The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-10-13


Tribute of Respect to James g. Blaine.
CANTON, o., Oct. 10. The two delega- /
tions announced for yesterday came in on
special train of eleven coaches The |.
party came from Roscoe and the Monon- |
gahela valley of Pennsylvania, and was
made up of citizens representing the va
rious interests of that locality. They were
very enthusiastic, and organized with
marching clubs, mostly unifor med. Sew
eral bands and colored glee club fur
nished tho music. Owing to rain the dele
cation was taken to the Tabernacle, where
Major Mckinley responded to the intro
ductory address of the venerable George
T. Lawrence, ex-member Of congress and
an octogenarian Major Mckinley spoke
in part as follows:
Western Pennsylvania Is filled with
many proud and historic memories. 1t
registers the birthplace of that splendid
parliementarian and gifted statesman,
James G.. Blaine. 1t is very gratifying to
me to receive from the hands of the Fay
cite club this beautiful cane, made out of
wood from Mr.. Blaine's home, in which
he was born at Brownsville, and 1 assure
kept in my house as a precious souvenir
You are fortunate, too, in having at one
time among your citizens of Fayette
county that illustrious financier, Albert
Gallatin, who became the first secretary of
the treasury under Thomas jefferson in
1901 and who filled that great office for
twelve years and is known in the history of
the country as one of the greatest secreta-
ries we ever had One of the greatest mon
uments that he left is that during his ad
ministratiOn as secretary of the treasury
he reduced the national debt from SS6, 0OO,
900 in 1902 to about S45O 600 in 1912.
1T was his proud boast when he made
| his report to congress that this wonderful
reduction of the public debt had gone on
without resorting to internal taxation,
either direct or indirect, but that this vast
sum Of money was provided for by duties
upon imports. This bit of history sug-
gests the co-dition of our own treasury
and the condition of our own people For
| three years and half the government has
! been borrowing money to live upon, and
the people have been doing likewise very
| largely
I'VE want my fellow citizens some-
how to stop that, both as to government
and people. We may not be able to do it
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time to recover our normal vitality. But
there ought to be no question that there
rests upon the American people and those
in charge of public affairs to adopt some
policy, and that right speedily which
would first provide enough money to run
the government of the United States We
ought not to resort to the issuing of bonds
in time of peace except to preserve the
credit and honor of the government, That
opens up the question as to what policy
will save us from that. l do not know of
anything that will do it better than pro-
lection, for it il a proud fact in American
history that of all the years, at least for
the most part, under which we have had
a protective tariff we have always had
ample revenues to conduct the expenses
of the government,
"Now that policy, wisely and judic-
iously applied in public law, is one of the
first and most important acts for the con-
gress to perform. They cannot perform
it, however, without Republican con-
gress and a Republican administration.
The only power that can make protec-
tive tariff congress resides in the Ameri-
can people, and the only power that can
make a protective tariff administration
resides in the American people By your
in conjunction with your fellow citizens
in every part of the country, will deter
mine whether or not that policy shall pre-
vail for the next four years, Your old
valley, to which your spokesman has re-
ferred to 50 eloquently, as far back as in
the days Of Henry Clay, was pointed to as
typifying the magnificent blessings of a
protective tariff.
"Ihere IL a notion in some quarters that
what we need to bring about prosperity is
free silver. l do not believe it would be
any freer under free coinage to you than
ii is now. There would DO just one way
for the workingman to get it, and that
would be to earn it. There would be Just
one way for the farmer to get it, and that
would be to sell his products There would
be just one way for the merchant to get it
the good old fashioned way - which
would be to sell his goods over his counter
and give something for the money. That
is the only way you could get it if we
coined all the silver of the world.
when you have received for your labor
dollars worth one hundred cents in pur-
chasing power you want to know that
they will not lose, but keep that one hun
dred cents worth of purchasing power.
That is the kind of money we have now,
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to keep. The money that will buy the
most is the money you want, and what
you want now is an opportunity to earn
it. You cannot earn it through the mints,
but through the mills, mines, factories
and by honest toll,
Besides did it ever occur to you that
money does not make work. Work makes
money. There is just rs much money in
hiscuuury today as there was from 1879
to 1890, and more. 1t is work Unat puts
money into circulation, Money does not
want 10 be idle any more than labor wants
to be idle, The man who has money wants
thar money 10 be earning something and
the only reason no does nOtpuC IL OUT now
is because he is afraid he will never get il
back, or get it bacK in deprecated cur
rlucy. And whom he does not put it out
and it does not circulate, then there is no
work. When you have idle men ana idle
money distress and suffering prevail.
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