Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-07-13
NATIONS FINANCIAL HONOR,
Gov. Mckinley Declares Ii Must Be-
Preserved.

Preserved.
1t was less than hour after adjourn
ment OF the Chicago convention Saturday
when the Thirty-second Ward Foraker
Club of Cleveland arrived in Canton, Ohio,
800 strong. with their wives and daughters.
They marched at orce to Gov. McKinley's
residence. After President ID. II. Lucas
had made presentation address, Gov Nc
Kinley said:
Mr.. President. Ladies and Gentlemen.
and My Fellow Citizens: Ii gives me very
great pleasure to welcome you to my home
city and to my home and l appreciate
more than 1 can find words to express the
honor and the compliment of this call L
thank you for your congratulations and
the assurances of support which you make
Tor the great principles for which this
year the republican party stands tAp-
plause.)
Il congratulate you upon having for
your name one Of the most ilustrious of
our statesmen in Ohio-Joseph Benson For
aker (Applause.)
MY fellow citizens, recent events have
imposed upon the patriotic people of this
country a responsibility and duty greater
Than that of any time since the civil war
linen IL Was struggle 10 preserve the
government OF the United States. Now it
Is struggle to preserve the finai cial honor
Oh the government of the United Siates
tCries or Yes! and applause)
linen IL was a contest 10 save the Union
Now 1t Is a contest TO save spotless it's
credit Great applauseD Then section
was arrayed against section. Now men of
an sections can unite and will unite to re-
puke me reputation of our obligations and
The debasement of our currency (An-
plause-) In this contest PATRIOTISM is above
party and national honor is dearer Than
any party name. The currency ana creutt
OF the government are good now and rn,,S,
be kept good forever
our trouble is OF with the character of
me money that We have, but with the
threat 10 debase it. We have the same
currency that we had i'm lS,,2-tyooJ m.
world over and urouestioned by any Ds,
PIE. Then, too, We had unexampled credit
and prosperity. Our difficulty now is IA
get that money in circulation ana invested
IN productive enterprises which furnish
employment TO American labor Gr.ar an
piause-D This is impossible with the dis
trust mat hangs over the country AT The
present time, and every effort to make our
dollars or any one of them worth less Than
ioo cents each only serves to increase that
distrUst
W hat We want is sound policy. fnan
ciai aIiG industrial. which will give cour-
age and confidence TO all, for when that
IS done the money now UNEMPLOYED be-
cause OIL Tear To- the future and lack of
confidence in investment will quickly ap-
pear IN the channels of trade lCries of
lou are right, major" and applause.)
Gentlemen, the employment of our idle
money, the idle money that We already
have earned in gainful pursuits. will nut
every Idle man in the country at work
and when there is work there is wages.
ana when there is work and wages there
are consumers who constitute the best
market for the products of orr soil. Uay-
ing destroyed business and confidence by a
Tree trade policy, ii is now proposed 10
make things still worse by entering UNION
an era or deprecated currency. Not CON
tent with the Inauguration of the ruineus
policy which has brought down the wages
OF the laborer and the price of farm pro-
ducts, Its advocates now offer a new poIicy
! which viii diminish the value of money. i'm
which wages and products are paid. Zap
plause)
Against both these we stand opposed.
our creed embraces an honest dollar An
untarnished national credit, adequate reye-
nues Tor the uses of the government pro-
lection to labor and industry, pre- serva1ion
OF the home market and reciprocity which
VIII extend our foreign markets tpon this
platform We stand, and submit its dcclara-
tons 10 the sober and considerate iudg-
ment of the American people Great ap-
plause.)
Il thank you again for this call and
greeting. and it viii give me very great
pleasure. ladies and gentlemen to meet
you ali personally" tApplause)