The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23
TO INDIANIANS.
Major Mckinley Tells Them ''It Is the
Lost Job We Want Back"

Major Mckinley, in response to William
H. Dowdeli, who spoke on behalf OF the
delegation from Valparaiso Ind, said:
MY Fellow -citizens-I appreciate the fact
that you have travelled more than three
hundred miles TO my home to testify your
devotion to the cause of the Republican
party, which, doubtless, you believe with
me is the cause of our common good.
am glad to welcome you to my home and
greet you as fellow -citizens of sister
State, proud of the record and history of
your commonwealth and preuder still that
her people are citizens OF the braVest
freest country on the earth-the Hepubllc
it as citizens of this country that the grand
civilization that we enjoy and the splendid
free institutions which we haNe " snffe mHer
least of all to suffer at our hands. A gov
ernment Of the people, which rests on the
that can be made by the people to express
just such policies as they believe will best
subserve their own interests.
You will have an opportunity one week
from next Tuesday to express by your in
dividual ballots what you think of the great
are questions which ought not to be
troublesome in rightful determination. The
money IS wanted should not create doubt
in any mind. We want good money, good
at home and abroad ana good at ali times,
and labor or our products We want some
thing in return of stable value, and this is
the kind of money we have now-gold,
silver and paper all alike all equal in
purcha sing and debt-paying power, made
good by the government of the United
States. 1t is now proposed that shall
open our mints to the free coinage of the
silver of the world How is the working
man to get any profit out of that?
The only way that he can get profit is by
his la Dor. If you should coin all the silver
in the world you could not get any profit
from it.
.'The trouble is not with money: it is that
we want something to do. 1t is the lost
job we want back. 1t is the lost market
that the farmer wants back. 1t is our
splendid home market that has been sur
rendered. 1t was opened up to wider fields
by the reciprocity treaty of 1890, and We
want it back and mean to get it back
this year. This is all there is to this uues-
tion SO far as the tariff and finance are
concerned 1t is not lack of money, but
a lack of markets; it is not lack of money
a lack of work; it is not a lack of money
that the manufacturers and merchants are
suffering from but a lack Of confidence
created by the inauguration of the destru ct
i've industrial system which deprived Amer
leans of their own splendid market
What we want to do Is to get back that
confidence and we cannot do Ii unless you
defeat the party that destroyed that con-
fidence. II is all in your own hands / know
the people of Indiana are in favor of law
and order and of honest money. You are
In favor of good money, good times and
good markets. You know how you lost
some of them. and you know the direct
not follow i'll that way shall be very much
surprised.
Il thank you for the pleasure and honor
of this friendly call tell you my fellow
citizens, Ii means a great deal when hum
dreds of people. men and women, will tray