The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-13
OUR NATIONAL HONOR.
MT. Mckinley, In His Speech to the Notification Committee, Says It Is Involved in the Cur
 renCy Question.

Mir. Mckinley, In His Speech to the
 Notification Committee, Says
 It Is Involved In the Cur
 rency Question.
 Senator Thurston and Gentlemen of the Notification Committee of the Repub- lican National Conventions: To be select ed as their Presidential candidate by great party convention, representing so vast number of the people of the Unit ed States, is most distinguished honor, for which 1 would not conceal my high appreciation, although deeply sensible of the great responsibilities of the trust and my inability to bear them without the generous and constant support of my fel- low countrymen.
 Great as is the honor conferred, equal ly arduous and important is the duty i'm posed, and in accepting the one l assume the other, relying upon the patriotic devotion of the people to the best inter- ests of our beloved country, and the sus- taining care and aid of him without whose support all we do is empty and vain. Should the people ratify the choice of the great convention for which you speak, my only aim will be to pro- mote the public good. which in America is always the good of the greatest num- Der, the honor of our country, and the welfare of the people.
 "The questions to be settled in the na- tional contest this year are as serious and important as any of the great gov; ernmental problems that have confronted us in the last quarter of the century. They command our sober judgment and settlement free from partisan prejudice and passion, beneficial to ourselves and betitting the honor and grandeur of the republic. They touch every interest of our common country.
 Much Is Involved.
 "Our industrial supremacy, our pro- ductive capacity, our business and com mercial prosperity, our labor and it's re- wards, our national credit and currency, our proud financial honor, and our splen- did free citizenship-the birthright of every American-are all involved in the pending campaign, and thus every home in the land is directly and intimately con nected with their proper settlement. Great are the issues involved in the com ing election, and eager and earnest are the people for their right determination. Our domestic trade must be won back and our idle workingmen employed in gainful occupations at American wages. Our home market must be restored to it's proud rank of first in the world, and our foreign trade, so precipitately cut off
 
 on fair and equitable terms for our sur plus agricultural and manufacturing products.
 "Protection and reciprocity, twin meas ures of true American policy, should again command the earnest encourage ment of the government at Washington. Public confidence must be resumed and the skill, the energy and the capital of our country. find ample employment at home. sustained, encouraged and defend ed against the unequal competition and serious disadvantage with which they are now cOntending.
 Must Raise Sufficient Revenue.
 "The government of the United States must raise enough money to meet both its current expenses and increasing needs. It's revenues should be so raised as to protect the material interests of our people, with the lightest possible drain upon their resources, and maintain that high standard of civilization which has distinguished our country for more than century of it's existence. The income of the government, 1 repeat, should equal it's necessary and proper expenditures. A failure to pursue this policy has com pelled the government to borrow money in time of peace, to sustain it's credit, and pay it's daily expenses. This policy should be reversed, and that, too, as speedily as possible.
 ''It must be apparent to all, regardless of past party ties or affiliations, that it is our paramount duty to provide adequate revenue for the expenditures of the gov ernment economically and prudently nd- ministered. The Republican party has heretofore done, this, and this I confi- dently believe it will do in the future, when the party is again intrusted with power in the executive and legislative branches of our government. The na- tional credit, which has thus far fortu- nately resisted evey assault upon it, must and will be upheld and strength ened. If sufficient revenues are provided for the support of the government tncre will be no necessity for borrowing money and increasing the public debt.
 Policy Is at Fault.
 'The complaint of the people is not against the administration for borrowing money and issuing bonds to preserve the credit of the country, but against the ruinous policy which has made this nec- essary. It is but an incident, and a nec- essary one, to the policy which has been inaugurated. The inevitable effect of such policy is seen in the deficiency of the United States treasury except as it is replenished by loans, and in the distress of the people, who are suffering because of the scant demand for either their labor or the products of their labor. Here is the fundamental trouble, the remedy for which is Republican opportunity and duty.
 During all the years of Republican control following resumption there was steady reduction of the public debt, while the gold reserve was sacredly maintained and our currency and credit preserved without depreciation, taint, or suspicion. If we would restore this pol icy, that brought us unexampled pros- perity for more than thirty years, under the most trying conditions ever known in this country, the policy by which we made and bought more goods at home and sold more abroad, the trade balance would be quickly turned in our favor, and gold would come to us and not go from us in the settlement of all such balances in the future. The party that supplied by legislation the vast revenues for the conduct of our greatest war, and promptly restored the credit of the coun- try at it's close, and that from it's abund. ant revenues paid off large share of the debt incurred in this war, and that re- sumed specie payments and placed our paper currency upon a sound and endur- ing basis. can be safely trusted to pre- serve both our credit and currency with honor, stability, and inviolability.