The herald., 1896-10-11

in operation, and all our workmen con-
stantly and profitably employed. You
are. therefore, this year possibly more
than ever before interested in the tri-
umph of political principles which envei-
op the well being and high spirit of the
American people. You want to stop un-
sold goods and unpaid bills. You know
better than anybody else that you can
not sell goods to your customers unless
your customers can sell goods to the peo-
pie. You know people cannot buy goods
unless they have something to do with
which to earn money. That is what is
the matter with the country. That is
the diagnosis of our country at this hour.
Business has been stopped the wheels of
industry are not running. Idle men are
on the streets. Many a manufacturing
establishment is closed and you are not
doing as we'll as you were in 1892. The
best thing can wish for each and every
one of you is a return to the splendid
prosperity of four years ago.
"The money of the country happily is
all right; the Republicans made it all
right, and Grover Clevelands admins
tration has kept it going. We propose
to continue that good, sound, unques-
toned and undepreciating money with
which to do the business of this country.
(Great cheering.) What nation we are!
Why, in 1860, when Abraham Lincoln, of
blessed memory-.the immortal hero of
emancipation and of the war-had con-
troll of our government, our entire
wealth was sixteen billion dollars. When
BENJAMIN Harrison went out there We're
sixty-three billion of dollars and more
than two-thirds of the great war debt
had been wiped out. Since that time we
have been doing little else but making
debts for the government and debts for
the people,"
During his address to the missionary
board of the Evangelical association,
in response to Bishop Thomas Bowman,
Major Mckinley said: Il appreciate
this call. / would expect from body
Of religious men that they would stand
by public honor and public honesty as
your bishop has described. 1 would
expect from you that you would stand
by public law, public tranquility and
public security and the honor of the
country to which you belong. 1t is the
proud boast of our American institu-
tions that every citizen beneath our flag
can worship God according to the die
tates of his own conscience in every
corner of this great country, and I am
always glad to meet body Of men who
have devoted their lives to the improve
ment and betterment of humanity, for as
you better it's condition you elevate cit
izenship, and when you elevate citizen
ship you have exalted the country"
In his address to the Reading, Pa,
Hardware Sound Money club and the
Davenport Iowa, and Moline and Rock
Island, ILL.,, delegations, Major McKin-
ley said:
You come from three states OF the
mightiest government of the earth. You
come representing divers occupations
and varied employments, but you come
with a single mission; you come with
common purpose, and that purpose is to
manifest your devotion to the great prin-
ciples of the Republican party and your
determination to see that those prin-
ciples shall triumph on the Sd day Of
November. You come because, as your
spokesmen have SO well sai5 you are
interested in the welfare and prosperity
of the country which you love, and that
you believe will be best subserved by
Republican victory at the ensuing cleo
ton, now only little more than three
weeks away. You have come because
you believe in a protective tariff; you
believe in that great American policy
established at the beginning of the gov
ernment of the United States which had
the approval of all the early statesmen
and OF the first president, George Wash
ington; of a policy that has been pur-
sued for more than half the lifetime of
the republic, and during all that period
that it prevailed we enjoyed tn highest
prosperity in every enterprise aid under
taking of the American people. You
have come here because you are in favor
of the supremacy of the law, and be-
cause you mean to maintain a govern
ment by law and under law. You are
here because you believe in public and
private honesty and because you do not
propose that any part of the public debt
of this country shall be repudiated in
whole or in part. You are here to de-
clare that every obligation of this gov
ernment is as sacred as it's flag, and is
an obligation which shall be kept and
performed. You are here because you
want no depreciating or fluctuating cur
rency with which to do your business.
You are here because you believe in
an honest dollar for an honest govern
ment and for honest men. You do not
want a dollar that is worth less than
100 cents, for you were taught in your
childhood that an honest dollar had
hundred cents In it."
In the course of his address to the
Maryland delegation Major Mckinley
said: One of the old and
most honored political parties of this
country has become divided this year.
"A part Of 1t has united with two other
parties, and In some of the states the
alliance has been rejected and fusion
repudiated, so that the coalition is not
altogether harmonious. The other lead
ers Of the Democratic party, those who
carried it's burdens and fought it's bat
ties in the past. framed in the city of
Indianapolis a few weeks ago an in
dictment against their old party as
sociates who met in Chicago, which in
severity has been unequaled. 1t pro-
nounced the declarations of the Chicago
convention, which was Democratic in
name as an attack upon Individual free