The record-union., 1896-10-16

and In our own lives the result OF par
tial free trade and tariff tinkering. You
know the conditions in 1892. You know
the conditions now. Which do you pre-
fer? (Cries of THE conditions of 1S92.'O
My low-countrymen, as If the
dreadful experience of the last three
years and half was not enough for
our people to bear, we have injected
into the campaign a new and very grave
menace affecting the currency OF the
county. This menace must be re-
moved before confidence will come back
again, and the only way to remove it is
to defeat the party which proposes 1t.
We cannot have business confidence,
we cannot have prosperity, we cannot
have good employment and good wages,
until we have restored confidence to
the business of the United States. We
cannot do that until we have eStab-
lished an unalterable purpose to keep
every obligation of the Government sa-
cred and every dollar of our currency
as good as gold. Nor will business ac-
tivity improve SO long as we do any part
Of our work abroad that we can do at
home. The people must not only have
stability in their currency, but they
must have stability in their tariff laws.
These tariff laws must never be ever
changing with each new adminiStra-
| ton.
You knOw-there is not a working
man about me who does not know
there is not an employer of labor who
does not knoW-that the home manu-
facturer must be able to count with
~ -felir fxv thn a1,o aato1 of c
foreign competition before he can plan
his years work. He must know in ad-
vance what prices he will have to meet
from his foreign competitor before he
can fix either upon the number or the
wages of his employees or the volume of
his output. The stronger the home
manufacturers foreign competition is
the lower must he make his product.
Il need not say to you that the lower
the price of the product the lower must
be the wages of labor in producing it.
Is not that true? (Cries of ''Yes.'D Nor
need tell you that the lower the tariff
duties, the sharper the foreign competi-
! ton, the harder the fight to maintain
this market, and the lower will .Ameri-
can wages be. If the home manufact-
urer cannot compete with a fair profit
upon his capital, then he will not man
ufacture, and when that time comes
work and wages are no more and idle
ness comes, which is the curse Of this
and every other country.
Your ballots on the Sd Of November,
the ballots of your fellow citizens
everywhere, will determine whether we
are to have a shifting currency, or
whether it shall be a good and sound
| one, and so recognized in every part of
the world. Your ballots are free They
| belong to nobody in this world but
| yourselves. You have nobody to an
swer to for your vote but your con-
science and your Cod
| A delegation from Erie County, Vir-
ginia, and one from Cambridge Springs,
Washington County, called on Major
Mckinley this afternoon. There were
| more than 600 voters in the delegations.
Rev. w. E. Smith of Cambridge Springs
addressed Major Mckinley at consid-
cradle length on behalf of the visitors
Major Mckinley responded with a rlng-
ing speech, in which he counseled the
people to be mindful of Congressional
and legislative elections this fall, and
then devoted the remainder of his re-
marks to money and the tariff ques-
tionS.
A large delegation from Chautauqua
County, New York, were the next call
ers. Congressman w. B. Hooker was
the spokesman. Major Mckinley was
greeted with storm of applause, and
he made one of the most stirring
speeches of the campaign.
Colonel William L. Osborne, Secretary
of the Republican National Committee.
arrived in Canton this afternoon. He
is on his way to Chicago to see Chair
man Hanna. Colonel Osborne is en-
thusiastic over the outlook. I'm the
East he said "the fight is won. 1t is
now only question of organization for
the purpose of securing every man who
wants to vote for sound money. The
work in the South is being done under
the direction of the New York branch
headquarters, and we have reason to
expect some very handsome results
from the Southern States. l think the
solid South will be a surprise to the
country. Major McKinley's great
speech to the exConfederates last week
has helped US very much in the South
for it has shown to all that he takes
a lofty and patriotic view of the rela-
tions between the various sections OF
| the country, and that above all else he
| is for national unity"