The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
TWENTY CAR LOADS.
Pennsylvania and Michigan Join in Early
 HonOrH.

Honors.
 Twenty car loads of people from Penn sylvana and Michigan were the first to get Maj. McKinley's attention. They brief addresses of their spokesmen MT. Mckinley responded by saying:
 Your early call is an example of promptness which I trust will be fol- lowed on the Sd of November in every part of our country. The best thing in this world next to liberty is labor, and the best thing for labor is m opportunity to work. This is the opportunity for which we are all striving this year and policy in the administration of the gov ernment of the United States to enjoy to a larger degree than we have done in the past three and one-half years. What we want more than anything else in order to give this opportunity to labor is a restoration of confidence. With con 6dence shaken, money seeks it's biding place and goes out of the channels of business and legitimate investment and away from farming, manufacturing and mining enterprises. 1 do not know of a better illustration of the value of con fdence to the country than is found in our own experience during the last twenty years.
 Some Financial History.
 "You will remember that this country resumed specie payments January 1. 1879. We had outstanding then, IS we have now, S346, GOO, ,00O of what is com monly known as greenback currency. Every dollar of that from that date was redeemable in gold upon presentation at the treasury of the United States. So great was the confidence of the people in the ability of the country that from 1870 fn 1SpD hut lk nm nnn nf .lnII ,,. were presented for redemption, and the gold was taken out; S46,00OOO0 in four teen years, and yet in the last three and @ half years, since confidence has been disturbed. more than $200.00O,OOO of greenbacks have been presented to the treasury of the United States and the gold taken out.
 Now, if confidence had existed. if the holders of these greenbacks had not been fearful, and they were only made SO because the treasury of the United States was not collecting enough money to pay it's bills, that the revenues of the treasury were inadequate for public ex- penditures. and alarmed, as they were, they would not have sent their green backs in for redemption. The gold re- serve was encroached upon, and from time to time we have been compelled to sustain it, to borrow gold to put into the treasury of the United States. Now, the Republican party believes 1t is the duty of the government first to raise enough money to run the government. We don't want any deficiencies in the public treas ury, and if we have no deficiency we will have no debts, and if we have no debts we will have no bonds. and when we have no deficiencies everybody will have confidence in the solvency of the treasury of the United States.
 Necessity for High Tariff.
 "Then. my fellow citizens, we not only believe in raising enough money to run the government, but we believe in having a tariff upon foreign competing products, high enough to protect American labor and American manufactures. We be- iieve it is the first duty of the govern ment of the United States to protect and defend it's citizens. It is the poorest policy on the part of the government to give work to the laborer of other na- tions while we have idle men in the United States. Now, when we have once accomplished that, we propose to continue the good money we have in this country. We do not want any short