Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-08-01
OUR NATIONAL HONOR.
Mr.. Mckinley, in His Speech to the
Notification Committee, Says
1t is Involved in the Cur
rency Question


rency Question
Senator Thurston and Gentlemen of
the Notification Committee of the Repub-
lican National Convention: To be select
ed their Presidential candidate by
great party convention, representing so
vast a number of the people of the Unit
ed States, is Il most distinguished honor,
for which l would not conceal my high
appreciation, although deeply sensible of
the great responsibilities of the trust and
my inability to bear them without the
generous and constant support of my TEL
low couHtrymen-
Great as is the honor conferred, equal
" arduous and important is the duty i'm
posed, and in accepting the one assume
devotion of the people to the best inter
ests of our Beloved country, and the sus-
tanning care and aid of him without
whose support all we do is empty and
vain. Should the people ratify the
choice of the great convention for which
you speak, my only aim Will be to pro-
is always the good of the greatest num-
Der, the honor of our country, and the
welfare of the people
The questions TO be settled In the ma
tional contest this year are as serious
and important as any of the great gov
ernmental problems that have confronted
in the last quarter of the century.
They command our sober judgment and
settlement free from partisan prejudice
and passion, beneficial to ourselves and
BETTING the honor and grandeur OF the
republic. They touch every interest of
our common country.
Much Is Involved.
"Our industrial supremacy, our pro-
ductive capacity, our business and COM
mercial prosperity, our tabor and its re-
wards, our national credit and currency,
our proud financial honor, and our SPLEEN
did free citizenship-the birthright of
every American-are all involved in the
| pending campaign, and thus every home
| in the land is directly and intimately con-
/ tod fhnT,- SOFT lnn1 INF
Great are the issues involved in the com
| ing election, and eager and earnest are
| the people for their right determination.
| Our domestic trade must be won back
and idle workingmen employed in
| gainful occupations at American wages.
| Our home market must be restored to its
proud rank of first in the world, and
our foreign trade, so precipitately cut OFT
| by adverse national legislation, reopened
on fair and equitable terms for our sur
plus agricultural and manufacturing
| products.
| Protection and reciprocity. twin meas
ures of a true American policy, should
again command the earnest encourage
ment of the government at Washington.
| Public confidence must be resumed and
| the skill, the energy and the capital of
| our country find ample employment at
home, sustained, encouraged and defend
| ed against the unequal competition and
serious disadvantage with which they
| are now contending.
''The government of the United States
must raise enough money to meet both
| its current expenses and increasing needs.
| Its revenues should be raised as to
| protect the material interests of our
people, with the lightest possible drain
| upon their resources, and maintain that
| high standard of civilization which has
| distinguished our country for more than
a century of its existence The income
of the government, l repeat, should equal
|
A failure to pursue this policy has com
PEELED the government to borrow money
IN a time OF peace, to sustain its credit
and pay its daily expenses This policy
| should be reversed, and that, too, as
| speedily possible.
TT must be apparent to all, regardless
| of past party ties or affiliations, that it il
| our paramount duty to provide adequate
revenue for the expenditures of the gov
eminent economically and prudently ad
ministered. The Republican party has
| heretofore done, this, and this | conf
IDENTIFY believe it will do in the future
when the party is again intrusted witt
power in the executive and Legislative
branches of our government. The ma
tional credit, which has thus far fortu
nately resisted every assault upon it
must and will be upheld and strength
ened- If sufficient revenues are provided
for the support of the government there
will be no necessity for borrowing money
and increasing the public debt.
Policy Is at Fault.
''The complaint of the people is no
against the administration for borrowin;
money and issuing bonds to preserve the
credit of the country, but against tn.
ruinous policy which has made this nee
eSSary. 1t is but an incident, and n nee
essary one, to the policy which has beer
inaugurated. The inevitable effect o.
such a policy is seen in the deficiency O.
| the United States treasury except as it il
repleniShed by loans, and in the distres.
| of the people, who are suffering because
lf,f hnS DOM md for Al lnI,
or the products of their labor Here il
| the fundamental trouble, the remedy fo
which is Republican opportunity ant
duty.
During all the years of Republican
control following resumption there wa
a steady reduction of the public debt
while the gold reserve was sacredl,
maintained and our currency and credi
| preserved without depreciation, faint o
suspicion. If we would restore this pol
| icy, that brought us uneXampled pros
the most trying conditions ever known il
this country, the policy by which w,
made and bought more goods at hom.
and sold more abroad, the trade balanc,
would be quickly turned in our favor
| and gold would come to us and not 2,
from us in the settlement of all sucl
balances in the future The party tina
| supplied by legislation the vast revenue
for the conduct of our greatest war, an,
| promptly restored the credit of the coun
, try at its close. and that from its abuud
| ant revenues paid off large share of tn
debt incurred in this Wat, and that re
| sumed specie payments and placed on
. paper currency upon a sound and endur
| ing basis. can be safely trusted to pre-
| serve both our credit and currency witt
honor, stability, and inviolability.
Our Financial Honor Is Sacred