Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-06
SOUND
McKlnley's Speech to the Foraker
Club Giving a Resume OF the
Issues Of the Campaign.

Canton. O., July lit was less than
an hour after adjournment of the Chi
cage convention when the Thirty-s"cond
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. II. Lucas had made a pre-
sentation address Governor Mckinney
said:
"Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen
and My Fellow Citizens: 1t gives me
very great pleasure to welcome You to
my home city and to my home, and | ap-
p~reciate more than l can find words to
express the honor and the compliment
of this call. l thank o for your con-
gratulations and the assurances or sup
port which you make for the great nrin-
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. Cap
plause.)
my fellow citizens, recent events have
imposed upon the patriotic people NJ his
country a responsibility greater than the
Civil war. Then it vas a struggle to pre-
serve the government of the United
States: now it is a struggle to preserve
the honor of the government. tCri.s CT
Yes" and applause.)
Their it was a contest TO save the
Union; now it is a ontes to saw spot
less its credit. Great applause.) Then
section was arrayed against section:
now men of all sections can unite. and
will unite, to rebuke the reputation of
our obligations and the debasemeat of
our currency. (Applause.)
I'm this contest patriotism is above
party and national honor is dearer than
any party name. The currency and cred
If of fhp government AFRO 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 it. We have the same currency
that we had in 1892. good the world over
and unquestioned 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 make 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 and Industrial,
which will give courage II confidence
to all, for when that is lone the money
now unemployed because of fear for the
AutuIt anu IdCk VI confluence III invest
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 that we al
ready have, in gainful pursuits will put
every idle man in the country at work.
and 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, it is now
proposed to make things still worse by
entering. upon an era of deprecated cur
rency. Not content with the Inaugural
non 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
dlmlnlsh the value of the money in
which wages and products are paid.
(~Appiause.) Against both Of these We
stand opposed.
Our creed embraces an honest dollar
an untarnished national credit. adennate
revenues for the uses of the government
pro!ection to labor and industry. preser-
vatlon OF the home market, and reciproci-
~ winch 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; (Great applause.)
1 thank you again for this call and
greeting, and it will give me very great
pleasure. ladies and gentlemen. to meet
you all personally" (Aplause.)