The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-10-01
SPECTRE OF FREE SILVER
HOW, EpEN NOW, IT AFFEoTS THH
IIMOROUS HOLDERS or M0rEY

Major Mckinley Talks to a Large Deiesa-
ton of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of thc
siiverstes Prevents Sale of Municipal
Bonds Everywhere--Industry Limp anu
Helpless Pending the Voters Verde.
night ride party of 400 enthusiastic
voters from Center county, Pa. arrived
at o'clock this morning, march,
ed through a binding rain to the Tab
lernacle. Major Mckinley took d hur-
ried breakfast and was driven down to
meet his visitors few minutes after
their arrival. His appearances on the
stage was the signal for an outburst OF
cheering which lasted nearly five min.
utes The spokesman was w. E. Gray
Of Bellefonte. chairman Of the county
republican committee He called at
tention to one Of the banners which the
delegation brought and which bore the
Inscription "The First County in Penn
sylvania to Instruct for Mckinley
A great many citizens from Canton
and Stark counties, Ohio, came from
Center county, Pa, and when Major
Mckinley rose to respond he spoke of
this fact and paid tribute to Center
county republicans. Among other
things he said:
II am glad to meet the republicans
Of the great state of the union. What
ever other states have done in the past
your glorious old commonwealth has
always been true to the doctrines Of
the republican party and in the nation
al contests true to the republican cause.
am glad to be assured by Pennsylva-
mans that in this great national con-
test for public honor, public and pri-
vate honesty, for the supremacy of law
and order, for good government and
good politics and good morals your
great state will lead in the triumphant
march for republican principals Cap
lplause.)
"Pennsylvania's agricultural inter-
ests, commerce and manufacturing,
while independent in one sense, have
always been mutually inter-dependent,
beneficial and helpful. BY the census
of 1890 have noted that you have farm
values in Pennsylvania in over 20,000,00O
acres of $975, 5,000, 900, or an average val
uation of more than $48 per acre to the
whole state. Your production exceeds
$120, 100000, or an average yield in PROS
porous times of $6 per acre, while your
manufactures, which benefit and en-
rich the farmers. have an annual pay
roll Of reward of labor of $134, 900, 900.
which would mean that your farmers
would have from them, If they furnish
ed all the breadstuffs and other farm
productions that laborers consume,
nearly $3.50 per acre each.
mo other similar reward to husband
ry is presented anywhere, and / make
no apology for making a like policy ev-
erywhere or for having always en-
deavored to continue this wise system
under which you have had such splen-
did results in Pennsylvania (Great
cheering.)
"This system benefits all our la,borers
and farmers. Why should we not do
all our work and spend all our wages
at home, giving to both farmers and
workingmen the richest rewards for
their labor of any country under the
sun? (Great applause.) My greatest
concern is to drive from our shores dis
tress and want and misery, and lift up
those who are bowed down, and bring
to those who are in want work and
prosperity. I will never view with toll
erance any system which has a differ
ent object towards any American citi-
zen anywhere within the limits of our
great republic. (Applause.) The other
question involved Is the reactionary
policy of free silver. One of the injur-
ious effects from the mere advocacy Of
free silver is that it makes it harder to
induce many to enter into public and
private enterprises. There is distrust
on every hand.
1.-THE very threat of free silver Isl
stopping the sale of city bonds every
where This threat falls with peculiar
force upon laborers everywhere. If
cities cannot borrow money they cam
not make improvements; If they do not
make improvements, hundreds and
thousands of laboring men who depend
upon this class of work for their daily
bread are deprived of employment.
Then, again, men engaged in great pro-
ductive enterprises find it difficult, if
not quite impossible, to secure enough
money to conduct their business. Con-
fidence has been displaced by fear and
apprehension.
"The whole business world is await
ing the settlement of the question of
public and private honesty. When that
is rightly settled on the side of con-
science and good morals, confidence
will come again, and with it money
will circulate and business activity will
appear. Let it be once established that
we are not to be put upon silver ba,-
sis, but are to continue the present ba,-
sis, with gold silver and paper, all
equal, credit, which is more than half
of the capital of this or any other coun-
try, will be reinforced and we will once
more, in my judgment, enter upon q,
better era fGreat applause.) I am
quite sure that on the Sd of November
the verdict Will teach to the whole
world that the American people love
honesty, and the American government
will maintain the financial honor at
any cost" (Great applause.)
PORTER ACCEPTS EVERYTHING.
He Stands SQuareIy on the Chicago Plat