Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-08
SOUND MONEY.
McKinley's Speech to the Foraker
Club Giving a Resume OF the
Issues of the Campaign.

Canton, O., July lit was less than
an hour after adjournment of the CHI.
cago convention when the Thirty-second
Ward Foraker Club of Cleveland arrived
in Canton 30O strong, with their wives
and daughters. They marched at once
to Governor McKinley's residence. After
President ID. ii. Lucas had made u pre-
sentation address Governor Mckinney
said:
"Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen
and My Fellow Citizens: 1t gives me
very great pleasure 10 welcome You TO
my home city and to my home, and | ap-
p%rcciate more than can find words to
express the honor and the compliment
of this call. | thank you for your con-
Gratulations and the assurances of sup
port which you make for the great prin-
ciples for which this year the Republican
party stands. (~Applause.) | conSratu-
late you upon having for your name one
of the most illustrious of our statesmen
in Ohio, Joseph Benson Foraker. tap
plause.)
"NIy fellow citizens. recent events have
imposed upon the patriotic people of his
country a responsibility greater than the
Civil war. Then ii was Il struggle TO pre-
serve the government of the United
States; now it il n struggle to preserve
the honor of the government. (Crias OF
Yes" and applause.)
HtH u was ~ N'llt'N " >" ~
Union; now it is a contest To save spot
less it's credit. Great applausc.) Then
| section was arrayed against section:
now mon of all sections can unite, anu
will unite, to rebuke the reputation OF
our obligations and the debascmcIt OF
our currency. (~Applausc.)
In this contest patriotism Is above
party and national honor is dearor than
any party name. The currency and cred.
it of the government are good now, and
must be kept good forever. Our trouble
is not with the character of the money
that we have, but with the threat To de
base il. We have the same currency
that we had in 1892, good the world over
and unqucstioned by any people. Then
too, WI had uneXampled credit and pros
perity. Our difficulty now is to get that
money in circulation and invested il
productive enterprises which furnish en-
ploymcnt to American labor. Great ap
plausc.)
This is impossible with the distrust
that hangs over the country at the pres
ent time, and every Effort to make ouI
dollars or any one of them worth less
than 100 cents each only serves to in
crease the distrust. What we want is &
sound policy, financial and industrial
which will give courage and contidcnc,
to all, for when that is Ion the mone
now unemployed because of fear for tn,
future anu ldth Oh CoIlucHCp III invest
ment will quickly appear in the channcl
of trade (Cries of You are right, ma
jor," and applause.)
Gentlemen. the employment of on
idle money, the idle money that we nj
ready have, in gainful pursuits will pu
every idle man in the country at work
and when there is work there is wages
and when there are work and wage
there are consumers, who constitute tn,
best market for the products of our soil
Having destroyed business and cont
dcnce by n free-tradc policy. it is nov
proposed to make things still worse b,
entering upon an era of deprecated cur
rency. Not content with the Inaugural
ton of the ruinous policy which ha
brought down the wages of the lahore
and the price of farm products, its advo
Gates now offer n new policy. which will
diminish the value of the money il
which wages and products are paid
C~Applause.) Against both of these W,
stand opposed.
Our creed embraces an honest dollar
an untarnished national credit, ade1uat
revenues for the uses of the government
protection to labor and industry. preser
walton OF the home market, and r~cciproci
~ which will extend our foreign MAJ
kets. Upon this platform we stand, an,
submit its declarations to the sober an,
considerate Judgment of the America
people. Great applause.)
Il thank you again for this call an
greeting, and it will give me very grca
pleasure, ladies and gentlemen, to NEE
you all personally" (Aplausc.)