The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-16
SPEECH TO ERIE DELEGATION.
Lack Of Confidence Rather Than of
Money Causes Financial Trouble.


Canton. o.. Oct. IA large delega-
ton from Erie county, Pennsylvania,
and one from Cambridge springs.
Washington county, called on Mayor
Mex nley this afternoon. There were
more than 600 voters in the delegations.
The towns of Cory and Union city
were largely represented. Rev. w. r..
Smith, of Cambridge Springs, s,addressed
Ma jur Mckinley at considerable length
ON behalf of the visitors. Major Nc
knley responded with Il ringing
speech in which he counselled the pen-
pie to be mindful of congressional and
Legislative selections this fall. and then
devoted the remainder of his remarks
To money and the tariff questions.
quoting u paragraph from McCauley's s
history of England. describing the evils
of a debased currency in that country.
A large delegation from Dunkirk, n.
Y, We're the next visitors
SPEECH TO PENNSYLVANIANS.
McKinley's speech to the delegations
from Erie and Washington counties
was as follows:
You all understand that this government
is conducted by its legislative and eXecu-
tive departments. If the people of this
country want to put into public admin
q
must have both the executive officers and
the congress of the United States. You
cannot embody your purposes into law by
having one or the other-we must have
both. and trust that the people of Penn
sylvania and the people of all the states
OF the Union will See to 1t that the nation
al house and the senate of the United
States are no. neglected at the polls next
November.
In this contest we have the aid and as
sistance of thousands and tens of thou
sands of Democrats in every part of the
country, who think more of the
honor Sav do of the noSo sndcodns han
We bid them welcome--welcome allies in
this great cntlict, for the maintenance of
the public honor. Some people say We
have not enough money. The trouble Is,
my fellow-citizens, we have not enough
confidence to put in circulation the money
we now have. We have just as mucn
money as we ever had in all our history,
and II Is as good as 1t ever was, but the
trouble is. those who have it are distrust-
it in Industries and enterprises that give
employment tn labor. Now. what We
want to do first of all is to restore public
and private confidence: let the whole world
know this year that this nation proposes
to keep all its contracts inviolable and
continue currency that Is worth a hun
dred cents on the dollar every. day and
everywhere. I read this morning re-
in his History of England which pre-
sents in the most striking and impressive
| manner the evil of a debased and iuctuat-
| ing currency. He says, speaking of a pc
riod in the history of England when the
money. became thoroughly deranged, "all
| trades, all industry were smitten as with
| palsy. The evil was felt daily and hourly
| in almost every place and by almost every
| class, in the dairy and on the threshing
| floor. by the agricultural and by the loom
on the pillows of the ocean and in the
depths of the mines. Nothing could h1
purchased without dispute. Over every
counter there was a wrangling from mora
| ing to night. The workman and his en-
ployer had a quarrel as regular as the
| Saturday came around. On fair day oil
| market day the clamors, the reproaches
the taunts, the curses were incessant and /,
was well if no booth was overturned and
| no head broken. No merchant would con.
tract to deliver goods without some stipu.
| lation about the coin in which he was
| to be paid.
BUSINESS MEN BEILDERER.
Even men of business We're often be.
| wildered by the confusion into which al
pecuniary transactions were thrown. The
| simple and careless were pillaged withou
mercy by extortonists whose demands
grew even more rapidly than the money
| shrank. The price of the necessities OF
| life, of shoes, of oatmeal rose fast. The
laborer found that the bit Of money which
| when he received it, was called shilling
| would hardly purchase loaf of rye breal
| when he wanted 1t. where artisans of more
than usual intelligence We're collected il
| great numbers, as in the dockyards &,
| Chatham. they were able to make com
plants heard and to obtain redress. Bal
the ignorant and helpless peasants wer,
| cruelty ground between one class which
would give money only by tale and whcl
| woult take it only by weight. They
| IlhOrnr 4
could only get rid of 1t by weight"
| Do you want money of that sort in th'
| United States, my fellOw-citizens? uout
cries of mo. no. never') That Is on,
| a thing which you take for a dollar ant
! which is taken from you at whatever ii!
market value may be In the commercial
| centers of the world. No, answer. for
| ever no. II there Is any one thing tina
| should be honest 1t Is the money that rep
| resents the wealth and labor of the Ameri
| can nation. Continuous cheering)
Then. my low-citizens, We want an op
portunity to earn that money, and the wa,
| to do that Is not to do our work in Europe
but to do 1t at home.
SPEECH TO THE CHAUTAUQUA
DELEGATION.
"The great Empire state Is now re-
spected everywhere for her free. inde
pendent and powerful voice In the coun
ellis of the nations. She stands proudly
erect this year for country. patriotism
and national honor. (Great applause)
She refuses to wear a party yoke, which
would lead to national dishonor or re
pudiation. The glorious old flag Is hel
only banner. She refuses to march un
der any other. and am told that from
- a battery to Forty-secOnd street II
;hc great city Of the country "old glory
waves her spotless stripes and stain
less stars upon every block and square