The herald., 1896-07-31

| country over which you will shortly be
| called to preside, will be in safe hands
I and that you, trusting in the strength
End guided by the councils of the SUI
preme Ruler of nations, will be able to
discharge the grave responsibilities ant
execute the duties of your high office sc
as to lead us as people into the path Of
duty and up to more glorious achieve
| ments than have marked our wonderful
past"
After the storm of applause which fol-
| lowed Major McKinley's appearance, he
said:
"Mr. Everhard and my fellow citizens:
I am glad, indeed, to meet and greet
the Knoxville Mckinley and Hobart Re-
publican club in this city and at my
home; and I thank you most cordially
for travelling so long a distance to eX-
pressyour personal good will to me and
your devotion to the principles of the
Republican party.
you are right, Mr. Spokesman, in
saying that the Republican party stands
now, as it has always stood, for a sound
and stable currency and for the main
tenance of all it's money of every kind
at parity and always equal to the best
money of the most civilized nations of
the earth. (Applause.) A deprecated
currency, as you have so well said,
would work disaster to the interests of
the people, and to none more than to
those of the worl1ingmen and producers
Long years ago Daniel Webster said
that they were the first to feel it and the
last to recover from it, 'adisordered cur
rency,' said he, is fatal to industry,
frugality and economy. 1t fosters the
spihit of speculation and extravaganza
1t is the most effectual of inventions to
fertilize the rich mans field with the
sweat of the poor mans brow
THAT which we call money, my fell
low citizens, and with which values are
measured and settlements made must be
as true as the bushel which measures the
grain of the farmer and as honest as the
hours of labor which the man who tolls
is required to give is a loss. The one
must be full and complete and as hon
est as the other (Applause.)
Our currency today is good-all of it
is as good as gold-and the unfaltering
determination of the Republican party
1t is the duty of the people Of this coun-
try to stand unitedly against every eff
fort TO degrade the currency or debase
our credit. (Cries of They WILD They
must unite as they have united in the
past in every great crisis of our coun-
try's history. When the country seemed
bent on wild imitation preceding the re-
sumption of specie payments, the sober
sense of the American people, without
regard to party, united and stemmed
that threatened tide of irredeemable
paper money and repudiated and placed
and kept the nation on the rock of pub
lie honor, sound finance and honest cur
rency
"Yo ave rightly stated, sir, that the
RepuE an party not only believes in
sound oney and the highest public
faith a honor on the part of the gov
ernmen of the United States to all its
creditors, but also that it believes in
tariff Win lie raising enough
money to conduct :. government eco
nomically administered, will serve the
highest and best interests of American
labor American agriculture, American
and American citizenship.
(Chers.) Some of our political oppo-
nents are given to saying that the tar
if question is settled. If we are not
wrong in interpreting their meaning,
we thing they are right. and thank
them for the confession. (Applause)
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