The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-19
SOUND MONEY.
McKinley's Speech to the Foraker
Club Giving a 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. II. 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 you to
my home city and to my home, and APP
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. Zap
plause.)
imposed upon the patriotic people of this
country a 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. (Crles OF
eyes" 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 reputation OF
our obligations and the debaseme1t OF
| our currency. (Applause)
I'm this contest patriotism is above
party and national honor is dearer than
any party name. The currency and cred
| - - - nnfo nnVU q
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 ovel
and unquestioned by any people. Then
too, we had unexampled credit and pros
perity. Our difficulty now is to get thai
money in circulation and invested il
productive enterprises which furnish EN-
ployment to American labor. Great ap
plause.)
''This is impossible with the distrus
that hangs over the country at the pres
ent time, and every effort to make oul
| dollars or any one of them worth les
than 100 cents each only serves to in
sound policy, financial and Industrial
which will give courage and confidence
to all, for when that is done the none.
now unemployed because of fear for tn
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 oul
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 wage.
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 inaugura
| ton of the ruinous policy which has
brought down the wages Of the laborel
| and the price of farm products. its adyo
| Gates now offer new policy, which will
diminish the value Of the money In
| which wages and products are paid
(Appiause.) 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.
walton 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
conslderate judgment of the American
people: (Great applause.)
1 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.J