Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-10-09
GOLD CANDIDATE WAS STRUCK
BY Similarity of Messages From
Different Spokesman.

Different Spokesman.
Canton, Ohio, Oct. BIN Mr.. McKin-
ley's first speech of the day he said
McKinIey's First Speech.
TT gives me great pleasure to receive
at my home the fellow citizens of the
commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the
state of Ohio and l could not but be
struck by the similarity of the mess
ages which have come from your res
pective spokesman as to the condition
of the people of these two great states.
How similar they are. 1t is a cry of
distress going UP from every point of
our common country. What men want
is business activity; what the laboring
men want is work We have discovered
in the last three and a half years that
we can not increase the output of the
mines or the wages of miners by de-
creasing the manufacturing in the
United States. We have discovered that
less American coal is required if we do
any part of our work in Europe rather
than in the United States l favor that
policy which will give the largest deVel-
opment to every American interest; that
gives the widest opportunity to every
American citizen; that gives the most
work and the best wages to every Amer
lean laborer and secures to our people
the highest possible prosperity in all OF
their occupations.
For three years past the trade reviews
of Observation-Disclosures agricultural
and mercantile-at the end of each GUAR
ter of the year could be readily summed
in a single sentence, Prices all along the
line have declined and with them the
homes and comforts of the American peo-
pie have also declined. In 1895 Dun's Ike
view of Trade reported % per cent decline
on iron and steel and II per cent on cot
ton. 1t might have been supposed that
I r,,1IAS ~
on March a. 1895, the same excellent non
partisan review of the standing authori-
ties made this report on the condition of
the trade of the country, and / can not
see that 1t has greatly changed from that
time to this, and certainly there is little
| improvement or advance in prices gener-
ally: AS prices about February were on
| the whole the lowest ever known In this
| country, 1t is thus that space is given in
a comparison of quotations of the most
| important branches of manufactures,
| and then follows a lengthy table, OF
| which 1 need only say that it apparently
| abundantly sustains its assertions OF
shows a most deplorable condition of al
| kinds of business.
LAS a legitimate result, we never knew
so many failures as in 1895. We had
| hoped that things would take a turn foI
| the better, but they have not, although
| am sure that such is the wish of the
American people today, and the earnest
| and sincere aim of the republican party
| But such condition seems impossible
| under our present revenue legislation.
will not pursue the distressing RECORD
| further. Never has business been poorer
| never has the Industrial progress of The
country been so retarded as during tho
| low tariff or no tariff years of 1916 il
| all our history. And the government has
| Jared little better, because the treasury
reports have recorded monthly deficinn
| Giles and additions to the public debt an(
| the deficiency still continues.
| 'FWill any one say in the presence q
| such facts that the revenue legislation O
| the country must remain unchanged
! That it is not the plain and palpable duty
1 of the government to provide adequate
revenue for the public necessity ant
| treasury and to protect American laDo
| against the cheaper labor of the ole
| world? Government expenditures mus
| not exceed government receipts; the ere
| alton of a public debt in time of peace
| is only justified in sustaining the credi
| of the. government and the public honor
and it should not be continued a momen
| longer than congress, whose duty it is Il
raise revenue, shall supply it. Farmer,
| have lost much by the diminishing hom'
market, and have suffered in the foroigl
| market by the repeal of the reciprocity
| provisions of the tariff law of 1890 Ih
| foreign market opened by reciprocit!
during the administration of Presidea
| Harrison must be reopened, and the hom
| market must be improved and preserve,
| for the farmer, while the American work
! shop must be opened to the American
| workingman. We must down by decisive
majorities every scheme for the debase
ment of our currency, whether it be fire.
| silver or irredeemable paper money; bu
| while we do this, we must also defeat TIL
1 4
| lest enough already in the reduced wage
/ of our labor. and we do not propose to b
cheated further by being paid in debase,
| dollars"