Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-14
WHY WE SUFFER.
Major Mckinley Says Other COUNT

Major Mckinley Says Other Countries
Profit at Our Expense.
Major Mckinley said in an address 10 a
large delegation of visitors al Canton, Ohio
yesterday afternoon:
THE condition of the country is such thai
every man is thinking about it, every wo-
man is thinking about it. and wondering
how We are to improve that condition. read
today in the North American Review an
article from the Secretary of the Navy Mr.
Herbert Of ALBANIA, whom / long knew as
a member of the national House of Repre-
sentatives. He has just visited Europe AMI
he describes the business condition of Ger
many and England and France as possess
ing degree of activity and prosperity, the
like of which they never enjoyed before
He closes by saying that the United States
never was so unprosperous as l. is today,
and then he makes the inquiry: Why are
not the United States and its working peo-
pie, with all our natural resources, ENJOYING
a share of the prosperity that is enjoyed by
England and Germany and Franceg
I'VE all know, my fellow citiZenS, why
we are in the midst of depression now, and
l think we know why these great nations of
the world, our competitors, are prosper GUS
We are doing less Of our own work and
they are doing more of it for US. Great ap-
plauseD Everybody admits the condition
that Mr.. Herbert describes. l need not stop
knows its source. The question in every
American mind is how 10 remove The cause
and how to get back the OH prosperity
which we had enjoyed for more than a
third of century. We must have conf
dence, in the first place. ApplauseD How
can we get that confidence? Can We get it
by degrading our money? lCries of NO,
Eo!D Can we get 1t by depreciating our
currency? CNo!o Can we get il by threat
ening the reputation or partial r.pud,a:icn
of public and private debts? c'No norD
Can We restore confidence by destroying
confidence? Can We get At through turmoil
and diSQuie.ude and public disorder? Can
We restore confidence by monthly and year
ly deficiencies in the public treasury
We can only get back confidence, my
countrymen, by letting the whole wolll
know that this is an honest nation Of seven
ty millions Of people, and IA. they prpl osc
to pay bill their debts in as good money as
the world knows anything about. Great
cheering) And then when we have estab-
ished that, which will do three weeks
from today tremendous cheering), then We
propose to resume business at home. Cap
plause) If we do not take care Of our bust
ness nobody will take care of it for us
(AppIausc) And if We do not use the power
of the ballot which We possess to subserve
our own best interests, then We do not use
the ballot to the best advantage.
I'VE cannot improve the condition of this
country by decreasing the value of our
money and making believe that 80 cents
worth of silver is dollar. daughter and
great applause) The only way to improve
our condition is to increase business. Let
us do our own manufacturing. Let us do
our own mining; let us preserve our own
home market-the best market in the world
Let us dedicate ourselves as patriots to the
promotion of the highest interests of the
American people.
Il believe in a tariff tremendous cheer
ing). and If we ever needed a tariff in the
world we need it now. We want to stop
borrowing. And we want to stop having
things charged at the stores. daughter and
applause) And the only reason why We
ever have anything charged up against US
at the stores is because we have no work
Continuous applauseD Now what we
want in this country is restoration of con-
fidence, of credit, the continuance Of an un-
questioned dollar, and then We want to
adopt an industrial policy that will raise
enough money to tay the expenses OF this
government every day." Great applause)