The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-15
THE STREETS OF CANTON WERE
TANNED YESTERDAY BY
CHEERING CROWDS.
N k|NLEYS REMARKS ON F|AT|SM
If Money Gan Be Made by Act of Con.
gress, What Is the Use of Taxa
ton What Costs Nothing Is
Worth Nit


of cheering, hag-waving, fnely-uniform-
ed and decidedly musical visitors crowd
ed about the Mckinley home. Pennsyl-
vania, Indiana and Ohio sent delegations
BY the middle of the afternoon Market
street, leading to the Mckinley home
was filled with marchers. The Cleve-
land First Voters, who came last, kept
the crowds on the sidewalks cheering.
The delegation from Logansport, Ind,
was introduced by A. L. Wilson. After
welcoming the visitors, Maj. Mckinley
said:
IF the financial plank advocated by
our allied opponents be practical and
sound, then the trainers of our cOnstitu-
ton idled away very much time and
wasted very much effort in providing II
plan for raising money to conduct the
government. If this new departure So
called, be i'll any sense practical, then
we do not want any tariff laws in this
country, any tax laws, any custom houses
or any tax collectors anywhere; because,
if you can make money out of nothing
by the mere breath OF congress, then it
is idle to impose taxes on the people to
bear the burden and expense of conduct
ing the government. If, by mere fiat,
whether 1t be nat to the extent of 80
cents or to the extent of 100 cents, if the
government, by mere act of congress.
can make money, then all the work of
Washington and Jefferson, Hamilton and
Clay and all the tinanciers and states
men of this country was mere idleness
and folly: But their work was not idle
or foolish. The government of the
United States can not create something
out of nothing, and the man or part
that teaches that doctrine teaches a
false doctrine. Why? That which
costs man nothing is not worth much,
is it! And if this government can ere
ate money without cost to itself, then
that money is valueess, valueess for
every purpose. 1t is the value in money
that makes it stable medium of eX-
change among the people. The point
l make is this, my fellow citizens, that
we must get out of the idea that the gov
eminent makes money. The govern
ment gets its money just as the citizen
gets his money, by giving something for
it. The government raises 100000, 000
every year by taxing its people and the
products of other people coming into the
United States, and the latter is the policy
of the republican party. We do not be-
lieve that the government should make
money by setting its printing presses and
its minis to work, but the best thing it
can do for its revenue is to put tariff
on foreign products of every kind that
compete with American products and
make that tariff high enough, too, to pro-
tect the American producer. We simply
want to observe the law of self-preserva-
ton, to look after ourselves, look after
our individual occupations and employ
ments and after the home which your
spokesman has so eloquently described.
1t lies at the foundation of society of
every community and calls up from the
people sentiment for good government
and for good patriotism, such as can be
found scarcely anywhere in the world.
Not only, my fellow citizens, do we
want a good tariff, but we want good
money. We want the money to be
worth 100 cents Oh the dollar, and we do
not want it to be worth II penny less
than 100 cents. We want it to be as
honest as the government itself, We
want 1t to be current everywhere i'm the
world; we want it respected everywhere.
Just as our flag is respected everywhere.
Then we propose in this country to main
tain government by law and a govern
ment under law. We propose to sus-
tam public order and public tranquility
ana stand by the federal judiciary that
tribunal which is our anchor of safety
in every time of trouble. There was
never an aim that the republican party
ever had that did not embrace the good
of all the people. There was never n
purpose that did not seek the honor and
integrity of the United States. Our par
ty never had a purpose which was not
patriotic, and 1t stands now, as it stood
in the past, for public safety for public
honor; good morals, good government
good laws and for country whose cur
rency and credit will not be questioned
anywhere in the world"
Maj. Mckinley, in his response to
Judge John w. Reed. who spoke for the
delegation from jefferson, Clearfield.
Clarion and Armstrong counties, Pa,
said:
Il have no sympathy with the senti-
mcnt, sometimes expressed by good peo-
pie, of doubt about the future of the
United States Nobody need be troubled
about that. The United States will take
care of itself in its own good time and
way, through constitutional forms. re-
store this country to its former great
ness, glory and prosperity. The United
States, with its wealth of resources and
the skill, energy and enterprise of it's peo-
pie, can not be long checked i'm its on
ward march. There are some citizens in
all the states who seem to be seriously
but | for one do not share i'm
their apprehensions. The great body of
the people is safe; they are steady: they
are not moved by wild impulses. Dismal
forebodings of what might happen will
not be realized Demagogues there are
in the country who attempt to inculcate
the doctrines of distrust and dismay
among the unemployed, and in part the
men who are intoxicating that doctrine
are the men who are advocating a policy
that first created idleness in the United
States. Extremists there are who talk
glibly about the war of the classes
against the masses, needless of the result
of their dangerous and RUTHLESS doc
trine. There need be no alarm; there
need be no excitement; there need be no
abuse or exaggeration, for all these false
doctrines and unworthy influences will
not again prevail with the free, the indie
pendent and the intelligent citizens of the
United States. The great majority of
our people are devoted to law and order.
the public peace and tranquility. They
love their homes and their wives and
their families too well to stand by any
policy that will lead to public disorder
md disregard of law. They are in favor
IF respecting the right of property, the |
right of contract, the inviolability of pub |
lie faith and the sacredness of our I'M
and uncorruptible courts of
Justice. They are hocking to the stan
lard of the country. not from one Marty /