Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-10-15
Canton the Mecca.


The streets of Canton were crowueo
,ast Friday and Saturday, and Mckinley
was called upon to address one crowo
after another. On Saturday he made
twenty speeches. We make the following
extract from one of his speeches OF Fri
day.
The point make is this, my fellow cit
liens, that we must get over the luea ~
this coutry that the government makes
| money. The government gets i,s mon
| inst as a citizen gets his money, byglvln
Something for it The government raise:
| g., 60 e.,
| lug into the United States, and the latter
is the policy of the Republican party
We do not believe that the government
should make money by,,setting its print
ing presses and its mints to work, but
that the best thing it can do for its reve-
enus is to put a tariff on foreign products
of every kind that compete with Amerl-
can products and make that tariff high
enough, too, to protect the American pro-
ducer We simply want to observe the
law of self preservation, to look after our
selves, look after our individual occupa-
tions end employments and after the
American home, which your spokesman
has so eloquently described. 1t lies at the
foundation of society, of every communl
ty, of every state, and of the nation; and
there comes up from the plain American
home. the homes Of the plain people OF
the country, sentiment of good govern
ment and good patriotism such as can be
found scarcely anywhere else IN the
world.
Not only, my fellow citizens, do we
want good tariff, but we want good
money. Wewant that money to be worth
100 cents to the dollar and we do not want
it to be worth penny less than 100 cents
We want it to be as honest as the govern
ment itself. We want it to be current
everywhere in the world; we want it re-
spected everywhere, just as our flag is re-
specied everywhere. Then we propose
in this country to maintain government
by law and government under law. We
propose to sustain public order and public
tranquility and stand by the federal
judic1ary-that tribunal which is our
anchor Of safety in every time of trouble.
There never was an aim that the Repub-
1ican party ever had that did not embrace
the good of all the people. There never
was Republican purpose that did not
seek the honor and integrity of the gov
ernment of the United States. There IS
one thing our old party never d1d-lt
never struck a blow except for human
freedom. 1t never made a law that did
not embrace every American interest. 1t
never had purpose which was not patri-
otic and it stands this year, as it has stood
in all the years of the past, for public
safety, for public honor, good morals,
good government, good laws, and for
country whose currency and credit will
not be questioned anywhere in the world.
thank you for this call.
On Saturday he closed his remarks to
the Confederate veterans from Virginia
as follows:
1t is peculiarly matter of qualification
to me also that from my home city and
from the ncighboring city of Cleveland,
my old comrades of the war, with whom
1 fought, on the other side from you in
that great conflict, have given you warm
welcome and will tender you hospitality
while here and give you their love and
benediction to carry away with you when
you go.
I am honored to have witnessed this
scene apd day, ard bid you, soldiers of
Grant and soldiers of Lee,
"At the shrine of this reunion,
Dedicate your loves anew"
Rejoice all of you, and thank God that
the
"Cause Of truth and human veal,
Is transferred from the swords appeal,
To peace and love-"
"No longer from its brazen portals,
The blast OF wars great organs shake
the skies,
But beautiful as songs of the immortals,
The holy melodies of love arise.
Let no discordant notes CRATE upon this
melody of peace. Let it go forth, let it
be everywhere proclaimed that the men
Of the North and the men of the South
stand for the enthronemept of justice and
the supremacy of law. The voice that
would reopen the conflicts of the past and
the bittnerness of thirty years ago, that
would array class against class or section
against section, is not friend, but an
enemy of our glorious union, and stands
in the pathway of its glorious progress.
Men of the South. the only force now
needed in this free government is that
OF conscience, justice, reason and intelli-
gence. This IS an irresistible power upon
which rests our strength, security, perma-
n-ncy and glory. We have enteed upon
new and blessed era; we have crossed
the dominion of force into the kingdom
of peace and law and mutual good will.
Faith in each other. faith in a common
country: faith in the future and a COM
mon destiny has made us one-forever
one. We have learned that:
"Peace and greatness best become,
Calm power doth guide,
With far more imperious stateliness
Than all the swords of violence can do,
And easier gains those ends she tends
unto.'
This is my message to grim survivors
of that mighty war, of both sides. This
is the spirit that I would have carried
into practical everyday administration
and fill the hearts oil the American peo-
pie.
thank you for this cordial greeting. |
thank your orators for their generous
words of assurance in your behalf. Let
us remember now and in al the future
that we are Americans and that what is
good for Ohio is good for Virginia.