Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-08
SOUND MONEY.
McKinley's Speech to the Foraker
Club Giving a Resume OF the
Issues of the Campaign.

Canton, O., July lit was less thnn
an hour after adjournment of the Chi.
cago convention when the Thirty-second
Ward Foraker Club of Cleveland arrived
in Canton 800 strong, with their wives
and daughters. They marched at once
TO Governor McKinley's residence. After
President ID. III. Lucas had made n pre-
sentation address Governor Mckinley
said:
"Mr. President. Ladies and Gentlemen
and My Fellow Citizens: 1t gives me
very great pleasure to welcome YOU 10
my home city and to my home, and | APP
p~reciatc more than ! can find words TO
express the honor and the compliment
of this call. | thank you for your con-
CALCULATIONS and the assurances OF sup
port which you make for the great prin-
ciples for which this year the Republican
party stands. (Applause.) l congratu-
late you upon having for your name one
of the most illustrious of our statesmen
In Ohio, Joseph Benson Foraker. zap
plause.)
"My fellow citizens. recent events have
imposed upon the patriotic people of This
country a responsibility greater than the
Civil war. Then IL was a struggle to pre-.
serve the government of the Unlted
States: now il il n struggle TO preserve
the honor of the government. (Crias OF
"Yes" and applause.)
men III WAS II fOultHl W rdNt nv
Union; now il is a contest to save spot
less it's credit. Great applausc.) Then
section was arrayed against section:
now men Of all sections can unite. ana
will mite, to rebuke the reputation OF
our obligations and the debascmcat Of
our currency. (A~pplause.)
"In this contest patriotism is above
party and national honor is dearer than
any party name. The currency and cred
il Of the government are good now, and
must be kept good forever. Our trouble
is not with the character of the money
that we have, but with the threat TO de-
base il. We have the same currency
hat we had in 1892. good the world over
and unqucstioned by any people. Then.
too, we had uneXampled credit and pros
perity. Our difficulty now is to get that
money in circulation and invested in
productive enterprises which furnish en-
ployment to American labor. Great APP
plause.)
This is impossible with the distrust
that hangs over the country at the pres
ent time, and every effort TO lHake our
dollars or any one of them worth less
than 100 cents each only serves TO in
crease the distrust. What we want is a
sound policy, financial aud industrial,
which will give courage and confidence
TO all, for when that is done the money
o unemployed because of fear for the
AdAhAi lA W vi ia lhNtGN
ment will quickly appear in the channels
of trade. tCries of You are right, ma
jor,' and %applause.)
Gentlemen, the employment of our
idle money, the idle money hat we al
ready have, in gainful pursuits will put
every idle man in the country ut work,
Inc when there is work there Is wages
and when there are work and wages
there are consumers, who constitute the
best market for the products Of our soil
Having destroyed business and conf
dence by a free-trade policy. il is now
proposed TO make things still worse by
entering upon an era of deprecated cur.
rency. Not content with the Inaugural.
ton of the ruinous policy which has
brought down the wages of the laborer
and the price of farm products, its advo.
Gates now offer a new policy, which will
diminish the value of the money In
which wages and products are paid
(A~pplause.) Against both of these we
stand opposed.
Our creed embraces an honest dollar
an untarnished national credit, ADEQUATE
revenues for the uses of the government
protection to labor and industry, preser
walton of the home market, and reciproci
" which will extend our foreign mar
kets. Upon this platform we stand. and
submit its declarations to the sober and
considerable judgment of the American
people. CGreat applause.)
Il thank you again for this call and
greeting, and IT will give me very great
pleasure, ladies and gentlemen, 10 lnee,
you all personally" (Aplausc.)