The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-27
COMPLIMENT TO JERSEY.

As Major Mckinley arose to reply
he was given greeting by the Jersey
men, such as he will long remember
for it's heartiness. In addressing the
delegation Major Mckinley said:
bid you a warm welcome to my state,
my city and my home. ] think we all
have a glowing affection for the original
thirteen states that laid the foundation OF
our splendid political fabric. For more
battle. from without and from within,
and Is stronger and more patriotic today
than it has ever been, as will be seen by
its vote a week from tomorrow. loud
of being one of those glorious thirteen
original states. She not only has the dis
tnction of membership in that original
family but she Is full of historic memo
ries and sacred historic events leading up
10 our national independence. l am glad
to meet you at my home, members of this
old and historic community, twenty
years Old, and bearing the honored name
trious not only in the annals of your
state. but in the annals of the nation It's
well. a name that is synonymous with
protection to our industries and to our
national honor; name that is synony-
nous with honest finance. good currency
and public and private money. ! am glad
to see you, my fellow-citiZens, from the
state and home of my distinguished asso-
did and typical representative American,
that honest citizen. that incorruptible
man. Garret A. Hobart. loud and pro-
longed cheers.) No ordinary event could
city of Canton! no ordinary political con.
test could have assembled on this lawn
thousands and tens of thousands Of men
and women from every quarter OF this
country; IT is only because in the pub
lie mind there exists belief that We are
confronted with great public peril and
because We mean by our votes to shun
and avoid it. This Is the meaning of 1t
all. We have experienced only calamity
propose to experience another and even
greater calamity by following the same
'sachers. We have already withstood the
-..perience Of partial free trade, policy
the result of which your eloquent spokes-
man has so fifty described. the policy that
has brought idleness upon our working
men and eXtinguished the fires in our
furnaces. This has been your experience
for the past three and half years. II Is
proposed now to add to that as though
we had not suffered enough, that fatal
heresy that somehow or another people
can get rich by debasing our currency.
SUFFERING ALL AROUND.
They have reduced wages, reduced em-
ployment and now they want to reduce
the value OF money in which they, are
paid So that We are suffering In both
directions. What We want in the United
States is a stable tariff law that will raise
enough money to pay all the current ex-
penses Of the government that will obvi-
ate the necessity Of borrowing and lay up
q surplus to wipe out the existing debt
In 1885 the. government Of the United
States paid off its entire debt. 1t was
$SoOOO.0OO in 1904. and the people believed
1t never could be paid off. 1t was reduced
to s45.0o0OU after 1872 and by pursuing
protective policy for thirty-five years. ev-
cry dollar was paid. BY pursuing the
same policy from 1851 to 1898 we paid Off
more than two-thirds Of our great war
debt, reaching more than two billions of
dollars, and II our prosperity had not
been interrupted and the Republican poll
cy not abandoned we would have wiped It
all off y to-day. Loud Cheers.) Now.
what yc ~; nj 10 do is to get back to that
icy Tat stands for the American people
ICantinnod on Raan