The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-09-24
ANOTHER B|GDAY At CANTON
PENNSYLVANIA IRON AND STEEL
WORKERS VISIT MAI.
M'KINLEY.
Mr.. BRYAN IN NORTH CAROLINA.
The Nebraska Aspirant Spoke at Sev-
eral Places Yesterday-Mr. Bryans
Itinerary Up to October 3 Given
Out by His Managers.

Edgar Thompson Steel Works at Brad
dock, Pa. They came via the Pennsyl-
vania on a special of three sections of
twelve coaches each. The first section
arrived ut II 40, and the Others short
ly afterwards. Fully 1000 men were in
line. which afterwards marched to the
Mckinley house There was a cheering
and hand clapping all along the line.
At the Mckinley home cheering and
promises of support were offered by j.
l.. Jones of the Clinton force of the COM
pany, who was spokesman.
Mckinley responded as follows:
Mr. Jones and Fellow Citizens-Many
delegations have waited upon me in the
last two months. All have been well
| coined and their visits have been inspir-
ing. but somehow when an assemblage
Of workingmen come to pay me visit
it attracts my interest and touches my
heart. lCheers.)
Il bid you welcome to my city and my
home. | can well appreciate that the
wOrkngmcn of this country should have
deep interest in the outcome Of the
present campaign. Cries of we have.J
| can not fail to remember that the one
thing which stands between your labor
and the labor of Europe: your work
shops and the workshops of the Old
World is an American protective policy.
| am glad to have this large delegation
of the employees of the great Edgar
Thompson Steel Works of Braddock.
Pa, ut my home. applause and cries
of we are glad to be here.) You have
come, as your spokesman has stated, to
bring me your good will. | am glad to
have you come in the manner your
spokesman has described-represcnti
all crecds, all colors and all classes: men
who belong to the republican party and
those who have heretofore belonged to
other parties. now acting together for
what they believe to be their common
good.
This is distinctively the peoples in
tcrcst when old lines are effaced and
when those heretofore opposed met on
a common platform to sustain the honor
of our country. (Applause) Political
parties are only the agents of the peo-
pie; they are only what the people make
them and are entitled to their confidence
terests. (Applause.) We are all con-
cerned, no matter what may be our oc-
cupatiOns in our country's welfare.
Whatever our political views may be.
we may differ on minor questions of
public policy, we are all of one mind in
the conviction that something or other
is the matter with the country. zap
plause.) We may differ in our diagnosis;
we may differ about the treatment in
detail, but we do not disagree upon what
is essential in the first instance to the
restoration of The better conditions of
the past One thing above all else that
is wanted ut this juncture is the return
of public and private confidence. zap
plause and cries of 'correct.o Its alb
scnce is our fundamental trouble. Upon
that there can not be two opinions. and
that, my fellow citizens no class of peO-
pie know better than you. We know
the very day and hour when this conf
dence was first shaken and from that
hour distrust and doubts have hung over
the business of the country. 1t has been
aggravated from Il variety of causes, but
none greater than the assault which has
been made by the allied political organi-
cations on the credit and honor of the
country. (Applause) This new menace
mist be averted before we can hope to
have any permanent prosperity. You
know that you were prosperous in 1917
and had been for the preceding ten years.
You know we have not seen any real
measure of prosperity since. lApplause.)
Business is sensitive. so quick to detect
danger. that any legislation or proposed
legislation or change of policy which
would alter or unsettle values is felt
long before the apprehended blow is
given. So that from the very hour it
was determined that the republican par
ty was to go out of power and another
party with a different policy was to come
in. that moment every business man i'll
the country assumed an attitude of wait
ing and of fear and anxiety. applause
and cheers9
while business men We're waiting to
know exactly what legislation was to
he. business was languishing from one
end of the country to the other, and Ia
Dor was without work. Then we COM
menced to live from hand to mouth and
we have been living from hand to mouth
ever since. Great applause and cries of
we have.O AS an old comrade said to
me Il few days ago: The distance seems
to be greater with each succeeding year.
daughter and applause.) According to
Il census recently taken by newspaper
in New York it appears in July, 1872
JoI employers of labor IN the Onlteu
states gave work to ia, 231 hands. How
was it in July. 1896? Cries of mot so
good.O The same employers gave work
to 7S,770 hands, 25,521, men who had
been employed in 1892 were thrown out
of employment in 1896 and put in state
of idleness. resulting in a loss of more
than 80 per cent to labor. In July, 1892,
the wages paid to the 114,231 hands
amounted to only $2,469,S12. loss to
labor in a single month in those estab-
lshments of $1,457 900, or 40 per cent.
Applause. A voice-Pennsylvania knows
it, Yes. and Pennsylvania, like all the
rest of the country, will vote this year
and acknowledge it. In 1890 the monthly
average of wages paid in these establish
ments was $3.50, in 1896 only $31.
MY countrymen, | am one of those
Americans who believe that the Ameri- |
can workshops should be protected so far
as possible from the foreign workshops to
the end that American workingmen may
be constantly employed and be so pro-
tected, too, as to be employed at Amerl-
can wages. tremendous cheering and |
cries of What's the matter with McKin- |
ley? He's all right.O Nor do l want
products cheapened ut the expense of
American manhood. (Applause.) Nor do
| think it is economy to buy goods cheap |
ly abroad if thereby it enforces idleness
at home. Renewed appause) Such
goods are the dearest that the American |
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