The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-07

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business. and when that Ia done, your bust
ness Will share in the general advancement,
ana profit by the general prosperity.
gard for our Civilizations ana nraar s re-
for the rights OF our citizens as individuals
are all left out OF the question, and we are
bilndiy to follow wherever they may dare 10
lead. 1t is not leap in the dark, for we
Know from sad experience what deprecated
currency means 10 every invested interest;
WHAT IL means to wages, to labor and prop
efty. 70 credit ana to the country itself Ig-
noflng all existing conditions among the
great commercial nations of the world and
.ne requirements OF sound finance, cblivi0us
10 every consideration Of prudence caro-,
thrift and national integrity, their proposition
would enguH US In system OF absolute
SILVER recommendation. for they are themselves
,ne only unconditional and unqualified mono
metaiilsts In the United States. Our policy
ihsures the use Of both gold and silver lit an
equaiity. They seek to drive lis to silver
aione; Iney advocate what they call finan-
cial independence, and In the name of indie
pennence they appeal to us to debase our
currency and repudiate in part or whole all
our debts and sully our national honor.
shortly after 5 o'clock a special train
OF hve coaches arrived bearing the Re-
publican clubs Of Syracuse, N Y. Most
prcminent In this was a handsomely
uniformed Syracuse escort an organiZ-
alton effected in 1864 There were also
representatives of thirteen other clubs.
including detachment of wheelmen.
Inc delegation was introduced by DAN
lei Cr1chton, a business man.
A few minutes after the Syracuse
party arrived, special train Of ten
coaches reached Canton, bringing a
delegation named In honor of LenaWee
county, and organized in the vicinity
or Adrian, Mich. The party was made
up OF about 80 per cent farmers. The
delegatlon In pouring rain marched
70 the Mckinley home to view the lawn.
They then returned to the Tabernacle.
where Henry C. Smith made the intro
ductory address.
The regular Westbound Fort Wayne
train, this morning, brought two extra
ceaches filled with shouting Mckinley
men from East Brady, Clarion county,
Ia Tney were headed by a band.
ana banner carried announced the
parry as the "Plutocrats Of Clarion
county. Pa. The delegation was in
Iroduced by N. A. Grahamand address,
ed by Maj. Mckinley from his front
porch.
Maj. Mckinley spoke as follows:
Mr. Graham and My Fellow Citizens OF
East Brady. Pa: am very regretful that
tle uay Is SO 1nc'ement upon which you make
your call am glad to meet each one Of YOU
a. NY nome. have received a great many
uelegatlons as your spokesman has said In
the past two months, many of them larger
than yours. but from the shouts have heard
soday am sure none Of them had better
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were more earnest in their support Of repub-
hcan principles than tbs little body Of men
gathered about me today. There is one thing
which | think are sometimes too apt to
Iorget-We are too apt to forget what is be-
nlnd US, ana too apt to be needless of our
own experience. We can hardly realize that
from 1878 to 1893 we reduced the public debt
from 81 333 S31, 308 in 1866 to $50 600 600. We
paid OFF during those twenty years 81 623, $751; -
oi5 OF the public debt. And we were under
protective and sound money system when
ri irfS
OF that debt has disappeared and while we
were paying 1t off we were building in this
country the most splendid industrial enter
prises, giving constant and steady employ
ment to American labor at fair wages and
giving to the farmers Of the country just
reward for their toll and labor. During that
period Tor the greater part of the time we
were selling more goods abroad than we were
buying abroad. and the balance of trade
was, therefore, in our favor, and that balance
of trade settled as it was in gold gave US the
good yellow money from the other side Of the
ocean.
Now. my fellow citizens, four years ago
the people of this country determined to
change that policy, and they did change it.
What has been The result? We have since
that time created national debt, principal
and interest of about $500, 600 900. We have
aad for the greater part of that time de-
1clency in the treasury, the government not
collecting sufficient revenue to meet its sur
rent expenses, and labor has been lily en-
pioyed as it was in that period. Your spokes-
man tells US that in your own county thirty
one blast furnaces have been stopped What
does that mean? 1t means that wages have
been stopped. 1t means that labor has been
unemployed. It means that comforts have
been taken away from hundreds OF American
MONIES which they had previously enjoyed.
1t means distress. and what is true of your
county has been substantially true-possibly
not to SO large degree-of other counties Of
your state, and throughout the entire country,
Now, what we want to do, whether we are
railroad men or farmers or professional men,
or merehanics or laboring is to get back
to policy that will give us a chance to in
crease cur manufacturing, improve our home
market, extend our foreign market. and give
employment every day in the year to every
worklngman who wants work. Great cheer
ing) II we will but follow the lamp of ex-
perience and follow in the direction which the
light of that lamp leads US on the Sd of No
vember we will vote down the policies which
have brought us these conditions and vote to
continue the monetary system built upon a
solid basis, which will give the best
| money in the world money which panics
cannot disturb and business failures cannot
depreciate. Tremendous cheering.) We want
good times, plenty of work, good wages and
good money. How will you vote? (Cries OF
For McKinley.') ! thank you most heartily
for this CALL and bid you all good morning.
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