The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18
SOUND MONEY.
MckinIey's Speech to the Foraker
Club Giving Resume of the
Issues of the Campaign.

Canton, o.. July lit was less than
an hour after adjournment of the Chi
cago convention when the Thirty second
Ward Foraker Club of Cleveland arrived
in Canton 300 strong, with their wives
and daughters. They marched at once
to Governor McKinley's residence. After
President d. III. Lucas had made pre-
sentation address Governor Mckinley
said:
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen
and My Fellow Citizens: 1t gives ME
very great pleasure to welcome yon to
my home city and to my home, and ap-
preciate more than l can find words to
express the honor and the compliment
of this CALL l thank you for your con-
gratulations and the assurances of sup
port which you make for the great prin-
ciples for which this year the Republican
party stands. (Applause.) l congratu-
late you upon having for your name one
of the most illustrious of our statesmen
in Ohio, Joseph Benson Foraker. CAP
plause.)
My fellow citizens. recent events have
imposed upon the patriotic people ot this
country responsibility greater than the
Civil war. Then it was struggle to pre-
serve the government of the Cnlted
States; now it is a struggle to preserve
the honor of the government. Ceres CT
Yes and applause.)
Then it was il contest to save the
Union: now it is a contest to save spot
less its credit Great applause) Then
section was arrayed against section;
now men of all sections can unite, and
will unite. to rebuke the reputation of
our obligations and the debasemeat OF
our currency. (Applause.)
In this contest patrlotlsn is above
party and national honor is dearer than
any party name. The currency and cred
it of the government are good now, and
must be kept good forever. Our trouble
is not with the character of the money
that we have. but with the threat to de-
base it. We have the same currency
that we had in 1892, good the world over
and unguestioned by any people. Then.
too we had uneXampled credit and pros
perity. Our difficulty now is to get that
money in circulation and invested in
productive enterprises which furnish en-
ployment to American labor. Great ap-
plause.)
This is impossible with the distrust
that hangs ever the country at the pres
ent time, and every effort to make our
dollars or any one of them worth less
than 100 cents each only serves to in
crease the distrust. What we want is a
sound policy. financial and Industrial,
which will give courage and confidence
to all. for when that is done the money
future and lack of confidence in invest
ment will quickly appear in the channels
of trade. (Cries of You are right, ma
jor," and applause.)
Gentlemen. the employment of our
idle money, the idle money that we al
ready have, in gainful pursuits will put
every idle man in the country at work,
and when there is work there is wages
and when. there are work and wages
there are consumers, who constitute the
best market for the products of our SOIL
Having destroyed business and conf
dence by free-trade policy. it is now
proposed to make things still worse by
entering upon an era of deprecated cur
rency. Not content with the Inaugural
tion of the ruinous policy which has
brought down the wages of the laborer
and the price of farm products. its advo-
Gates now offer new policy, which will
diminish the value of the money in
which wages and products are paid.
(Applause.) Against both of these we
stand opposed.
Our creed embraces an honest dollar,
an untarnished national credit, adequate
revenues for the uses of the government,
protection to labor and industry. preser-
vatlon of the home market, and reciproci-
ty which will extend our foreign mar
kets. Upon this platform we stand, and
submit its declarations to the sober and
censiderate Judgment of the American
people. Great applause.)
thank you again for this call and
greeting, and 1t will give me very great
pleasure, ladies and gentlemen, to meet
you all personally" (Aplause.)