The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27
thunder of his artillery. Great applause

thunder of his artillery. Great applause
and cries of Good. good.)
Il am glad to know that your prospects
are SO good for a splendid victory in Iii-
nois this year. Tremendous cheering. and
cries of We will give Mckinley $50 000!1
What a spectacle, my fellow-citizens to
the world is this government of seventy
selves and governing themselves changing
their chief executive every four years and
their lawmaking power every two years
If it be their will so t. 90, and the gov
ernment going on without halt or inter-
ruption, working out what seventy mil
lions of people from time to time believe
will serve their highest destiny More than
40 years have passed since the government
was founded, and in every trial of his
for self-government and shown to all man
kind the use and the advantages of the
of That's right.O Now and then in our
popular elections may have been
swayed by passion or moved by the dem
agogue from our moorng. but the Ameri-
can people are not fooled but once on a
subject (great cheering). for when once de-
ceived they never follow the deceiver the
second time. (Renewed cheering and cries
of 'Right!)
JUDGMENT OF THE PEOPLE
81 have known, and so have you, a time
in our history when the majority of the
people were made to believe that certain
policies would serve their best interests
and when it transpired that they did not
they swiftly turned upon the party which
deceived them and turned it out of power
fcries of Good! GoodJ, and they will do
it again The judgment of the people is
swift and terrible against those who mis-
lead and delude them. The people are
never led astray by deceit or misrepre-
sentation when they investigate for them
selves. This they are doing this year in
a marked degree. 1t is of avail that
party leaders appeal to passion when the
people are alive to their own and the pub
lie interest. 1t will not do to say to the
men who are poor in this worlds goods
You must get off by yourselves; form a
class of your own: your interests are op-
posed to those who employ you. That is
not enough this year: The poor man in
quires: What good will that do me? How
Will that better my condition? How will
that bring bread to my family and cheer
despoiling my employer? Will it give me
more employment and better wages to
ed in productive enterprises, which give
me work and wages? Four years ago it
was said that the manufactures was max
ing too much money. You remember it
But that cannot be said now (cres of No.
No'); and that the robber tariff which
was enriching him must be turned up root
ana branch to the end that he should be
deprived of what some people were pleased
TO call his ill-gotten' profits. The country
seemed to share in the suggestion and the
trlal was entered upon, with what result
every manufacturer commercial man.
traVei1ng man or workngman best knows
II mas been discovered, to our hurt and
sorrow, that you cannot injure the manu-
facturer without injuring the laborer. (Ap-
pIause) 1t has been found. too. that you
cannot injure the manufacturer without in
Jurlng the whole business of the country.
tCrleS OF That's right!) You may close the
shops by adverse tariff because you i'm
agine the manufacturer is making too
much. but, with that done, you close the
door OF employment in the face of the la
borer whose only capital is his labor.
CGreat cheering) You cannot punish the
nf;o one without Furnishing the other and our
policy would not inflct the slightest injury
upon either. (Applause and cries of That's
rlght!) In such case, getting off togeth-
er does not do either any good.
'Arraying labor against capital is a pub
lie calamity and irreparable injury to both.
Glass appeals are dishonest and dishonora-
ble They calculate to separate those who
are common and indivisible. Rather, my
fellow-citizens, teach the doctrine that it
is the duty and privilege of every man to
rise; that with honest industry he can adj
vance himself to the best place in the shop,
the store, the counting house or in the
learned professions This is the doctrine of
equality and opportunity that is woven in
every fibre of our natural being-a doctrine
which has enabled the poorest boy with the
humblest surroundings to reach the best
place in our great Industries and in the
highest trusts which can be bestowed by a
generous people. Gentlen en-and | speak
not yourselves been among the most for
tunate, l pray you think of your boys and
girls and place no obstacle in their path
way to the realization of every lofty and
honorable ambition which they may have.
Great applause / pray God that burdens
of class may never be imposed upon
American manhood (applause) and Ameri-
car Womanhood. (Renewed applause
Now, my fellow-citizens. thanking you
most heartily for this call and for the gra-
cious message delivered to me in your be-
pleasure to meet and greet each one of you
personally Great applause