The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-09-18
WELCOME ADDRESSES

VISIT MAJOR
M'KINLEY.
All Warmly ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Leagu.
Visitors Talked to on Money-Unitet
Bretheren. Religion and Politics-Pro
lection and Confidence.
CANTON, O., Aug. SLOT the five del
egations scheduled to visit Mr.. McKin.
ley to-day the first arrived at 7:45
o'clock. 1t was the Commercial Mems
Mckinley club No. ! of Chicago, SOC
strong. Their cars were gaily deco
rated.
When Mr.. Mckinley stepped upon
the chair to respond he was cheered
for several minutes. When he could
be heard he said:s "Mr. Corey, Gen.
tlcmen Of the Commercial Travellers
Association and My Fellow Citizens:
bid you welcome, sincere welcome,
to my home. Thrice welcome are YOU
here. l am honorcd very greatly.
honored by the call of this assem-.
blage of commercial men representing
great commercial interests and coming
from every section Of our common
country. Although you are accus-
toned to calling on people-for that,
l believe Is chiefly your business-let
me assure you that you never made d
call anywhere more agreeable to your
host than this call is to INC. 1t would
be pleasant to me personally to meet
you N any occasion, but it is peculiar.
ly & ,tifying to meet you now, coming
as a cody to testify your united and
confident devotion to the Republican
principles enumerated by the national
republican convention Of 1896.
II recognize your influence as one
OF the mos: potent factors in political
contests and l am glad to know that
this year in a greater degree than ever
before, the commercial men of the
country are united in the cause of the
Republican party. You have not al
ways been in such close agreement
with each other politically as now,
but then you have had experience and
for four years or nearly So, you have
been attending the school in which all
the rest OF us nave been pupils. It
has been a free school. The tuition
has been free, but the ultimate cost
has been very great. No BODY Of
American citizens of equal number
could properly have u deeper interest
in the success Of Republican princi.
pies than you; and none | am sure can
do SO much to secure their certain trl-
umph as you.
You are no only carriers of COM
MERGE, but creators of confidence; not
only advocates OF process, but promot-
ers of prosperity. Everywhere you
inspire either confidence or distrust,
for you tell the truth about the condi-
ton of the country. You not only
sell goods-or used to-but you dis.
seminate information among your GUS
toners. There is no more certain
barometer of the business of the
United States than the sentiment of
the men Of which this tody assembled
here this morning is representative.
You encourage the respondent and
quicken the tagging into fresh activ-
ity. You give new hope and stimu-
late new effort in that great body of
business men upon whom SO largely
depends the revival Of business IN all
parts of our country.
what we want above all else, nv
fellow citizens, is confidence. And we
cannot get confidence by threatening
to revolutionize all values and D
date obligations, both public and
private. You know the facts of bus
mess and can dispell the theories of
the dreamer and the m;sstatements of
the demague, and one thing | like
about the commercial travellers is that
very one Of them is for the United
States of America. Great applause
and cries of And for Mckinley, too.)
And always stand up for America"
Yesterday afternoon a delegation of
leaders of the National League Of Re-
publican clubs visited Mr.. Mckinley.
He spoke to them at length, first
thanking them for their visit and com
plimenting the league and then say
ing:
1--WE cannot overcstimate the value
of the young men in politics, and l
would not have believed it if Mr..
Goodnoe had not told me that thew
were noc practical politicians. My
experience with them has been
that they have been poll
tians of the most practical sort known
IL American politics. Gentlemen,
you never had a worthier cause
strive for than you have this year.
The financial honor Of the country
and the prosperity of all it's people
are enough to inspire every American
heart to the best possible effort.
have seen somewhere an inquiry,
Cannot the United States establish
a financial system Of it's own
is it too weak and dependent to
do that?' l answer: The United
States now has a financial policy
which. IN the main, it has been pur.
suing since the beginning of the gov.
eminent, and which it does not mean
to change until it can find a better
n Those who make the inquiry are
usually against the American policy OF