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the American Union is most gracious and
gratifying. We are fortunate this year that
our contention is of that character that It's
discussion is suitable to any state or the
country. What is good for one part OF the
United States is good for another; what IS
good for Ohio is good for Indiana, and
what is good for the North is good for the
South. am glad to note the deep interest
that people OF the country are taking. in
the pending election, now but few days
off. L was struck by an expression by one
OF your spokesmen that you were ready
for the contest. (Cries of You bet! and
applause.) l believe there has been no time
in our history since the war that the peo-
pie were anxious and impatient TO vote
and so decided in their convictions as 70
the character of their votes as they are
Sd day OF November the verdict of the
American people will be for sound money.
for public faith, public morals ana protec-
ton and reciprocity. Continued cneeFlng.)
1T seems almost incomprehenS1bie that
the proposition which comes from certain
quarter to debase the standard of value in
this country and degrade the currency with
which we are doing our buSineSS-it seems
almost incomprehensible, | say, that 1t
should have any Judgement in the heaft OF
any American. If there is any one thlng
in government that should be fixed, stable
and unvarying in value-as fixed, stable
and unyarying as the wit of man can make
tilt is the currency that measures the
exchanges OF the people and Is gwen IN
don't want any poor money in the United
States The experience of mankind has
been that whenever poor money has been
used the loss has fallen upon the poor peo-
pie Of the country. If the hite-bearded
men of this audience will allow their mem
cries to sweep back they will recall that in
the days before the war, when we had
state bank Gu, currency. that whenever the
and took bank notes that were good at
that hour, the next day he discovered that
the bank was broken and the value of his
wheat was therefore taken from him.
Great applause)
I'VE don't want any such money as that
or anything approaching it. tCries of No!
Mo- You are righti) We want what
have now, the. best money in the world,
every dollar of It as good as gold, every
dollar as good as the best money in the civ
ilized nations. lApplause) A dollar that
every State; not only good in all the States,
but good in all the great nations of the
world; passing current always for its face
the farmer, the producer or laboring men
like an unstable and fluctuating currency.
to be as sound as our government, and
there is no government in the world any
sounder than ours. Great applause.)
Then, my felloW-citizenS, we want a re-
turn to the American policy inaugurated
at the very beginning of the government
by the first President of the United States
and the first Congress that assembled I'M
der the Constitution; that American policy
that will raise enough money to run the
government by placing tariff upon imports,
and then when we are levying tariffs we
will adjust them SO as to protect the Amer
the American people. Continuous ap-
plause2 We want to, get away from
Tie oeDt-IlldhlIlS, DOnO-lncfeaSlnS policy
under which we have been suffering in
the last three years and a half, and we
want to get on a basis that will enable
the government to pay as it goes. (Cries
Of That S right!) Then we want to put
the people on the same basis, for they have
not been upon it for the last three and a
half half years. The policy we have had the
last four years has not only depleted the
public treasury, but the savings earnings
and incomes Of the people. We can make
TINS great government just what we want
1t: We have the power among ourselves.
(Applause.)
The ballot that you next Tuesday use
and put into the box Ga voice: We will put
it tin in for Mckinley! followed by applause)
must express the will OF the free men Of
the United States. and that 1 am sure will
be on the side of good money, protection
ana reciprocity, the supremacy of law and
in opposition to riot and public disorder. I
believe the voice of Indiana and Ohio will
'both be in favor of maintaining the federal
ludlclary OF the country always incorrupt-
ible, and always in time of trouble, our
safeguard and our main stay-the buIWark
OF our liberties. tremendous applause)
Il thank you for this CALL and bid Won
carry back for me to the friends you have
left at home my best wishes and kindesr
reegards. l thank you and bid you good
afternoon ION Three cheers We're then pro-
were given most enthusiastically