internal taxation.
either direct or indirect. but that this
vast sum of money was provided for
by the duties upon imports
'.This bit of history suggests the con
dition of our own treasury and the con
dition of our own people For three
years and a half the government has
been borrowing money to live upon, and
the people have been doing likewise,
very largely. We want my fellow cfti-
zens, somehow to stop that. both as to
government and people. We may not
be able to do it at once. When we are
sick it takes a long time to recover our
normal vitality. But there ought to be
no question that it rests upon the
American people and those in charge
of public affairs to adopt some policy,
and that right speedily, which would
first provide enough money to run the
government of the United States. We
ought not to resort to the issuing of
bonds in time of peace, except to pre-
serve the credit and honor of the gov
eminent That opens up the question
as to what policy will save US from
that. a voice: Protection pOlicy-) /
I adopt the suggestion do not know
of anything that viii do it better than
protection for it is a proud fact in
American history that in all the years, |
at least for the most part under which |
always had ample revenues to conduct /
the expenses of the government
That policy is one of the first and
most important acts for the people to
perform. They cannot perform it, how
ever. without a Republican congress /
and a Republican administration The /
only power that can make a protective /
tariff congress resides in the American /
people and the only power that can |
make a protective tariff administration /
resides in the people.
Your ballots in conjunction with
your fellow citizens viii determine
whether or not that policy shall prevail
for the next four years What viii
your answer be men of Pennsylvania ?. /
(Cries Of. Mckinley and prOtecuon.)
MY fellow citizens am in favor of that
policy for many reasons because Whileit
provides adequate revenue for the gov
eminent it encourages the industries
and occupations Of the American PEG
pie. There is q notion in some quar-
tiers that we need to bring about pros |
perity with free silver ] do not believe !
it would be any freer under free coin /
age to you than it. is now. There would |
be Just one way for the people to get it /
and that is to earn it, There would be |
just one way for the farmer to get 1t /
and that would be to sell his products
There would be just one way for the |
merchant to get tia good Oid-fashiOn- I
ed way-to sell his goods and give /
something for the money That is the I
only way you could get it If we coined /
all the silver in the world
Besides did it ever occur to you /
that money does not make work; work |
makes money. There is just as much I
money in this country today IS there /
was from 1880 to 1870 and more, but /
what is the trOuble2 (Cries of. No I
work, no WOrk-) Y IS, no work. 1t is I
work that puts money into circulation. |
Money does not want to be idle any /
more than labor wants to be idle. The I
man who has money wants that money /
to be earning something and the only I
reason he does not put it out now is I
because ne is afraid he will never get /
it back or get it back in deprecated /
currency And when he does not put it I
out and it does not circulate, then there +
is no work When you have idle men /
and idle money. distress and suffering /
prevail Now, / do not know what you /
have money too good. When a miner /
has performed a week 3 work. do not Z
know how long it has been since he has |
performed full week s WOrk-W hen /
the miner in the mines and glass blow /
ers in the glass works and the working I
men in any occupation has performed /
his weeks work and has his weeks pay I
that weeks pay represents the value of /
his labor for six days, does It not (Cries /
Of: Yes. yes.D Well do you not want /
that money to be the best IN the world +
Does he not want that which represents /
his six days work to have as much pur- I
chasing power as any money any !
where2 and when you nave received I
dollars worth one hundred cents IN +
purchasing power, you want to know +
that they viii not lose, but keep that i
100 cents worth Of purchasing power. /
That is the kind of money We have now i
and that is the kind of money we pro- /
pose to continue to have The money /
that viii buy the most is the money |
you want and what you want is an op- /
portunity to earn it. You cant earn it /
through the minis, but through the /
mills mines and factories, and by hon /
est toll.
L believe that with returning conf
dence-and confidence is half the CAPT |
tai of the world-money win come out |
from its hiding place, be invested in |
enterprises all over the country and