The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-08-01
TWO GREAT DEBTS
OF THE NATION
Paid in the Very Best Coin of the
World, in Gold, or Its
Equivalent.
AFFECTING SCENE IN CANTON
Members Of the 6. 4. H. and Old Comrades
Of Gufnsey CouHty Greet Major Me-
kihlsy. the korkingman's
True Friend.

Canton, July 31-The most enthusi-
astic delegation and most affecting
greeting at the Mckinley home was
today's visit Of the farmers. working
men and old soldiers Of Gurnsey
county, who arrived here shortly be-
fore noon. The delegation left Cam
bridge and In a short time struck the
flooded lowlands.
For seven miles" said ex-Congress-
man ]. c. Taylor. 'the locomotive
poked its nose through water over
flowing from the Tuscarawas river,
and it was a fight TO get through"
At the Mckinley residence Mr. Tay-
lor acted as spokesman for the party
which was under the q. A. r. auspices
He spoke Of the tin-plate industry Of
Cambridge.
Chaplain W. Mcfarland. Of the Unit
ed Presbyterian church OF Cambridge
followed. saying:
Il came not to speak but TO see and
hear and think and to grasp the hand
OF the most illustrious friend Of labor
in the United States or in the world"
Turning 10 Major Mckinley. who
was standing under the folds OF an
old flag. waved above him by an old
soldier, the chaplain grasped McKin-
ley's hand and trembling with emo
tion, said:
Il know Of no man who has done
more to elevate and dignity labor than
you know OF no man who has put
brighter crown Of glory on the brow
Of honest toll than yourself
Tears came to many an eye. and II
was with visible feeling that Mr.. Nc
Kinley said
MY friends and fellow citizens: It
gives me great qualification to receive
this call from my old friends and
neighbors and fellow citizens of Gurn-
sey county. | have made many visits
to your county in years gone by and
know most Of you personally. l am
glad to meet the representatives Of
labor who are assembled here this af-
ternoon. congratulate them on the
advance that has been made in the
tin plate industry to which Col. Tay-
lor has referred. l am glad to know
that Republican legislation gave your
country an industry that gives work
and wages to American workingmen
and brings happiness to American
homes. l am glad, my fellow-citizens,
to meet any old comrades Of the Grand
Army Of the Republic.
Their step is no longer as steady
and as firm as 1t was thirty-six years
ago, but their hearts are just as loyal
to the flag OF the Union
when the war closed there were
two great debts resting upon this gov
ernment. one was the debt to the men
who had loaned money with which to
carry on the military operations; the
had willingly offered their lives for
the preservation of the American un-
ion. Old soldiers waited on their PEN
sions until this great debt of the gov
ernment was well out of the way; they
waited patiently until the government
had reduced nearly two-thirds of that
great money debt. They wanted every
dollar Of the debt paid in the best
coin known to the commercial world,
and every dollar of that debt up to
this hour has been paid in gold or its
equivalent, the best recognized mon
ey of the world, every dollar of that
debt, my comrades yet to be paid will
be paid in the same unquestioned
npiY,