Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-05-23
MCKINLEY DEFINES His 20
SlTiOM.

Record, II %rer~onal and political friend
OF Maj r Mckinley. visited that gem
tleman at his home at Canton, Oni
last week, AID Inquired as to his at
titude toward silver. Mr., Mckinley
presented to NJ. c !rtis a printei re-
port Of a speech delivered by himself
at Ada, OhiO. when he was run ming
for Governor, 3nd marked he follow
ing passage:
The Republican party stands op-
posed to free aud unlimited coinage of
silver under existing conditions. and
insists that that cannot safple be done
until the great commercial nations of
the world shall have, by concurrent
action, fixed the ratio between gold
and silver. The Republican party
stands, therefore, for a dollars worth
one hundred cents, whether it shall be
gold or silver or paper money. Free
and unlimited coinage IF silver would
give the profits to the silver producers
of the world INSTEAD OF the govern
ment Of the United States
Mckinley sty5 also IN this SPEECH
that "if there is to be any profit in
this matter OF money mixing that
profit should 60 t. the Government Of
the United States md not t. atv class
OF our citizens or of any OF our silver
producers, or silver producers any
where in the world
Mr.. Curtis Of the Record. who re-
celved these marked passages from
the h ind Of Mckinley at his home in
Canton, OHIO, WITHIN the last week,
says in regard to thpm:
"Ihes' [ am authorized to say are
Major M"KinIey's views toaav. He
desires thar the pc pile Of tne Uoit.d
States accept th"m as such. and he
considers il more dignitied and hon-
orab'e to sand upon a platform that
was CONSTRUCTED before h. became a
candidate for the Presidency than I,
construct a new n which might b.
misrepresnnted OF mistaken a. d hid
for votes"
So the above is Major McKinI.v's
position on the 81 YER Question. The
Republican party ~t,nd7 opposed t.
the free and nniimjt.d oinag4 of sill
YER, and Major NJ .KinIev $ 4nd- with
his party, Free AMI unlimited coir-
age, would, h. says. give the profits to
the silver producers # the world in
stead Of to the Government Of the
United States, and h. is therrfrre on
posed t. it. Every bright school ho>
3n Nerata knows that the minis Of he
United States were established to coin
money for the people. The silver dol
lar of 37l4 grains OF fire silver OF
4125 grains Of standard silver wa
made the unit Of money The words
one dollar or unit-0nn hundred
cents, were stamped on the cons at
the mint, and the mint was cp-n t.
silver as we'll as to golf, the G ,vern-
ment charging ii fixed but moderate |
price for the coinage Of the metals. |
When the Government coined silver.
"a it now does gold on private ac-
counts. it does not buy the silver. Il
simply coined it a. it did then and
now does gold into legal tender
money, charging a moderate prize.
presumably enough to cover the ex-
pense for the service
Tue Government lost n thing and
the whole country vas benefited AS it
made money plentiful, and tens Of
thOns inds of people were engaged 10
silver mining and her industrie. in
cidental to mining. Now tens OF thous-
anus who, it the minis We're open to
silver as they are 10 gold, would find
remunerhtive employment in the sill
Yer mines, are competing for scant |
wages with persons engaged in other |
industries. and the Country is being
m"rtgaged every few mont, s for god
to maintain the single standard. II J
the Government adopted a compr-hen-
sive policy, and was not controlled bv
the gold trust, silver mining would ne
encouraged as we'll as gold mining by |
coming both metals into legal tender
money at The minis. the public debt
would be reduced instead Of being 10
creased, a. is now the case, rivers md
harbors would be improved, u coasts
fortified arid lands reclaimed. bust
MSS revived, ana thousands now in
rags and on the verge of starvation
given employment. The Increased
consumption foil wing the ability to
purchase the n~rreSsarles AID comforts
Of civilization would Iucrt ase the de.
mand for all kinds Of products and
enhance their price as we'll as that of
labor.
But Mr.. Mckinley says the Repub-
llcan party stands oppused to free and
nlllmifs1 nni II u 1r - aLl1ar -..l H.