The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-14
III Mckinley.

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six coaches arrived this morning after be-
ing en- route since . O'Clock last evening,
bearing miners, mechanics and other la
borers OF the Lehigh Valley of Pennsyl-
vania. The inclement weather of yester-
day continues and the visitors were taken
to the tabernacle, where Major Mckinley
went to receive their greetings. They
gave him Il most enthusiastic reception
and applauded his address to the echo.
The visitors were introduced by .eX-Con-
gresham Charles n. Brumm, and Major
Mckinley, in response, said in part:
cit was scarcely necessary to advise me
that the people of the anthracite regions
are in favor of IL protective tariff. l have
long known and appreciated the fact and
sympathzc with you in that sentiment.
believe in that great American doctrine
which lies at the foundation of the law
oi self preservation. I believe it is the
duty of this Government to encourage its
own people and to pass such laws as will
give them the largest opportunity to i'm
prove their condition, the highest scale
of prices and the greatest encouragement
to their skill and their labor. We have
il this country more free trade than in
any other country of the world but it is
free trade among ourselves. With forty
five States and seventy millions of people
we are constantly vieing with each other
in any section OF our common country
for the promotion of the highest inter
ests OF our respective populations. We
believe IN free trade in the United States
in the same sense us we believe in the
equal and reciprocal obligations which
belong to every family. We are only
great national family.
The other nations of the world have
their separate and independent political
organizations for the purpose Of working
out for themselves the highest destiny
possible. They owe no allegiance to this
Government; they contribute nothing to
its support, either in war or in peace;
and if they want to come into this coun-
try and compete with our people, we say
to them you can do it upon condition
that Il tariff shall be put upon your
products and that tariff will go towards
this Government and mt the
same time will be n defense to our
laborer and producers.s That,is the whole
doctrine of the tariff. If we ever needed
it we need 1t now. We need it for the
federal TDSasury, for that is ia condi-
ton of deficiency. We need it for the
people of this country, for they, like
the 'TrensUry, are genei ally in q condition
of deficiency. Now, whatever will put
money into the public treasury and stop
debts and deficiencies and bonds take it
everybody would say would be wise and
patriotic thing, no matter what political
party they belonged to in the past
take it that whatever policy will encour-
age our own people to dig COAL to manu-
facture products, to employ labor, is the
policy that ought to commend itself to
every patriotic citizen, and if Il tariff will
do these things the tariff surely is what,
by our votes three weeks from to-day, we
ought to sustain.
"Now, my fellow citizens, ! take it
that on IL matter of tariff you need no
argument, but it is said that our trouble
is not the tariff, but the money and that
the way to prosperity is to set our minis
10 cunning. do not believe they would
employ any portion of the idle miners of
the anthracite region If every mint in the
United States was started. Now, | take
it that whatever may be our employ
ment we want good money. Money
that will buy purchasable things wher-
ever they are; is better than II money that
will not. Is that not so? a money good
only i'll Ohio at it's face value as it used
to be in the days of sold State banks, is
poses as IL mooey that will pass ut its face
value in every State of the Union. Is not
that so?
Ii is a very comforting thing to any
body who has money, much or little, to
feel all the time that its value cannot bt
affected by hard times or depreciate in
his hands by panic, but that it rests all
the while upon solid and Interchangeable
value, recognized the world over. Money
does uctsdepend upon what we call it: it
depends upon its value.n
a delegation of Republicans, number
ing abont 1000, and representing the
towns between this city and ..Sandusky,
a., arrived later. Their demonstration
was held in the tabernacle, where
Thomas Dewey delivered the introduce
ticn, to which Major Mckinley re
spOnded