Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-27
TWENTY CAR LOADS.
Pennsylvania and Michigan Join in Early
Honors.

Pennsylvania and Michigan Join In Early
Honors.
Twenty car loads of people from Penn
sylvania and Michigan were the first TO
get Mai McKinley's attention. They
were at his door at 8 o'clock and 70 the
brief addresses of their spokesman 1r.
Mckinley responded by saying:
Your early call is an example of
promptness which i trust will be fol-
lowed on the 3D. of November in every
part of our country. The best thing in
this world next to liberty is labor, and
!. the best thing for labor is an opportunity
10 work. This is the opportunity for
wfiirh-we ars all striving this year and
which we hope through q change of
policy in the administration of the gov
ernment of the United States to enjoy to
larger degree than we have done in
the past three and one-half years. What
we want more than anything else In
order to give this opportunity TO labor is
restoration of confidence. With con-
iidence shaken, money seeks its hiding
place and goes out of the channels of
business and legitimate Investment and
away from farming, manufacturing aud
mining enterprises. | do not know of
fdence TO the country than is found In
our own experience during the last
twenty years.
Some Financial History.
"You will remember that this country
resumed specie payments January 1,
1879. We had outstanding then, as we
have now, $346 100000 Of what is COM
monty known as greenback currency.
Every dollar of that from that date was
redeemable in gold upon presentation at
the treasury of the United States. SO
great was the confidence of the people
in the ability of the country that from
1879 10 1893 but 46,000,000 of dollars
were presented for redemption, and the
gold was taken out; 100000 in four
teen years, and yet in the last three and
half years, since confidence has been
disturbed, more than $200,000,00O of
grecnbacks have been presented 10 the
treasury of the United States and the
gold taken out.
Now, if confidence had existed. il the
holders of these greenbacks had not
been fearful, and they were only made
90 because the treasury of the United
States was not collecting enough money
TO pay its bills, that the revenues Of the
treasury were inadequate for public ex-
penditures, and alarmed, as they were.
they would not have sent their green
backs in for redemption. The gold re-
serve was encroached upon, and from
time TO time we have been compelled TO
sustain it, to borrow gold to put into the
treasury of the United States Now. the
hcpupiICdH party UeueNeS IL is the DUTY
OF the government first to raise enough
money to run the government. We don't
want any deficiencies in the public treas
ury, and if we have no deficiency we
will have no debts, and If we have no
debts we will have no bonds, and when
we have no deficiencies everybody will
have confidence in the solvency of the
treasury of the United States
Necessity for a High Tarin.
'Then, my fellow citizens, we not only
believe in raising enough money to run
the government, but we believe in having
tariff upon foreign competing products
high enough to protect American labor
and American manufactures. We be-
iieve It is the first duty of the govern
ment of the United States to protect and
defend its citizens. 1t is the poorest
policy on the part of the government to
give work TO the laborer of other ma
tions while we have idle men in the
United States. Now, when we have
once accomplished that, we propose to
continue the good money we have in this
country. We do not want any short