Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-10-12
CALAMITY'S VOICE SILENCED.
President rlcKinIey's Speech at
kewanee.

NtWdHee.
Chicago, October Son Saturday
the President had pretty busy day,
starting at Galesburg, where he and
Postmaster General Smith delivered
stirring addresses commemorative of
the debate, forty-one years ago, on
the campus of historic Knox College,
between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen
A. Douglas.
Mr.. Smiths address was carefully
prepared Grafton, and his eloquent tri-
butes to the character and services of
both Lincoln and Douglass and his
"reminiscences of old days in the Hi
nois political arena were much ap-
preciated by the immense crowd of
listeners, some of whom had been
among the audiences which, in 1857,
witnessed the polemic warfare between
the great emancipator and the champ
ion Of popular sovereignty.
IN A MANUFACTURING TOWN.
| At the conclusion of Mr.. Smiths ora
ton the Presidential party boarded the
train for this city, and everywhere on
the route the party was greeted with
respectful and enthusiastic demonstra-
| tions. At Kewanee, where the train
stopped five minutes by special request,
the President found great crowd of
workmen from the shops and factories,
| to whom he said in part:
81 am glad to meet the workingmen
| of this busy manufacturing town and
to meet my fellow citizens generally
and congratulate them upon the i'm
proved conditions of business over
1896. | am glad to know that this year
the place hunts the man, and not the
man the place.
EVIDENCES OF PROSPERITY.
Somebody has asked: What are the
signs of the times ?' Coming along
on the railway | received letter from
one of your great works here, and |
thought it gave the best answer that
could be made. Here it is.
L" In 1896 from one hundred to three
hundred men were turned away from
our gates every morning and every
night who were looking for work.
Many of these people went away with
tears in their eyes. We gave work to
large number of people for few
days at time, simply to enable them
to live. During the two last years our
bulletin board has been constantly
covered with notices ofadditional men
wanted
VOICE OF CALAMITY sILENCED.
$50 | feel thatI can congratulate you
upon the prosperity that prevails in
this community and throughout the
country. The hum of industry has
drowned the voice of calamity and the
voice of despair is no longer heard in
the United States, and the orators
without occupation are now looking to
the Philippines for comfort.
"As we opposed them when they
were standing against industrial pro-
gress at home, we oppose them now as
they are standing against national duty
in our island possessions in the Pacific.
prolonged applause
OUR BUSINESS ABROAD.
81 congratulate you not only upon
the business which this nation is doing
at home, but the vast business it is
doing abroad. For the first time in our
history we send more American manu-
facturod products abroad, made by
American Worl<ingmen, than we buy
abroad. Applause. The balance of
trade is therefore in our favor, and it
Is pdlu III SOlu. (Uredu hpplduSe.
'In 1898 we sent 100000, 600 worth of
American products abroad in excess of
what we bought abroad and $3.50, ,O00,-
600 in 1S99-all of which was paid to
the American people and helped fur
nish pay to American labor.
TINPLATE AND LOCOMOTIVES.
'"Ten years ago we imported 735, 900
pounds of tin plate from the other side.
Last year we imported 100, 100000
pounds and manufactured at home
more than s0O,OO0,O00 pounds of that
product. (Applause.) We do not only
practically supply our own market,
but we are beginning to export tin
plate.
''In 1894 we sent abroad American
locomotives valued at $1,OO0,OOO. In
1899 we sent abroad American locomo-
tives valued at $4, 100000 Our trade is
not only growing at home, but it is
growing abroad.
"All that l wish for my countrymen
is that this prosperity may be continu-
ed-continued because it brings happi-
ness and contentment and joy to every
| household of the land"