Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-01

the future The prosperity of the working
classes lives, moves, and has its being in
established credit and a steady medium
Of payment All sudden changes destroy
II. Honest industry never comes in for any
part Of the spoils IN that scramble which
takes place when the currency of a coun-
try is disordered. Did wild schemes and
projects ever benefit the industrious? Did
violent fluctuations ever do good 70 him
who depends on his daily labor for his
daily bread2 Certainly never. All these
things may crafty greediness for sudden
gain or the rashness of daring speculation,
but they can bring nothing but injury
and distress to the home of patient indus
try and honest labor"
ConeratuIates Indianians.
A special train of II coaches arrived,
bringing republican clubs and citizens
from Elkhart and northern Indiana.
The Elkhart band led a parade to the
Mckinley home, where Attorney James
S. Dodge made a congratulatory ad-
dress and presented Maj. Mckinley a
bust of himself. Maj. Mckinley re-
sponded in part as follows:
Mr.. Dodge and My Fellow Citizens
It gives me sincere pleasure to welcome to
my home the citizens of Indiana 1 have
the last three months. but I assure you
none of them have given me more pleasure
or have received heartier welcome than
I give to you here this afternoon.
You have a great state. You have much
to be proud OF; you have much to glory in
your material resources and manufacturing
enterprises, but you have more to glory in
the splendid men which your state has
produced. (Applausel. / cannot forget as
l stand in the presence of an Indiana au-
Il ~ ~ 70 4t,1k
duced that splendid soldier and statesman
and illustrious president, Benjamin Har-
rison tremendous applause). whose adj
ministration of four years of government
of the United States has few parallels in
the history of our country. Honest,
strong, wise, patriotic, American; an adj
min'stration that stood by the great doc
trines of the republican party. and that
never turned its back upon the glorious
stars and stripes and the men who sus-
tanned them during the four years of civil
war. Continuous applause).
I'VE would all be glad to be back in those
four years under the administration of
President Harrison, years of the highest
and greatest prosperity to the American
people; years that registered the highest
foreign trade this nation ever had, and
registered. too, the largest domestic trade
we ever enjoyed. They We're the four years
when we had the largest and the most splen-
did prosperity in all our history: when
every man in this country who wanted to
work could get work: when every shop
was open; when every factory was run
ming: when every busy, thriving city OF
this land was active in It's enterprises and
industries. 1t has not been so in the last
four years.
1--WE have had some experience during
these years: we know more now than we
knew then, and we know better how to
vote now than we knew in 1892 You re-
member that in that year the campaign
was filed with glittering promises: every
thing good was to come to this country If
we would only turn the republican party
out of power and put the democratic party
in.
Free trade was to relieve us of every
i'll or evil that had ever settled upon this
country; protection was a robbery, was
unconstitutional, was a fraud, and ought
to be repealed: and that if that party was
only given power in this country they would
repeal that law, and then we would enter
upon an era of prosperity, the like of which
we had never known before. And the
people put that party in power, and the
splendid prosperity we have had since you
all know about.
There is one other question that is
already settled. but that some people pro-
pose to unsettle, and that is the money
question: and we are opposed to any
such unsettling as they favor. They pro-
nose to dehase the currency of the ccun-
try by free silver as they have degraded
the labor of the country by free trade.
We want in this country dollars worth
100 cents each, dollars a s good as are found
anywhere in any country of the world.
That's the kind of money we have now:
that's the kind the republican party gave
this country, for every dollar we have to-
day of every kind has been given to you for
the most part by republican legislation, and
every dollar of it is as good as gold every
where in the world; and we propose to keep
it right there.
Then, there is another thing we pro-
pose to do. We propose to settle it for all
time that this is government of law and
d government by law, and a government
of honor that will not sell it's honor and
public faith for any price or consideration.
There is another thing my countrymen
from Indiana, that we propose to do We
propose to stand by the honest judiciary
of the United States. That has more than
once been our sheet-anchor in time of
trouble, the tribunals that protect the weak
against the strong, that is uninfluenced by
avarice and unmoved by prejudice.
stands by Our Institutions.
We propose, in a word. to stand by our
free institutiens-grard, noble institutions
they aIe-Wncre every yOGTg man has an
equal chsnce in the race Of life, and spurn
the suggestion that there are classes in
the United States (Applause) Every hon
est nan under our flag is as good as any
other honest man. and we propose to keep
him so.
livery man has an equal opportunity
under our laws to rise in this country with
any other, and l bid the young men who
stand around me never to permit any bar
liers 70 he raised between one class of
citizens and another. Keep the gateway
wide open; keep the door OF opportunity
swung wide open so that your boy and his
boy may have every opportunity that be-
longs TO our free government and its
precious institutions Continuous cheer
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done, except to thank you for the cour-
tesy and cordially OF This call have been
pleased 70 receive the gracious message
Of your spokesman that Indiana win give
a republican majority Of $1,000" cloud
cries of I'VE wil.")