The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-03
LACK OF CONFIDENCE
The Cause of the Existing De-
preston in Business.
CANDIDATE MKINLEY'S VIEWS.


CANTON, O., Oct. 8-Aside from two
organized delegations Major Mckinley
Yesterday had many distinguished callers
Among them were Harry Garfield OF
Ohio Senator Henry Cabot Lodge OF
Massachusetts,, Theodore Roosevelt of
New York, Congressman Dingley OF
Maine and Hon. John Dalzell of Pitts
burg.
The visiting delegations were received
In tho Tabernacle The first delegation
to arrive came on a special train of four
coaches from Wheeling, representing the
Pan Handle counties of West Virginia.
Another detachment of the same party
came by way of the Wheeling and Lake
Erie little later. Tho delegation was
presented by Attorney II. M. Garvin, of
Wheeling.
Before Major Mckinley reached thu
Tabernacle to address the West Virgin.
ians n special train arrived with II deeGn-
ton from Huron and Seneca counties, o.,
and the two delegations were merged into
one meeting Major Mckinley made a re-
sponse to all in an address in which he
said in part:
''It gives me special pleasure to meet at
my home In " joint meeting the citizens
of West Virginia and of my own native
state. A Republican has no embarrass-
mentin speaking to an American audience.
He docs not have to make a different
speech for different locality. What he
would say to tho people of West Virginia
or any other state south he could say in
New England OF in the far west or on the
Pacific coast, for the principles of the r.
publican party are as national as our flag.
Their purpose embrace the good Of every
American interest and section.
"Ihe great thought of the people Of this
cou ntry, wherever they may reside or
whatever May be their occupation, is how
we are TO get back as nation to the old
conditions Of business activity and pros
perty. Something has gone wrong. We
have the same country, we have the same
men, the same mines, the same manufac-
tories, the same money, the same master
full genius, among our people that we had
between 1850 and 1892, but we have not
the same degree of prosperity now that
we had then. And what is the trouble?
1.-THE trouble with the country is lack
of confidence. As to what has brought
about that lack of confidence we may diff
fer, but that there is u lack of confidence
every citizen everywhere must conccde, for
every citizen has felt it in his own expert
encc. When confidence is present with us
the sheriff has less to do and advertises
fewer forced sales. The court docket regis
ters fewer Judgments, public charity is
less invoked, and the free soup house IS
unknown and unnecessary. When Conil-
dence is shaken misfortune comes not
silgly, but in battali1ns, and suffering falls
on every community. No part of our
population is exempt. 1t may come from
one thing or it may come from another.
Doubt in the business world is death to
business. We have it now We know the
hour it came We know what brought it,
and think we know how to get rid Of it.
"Wc have had it in the United States to
q greater or less degree from the moment
it was settled i'll 1S0. that our protective
tariff laws were to be changed. 1tcontin-
ued until the changes were actually made
and still longer until the people in 1894
elected II Republican national house of
representatives and made it impossible to
cut deeper into the industries of our coun-
try. When the doubt of further changes
had been thus removed then came the re-
alization Of tho destruction which that
tariff law had done to some of our great
Industries, entailing an injury fcltin every
state and community of our country.
Then following that was II loss to the
treasury from insufficient revenues under
the legislation, then the run on the gold
reserve, then bonds to make that gold re-
serve good then the obstruction in the
senate to any emergency legislation which
would supply the loss of revenue entnilcd
by that law, and the very character of that
resistance in tho senate to legislation
which would increase the revenues only
increased the uncertainty.
"Then, with all these burdens upon us,
the Chicago platform, with its reaction
ary provisions, came to further fret us.
Tho effect of this platform upon the busi-
ness world has Deen characterized, not by
Republicans alone but by the old and
trusted leaders of the Democratic party as
q menace to every invested interest in the
United States, revolutionary and directly
loading to dishonor and partial repudia-
tion. The people this year are engaged in
great national contest to restore the con-
tldence so sadly shaken by the succession
OF events Wnlcn l. nave DFlelly ILlllesl' al
less than five weeks they will speak and
make known their decree.
"lf the people shall, with ringing and
impressive voice. declare four weeks from
next Tuesday that the public crodit sh all
not be lowered, the national currency
shall not be degraded, the peace and tran
guilty of this government of law shall
not be broken, tho revenues of tho treas
ury shall be no longer insufficient for the
needs of the government, and that tariff
shall no longer be inadequate to protect
the American workshop and the Ameri-
can market, business activity will return,
confidence will come back again, courage
will take tho place Of fear, work will DO
resumed and prosperity will come to bless
and benefit us all. God grant to the
American people the wisdom to guide
them in the right"
English College Ordered Closed.
LIMA, Peru, Oct 3.-The government