Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-03
! fictitious height. The single standard

while for me TO go into the detaliS
of the coal business, the lumber bust
ness, the steel and iron business, to
show the people that the ebb has set
in. But let me give you one reason
for the business prosperity under Nc
Kinley
In 1892 we had failure of crops
in the trans-M Mississippi country. 1t
continued until 1896. With 1897 good
crops returned, and continued down
to the present time. What does this
mean? Let us take the State of Kan
sas for an illustration. 1t is one of
the great cereal-growing States OF the
Union. In one year alone its wheat
crop amounted to s60.000.00O. What
did that mean? 1t meant $4,000 adj
ditiona laborers to harvest the grain.
1t meant 5000 more agricultural ma
chimes to reap that harvest. That
meant that the wheels of the factor
les that made those agricultural ma
chimes began to reyolve, and men
found employment. That one wheat
crop required 100000 box cars to haul
it to market That meant that idle
car factories were once more started
in operation, giving employment to
many idle hands. That crop required
35 900 freight trains to haul it to mar
ket. That meant increased freight
earnings for the railroads, and re-
quired the employment of additional
train crews. More than that, during the
same period across the water there was
a plague, a famine, a draught, a fall
ure of crops, that created a market
and increased the price of the products
of American farms. This is but a
single Illustration of the natural causes
that operated to bring about prosper
ity. 1t shows conclusively that pros
perity is due TO God Almighty, and yet
Mark Hanna claims the credit.
daughter and applause0
But, fellow citizens. let me hurry
along to that question which the Dem
ocratic platform has declared to be the
paramount issue of the campaign 1t
| is not SO simply because it it declared
to be so by the platform, but because
| it is a question of sovereign import
ance to the people. 1t is a question
between an empire upon the one hand
and republic upon the other There
are people who see in the signs of the
| times a disposition on the part of the
present administration to turn their
| backs upon the American constitution
to turn their backs upon the history
and traditions of this republic, and to
| fix their eyes and hearts on colonial
possessions and colonial empire. These
| people are not all Democrats-not all
Republicans-not all Populists-but all
are patriots. (Applause.)
In the few remarks which l shall
| make upon that subject | shall not
address you as Republicans, Demo-
Gratis or Populists, nor as partisans, but
| as Americans (applause), and the only
| question | will ask is: Are you patri-
| OTIS? Do you believe in the preserva-
! ton of the fundamental law of this
| country? Do you love your country,
do you love its institutions and its
| people? Or have you reached that
| stage when you are willing to join
| hands with the administration in aid
| ing the British empire? Allow me 70
ask you to go back with me to the
| time when this government was or
| ganized. Washington, Jefferson, Adj
| ans and even Hamilton saw the OPP
| nortunity which The inhabitants OF
| this country had. They saw Europe
! devoted to militarism. they saw they
were separated from Europe by q vast
| expanse Of water, over which the
| combined armies of the world could
never reach us. They saw shat with
| the people here devoted to the pursuits
| of peace we would have every advan-
| tage over Europe. They wrote, signed
and promulgated the Declaration Of
Independence. They fought the Rev
| dictionary war. threw off the British
| yoke. and established a free Consti-
| tutonal form of government. II was
not their purpose to tax the people
| to establish and maintain standing
armies, but to teach them to follow
| the pursuits Of peace. The American
! boy was at work in the shop, in the
mill, on the farm, in the mine. while
| the Russian boy was wasting the best
years of his life in the army. The
American boy was attending school,
! fitting himself for a life Of usefulness,
while the French boy, the German boy,
the Austrian boy, were devoting seven
| to nine of the best years OF his lie
! in the military service The early pa
triots founded our government on this
| theory, and we followed in their foot
steps, observed their teachings. took
their advice and profited by II for
more than one hundred years In
stead Of standing armies, entangling
alliances, wars and threats Of wars,
and business disturbances, We have
followed the pursuits of peace. We
have established colleges and univer-
stiles, and devoted ourselves to the
development OF the noblest impulses
OF the human soul. The American
had an advantage in consequence Of
this theory and practice so great that
old men came over here. labored night
and day and saved their earnings. and
xrhcn fbp5r hard u-as s11fHc{ers shav