The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-10-12
THE m,klNLEY OVATION.
Points from His Speeches at Towns Through
Which lis Train Passed.
At Topeka Gov. Mckinley said,

Which HIS Train Passed.
At Topeka Gov. Mckinley said.
among other things:
Now. what is the matter with the country
for l have but moment or two to speak. What
is the matter with the country to-day We
have the same civilization: we have the same
lands; we have the same people, the same
manufacturing plants. the same great army Of
intelligent working men, the same money We
had in 1892 The trouble with US is, there has
been a change of management in the govern
ment Of the United States For nineteen
months a democratic president and demo-
cratic congress have been running the govern
ment and during that time little else has been
running. Great applause.) Every industry
Of this country has suffered since the Novem-
Der election day of 1892 and you men OF Kansas
know il, and we men OF Ohio know it. Every
department of human industry has been
checked. Labor has been little employed and
when employed. at greatly reduced wages
Prices for the products of the farm
have gone steadily down and although
they promised you in 1872 they would
give you dollar bushel for your wheat II
you would vote the democratic ticket. they
now say they meant two bushels for a dollar.
Charity, my fellow-citizens-the appeals to
charity we're never so great as they are to-day
There has been no waste in the wealth OF
wages and property and investments in the
last eighteen months. yet this country has lost
more in its investments and property and
wages than the entire cost of the civil war;
and the trouble is that nobody has any conf
dence in the present management of the ma
ton. Nobody has been able to tell what he
could do. And they have been nineteen months
trying to revise the tariff and during that time
the people have revised their opinions and are
burning with Impotence to pass Judgment on
their work. The people OF this country never
wanted to vote so badly in all their history as
they want to vote this year and they are ready
to vote now.
1t is not money that is troubling us to-day. I
say to the people of Kansas Every dollar We
have is good; gold, silver. green backs. treas
ury notes, silver certificates. gold certificates
each is good. Our trouble is to get that money
into circulation. We must find somebody to
buy what we have to sell. We have got to find
somebody who wants what we have and who
has the wherewith to buy. The banks were
never so filed with money as they are to-day.
Money was never SO much unemployed as it is
to-day. 1t is there awaiting investment. and
the only way YOU can fetch that money is to
put business upon sure and profitable basis.
When you do that then the money will come
flowing out. II we had twice as much money
We have to-day We could not get it any
easier and would have to get it by the same
processes. We must have something that some
be able to pay for it. That is our trouble
to-day. 1t is the absence of prosperous in
dustry in the United States.
But. fellow-citizens. no party Of this country
can stand in the way of our prosperity long.
Our resources are too splendid. The enter
prise. energy and the genius of our people are
too great A party may retard, it may check,
it may temporarily stop the prosperity Of the
country as it has done and is now doing; but
the party that stands in the way of the pros
perity of the country will be gotten out of the
way by the votes Of the American people The
party that destroys prosperity will itself be
DESTROYED. and this is the work in which We are
engaged to-day. Every time the people get an
opportunity they help in the destruction of the
democratic party that stands in the way of our
material prosperity. Every state in this nation
that has spoken since 1892 has reversed its
opinions and spoken in favor of the republican
party.
What want you to do to-day is to help
republican house of representatives. remem-
Der your old delegation when it was solidly
republican. 1 remember the men who served
for ten or a dozen years or more in the national
house with me and 1 remember how they
stood faithfully for the interests of
their people and the interests of the entire
country. Send a solid delegation back this year.
Ohis is going to put six republicans in the place
OF six democrats. Do your part and the ma
tional house of representative will be repub-
lican and the opportunity for mischief for the
democratic party will be stopped on the 18th
day of march next