Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1896-07-25
MoKINLEY'S GREAT SPEECH.
The Issue Before the People Put in q
Few Plain Words.

The Issue Before the People Put in q
Few Plain Words.
Major McKinley's speech to the
Foraker Club at Canton Saturday after
noon ia the speech of the campaign.
The next president of the United States
said:
"Mr. President, Ladies and Gentle
men, and My Fellow Citizens: 1t gives
me great pleasure to welcome you TO
my home city and to my home, and |
appreciate more than can find words
to express the honor and the compliment
of this cali. thank you for your con-
gratuls tions and the assurance OF sup
port which you make for the great priI-
ciples for which this year the republican
party stauds. (Applause.) congratul-
ate you upon having for your name
that OF one of the most illustrious of our
statesmen Of Ohio, Joseph B. Foraker.
(Applsuse.)
my fellow citizsns, recent events
have imposed upon the patriotio people
OF this country responsibility and 6
duty greater than any since the civil
war. Then it was a struggle to pre-
serve the government of the United
States. Now it is struggle to preserve
the financial honor of the government Of
the United States. (Cries OF yes and
spplause.) Then it was a contest to save
the Union. Now it is contest to save
spotless its credit. (Grest applause)
Then section was arrsyed against Sec
ton. Now men of all sections can unite,
and will unite, to rebulSe the rep7dia-
ton OF our obligations and the debsse-
ment of our currency. (Applause.)
'In this contest patriotism is above
party and national honor is desrer than
any party name. The currency and
credit OF the government are good now
aod must be kept good forever. Our
trouble is not with the character of the
money that We have, but with the threat
to debase it. We have the same curren-
cy that we had IN 1892, good the world
over, and unquestioned by any people
Then, too, We had unexampled credit
and prosperity.
"Our difficulty now is to get that
money in circulation and invested in
productive enterprises which furnish
to American labor. (Great
applause.) This is impossible with the
dlstrust that hangs over the country at
the present time and every effort TO
make our dollars or any one of them
worth less than 100 cents each Only
serves to increase that distrust. What we
want is sound policy, financial and in
dustrial, which will give courage and con-
tidence to all, for when that is done the
money now unemployed because o. fear
for the future and lack of confidence in
will quickly appear in the
channels of trade. (Cries OF you are
right, Major and spplause).
Gentlemen, the employment OF our |
idle moneythst we already have, in gain |
full pursuits, will put every idle man in |
the country at work and when there is |
work there is wages, and when there is
work Gnd wages they are consumers, |
who constitute the best market for the |
production of our soil. Great sp-
plause).
"Havipg destroyed business and con-
fidence by free trade policy, it is now
to make things worse by en-
terlng upon an era Of deprecated cur
rsncy. Not content with the insugura-
ion of the ruinous policy which has
brought down the wages of the laborer
and the price Of farm products, its sd-
yocates now offer new policy which
which will diminish the value of the
money in which the wages and the pro-
lucts ere paid. (Applause). Against
both of these we stand opposed.
"Our creed embraces an honest dol
ar, an untsrnished national credit, ade
.uate revenues for the uses of the gov
,rnment, protection to labor and indus
ry, preservation of the home market,
Ind reciprocity which will extend to for
,ign markets. Upon this platform we
stand, and submit its declarations to
he sober and considerate judgment of
he American people. (Applause).
81 thank you again, my fellow cltl-
,ens, for this call and greeting, and it
will give me very great pleasure, ladies
md gentlemen, to meet you personally"