The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03
ANOTHER GOOD SPEECH.
Benefits of Confidence and Evils of
Doubt Discussed by Mckinley.

When the combined delegations had as
sembled in the Tabernacle to-day and the
congratulatory addresses had been finished,
Mr.. Mckinley spoke as follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen and my Fellow
citizens-It gives me special pleasure to
meet at my home in joint meeting the
citizens Of the State of West Virginia and
of my own native State. A Republican has
no embarrassment in speaking to an Amer
lean audience. He does not have to make
a different speech for a different locality.
Virginia, or any other State South, he
could say in New England or in the far
West. or on the Pacific coast, for the prin-
ciples of the Republican party are as ma
tonal our flag. (Applause.) Their pur-
poses embrace the good of every American
interest and section.
1.-The great thought of the people of this
country, wherever they may reside or
whatever may be their occupations. is how
we are to get back nation to the old
conditions of business activity and pros
perity.. Something has gone wrong. We
have the same country; we have the same
men, the same mines. the same manufac-
tories, the same money, the same masterful
tween 1880 and 1892. but we have not the
same degree of prosperity now that had
then. applause and cries Of That's
A voice: Free trade! followed by great
I'm a single word" continued Mr. Nc
Kinley "the trouble with the country is
lack of confidence. AS to what has brought
about that lack of confidence we may diff
every citizen everywhere must concede. for
every citizen has felt it in his expe-
rience. Now what IS this thing called
business confidence" IT is a belief in the
stability of values; faith in our markets
and our money: faith that the consumption
of next year will be as great or greater
than the present one: faith that men will
have work. and that the currency of the
country will be fixed and stable and unde-
preciating in value. {Great applauSe.)
The merchant has confdence-when?
There may be some merchants in this au-
dience to-day. The merchant has conf
dence when he stocks his shelves with
The manufactures has confidence when he
increases his machinery, hires more men.
adds a new factory, lays In his material
in advance certain that 1t will not de
cline before his finished product is sold,
confident that he can pay wages to labor
and prices for his raw material and
find in the end that his goods will be
driven out of the American market by for
eign goods under free-trade policy. (Tre-
mendous cheering and cries of That's the
stuff,D The laboIer feels this confidence
when. assured of steady employment. he
buys lot and starts the building of
house for himself and family. The farmer
erouslv. confident that what he reaps will
be in demand and bring him fair return for
his toll. The railroad company feels il
when il extends its lines and its switches
gets new equipment and improves its old
equipment and gives employment TO work
freely of his capital and deposits, and
knows that when his loans are returned
hey viii be in I'D. sound money. Great
applause.) And the depositor feels this
confidence when he takes his money from
lis hiding place-where much of 1t is to-