The record-union., 1896-10-11


revenue now existing they will provide
the necessary money to pay the ex-
penses Of the Government. AS they
Will not borrow any money it will be
interesting to the electors of this coun-
try to know how they intend to get It,
daughter and applause) Whether by
increasing the subjects Of international
taxation, whether by a direct tax upon
the people or by an advance of duties
on foreign goods coming into the United
States.
1T would seem that the people ought
to be enlightened on this subject. They
say that they will not seriously con-
slider this question: much less does 1t
tell how what they denominate the SUI
preme issue of the free and Independent
coinage of the silver Of the world shall
be settled. They must appreciate. If
they have given the subject any study,
that the reduction Of the dollar to 52
cents or less would diminish the value
of the money received from duties on
imports and internal taxes in the same
| ratio that they reduce the dollar. In
such an event more revenue will be re-
quired. How will they raise it? Sure
ly no revenue can come from the Mints
no matter how much silver we might
coin, for it's coinage must be free.
daughter and applause.) They must
surely know that to coin silver on ac-
count of the Government will require
the Government to buy it and where
will the Government get the money.
| (ApplauSe) The old-fashiOned way
| taught us by the fathers was to raise
money by taxation, but they have
abandoned that doctrine and propose
to resort to the Mints of the United
States, but they cannot put gold or
| silver into the Mints of the United
States for coinage for the Government
| without buying it and where will they
get the money to buy it," daughter
and cheering)
After criticising the Democratic plat
| form Mr.. Mckinley asked: What will
the verdict of Kentucky be as between
| the Chicago Democratic platform and
| the st. Louis Republican PLATFORM" CA
voice-"Forty thousand for Mckinley"
and loud applause.)
I'VE take you at your word, men of
Kentucky. We will be quite satisfied
here in Ohio with 10000 in Kentucky.
daughter and a voice You will get it
all rightly I do not believe my fellow
citizens, that you will reverse that
| splendid verdict for a good money and
national honor that you rendered a
year ago, which embraced every part
of our common country" Great ap-
/ piause)
| When Major Mckinley finished speak
ing the Louisville people moved for
ward to shake hands with him, and at
the same time some one with clear,
strong voice struck up "Old Kentucky
Home" Immediately the whole delega-
tion Joined in and swelled the volume of
sweet sound. There were a score of
ladies present and their voices mingled
with the deeper ones of the men. 1t was
one of the prettiest Incidents of the
campaign, and it was entirely sponta-
! neous.
Major Mckinley made his fourth
speech to forty Bishops Of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church of Zion.
These Bishops selected one of their num-
Der, Bishop G. W. Clinton Of Charlotte.
n. c.. as spokesman. His address to
Major Mckinley was listened to with
much enthusiasm.
| A big delegation Of commercial trav-
elers was the next to call. Major Nc
Kinley addressed them from the stand
in front Of the lawn. The travellers
came from Mansfield, O., Rochester, N.
| y, and Indianapolis, Ind. In address
ing the travelling men Major Mckinley
said:
1T gives me very great pleasure to
welcome the commercial travellers to
my city and home. / do not know
where there could be found anywhere
a more representative body of Ameri-
can citizens than among the CONNER
cial travellers of the United States.
Their business. possibly better than
any other. registers the depression or
prosperity of the country. Nobody
knows sooner than the commercial
traveller whether it is good or bad; no
class Of men so register the waves of
business as the men who stand before
me here to-day. You are interested in
your occupation and in having pros
perity extend from one end of the
country to the other. You are inter
ested in having all our workshops run
ming; all our mines in operation; all
our wheels in motion, and all our work
ingmen constantly employed. You are
therefore, this year possibly more than
ever before, interested in the triumph of
the principles which involve the well
being and highest prosperity of the
| American people. You want to stop
unsold goods and unpaid bills You
know better than anybody else that
you cannot sell goods to your customers
unless your customers can sell goods
to the people; you know that the peo-
pie cannot buy goods unless they have
something to do with which to earn
money to buy them. (Great cheering J
That is what Is the matter with the
country; that is the diagnosis Of our
| condition at this hour-business has
been stopped, the wheels Of industry
are not running. Idle men are on the
street. Many of the manufacturing es-
Establishments are closed and you are not
doing as we'll as you were in 1892
(Cries of mo, sir. we are not.") And
the best thing l can wish for each and
every one of you is a return to the splen-
did prosperity of four years ago. The
money of the country, happily, is all
right. The Republican party made II
all right and Grover Clevelands Ad-
ministration has kept it good. (Cries OF
That's right.')
| we propose, my fellow citizens to
continue that good, sound, unquestioned
undepreciating money with which to dc
the business of this great country
0reat cheering) What Nation we
are Why, in 1850. when Abraham Lin
coin, of blessed memory-the immortal
hero of emancipation and of the war
when he took control of this Govern
ment the entire wealth was sixteen
billions of dollars. When BENJAMIN