The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-15
HAILED FROM pennsylvania
CITIZENS OF THE LEHIGH VAL
LEY MAKE THE PILGRIMAGE
TO CANTON.
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PREACHED SOUND MONEY AND TARIFF
Money Does Not Depend Upon What
We Call lit Depends Upon Its
Value"-Some Enthusiastic
Ohio People Called

Canton, Ohio, Oct. 13.-A special train
of six coaches arrived this morning after
being en- route since o'clock last even
ing bearing miners, mechanics and
other citizens of the Lehigh Valley of
Pennsylvania. The inclement weather
of yesterday still continued and the visit
ors were taken to the tabernacle, where
Maj. Mckinley went to receive their
greetings. They gave him most en-
thusiastic reception and applauded his
address to the echo. The visitors were
introduced by ex-Congressman Charles
Nj. Brum. Maj. Mckinley spoke, in part,
as follows:
"Mr. Brum and My Fellow Citizens
You have greatly honored me in having
journeyed so long distance to bring as
surances of your good will. do not take
this call as personal one to myself,
but rather as Il tribute to the cause
which for the moment l stand and the
great principles the republican party up
holds in the pending political contest. 1t
gives me pleasure to meet my old friend,
your spokesman, with whom l served
four years in the national house of repre-
sentatives. 1t also gives me pleasure to
meet and welcome you to my home and
to say that l appreciate most highly
your visit, and the encouraging message
which you bring. 1t was scarcely nee
essary to advise me that the people of
the anthracite regions are in favor of Il
protective tariff. l have long known of
it, and appreciate that fact and sympa-
thize with you in that sentiment. l be-
lieve in that great American doctrine
which lies at the foundation of the law
of self-preservation. / believe it is the
duty of this government to encourage its
own people and to pass such laws as will
give to them the largest opportunity to
improve their condition, the highest scale
of wages and the greatest encourage
ment to their skill and to their labor.
"Now, my fellow citizens, take it on
the matter of tariff you need no argu-
ment, but it is said our trouble is not the
tariff, but the money question, and that
the way to have prosperity is to set our
mints to running. Great laughter and
applause) l do not believe they would
employ any portion of the idle miners of
the anthracite region If every mint in
the United States was started.
"NOw, take it, whatever may be our
employment, we want good money. A
money that will buy all purchasable
things, wherever they are, IN better than
q money that will not. Is not that so?
lCries of yes, yes.) A money good only
in Ohio at its face value, as it used to
be in the days of old state banks, is not
as good money to have for all purposes
as money that will pass at its face
value in every state in the Union. 1t
not that so? (Cries of '"That's right
Nor is a money more current in the
United States at it's value and which
must stand discount everywhere as
good as money that is current in every
civilized country. Great applause.)
Which would you rather have for your
wages, the money with purchasing
power eqally good in every part of the
world, or limited in its purchasing power
to single country or a single state?
Which would the farmer prefer in pay
ment of his products, money recognized
money whose value and purchasing pow
er is limited to one country? The thing
called money and which we give our
labor or products for is more valuable
to us if it is good, not somewhere, but
everywhere-not in one place, but every
place. (Applause) 1t is very COM
forting to anybody who has money,
much or little, to feel all the time that
its value can not be affected by hard
times or deprecated in his hands by
panic, but that rests all the while upon
solid and Interchangeable value, recognized
all the world over. Money does not de-
pend upon what we call tit depends
upon its value. Great cheering and
cries of "Thats rght.")
"When you have earned 500 you
want to feel that You are worth 500
and that it will not be diminished in
day or week or n month or deprecated
while it is in your hands or when it goes
out of your hands. That is the kind of
money we have in this country now
the best money known to the civilized
countries of the world. 1t is to the in
terest of every workingman; it is to the
interest of every citizen of the country,
no matter what may be his business, to
maintain the money at its present stand
ard. Applause)
"NOw my fellow citizens, having said
that much. | desire to thank you again
for the pleasure which this call has
given me. and wish for you all pleas
ant day in my home city and safe re-
turn to your homes"
Shouting republicans from Sandusky,
Clyde, Fremont, Bellevue and Green
Springs to the number of thousand ar
rived this afternoon and held demon
stration in the tabernacle.
Maj. Kinley spoke as follows:
II know of no state in the Union that
has contributed more to the honor and
glory of the republic than the state of
Ohio. | know of no county in the state
that carries the ashes of more noble
dead than Sandusky county, which you
represent. (Applause.) You have come
here, my fellow citizens, to give me as
of your devotion to the republi-
can cause and pleasing as it would be to