The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-07
eFHE GOOD YELLOW MONEY
From the other Side of the Ocean"
Fills Major Mckinley With

Canton o. oct 7=AIajor Mckinley
spoke as follows TO the delegation from
East Brady which visited him yester-
day afternoons
Mr. Graham and Ny Fellow Citizens
of East Brady. PENN am very re-
gretful that the day is so Indictment up
on which you make your call am
glad TO meet each one Of you at my
home ] have received q great many
cations. as your spokesman has
said in the past two months. many of
them larger than yours, but from the
shouts [ have heard from you today
ann sure none of them had better lungs
than yours Laughter) and none of
them We're more earnest IN their sup
port of Republican principles than the
little body of men about me today.
There is one thing which I think we
are sometimes too apt to forget-we
are too apt to forget what is behind US
and too apt to be needless of our own
experience We can hardly realize that
from 1873 to 1898, we reduced the public
600 900. WE paid off during those 20
years 81 1923, 5S1. 673 of the public debt
And we were under q protective and
sound money system when we were
thirds of that great debt has disappear
ed and while we were paying it off we
were building in this country the most
splendid industrial enterprises, giving
constant and steady employment to
American labor at fair wages, and Civ
ing to the farmers of the country a just
that period. for tine greater part OF the
time We were selling more goods abroad
than we were buying abroad and the
balance of trade was therefore in our
favor, and that balance of trade set
tied as it was in gold gave us the good
yellow money from the other side of
the ocean Now, my fellow citizens
four years ago the people of this cOun-
try determined to change that policy
and they did change it. What has been
The result2 We have since that time
created a national debt principal and
interest of about three hundred mill
lions We have had for the greater
part of that time a deficiency in the
treasury the government not collect
ing sufficient revenues to meet its cur
rent expenses and labor has been lily
EMPLOYED as it was in that period.
your spokesman tells US that in your
own county 81 blast furnaces have been
stopped What does that mean2 1t
means that wages have been stopped
1t means that the labor has been unem-
ployed-It means that comforts have been
taken away from hundreds of American
homes which they had previously en-
joyed- Tt means distress and what is
true of your county has been substan-
TALLY true-posSfbly not to SO large
degree-of other counties of your state
Now what YOU want to do. whether we
are railroad men or farmers. or profess
sional men, or mechanics or laboring
men. is to get back to a policy that
VIII give US chance to increase our
manufacturing. improve our home
market extend our foreign market and
give employment every day in the year
to every working man who wants work
Great cheering)
IF we viii but follow the lamp Of ex-
perience and follow in the direction
which the light Of that lamp leads tbs
on the third day of November. we VIII
vote down the policies which have
brought us these conditions and vote
to continue a monetary system built
upon q solid basis which viii give us
the best money in the world. a money
which panics cannot disturb and bust
ness failures cannot depreciate. Tire
mendous cheering and cries of Penn
syIvania viii vote that Way.) We want
good times plenty of work. good wages
and good money How VIII you vote?
(Cries of For McKimley-9
II thank you most heartily for this
call and bid all Of you good morning.
(Applause.)