The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-31
MKINLEY DELIVERS HIMSELF oE
HIS VIEWS ON THE CURRENCY
QUESTION.
IN LINE WITH HIS PARTY.
DECLARES HIS BELIEF THAT
VALUE CANNOT BE CREATED
BY LEGISLATION
QUOTES WEBSTER AS AUTHORITY.
Says That the People Must and VIII
Unite Now as in Every Great
National Crisis.

CANTON, O., July 30.-Perhaps the
most enthusiastic delegation that has
yet come to Canton arrived here from
Knoxville, suburb of Pittsburg. at 1
o'clock this afternoon. They had trav-
eled 100 miles in heat and and storm,
but were enthusiastic with bands and
banners. Their spokesman was John P.
Everhard. president Of the Mckinley
and Hobart club, and who Is also pres
ident of the glass workers union He
put the tariff issue above all others. In
part he said:
I'VE belive in bimetaHism and we
recognize in the Republican party and
It's platform the only real true and safe
advocate of that policy, namely. the
use of both gold and silver as money;
each interchangeable with the other;
each dollar as good as every other
dollar. We do not and we feel assured
that you do not, believe in monomet-
ali1sm or the use Of either gold or sill
yer as the only money, and knowing
this, we know you will and must op-
pose the visionary ideas Of those who
would seek to create value by the legis-
lative fiat of this nation alone and the
attempts of those who seek to place us
upon the single silver basis thereby
driving our gold out of circulation and
out Of the country
After a storm Of applause which fol-
lowed Maj. McKinley's appearance he
said in part:
You are right, Mr. Spokeman. in
saying that the Republican partv
stands
Tor sound and stable currency and
Tor the maintenance of all its money of
every Kind at parity and always equal
10 the best money of the most civilized
nations of the earth (applause). A de-
prec1ated currency, as you have so well
said, would work disaster to the inter
ests OF the people and to none more
than those CT the workingmen and pro-
ducers Long years ago Daniel Web
ster said that they were the first TO
feel 1t and the last to recover from it.
QUOTES DANIEL WEBSTER.
disordered currency said he is
lalal 70 industry, frugality and econo-
my. IL fosters the spirit of specula
tloh and extravagance. 1t is the most
eHeetual or inventions to fertiIize the
rich mans fields with the sweat of the
poor mans brow. '~eeT lef
That which we call money. nv fell
low citizens, and with which values are
measured and settlements made must
De as true as the bushel which meas
ufes the grain of the farmer and as
hcnest as the hours Of labor which the
man who tolls is required to give Oou6
applause). The one must be as fnII
ana complete and as honest as the 9TH
er tapplause) Our currency today +
good-all of it as good as gold-and if
Is the unfaltering determination of the
hepuphcan party to so keep and main
tain 1t forever (cheers). 1t is the dutv
OF the people of this country to stand
unltedly against every effort to de-
grade our currency or debase our cred
it.. (Cries They WILD
Ihey must unite now, as thew have
united in the past, in every great
Crisis OF our country's history. When
the country seemed wildly bent on in
nation preceding the resumption Of
specie payment, the sober sense of the
American people, without regard to
party, united and stemmed that threat
ened tide Of irredeemable paper money
ana reputation, and placed and kent
the nation on the rock of public honor.
sound finance and honest currency"
In closing his speech Mai. MCKINLEY
discussed the tariff and declared thai
change In the present revenue bill was
essential to the welfare of the country