The herald., 1896-10-02

and confidence in national and individ-
ual integrity before we can have rea;.
permanent prosperity. (Applause.)
We must have confidence that our reve-
nue. legislation will supply adequate
money for the public treasury and pro-
tect American labor and American in
terests in every part of the country.
Hamilton once said: There
is scarcely any point in the economy
of national affairs that is of greater
than the uniform preservation
of the intrinsic value of the money unit.
On this security and steady value es-
depends"
We must get over the idea, if we ever
had it, that congress, by its mere breath.
can make something out of nothing;
that it can decree that SO cents worth of
silver shall be worth 100 cents. Con-
gress can do much; it can protect life
and property of citizens, as it should do;
it can provide revenue reforms which
will make the treasury easy and protect
American products from the unrestrict-
ed competition of the old world. 1t can
do that, and it must do that. (Tremen-
dous cheering) But it cannot by its
mere stamp make a dollar worth 100
cents out of piece of coin which sells
in every market of the world for 81 cents
We want for our country dollar worth
a dollar. Roscoe Conkling once said: ::
81 do not believe you can legislate up
the value of anything any more than
believe you can make all generals heroes
by legislation. The continental con-
gress tried to legislate values up by a
resort to penalties, but the laws of trade,
as independent as the laws of gravita-
tion, kept them down." (Applause.)
Good credit and good currency are as
indispensable to labor as capital, and
he who teaches any other doctrine is an
enemy of the country's prosperity. Good
currency gives protection to labor and
to every American INTEREST," wise pro-
tective tariff gives protection to Amer
lean farmers We have good money
now. There is no better to be found
anywhere in the world. The Republican
party since 1879 made every dollar of our
currency as good as gold, and for sew
enteen years kept it so, and it means
to keep it so if the people of this coun-
try restore it to power again.
We will not consent to a contraction
Of the currency of the country by put
ting ourselves on silver basis and driv-
ing from the channels of trade, the good
gold dollars and good paper dollars
which this country has. today. We do
not propose to have the United States
confined. to the use. of silver alone. We
mean to keep our gold, our silver, our
paper. and keep every form of Amer
lean money worth one hundred cents on
the dollar.
Judge Miller spoke for the veterans of
the war who are here today to testify
to their devotion to the Republican
cause. I am glad to meet them. Listen
to what your old commander, General
Grant, said in his inaugural address,
March 4, 1869. wish they might be
carried away In the heart of every man
in this audience and be heard by every
patriot in the land. This is his language:
"To protect the national honor every
dollar of government indebtedness
should be paid in gold unless otherwise
expressly provided for. Let it be under
stood that no repudiator of one farth-
ing of our public debt shall be trustee
in public place, and It will go far toward
strengthenin our credit that should be
the best in the world"
That is where the Republican party
put our credit; that is where the Repub-
lican party menas to keep it. (Ap-
plause). Having settled the currency
question on the side of honesty, as we
will settle it this year, we can then make
tariff, an American tariff, protective
tariff which will provide against a de-
ficiency in the public treasury and strong
and preserve the American market for
the American people. tremendous
cheering for Mckinley.
Responding to the greeting of the
Portage county delegation, Mckinley
said
That you should have paid me this
visit on this uncomfortable, inclement
day, in such large numbers, is both as
suring and impressive. (Cheers.)
have looked into your faces many times
before, felt your warm hand grasp.
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experience your masterful power when
once aroused in a political contest, and
I have shared in the great victory on
which you performed part. (Cries of
1--WE will do it again, major" followed
by tremendous cheering and waving of
hats.) We propose in this contest to
protect the money Of the United States
FROM, daha sement and by the same vote
we propose to protect American labor
from the cheaper labor of the old world
(Great cheering and cries of "Hurrah
for McKinley.") I thank you for this
hearty greeNlg and splendid demon
stration. Your spokesman eloquently
referred to the dangers" of the past
through which we have mercifully been
spared, and speaks hopefully of the
future.
In the great contests Of the past, both
in war and in peace, the Republican
party has done proud, conspicuous ser
vice in the cause of liberty, honor, JUS
tice and truth. (Applause.) Let us pre-
serve her splen\d example. (Great ap
plause and cries of 1--WE will'.) The is
sues of the present campaign quite as
distinctly as any great campaign OF
the past -devolve upon every American
citizen most important duty. Our
contention this year appeals to the best
aspirations of American citizenship and
involves the honor and good faith of the
country. We cannot close our eyes to
the fact that if by our ballots we lower
the credit of the government, repudiate
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