The herald., 1896-08-23
FREE COINAGE MEANS RUIN
According to the Great Advocate Of
Class Leglslation
The Only Road to the Industrial Elyslum Is
Protection
The Republican Campaign Opened Last Night
at the Wigwsm at Saa Francisco
With Short Speeches by Prom.
inent People
ssoc,at ted Press Special wire.

CANTON, O., Aug. 22.-Two thousand
farmers, mechanics and other citizens of
Newcastle, Elwood and other parts of
Lawrence county, Pa. started for Can
ton this morning in a special train over
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to call
on Major Mckinley. When they parad-
ed to the Mckinley home 5000 people
crowded over the lawn and surged into
the street.
People stood in the rain for an hour
waving banners and beating tin helmets.
The mottoes on the banners were:"We
want back good old Mckinley times"
1--WE want furnaces and factories start
ed, not rich mems silver mines" Honest
money and chance to earn It."
The presentation was made by ex-
Congressman Oscar L. Jackson.
When Mckinley mounted a chair to
respond calliopes. cannon, bands and
myriads of human voices repeated their
drst ovation.
Major Mckinley said:
"Mr. jackson and My Fellow Citizens
of Lawrence County. Pa: It gives me
very great pleasure to welcome the citi-
xens Of q neighboring state. TO my city
and my home. I note with great sat
isfaction the message which your elo-
Quent spokesman brings me that tho
people of Pennsylvania have lost none
Of their devotion to the great principles
of the Republican party and this year
will give to the Republican national
ticket an neutrality-suspicious. majority.
(Cries, I'VE will do that all rightly
my fellow citizens. the earnest
thought of the people this year Is direct
ed to the present condition Of the coun-
try and how best to improve 1t.
"The wing of the Democratic party
which controlled the Chicago convention
IL just as much in favor of free trade
as the wing Of the Democratic party
In control Of the national administration.
1.-THE people Of this country have con-
demned the policies of this party in
these particulars at every election since
1892. They are only waiting now for
chance to register again and all along
the line their opposition to this free trade
policy, and will SO declare themselves
In the general election next November.
(Applause)
"This wing of the Democratic party
believes not only in free trade but it be-
lieves in free silver at ratio of 16 to 1.
(Cries, Down with free silver!") Hav-
ing diminished our business, they now
seek to diminish the value Of our money.
Having cut wages in two. they want to
cut the money in which wages are paid
in two. And we will not have either
one or the other" tremendous cheer
ing and cries "Hurrah for McKinley.")
1.-THE other wing Of the Democratic
party is patriotically striving for the
public honor and is opposed to free
silver because 1t believes that such a
policy would disturb existing values,
contract the currency of the country by
depriving us Of the use Of the gold. and
putting us upon silver basis, thus Gre
ating widespread panic and bringing
to every American interest serious in
jury.
my fellow citizens. will the people
turn for relief to that party whose policy
has created the conditions under which
we are suffering and from which they
are crying out to be relieved? (Cries of
No, no, never.)
What we want in this country is
business activity and confidence. With
business confidence restored, money will
be invested In private and public enter
prises, and when so invested labor will
be we'll rewarded and the toiler and the
kusbandman will be fully reouited.
(Great applause.) Without confidence.
money will be boarded and the wheels
Of industry stopped. and what that
means many of those before me know
We have lived on sunshine too long
Then the farmer, the merchant, the man
ufacturer. the laborer, and those of other
useful occupations alike will suffer.
Gentlemen, confidence lies at the
foundations Of active and successful
business operations. We cannot restore
confidence by proposition to debase
the currency of the government and scale
public and private obligations Such q
proposition strikes at the very life of
credit and business. 1t makes it harder
to get money for legitimate and worthy
enterprises by deliberately proposing to
pay back what has been borrowed in a
deprecated currency. (Cries of You are
right)
tine people, irrespective of party, will
unite in defeating a financial scheme
which will conflscate the earnings of
labor In the savings banks and building
and loan associations and the invest
nents of the people in insurance compa-
nieS. and dOn't ho1ieye the A ,,,or;oox, :,