The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-18

has usually been Democratic state, and in
1876 gave that sturdy Democratic statesman
denied majority for president His memory
Is doubtless revered by many of your Demo-
Gratis today, and 1 venture to send by you
this message to them in Mr.. Tilden's own
words. In his celebrated Joint debate with
Horace Greedy in 1910 he said:
An unstable currency produces instability
OF prices and Is peculiarly INJURIOUS to the
farmers. He ought not to be subject to the
tremendous agency of an unseen cause which
may disappoint his wisest calculations and
overWhelm him in ruin, but he ought to
be secured in the tranquility of his freside
from the curse Of an unstable and conflict
ing currency"
These were wise and honest words then;
they are true and honest words now, ana
commend themselves to the consideration of
every citizen in the land, who, If he would
be spared further distress should allow this
counsel to guide him at the approaching
national election.
Maj. Mckinley, to the commercial travellers
from Columbus and Toledo, said:
bid you all warm and hearty welcome and
count it a great distinction to have business
men Of your character leave their homes
and accustomed employments to bring assur-
ances of good will and support in the pending
campaign. You have discovered in the last
four years that it is a good deal safer to
consult markets than maXims. You have
discovered that prices current and actual
experience in trade and commerce is better
guide to business prosperity than anything
you can find in the text books. Your COM
ing together, Democrats and Republicans
"a voice, mo Democrats in this crowd.')
Well, once Democrats, but now preferring
country to party. Coming together as you
have Is an act of sterling patriotism hitherto
almost unknown in American politics and
promoted only by considerations Of the pub
lie good But these are characteristic traits
OF the business and the commercial men of
the country. l do not attribute your call to
only personal concern for my success.
You look beyond the candidate to the
great principles he represents. No people in
the country can be more interested in the
result OF the election two weeks from next
United States. What you want is business
and you discovered that you cannot sell If
there Is nobody to buy. A great many people
find peculiar pleasure in the word free
1t is grand, glourious word when properly
applied. | do not know what you may think
about it, but I do not believe in destroying
either the business. the property or the
credit OF this country under the cry of free
silver. The question of honest money against
free silver and irredeemable paper money
both unlimited and both unsound, has been
occupy your time In discussing it. Suffice
it to say that no valid or sufficient reason
has yet been given, or can be given, for the
United States adopting either. Some things
are SO plain, some things are SO clear and
distinct, some things are palpable and
self-evident that like day and night, every
man must sooner or later recognize them.
II human experience has proven anything
it is that no nation was ever benefited by
poor money or injured by good money, and
that no man ever suffered from being hon
est, and no man ever profited by being dis
honest. Good, honest dollars hurt nobody
Ii we have not as much good money as we
ought, let US get more and we will get more
whenever the country requires it. But we
will not get it as long we are proposing
to adopt the financial policy of China or Mex
leo. Give business confidence chance to be
restored. Start our mills, factories, mines,
quarries; restore good prices, good home
markets for our farmers good wages for our
workmen, and then if the law Of supply and
demand requires it, coin in honest dollars
and better wages.
After addressing the Maryland delegation at
considerable length on the tariff. Maj Nc
Kinley said:-
Then, you are interested in honest money.
You don't want any short dollars. You have
tried short hours in the last four years and
have not liked them. When you give a full
days work to your employer you want to be
paid in full, unquestioned and unalterable
dollars. This is the kind we have now and
the kind we propose to continue If the Amer
for the kindness Of this visit and wish for
all Of you safe return to your homes and in
all the years Of future, happiness, content
ment and prosperity.
To the huntington Pa delegation Mai
Mckinley said
My Fellow Citizens: I am glad to make
acknowledgment Of this visit from the citi-
zens of Huntington. This is nation OF
mutual interests, a nation of reciprocal in
terests and obligations. All of us are more or
less dependent upon each other. We cannot
get on without our neighbors we cannot get
on without industrial enterprises or the en-
Payments and occupations Of our neighbors
This old fabric Of ours rests upon common
and mutual interest. 1t is not just to say
that you can benefit the state of Pennsyl-
vania without benefting the state of Ohio by
wise legislation. What benefits one state
benefits another, what benefits one section
benefits another. II we need any demonstra-
ton of that we have only to point to our
own history and consult our own experience
We stand Cor that policy that would spurn
the declaration that a piece Of metal is
dollar when. 1t lacks forty-eight cents of
being a dollar. Our government never did
such thing in the past and 1t does not in
tend to start out on the pathway of dis
honor now. We propose this year to demon
strate to all mankind that this is a govern
ment of integrity, a government of law. by
law and under law.