The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-19
WANAMAKER
MEANT IT.
Says He Stands by That Sensa-
tiOnal Speech.
If President Mckinley Would
Stop Outright
THE GIVING OF JOBS
Until the Tariff Legislation is
Settled
A Million Men Would Stand Up
and Applaud.

Philadelphia, May 19.-'I am not
apologizing for that speech, nor do I
propose to defend it, said John Wana-
maker in discussing his address of last
Friday night before the Business Mems
League of Pennsylvania.
That speech stands for itself.
meant every word of it.
4 made between so and 70 speeches in
this state during the last presidential
campaign, some of them in silver dis
tricts, where I pleaded with the people
to vote against Organism and argued
that not only the tariff but the cur
rency question would be taken up and
pushed vigorously to a satisfactory So
lution-that the filling of offices would
not be the first or only work of the ad-
ministratiOn at its beginning.
80 much was said by political speak
ers in that campaign that the popular
expectation was aroused that the old
Mckinley tariff law would be restored
in some form within so days of inau-
guration and the industries of the coun-
try started up. Some of the men who
spoke with me i'll the canvass were in
my audience last Friday night and I
endeavOred to show them that popular
expectation had not yet been met and
that there was still great need for
them as business men to continue their
organization. 1t is boasted that of the
90 Pennsylvania congressman, 81 are
pledged to vote as one man with the
boss (meaning Quay), a part of whose
field of labors is where the whole ma
chinery of the government stops While
sugar speculation goes on.
''The people are not all foOls,' con-
tinued Mr.. Wanamaker, "and they nat
urally cry out against those who have
the power to relieve them when they
see the DingIey tariff bill, framed four
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though the whole nation were taking a
summer holiday instead of going
through a slow fever, as it really is,
with every state and city kind of hos
pital of fear and trembling.
The people do not forget very easily,
and it will not be enough when the
next investigation of senatorial spec
uIations is made to evade or to bluff
with a nOchalant Yes, L bought those
stocks. What of it?'
while believe that the good times
anticipated will grow out of the en-
ployment of the people through a re-
turn to a protective tariff, it must not
be forgotten that there are thousands
of business men in this country who be-
lieve that there will be no permanently
settled prosperity until definite deliver
ances have been had from congress up
on monetary questions. If there is to
be any enlarged use of silver, why not
promptly determine upon 1t? II 1t IS
the intention that nothing shall be
done on the silver question, and we are
to stand exactly where we are, it were
far better to say so frankly and at once
and not drift or shilly-shally.
I'VE want something or nothing, and
that very quickly, If the country is to
start forward on its promised career of
prosperity. It is not right that the
house should meet only to adjourn, IN
the hope that a do-nothing policy will
force the senate to act on the tariff
bill. The tariff bill is only one of many
pressing problems that must be taken
M. and the sooner the better.
II believe there are 100000 men who
would stand up tomorrow and applaud
President Mckinley if he were to deny
to every officeseeker a place until the
tariff. at least, is settled"