The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-25
SHAKES WITH MINERS
Continued from First Page.)

The proposition they make is to put
This country upon a sole monetary basis
and that monetary basis a silver one;
resting on a deprecated coin, a coin
fiuctuating in value from day to day.
aAnd what will be the result! IL
will drive from circulation or impair
the value Of all the other money OF
the country, for it must be remembered
that the nations of the world which are
on a silver basis use no gold, and the
nations that are on a gold basis use
silver. (Applause)
THEY HAVE SOME RIGHTS.
eff the suggestion is made that this
course involves the good faith and hon
or of the government and would for
the first time cause partial reputation
Of just obligations, the answer is made
that our creditors should expect moth
ing better. / protest they have right
TO expect nothing of that sort from the
government of the nited States, IL it
repudiated a debt it made. eW cannot
afford to trifie about a matter so Sc
rious and vital to our standing and
welfare as a people; and / appeal TO
you, my fellow citizens Of West More
land county, to rise in your might and
help to defeat this unworthy appeal
by such a vast majority az will put
il to rest forever.
PROTECTION.
"You come from the coast region or
Pennsylvania, and If / remember,
Greensburg is the enter of this indus
try Aside from the question OF good
mnoey and the maintenance of our ma
tional honor, the other issue of this cam
paign is the restoration Of our protec-
tive policy, policy unfortunately, in
part abandoned four years ago, but
never, 1 think, more strongly support
ed in the hearts of our American people
than today. You may not agree with
me, believe it is a good plan for the
American people, so far as possible, to
do all their own work at home zap
plause); to encourage the American mar
ket by protecting the American laborer
against the poorly paid labor of foreign
countries; to strengthen the American
factories and encourage American en-
terprises and protect our markets by
1udicious tariff against the products and
goods of other countries which we can
not produce, and exchange them for the
products and goods We cannot produce.
on terms alike honorable to both.
AMERICAN COAL.
at think it is patriotic and profitable,
for example, to use American coal ratn-
er than foreign coal. / think the use OF
foreign coal which makes idle miners
in the nited States is a most expensive
experiment for the American people.
We must go back to the policy and con-
ditions of 1890 to start our factories
and increase our demand for American
coal We must re-esta blish the system
by which we increased the output of
coal from the mines of the nited States
from II 900, 900 tons in 1880 to Al, 900, 900
tons in 1890; that increased the value OF
our annual product from 100000 in
1880 TO 100, 000. 900 i'm 1890; that increased
the number of persons in our coal mines
from 10, 900 1880 to 299, 900 in 1890; that
paid in wages TO those miners in 1890
$109, 000, 600, as against $50 100000 in 1880,
and that made profitable an investment
in coat mining of probably So, 900, 900 in
1890, as against s261 900, 900 in 1880.
HOME COMPETITION.
''Iost Of the development of that Pc
Rod was in the mines of the south, and
not in those of Pennsylvania and Ohio,
but we ca stand a matter of home COM
petition. 1t is our own people, blood of
our blood, owing allegiance to the same
flag, that have made this wonderful
development in the southern section of
the country. We congratulate them
and rejoice with them. 1t is the foreign
competition from which we must pro-
tect ourselves. (Cheers). What we
want above all is to encourage both
home production and home competition.
.et us have ii in the great American
family, whose charges should always
be our special concern" QIong and con-
tinued applause.