The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14
GREAT DAY AT CANTON.

Five thousand men, Republicans and
Democrats. called upon Major Mckinley
last Saturday To assure him that the peo-
pie are still for good money and prosper
ity, the active working of jawsmiths in
the direction of ruin Notwithstanding. In
the course of his speech to some 700 Penn
sylvania workingmen, MAJOR Mckinley
said:
II do not think there was ever time
in the history of our country when so
many men we're interested in the rightful
settlement of public questions as this year,
ana no class of our people are so much in
terested in their rightful settlement as the
men who work for wages and salary"
Mr.. Bryan is on record in a dozen places
as being opposed to the Government af-
fording any protection whatever to Ameri-
can workingmen against the competition
OF pauper and other kinds of low wage
schedules of Europe and the Orient, and
he is trying 10 organize a following that
will enable him TO put his free trade
in labor's product theories into practical
operation. Major Mckinley is right.
There never was a time in the history OF
the country when so many men were in
terested in the issues as those now before
them, especially are men who work for
wages interested, for if Organism prevails
they know that they will be brought face
20 face with the wages of other countries
and that they will be defeated.
No doubt the question which the Bryan
ties have thrust upon the country ne
cessitate an unusually deep inter
est in public affairs on the part
of the people. Mr.. Bryan is trav-
cling through the country soliciting
votes for himself for President. He is adj
vocating the adoption of system of gov
eminent which means the overthrow OF
traditions and economic principles which
have obtained ever since the Nation was
founded, and the question which the peo-
pie have TO answer is, Shall we expert
ment with other forms of government, or
shall we hold on to the basic principles of
the federation of the States which have
enabled the country TO grow from a few
colonies to the most powerful Nation in
the world?
But there is equally as much danger to
the people in Bryan's monetary theories
as in his free-trade doctrine. 1t matters
not if he does talk of bimetallism, what
he is aiming at is to put this country
wholly upon silver basis. His theory
could lead to no other result He denies
the right of those to whom our farmers
and manufacturers sell their products to
have voice in determining what kind OF
money shall be employed in our trade in
tercourse with them. This is a PROPOSE
ton which should, as Major McKin-
ley says, interest our people deeply.
1t surely connot be that those
who work for wages and those
who buy and sell in the markets are will
ing to substitute a doubtful and ever
changing monetary system for the one we
have now, which firmly and without vari-
ableness holds every form of our dollar
up to the equivalent of 100 cents and not
only in the United States but in every
country where money is used. There is
no doubt at all that the people have great
interest in the issue now before them, for
the prosperity of the country and the
safety of all business enterprises are in
volved. Mr.. Bryan would tear away the
basic principles of the Government and
build anew, while Major Mckinley would
repair the waste places and revive busi-
ness on the lines of protection and sound
money.