The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-19
DELEGATION OF COLORED VOTERS
ADDRESSED BY MIR. M'KINLEY
AT CANTON.
AT THE HEAD OF NATIONS.
1T is TIE PLACE WHICH THE
UNITED STATES SHOULD
HOLD. srs
CHEAP MONEY, CHEAP LABOR
The People of This Country, McKfn-
ley Says, Want Neither the
One Nor the Other.

CANTON, O., Aug. 1S.-Maj. McKin-
ley addressed delegation of Afro
Americans from Cleveland this after
noon, headed by one of their race
State Representative Smith They
came with band and the Cleveland
LOuverture rifles. Mr.. Mckinley said
1t gives me extreme pleasure to meet and
greet this company and my colored fellow
citizens of the city of Cleveland and of North
ern Ohio; and / rejoice to learn from your
eloquent spokesman that your race this year,
as in all the years of the past stands faith
fully to the Republican cause, which believe
is the cause of the country. Applause.) l
do not forget-no man can forget-that,
whether in war or in peace, the race which
you represent never turned it's back on the
glories of the stars and stripes. (Great APP
plause and cries of ''Hurrah for McKinley.')
When that great civil war commenced no
man could tell what its outcome would be,
in regard to it's effect upon your race. There
were those who believed that 1t must result
in the abolition of human slavery. There
were those who believed otherwise. The re-
suit was the immortal proclamation of eman-
cipation by the best friend you ever had
Abraham Lincoln, whose name you will cher
ish and revere forever and forevermore.
Tremendous cheering.)
James G. Blaine once said that the first in
stinct of an American was equality-equality
of privilege, equality in political power"
That sentiment long ago found expression in
the constitution of the United States and the
people of this country placed in that great
instrument where it had never been before
and where. under God. it shall ever remain,
civil ard political equality to every citizen,
everywhere beneath the flag. Applause) l
congratulate you upon the splendid progress
that your race has made sFsee emancipation.
You have done better; you have advanced
more rapidly than it was believed possible at
that time; you have improved greatly the ed
ucational advantages which you have had.
Your people everywhere, north and south
are accommodating property, and today you
stand as among the most conservative CT the
citizens of this great republic. (Applause.)
| congratulate you from the bottom of my
heart upon the advancement you have already
made, and I sincerely wish for you and your
race, fellow citizens of a. common country
the highest realization eof your hopes and
your prayers. Great cheering.)
We are now engaged in a political con-
test and your presence here today evidences
the interest which you, have in the public
questions that are engaging the attention
OF the American people. We have a great
country, and we must keep it great The
post which the United States must occupy
both in wages and industries and in the in
tegrity OF its finances and the currency must
be at the head of the nations of the earth
Loud applause) To that place of honor the
people OF the country must restore it this
year. They have the opportunity that they
wished fer in 1892 VIII they meet it in this
year 1896? Cries of They Willy We want
in the United States neither cheap money nor
cheap labor. (Great cheering) We will have
neither the one nor the other. (Applause.)
We must not forget that nothing is cheap
to the American people which comes from
abroad, when it entails ideness upon our
own uaborers. 1, Tremendous applause.) We
are opposed to any policy which increases
the number of unemployed in the United
States, even if it does give us cheaper for
eign goods; and We are opposed to any policy
which degrades American manhood, that we
may have cheaper products made either at
home abroad Great .applause) Having
reduced the pay of the, slaborer, it is now
proper to reduce the value of the money
in which labor is paid. 4 daughter and ap-
plause.l This money question presents itself
to me in this homely fashion,,
If free coinage of silver means a ffty-three
cent dollar, then 1t is not an honest dollar.
(Applause.) If free coinage means a one
hundred-cent dollar. equal to a gold dollar,
as some of it's advocates assert, we will
not, then. have cheap dollars, but dollars
just like those we now have, and which will
be as hard to get. (Applause.) In which
case free coinage will not help the debtor
or make it easier for him to pay his debts.
Cries of That's right.'o My countrymen,
the most un-American of all appeals observ-
able in this campaign, is the one which seeks
to array labor against capital, employer
against employed. (Applouse.( 1t is most
unpatriotic and is fraught with the greatest
peril to all concerned. We are all political
equals here-equal in privilege and opportun-
ity, dependent upon each other. and the
prosperity of the one is the prosperity OF
the other Great cheering.)
It is as Mr. Lincoln said to the committee
from the workngme1's association Of New
York, in the campaign of 1854: Prosperity
is the fruit of labor. Prosperity is desir-
able; it is a positive good to the world. Let
no man who is homeless pull down the
house of another but let him work diligently
and build one for himself9 thus by example
assuring that his cwnF shall be safe from
violence when built" ,szge