The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-17
MONEY TOO GOOD:
Mckinley Says No, and Gives Reasons
for His Belief,

Mr.. Mckinley said to the Lehigh Valley
and northeastern Pennsylvania delegation:
Mr.. Codding and my Fellow-citizens-
greatly appreciate this call and the gen
erous message which your spokesman and
Congressman has brought me. l give you
warm and sincere welcome to my city and
home and / cannot stand in this presence
without recalling friendship, "a long
friendship, which | had with your former
Representative, Mr. Wright-a friendship
which shall always remember and cher
lSh. We are so interviewer in interest in
this country that to hurt one is to hurt
the other Every industry depends upon
is interdependent upon every other interest
in this country. You mine coal in your
valley because somebody wants that coai
the railroads want 1t, the factories want it.
the shops want it. When the shops and
factories do not want it the railroads dc
not want it, for they have little to haul
and when neither the factories the shops
the railroads nor other industries want
coal and can't use it proftably. then coal
wanted miners are not needed, and
when miners are not required they are
without wages and in idleness and when
that condition exists every interest about
the mining regions, no matter where IL
may be located, the interest of the farmer
merchant and tradesman Is seriously in
jured. You doubtless have had that ex-
perience in the last four years.
we have long since got over the notion
tries here and there. We have learned that
whatever will set our wheels in motion or
put our factories in operation and give en-
ployment to men and women will make
good business everywhere, not only for the
towns, but good business for the farmers
in the country. You cannot put into idle
ness the great factories and the mines of
this country without having every farmer
in the country feel its baleful influence.
Now, what we want is to have that policy
whatever it may be, that will give tn,
greatest business activity; that which will
set our wheels IN motion; mat which Will
create demand for our products, not only
at home, but also abroad. / have also
believed that the way to secure the
highest industrial activity In the United
States was to have a judicious protective
tariff that would defend our own interests
ard labor against the industries and labor
it was the business of American states
manship to encourage in every proper, le
gal and constitutional way the energy in
dustry and genius of the American people.
Therefore, l have always favored a great
protective tariff system. L would rather
see the coal mines of the United States
busy and every miner employed every day
than to buy coal a little cheaper from
Nova Scotia, and l would rather help tc
maintain the industries of the United
States that we may be able to indulge in
the proud boast which We made in 1892,
that there was no worklngman IN the
United States who wanted to work that
could not have work at profitable wages.
Then my fellow-ctizens. what we want
more than anything else is confidence. We
have lost it. | need not stop to discuss
with you how have lost. 1t has gone
from us: and men who have money men
who have capital, distrustful of the future.
will not part with it, for they do not know
when they have parted with it, whether
they will ever get ii back or not, interest
or principal. The way to restore confidence
is TO have IA settled tariff policy that will
enable the manufacturers of this country
to know just what their competition will
be abro i'd and then prepare for it.
Then. more than that. we want to have
a currency in this country that is un-
changeable in value and equal to the best
money in the world. We want everybody
in and out of this country to know that
not nation of TeDIldiatOrS and
that we do not mean either TO cheat our
selves by a short dollar anybody else.
Our dollars hereafter, now and ever
since 1879. shall continue to be worth one
hundred cents each in gold; and not only al
home, but wherever trade goes. (Here a
man in the crowd held up one of the large
imitation silver dollars and said: There's
the other kindr amid great laughter and
applause) / take it that this other kind is
not what any of you want What you want
is the dollar that you have now. and the
only trouble is that you are not gettink