The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-10
.Nor GOOD ENOUGH FOR U.s."
One Reason Why Mckinley Does Not
Want u 52-Cent Dollar.


Major Mckinley said to the Monongaheia
Valley delegation.
my Fellow-citizens of Monongahela City
and Valley-I am glad to receive this visit
at my home. L am glad to welcome the
whether in the mine or in the shop. as al
lies in the great political contest which Is
now only about three weeks away. This
is a patriotic year q year when the spirit
of genuine Americanism is dominant. This
is patriotic day peculiarly at Canton, FOR
on this day we welcome our fellow-cii-
zens, not only from the States of the
North, but from the States of the South.
Already | have addressed large audience
of my fellow-citizens from East Tennessee.
who travelled hundreds of miles that they
might give evidence OF their - Devotion 10 TO
countrys honor and the glorious old flag.
which we all love so we'll. In few min
utes there will assemble on this lawn u
large delegation of ex-Confederate soldiers
who thrty-flve years ago were engaged in
conflict with us-coming to testify their
devotion to a. reunited country and their
aim and purpose to save the country from
dishonor and public obligations from
repudiation.
Il am glad TO welcome you and while
you are assembled about me. more than
one hundred thousand men are marchlng
through the streets of the city of Chicago
bearing banners for sound money, protec-
tive tariff and reciprocity and we are en-
abied here to listen TO their shouts and
voices they march along through those
great streets. You are here to-day, moved
by, the same motive. that brings all the
delegations here. You are here becausel
you are interested in your country and be-
cause you have discovered from sad ex-
perience that if YOU do not look out for
the interests OF your country no body will
for you. You know after the experience
of the last three years and a half that
our economic legislation does affect your
prosperity; that if that legislation is not
friendly to American interests and enter
prises and American labor and develop
ment but is friendly to some other nation.
that you do not prosper here. You have
discovered that the more work done abroad
q n1a pnTlln lla 1aE- nrl< iS
done at home, and that the less work done
at home, the less employment you have
and the less wages you receive and the
more misery there is. This you know from
sad experience.
Your spokesman has been kind enough
to refer TO my record in war and in Con-
gress. ] thank him very much for the kind
things he says about my record. / have
but one aim, my fellow-ctiZens; l never
had but one aim, and that was the public
good, the well-being and prosperity of my
fellow -countrymen. | believe in my coun-
possibilities and / believe it the duty of a
free and self--governed people to put moth
lieve moreover that it is the duty of the
government of the United States to pro-
tect every industry and enterprise whether
the farm, the factory or the mine from
ruinous competition from any part of the
world: / believe in American work for
american workfngmen. believe in the
American market for the American farmer.
believe that what will bring the high
est prosperity in every calling and walk of
life is a judicious tariff law to protect the
products of this country against the COM
peting products of the Old world
Il believe, too, in sound dollar / do
not believe in a 52-cent dollar for the
American people; it is not good enough for
US. Nothing is too good for the American
people. and nobody was ever hurt by hav-
ing money too good. Nobody was ever hurt
by having money that was not only sound
in our own country, but passed current in
every country of the world This is the
kind of money we have and it is the
kind of money we propose to have for the
future.
II thank you, my fellow-citizens for this
CALL l would be glad to talk to you longer
but other delegations crowding in. /
am glad TO know that this year more than
any other year of it's glorious past you
mean to record an unparalleled victory for
the Republican party.