The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-31
M'KINLEY QUOTES WEBSTER
4 DISORDERED CURRENCY FATAL
 TO INDUSTRY AND ECONOMY.

The Republican Candidate Delivers a MasterfuI Speech on the Money Issue There Is No Evasion, No Meaningless Platitudes, but a Clean Cut, Forceful Expression Concerning the Dominant Questions of the Hour-He Also Speaks of the Necessity of Raising Money by Tariff to Support the Government. Canton, O., July 30.-A delegation numbering about five hundred came from Knoxville, Pa, to call on Major Mckinley to-day. John P. Eberhart made speech of introduction. He eu- logized Major Mckinley and expressed every confidence in his election as the next president. When Major Mckinley mounted his chair to respond there was great outbreak of enthusiasm. Major Mckinley said:
 You are right, MT. Spokesman, in saying that the republican party stands now, as it has always stood, for a sound and stable currency and for the maintenance of all it's money of every kind at parity and always equal to the best money of the most civilized na- tions on earth. (Applause.) A depre- ciated currency, as you have so well said, would work disaster to the inter ests of the people. and to none more than those of the workingnen and pro- ducers.
 Wears ago Webster said that they were the first to feel it and the last to recover from it. A disordered curren- cy,' said he, Is fatal to industry, fru- spirit of speculation and extravagance It is the most effectual of inventions to fertilize the rich mans fields with the sweat of the poor mans brow.
 That which we call money, my fel- low citizens, and with which values are measured and settlements made must be as true as the bushel which meas ures the grain of the farmer and as honest as the hours of labor which the man who tolls is required to give. Loud applause.) The one must be as full and complete and as honest as the other (Applause.) Our currency to-day is good-all of it as good as gold-and 1t is the unfaltering determination of the republican party to so keep and main tain it forever. (Cheers.) It is the duty of the people of this country to stand unitedly against every effort to degrade our currency or debase our credit (Cries of They willy They must unite now, as they have always united in the past, in every great crisis of our country's history.
 When the country Seemed wildly bent on imitation preceding the resump- ton of specie payments. the sober sense of the people, without regard to party, united and stemmed that threatened tide of irredeemable tide of paper mon ey and repudiation and placed and kept the nation on the rock of public honor sound finance and honest currency You have rightly stated, sir, that the republican party not only believes in sound money and the highest public faith and honor on the part of the gov ernment to all it's creditors, but also that it believes in a tariff which while raising money enough to conduct the government economically administered will serve the highest and best inter- ests of American labor, American agri- culture, American commerce and citi- zenship (Great applause.)
 Some of our opponents are given to saying that the tariff question is set tied. If we are not wrong in inter- preting their meaning we think they are right ,Naughter) and thank them for the confession. (Applause.) We believe that the tafiff question is set tled-settled in the minds and hearts of the American people and settled on the side of protection. But. however firmly it may be settled in the public mind, it is not yet settled in public law What is in the hearts and con- science of the people touching any public question is not effective un- til it Is written in public statute, and this cannot be done through the exer- else of the elective franchise in the choice of a congress. which makes our public laws. No one. take it, will re- gard the present tariff law as a last and final settlement of the question Whatever may be our differences about the economical principle upon which our tariff legislation should be made, all agree that the present tariff law is failure even as a revenue m asule.
 50 without discussing the principle of free trade or protection everybody must appreciate that no law is a settle ment which creates every month a de- ficiency in the public treasury Cloud applause.) The people of this coun- try are not satisfied with such an en- actment and will not be satisfied until public law shall express the public will in a statute which will provide ad- equate revenues for the needs of the government, full security for it's cred it and ample protection to the labor, capital and energy of the American people," (Applause.)
 A dispatch was received here to-day stating that over 300 veterans from Guernsey county will be here to-mor- row. Among the callers to-day were Secretary Downing of the National Re- publican league, John F. Goodnow, one of the most prominent Minnesota republicans; ex-Congessman White of Pennsylvania who served with Major Mckinley in the forty-ninth congress. and others of equal note in national politics.