The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1896-10-17


dred Dollars and That 1t Will
Not BE Diminished In a Day or u
Week OF a Month or While 1t ls
i'm Your Hands OF When 1t Goes
Out of Your Hands," Says Maj.
Mckinley.
Canton, Ohio. Oct IA special train Of
six coaches arrived this morning, after
being en- route since ; O'Clock last evening,
bringing miners, manufacturers and other
citizens of the Lehigh valley of Pennsyl-
vania. The inclement weather Of yester-
Gay still continues and the visitors were
taken to the tabernacle. where Maj. Nc
kinley went to receive their greetings.
They gave him most enthusiastic well
come aid applauded his address to the
echo. The visitors were introduced by en-
Congressman Charles NJ. Brumm. Maj.
Mckinley replied us follows:
II believe 1t Is the duty of this gov
ernment to encourage its own people and
to pass such laws as will give to them the
largest opportunity to improve their COLI
dition, the highest scale Of wages AMI the
their labor. We have In this country more
free trade than in any other country in the
world, but it ia free trade among ourselves.
(Applausc.) With forty-hve states and
seventy millions Of people. we are con-
stantly vicing with each other in every
section of our common country for the
promotion of the highest interests Of our
trade in the United States in the same
sense that we believe in the equal and re-
ciprOcal obligations which belong to every
family. We are only great national
family. We trade with each other with
absolute freedom and without restraint,
and engage in unresentful rivalry in all
the occupations. cmp:oyments and indus
tries Of our people. The triumph Of one
section is the triumph Of the others. all
working together for the general good.
When we have free trade with other
countries it should be in those products
which we cannot produce ourselves and
which we must have, and in exchange
for which those countries will take the
products which we make and grow. And
We should put duty on those foreign
products that compete with American pro-
duets, sufficient not only to supply enough
revenue for the uses Of the government,
but sufficient to protect the American
people in their own occupations against
the products of the cheaper and UNDER
paid labor of the world.
"That seems to me to be the dictate of an
enlightened patriotism and it is certainly
one Of the great fundamental doctrines OF
the Republican party, and why should not
it be so, my fellow citizens? We are one
nation, we have one constitution. one flag.
We have common destiny. The other
nations Of the world have their separate
and independent political organization for
the purpose Of working out for themselves
the highest destiny possible. They owe
no allegiance to this government; they coll
tribute nothing TO Its support. either in
war or peace, and II they want to come
Into this country and compete with our
people. we say to them. you can do 1t
upon condition that n tariff shall he nut
upon your products, and that tariff will
go towards sustaining the government and
ut the same time will be a defense to our
own laborers and producers. That Is the
whole doctrine Of the tariff. II we ever
needed 1t we need it now. We need it for
the federal treasury, for 1t is in a condi.
tion of deficiency. We need it for the
people of this country, for they. like the
treasury. are gena::,lly in a condition of
deficiency. Now. whatever will put money
Into the public treasury and stop debts ana
deficiencies and bonds. l take it, every
body would say that would be Il wise ;lns,
patriotic thing, no matter what political
party they have belonged to in the past
age our own people to dig coal, to mann.
facture products to employ labor. Is the
policy that ought to commend itself to
every patriotic citizen.
Good Money Neccssary.
take 1t that on the matter of the tariff
you need no argument but 1t is said on,
trouble is not the tariff law but the money.
and that the way to have prosperity is to 81,
our mints to running. do not believe they
would employ any portion of the idle miners
Of the anthracite region il every mint in the
United States was started. Whatever may
be our employment, we want good money,
A money that will buy ak purchasable
things. wherever they are. is better than
n money that will not Is not that so: A
money good only in Ohio at its face value
as 1t used to be in the days of old state
all purposes as money that will pass ut its
face value in every state in the Union. Is
not that so? Nor is a money that Is only
current in the United States at its face
value. and which must stand a discoun,
every where else, as good as money tla,
is current in every civilized country. Which
would you rather have for your wages, the
money with IL purchasing power equally
good in every part of the world, or limited
In its purchasing power to a single country
or a single state? Would the farmer pre-
fer In payment Of bis product, money
recognized good and equal the world over
or y Moi"y whose value and purchasin.
power is limited to one country?
Tho thing called money, and which wt
give Our labor and our products for, is NOR,
valuable to us If 1t is good not some where
only, but cvcrywhere-not in one place. bu
III every place. 1t is very comfortin:
thing to anybody who has money, much OF
little, to feel all the time that its value
cannot be affected by hard times nr dcpre
ciated in his hands by panic. but that rest.
all the while upon solid and interchangeable
value recognized the worl! over. None,
does not depend upon what we call It'll
depends upon Its value. When sou have
earned 500 sou want to feel that you are
worth 500. and that 1t will not be dimn
ished in a day or a week or q month, or dc
preciate while 1t Is In your hands or whrl
1t goes out Of your hands. That is the kin,
Of money we have in this country now. III.
best money known to the civilized coun
tries OF the world. 1t is to the interest o
every working man. 1t is to the interest OF
every citizen Of the country. no matter
what may be his business. to maintain tina
money at Its present standard.
shouting Republican,
from Sandusky, Ohio. arrived from two di
rections. the first detachment Of scvera
car loads coming in over the Cleveland
Canton l. Southern railroad aud the other.
coming over the intcrurban line via Mas
sillon. Clyde, Fremont Bellevue and Gree,
Springs were represented in the party Of
500 or 1000. Their demonstration was hel(
In the Tabernacle. where Thomas Dewey
delivered the Introduction. to which Mr.
Mckinley replied as follows:
You have come here, my fellOw-citizens
to give me assurances of your devotion Il
the Republican cause. / mist call your at
tention in the briefest manner to some q
the subjects which are engaging at thi.
moment the most earnest attention of tn,
American people. The condition Of til,
country is such that every man is thinkin.
about it; every woman is thinking abou
1t. and wondering how we are to improv.
that condition: read to-day in the Nortl
American Review an article from the sec
retary Of the navy, Mr.. Herbert of Ala
hama, whom l long knew as member d
the national house Of representatives.. HI
has just visited Europe and he describes til,
business condition of Germany and Eng
land and France as possessing degree o.
activity and prosperity, the like Of which
they never enjoyed before. He closes b,
saying that the United States was nevel
80 unprosperous rs it is to-day, and then h
makes the inquiry: "Why is not the Unitet
States and its working people, with all thei
natural resources, enjoying share Of th'
| prosperity that Is enjoyed by England ant
Germany and France!" We all know. IN,
fellow-citizeus, why we are i'll the mids
Of depression now, and ] think we know
| why these great nations Of the world, ou
competitors, are prosperous. We are doin:
less OF our own work and they are doini
more of it for US. Everybody admits tn,