The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-13
SOUND MONEY.
McKInley's Speech to the Foraker Club Giving a Resume of the
 Issues of the Campaign.

Canton, O., July 11.-It 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 President ID. H. Lucas had made pre-. sentation address Governor Mckinley | said:
 'Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen | and My Fellow Citizens: It gives me very great pleasure to welcome yOn to my home city and to my home, and 1 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. (Ap- plause.)
 My fellow citizens, recent events have imposed upon the patriotic people of this country responsibility greater than the Civil war. Then it was struggle to pre- serve the government of the United States; now it is a struggle to preserve the honor of the government. (Cri.s of "Yes" and applause.)
 Then it was contest to save the Union; now it is contest to save spot less it's credit. Great applause) Then section was arrayed against section !; now men of all sections can unite, and will unite, to rebuke the repudiation of our obligations and the debasemelt of our currency. (Applause)
 ''In this contest patriotism 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 unquestiOned 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 em- ployment to American labor. Great ap- plause.)
 This is impossible with the distrust that hangs over 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 now unemployed because of fear for the 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 confi- dence by free-trade policy. it is now proposed to make things still worse by entering upon an era of depreciated cur rency. Not content with the inaugura- tion of the ruinous policy which has brought down the wages of the laborer and the price of farm products, its advo. cates now offer q 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. adeUuate revenues for the uses of the yOyernment protection to labor and industry, preser- vation of the home market. and recinroci. ty which will extend our foreign mar Kets. Upon this platform We stand. and submit its declarations to the sober and considerate Judgment of the American people: Great applause)
 thank you again for this call and greeting, and it will give me very great pleasure, ladies and gentlemen, to meet you all personally" (Aplause.)