The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-10-27
IT Is NOT COERCION.
MCKINLEY MAKES SPEECHES TO
RAILROAD EMPLOYEES.
A Big Day NJ Canton-TAe Relations
OF Capital and Labor-When the
Ono II Beneated the Other Reaps
. ProAt-There In No Natural An
tagonism Between Them.

Canton. O.. Oct. 26.-The largest crowds
In Canton have been confined most gen.
orally 10 Saturday. Today. however, was
surprise, even 10 the much surprised
Cantonians- Organized delegations came
from New Jersey, New York, Pennsylva-
MIA. Ohio. Indiana and Illinois. The day
was fair and the professions OF unusual
br.lEancy. The New Jersey Freiinghuy-
sen Lancers set the style. and the day
throughout was distinguished by the most
handsome paraphernalia OF parade yet
witnessed. The Erie railway employees
delegation were numbered by thousands.
After Maj. Mckinley returned from at
tending the funeral of his late friend, w.
*. Miller. the paraders began their march.
They stood in waiting on North Market
street in double line from the Mckinley
home TO the court house, a haif-mi,e
straightaway. They gathered and packed
and swayed about the house, so that
speaking from the porch 10 be heard by so
vast a crowd was impossible. The tenn
porary reviewing stand used on Saturdays
is not allowed TO stand after the day Is
over. There was, therefore. no place 10
speak from but the porch. Tables had to
he carried from the house 10 improv.se a
rostrum. so that the people jammed solid
across the streets and crowded upon the
lawns of neighboring homes might hear.
The women as well as the men in the rail-
way delegation each carried an American
flag. These were waved vigorously. Tor
peio cannons were exploded, rockets fired
ard tin horns were blown. while drums
added TO the enthusiasm of the scene.
nearly all OF the intre&sStory speeches re-
fsrred to the coercion charge OF Mr.. Bry-
an. aai several spokesmen challenged the
proof OF a single case of coercion Maj.
Mckinley again referred 20 the charge OF
forcing employees, saying:
There are some people who seem 20
think the best way TO get on in this world
Is 10 be against one another and that
there IL natural antagonisra between those
who employ labor and those who are en-
ployed They are disturbed whenever they
discover that the employer OF labor and
labor itself are on good terms, and when
ever MAT occurs they commence crying
Coercion 1T Is cooperation. the one
working with the other for the public
good. and for their advantages severally."
This ard similar sentences were received
with tumuftuous applause. cheering and
waving OF Tags. In his address 10 the
delegation from Seymour Washington
and Vernon. Ind. Mai. Mckinley said IN
part:
II am glad that the railroad employees
OF the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern are
deeply interested In the pending cam
paign We do not want in this country
antagonism between capital ard labor;
they ought TO be close together all the
time. They cannot get or without each
other, ard instead OF their being enemies.
they ought always TO be friends. Instead
OF encouraging sympathy between them.
which we all ought always 20 advance.
there are those who would create antipa-
.hy between them; for example. between
railroad manage and those who are en-
ployea by the railroads Now. l do rot
believe in any such doctrine myself
believe In the common brotherhood OF
man believe that labor gets on best
when capital gets on best and that cap
ital gets on best when labor Is paid the
most Instead OF there being natural
aatagon!srn there Is natural alliance be-
tween theun. and she people who are for
ever seeking TO create antagonisrns De-
tween those who employ labor and those
who are employed are the people who
never give any employment 10 labor at
all