Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-10-22
TWENTY CAR LOADS.
Pennsylvania and Michigan Join i'm Early
HOnOrS.

Pennsylvania and Michigan Join in Early
Honors.
Twenty car loads of people from Penn-
sylvania and Michigan were the hrst to
get Maj McKinley's attention. They
were at his door at 8 o'clock and 70 the
brief addresses of their spokesman Mr..
Mckinley responded by saying:
Your early call is an example of
promptness which l trust will be fol-
low4d on the 3d,of November in every
~ e our country. The best thing in
rid next to liberty is labor, and
Ming for labor is an opportunity
Dehhis is the opportunity for
hurtfall striving tins year and
he through a change OF
classt ADMINISTRATION of the gov
victinUnited States to enjoy to
Than we have done in
tuatllr'nd one-half years. What
Tire than anything else in
ale this opportunity to labor is
IN of confidence. With con-
ptken, money seeks its hiding
goes out of the channels of
md legitimate Investment and
e farming, manufacturing and
otrprises. l do not know of a
istration of the value of con-
gt,.nc,, to the country than is found IN
= our own experience during the last
twenty years.
So me Financial History.
You will remember that this country
resumed specie payments January l,
1870 We had outstanding then, as we
have now, $346. 100000 of what is COM
monty known as greenback currency.
Every dollar of that from that date was
redeemable in gold upon presentation at
the treasury of the United States. So
great was the confidence of the people
in the ability of the country that from
1870 to 1893 but 100000 of dollars
were presented for redemption, and the
gold was taken out; S46,O0O.O0O in four
teen years, and yet in the last three and
a half years. since confidence has been
disturbed, more than S2OO,0OO,OOO> of
greenbacks have been presented to the
treasury of the United States and the
gold taken out,
Now. if confidence had existed if the
holders Of, these greenbacks had not
bee fearful, and they were only made
so because the treasury of the United
States was not collecting enough money
TO nav it's bills, that the revenues of the
treasury were inadequate for public ex-
penditures, and alarmed, as they were,
they would not have sent their green
backs in for redemption. The gold re-
serve was encroached upon, and from
time to time we have been compelled to
sustain it. to borrow gold to put INTO the
I
Republican party believes it is the duty
of the government first to raise enough
money to run the government. We don't
want any deficiencies in the public treas
ury, and if we have no deficiency we
viii have no debts, and if we have no
debts we will have no bonds. and when
we have no deficiencies everybody will
have confidence in the solvency of the
treasury of the United States.
Necessity for High Tariff.
"Then. my fellow citizens, we not only
believe in raising enough money to run
the government. but we believe in having
a tariff upon foreign competing products
high enough to protect American labor
and Americaue> manufactures. We be-
lieye il is the frs tMduty of the govern
ment of the United States to protect and
defend its citizens. lit is the poorest
policy on the part of the government to
give work to the laborer of other ma
lions while we have idle men in the
United States Now; when we have
once accomplished that, we propose TO
continue the good money we have in this
country. We do not want any short