Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-10-10
AT CANTON.
Mckinley Addresses Large Crowds
From West Virginia and Ohio.

Canton, o., oct. 3.-Delegations from
Wheeling, w. Va, and from Huron and
Seneca counties, Ohio, called on Major
Mckinley yesterday. They were adj
dressed by him in the tabernacle. Ma
Jor Mckinley said;
Ladies and Gentlemen and My Fellow
Citizens: 1t gives me special pleasure
to meet at my home in a joint meeting
the citizens of the state Of West Viz
ginia and my W native state. A re-
publican has no embarrassment In
speaking to an American audience. He
does not have to make a different speech
for q different locality. What he would
say &c the people of West Virginia or
any other state south he could say in
New England or In the far west or on
the Pacific coast, for the principles OF
the republican party are as national as
our flag. (Applause.) Their purposes
embrace the good of every American in
terest and section.
The great thought Of the people of this
country, wherever they may reside or
whatever may be their occupations, Is:
How are we to get back as Il nation 10
the old conditions of business activity
n prosperity? Something has gone
wrong. We have the same country. We
nave the same men, the same mines, the
same manufactures, the same money.
iiC ShIllN lltSltIlul StlluS among our
people that we had between 1880 and
1892, but we have not the same degree
or prosperity now hat we had then.
Ana what is the trouble? In a single
word, the trouble with the country Is
a lack OF confidence. AS to what has
brought about that lack of confidence
we may differ, but that there is a lack
OF confidence every citizen everywhere
must concede, for every citizen has fell
1t in his own experience. Now, whai
Is this thing called business conf.
dence?' 1t Is a belief in the stability OF
values, faith IN our markets and om
money. iaith that the consumption Of mex
year VIII be as great or greater than tht
present one; faith that men will nave worL
and that the currency of the country WI
be liked and stable and undeprec,at!ng II
value. The merchant has confidence
when? There may be some merchants II
this audience today. The merchant ha!
confidence when he stocks his shelves Will
more goods in expectation of larger sales
The manufactures has confidence when ht
increases his machinery. hires more men
adus II new factory, lays in his material
In advance, certain that II Will not decline
before his finished product Is sold, conf,
dent that he can pay wages to labor anj
prices for his raw material, and not fine
IN the end that his goods VIII be driven Out
Of the American market by foreign good;
under a free trade policy. The laborer feels
this confidence when, assured of steady
employment he buys a lot and starts the
building of a house for himself and fam.
ily. Thu farmer feels this confidence wher
he plants generously, confident that what
he reaps VIII be i'm demand and bring him
fair return for his toll The railroad com.
pany feels it when II extends its lines ana
its switches, gets new equipment and i'm
proves It's old equipment and gives employ.
men to work.ngmen. The banker feels Il
when he ,oans freely Of his capital and de-
posts, and knows that when his loans are
returned they will be IN good oundm money
And the depositor feels his confidence
when he takes his money from its hiding
place-where much of 1t Is today-and put:
IL IN a bank. sure that he can draw 1t on
according to his necessity or incl.na
ton IN as good money as he put In. This
thing called business confidence" neye.
shut up an American mill; never reduced
wages or curta!led employment; never re
fused loans: never got up a run on a bank
never stopped a mine, never created IDLE
ness among laboring men. (App.ause.)