Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-09-20

| the time he enlisted s a boy until to-ds y,
| has been at the service of his country and
| for his countrys best interest-WiIliam
| Mckinley an emperor!'
| Following Senator Depew Senator
Mark Hanna spoke as follows:
Full Dinner Pail the Issue.
| "Now my fellow citizens, you have heard
| a great deal or talk of late about the para
mount issue. Both of these distinguished
| gentlemen have told you all there is in all
| the issues and what would be the results
| in deciding these issues. This is all a
publican orator or teacher of any kind
| can tell you--tu lay the naked facts before
| you; then it is Up to you.
| "Ths issue, whatever il is, is yours.
| saw it a moment ago among the trees-a
! fcil dinner pail You may talk about ex-
| pansiOn, antitrust silver, government by
| injunction, the constitution following the
flag, and all the rest of it, but, fellow citi-
zens. / want to tell you that this whole
| issue boiled down is in that dinner pail
| "If this is great nation it is great be-
cause of its people. If it is a successful ma
| tion, it is so because of the industry of its
| people. If it has gone forward with rapid
| stride far beyond that of any other country
| in the world, it is because of the enterprise
| of its people, brought together from all sec
| tionS of the world, of all nations and
| tongues, but with one common object-the
| Advancement of each and every citizen, and
the foundation of all that rests with our
| the foundation of confidence, in order that
We may avail ourselves of all the great
interests that we have and of all the nat
ural conditions that are here. placing US
far beyond and above any other country
in the world.
Decision Rests with Voters.
Therefore | say that the decision of all
issues combined, boiled down, is now be-
fore you, and it is for you to say whether
you will have a continuance of these con-
ditions, which are purely normal and which
! Will be normal as long as the common sense
of the people directs the affairs of their
| own government.
THE whole foundation, I repeat, of our
prosperity and advancement and develop
ment rests upon that one rock. which is
confidence. and you do one single thing to
weaken that foundation and you take from
under your structure it's stability. There is
not man before me. not one who works
In the mills of Youngstown or the Mahon-
ing valley, who has not passed through the
| very results of a change of policy, and
therefore any argument presented by Sem
ator Foraker or Senator Depew is ratified
| by the knowledge of your own experience
| that your own business and personal
benefits must come from continuance of
these conditions
what, my friends, is the object of the
democratic party in bringing in these col
| lateral issues, except to distract your at
| tentiOn from the very fact that you
prosperous and that every promise of the
republican party made al st. Louis has
oeen fulfilled: that every proposition has
come to pass, and that you are reaping
the benefits of those prophecies and prom
lses? Now, 1t is a game of politics only
to inject into this campaign those issues
that are simply collateral.
story of n Farmer BOY.
Il cannot better illustrate that fact in
warning you against these false issues
than to tell you a little story that / heard
tI-aS oil Of ,trry
boy who was driving home his COW and
calf from pasture. They encountered a
steer on the road, and the calf followed
the steer and left it's mother. The boy
started to run after the calf to bring it
back, but they both ran from him, and
after exhausting himself he stopped in
the middle of the road and, shaking his
little fist at the runaway calf, he cried:
You little fool you little fool, you lit
tie darn fool, you will be sorry when sup
per time comes
Now. | say, my friends, and when l say
my friends the workingmen, l mean it,
every word of it. | say, my friends who
are working in these mills not only in the
Mahoning valley but all over the state
OF ONO, don't follow the steer. If you do
you will be sorry when supper tree comes.
II am glad l came, glad because this
gathering has given me Inspiration and
confidence, coming back as | do to my
native state | feel a renewed hope, in
spired by new energy in coming west. And
in connection with those splendid leaders
who are on the stump and in the councils
of the party, perhaps 1T is in our power
to awake the people to the Importance and
necessities Of this campaign. They are
important they are necessary beyond that
of any other that ever occurred in the
history of the United States. 1t is a cam
paign fraught with more interest and more
danger than even 1896, because If We fall
down we have further to fall than we had
in 1896.
As He Defines COmmercIalism.
"The progress of the United States de-
pends upon our going forward just We
have commenced-in straight lines holding
in our view nothing but the interests OF
our own people, or, some of anti.
imperialist friends call it, commerCialsm.
| Well, am in favor of commercialism when
it comes to that | am in favor of those
conditions under which this great cOun-
try has grown and developed until we not
only can supply our popuation of 75.0OO,-
600, but when our productive capacity eX-
ceeds that by 80 per cent. we must have
| a market for the surplus of our enterprise
and production must be checked. That is
the plain, common-sense business PROPOSE
| ton.
| "Will you shut down one third or 40 per
| cent, of the producing capacity of this
country for the sake of taking the advice
of Mr.. Bryan and his so-called anti-im-
perialistc advisers, or will you cast aside
all such demagogy and go straight for
| ward, following the straight road that you
have learned so well under the teachings
of William Mckinley, who has established
our protective system on which the gov
| ernment has reached that point that we
can send our manufactured goods into
| every foreign country Oh the globe?
| During the present term of President
| McKinley's administration we have eX-
| perienced a balance to our credit of manu-
| factured goods alone of hundreds of mill
| lions of dollars, and our total exports over
imports of products in three years amount
| to a credit balance of 81 ,460 900, 600 up to
the 1st of last July. L made that state
ment last month at Pittsburgh, and Mr..
| Bryan denied it. | simply refer him to
the books of the United States treasury
and figures won't lie. That is the truth
but it is unwhOlesome and unsavory truth
| to the democrats, as it demolishes every
argument that they have made.
Words of Warming.
..I want 10 lust word in CnnClu-