The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-09-26

Mckinley Gives Good Advice to n BODY
OF First Voters.

belts of Ohio and Indiana. The first
visitors were from Wood county and
Bowling Green, o. The delegation was
/ composed of First Voters club of
Bowling Green. parts of the various re-
publican clubs OF the county and the
Women's Mckinley and Hobart club.
The members of the latter organization
wore white Tam O'Shanter caps. The
whole delegation numbered GOO. A. S.
! Parker was spokesman. In response TO
his remarks. Maj. Mckinley said IN
part:
The presence OF this body OF young men
| who are 10 vote for the first time next No
vember. Is TO me an inspiring sight. and
| that you are soon TO enjoy the priceless
privilege OF citizenship must be TO all of
you an inspiring thought For p years
you have been enjoying our free institu-
| lions. the protection and opportunity OF
our laws, without any political power or
responsibility. You are soon TO assume
your share OF duty and responsibility.
wonder as l look into your faces whether
| you fully appreciate the privilege and
| honor which you are so soon TO have
| fear sometimes that few OF us estimate
suffrage at its true worth.
1T clothes us with sovereignty. IL ~ n
| gup ranty TO our liberties and Institutions
! stitutional mode OF expressing the popular
| VIII. Through IL public policies are de-
| termincd and public laws enacted Through
IL administrations are changed and ad-
ministrations are made. Through IL our
whole governmental machinery IA con-
| Quoted. IL Is. indeed. priceless Inherit
ance. and should be valued as such by
every young man. With the privilege comes
grave responsibilities I'm It's use. IL should
express the intelligence and Judgment and
| confidence of the voter IL should never
be employed for any base use II should
be exercised with courage. wisdom and
patriotism. 10 should never. no never
be thrown against the country and should
never represent public dshonor
"In the crisis OF war ON the very feld
of conflict, my first vote was cast for
Abraham Lincoln. liz is 10 me priceless
memory. What glorious privilege 10
have been permitted 10 vote for a candidate
for president whose services TO his country
In the greatest peril OF it's life ranks with
the services of Washington, the father
OF his country. Priceless memory to me
that | could vote for the martyr TO lib
erty, the emancipation of a race. and tho
savior OF the only free government among
men.
You, gentlemen, did not have that priv
ilege, but. Il having been denied you, there
viii be some satisfaction to you 10 vote
for the party OF Lincoln. which rallied
the young men Of the country around the
banner OF liberty, union and national honor.
between 1860 and 1865, and now summons
you under the same glorious banner IL
is seldom given TO the first voters OF this
country TO start in so important a national
contest, where so much Ia involved and
where so many interests are at stake II
is a year. too, when old party divisions
count for little. when men of all parties
are united In the common object 10 save
the country from dishonor and its cur
rcncy from degradation. IL IS always "a fe
the side OF your country. IL is always
wise TO stand against lawlessness and re-
pudiation. IL Is always patriotic TO stand
against those who are opposed 20 law and
order, and who would raise artificial bar
riers between classes or sections In the
United States.
my fellow citizens. | vcnturcd a few
weeks ago 10 suggest in public speech
that IL would be better TO open the mills
than TO open tho mints. l see that some
OF our political adversaries criticise tho
statement, saying that Il is putting the
cart before the horse. They seem to think
that the way TO open up the wooden mills
for example IL TO start a yard-stick fac
tory. They forget that you must make
cloth before you can measure IL. and
that the weaver must be employed before
the yard-stick Is required. But they say
the yard-stick Is too long. ] answer, IL You
make a yard-stick 10 inches instead OF 80
inches, its present length, you Will not
increase the output OF cloth or IT'S value
or give an additional days labor TO the
American weaver. Nor Will a 52-cent dollar
Increase our Industrial enterprises add
TO the actual earnings OF anybody, or en-
nance the real value OF anything. II VIII
wrong labor and wreck values and has
dona 90 wherever ~ has been used More
cloth might require more yard-sticks. but
more yard-stlcks or shorter ones will not
create demand for moro cloth. Nor will
short dollars from wide-opon mints, free
10 all the world, Increase our factories
More factories at work Will find work for
the good dollars now IN their hiding places.
and lind employment Tor the good men
now idle at their homes.
Industry must come FIRST. Labor pre-
codes all else. IL Is the foundation OF
wealth; IL Is the creator of all wealth. Is
active employment puts money 10 circula-
tion and sends IL coursing through every
artery or trade. The minta cont distribute
IL i'm that way. Start the factories In full
blast and the money viii flow f.om bank
and vault The lender Will seek the bar
rover. rot as now. the borrower the lender.
Start the factories and put American ma
chinery In operation and there viii not be
an idle man Ia the country who is willing
and able TO work; there viii aot be- an
American nome where hunger and want
will not disappear at once, and there VIII
not be farmer who viii not be cherred
and benefited by his improved home mar
kets and by the better and steadier prices
place OF debts The wanted earnings OF the
poor viii be restored. A surplus VIII take
the place OF deficit In the public treasury.
Plenty and prosperity Will return 10 w
again, and do not forget. men and women
OF Wood county, that you cannot coin pros
perlty. and you cannot revive ndusti les
through the mints They come through la
Dor and confidence. skill and enterprise and
honesty. and they viii come IN no other
way"
''That money Is hard TO get Is not because
Il "a scarce. but because those who have II
keep IT, fearing 10 loan IL because OF he
unsettled business condition Of the coun-
try Money to-day is idle because Il can
not be prontably and safely Invested by
those who have II. II rs neither a lack
OF volume OF our money. nor the quality OF
the money that Is our trouble tut a Jack
OF confidence IN the ateadiness aud stahil-
ity az business che threat OF free silver
IS driving our money into hiding to-day;
the way TO bring Il ont Is 20 restore conf
dencc. and how WIZ you restore conhdence2