The San Francisco call., 1896-10-08
The Thousands Warmed by the
Logical Utterances of the
Speaker.
MANY FARMERS IN THE THRoNG
Bring Wives and Children Along-0ver
Two Hundred Women in the
Parade.

CANTON, ILL, Oct. T. Major McKin
ley had $500 visitors to-day and made four
speeches. The weather was disagreeable.
A sharp wind from the north chilled the
air and made people shiver. The inclem-
ency of the weather had no effect upon
the size or enthusiasm of the delegations,
however, the visitors from Geauga County,
Ohio, numbered $500; from Ashland
County, 400; from Parkersburg and other
points in West Virginia and from Indi-
ana, 1O0
The big delegation from Geauga County
and the one from Ashland were com posed
of farmers. They brought their wives
and children with them and there were
more than 200 women in line when the
delegations paraded the streets. The first
speech was made to the First Mckinley
Club of Indiana, as follows:
My fellow-citizens: 1t gives me great pleas
ure to meet you here at my home this morn.
ing. 1t is always a distinction to have po-
litical organization to adopt ones name. It
is especially gratifying to me to be assured
that if you were not the first club in the
United States to give me the honor of adopt
ing my name you were certainly the first in
the State of Indiana, and thank you for this
honor ana compliment
We are engaged this year in great National
contest the result OF which will determine for
years to come the public policies which shall
govern this country. Government is always
an in teresting study. There is good deal of
misunderstanding as to how a Government
gets its money There are some people who
seem to believe that the way the Government
gets its money is to make it. The Government
gets its money by taxation, and can get 1t in
no other wav.
f,oro fro,, .Eot.
the Government of the United States gets the
| money with which to pay the running ex-
| penses The chief sources of revenue are
| through tariffs and internal revenue
Then the Government gets some money
through the sale of its public lands and gets
some money from its postal service, and from
| these sources there comes the money that is
annually required to meet and discharge pub
| lie expenses.
Now If the Government had power to make
money, as some people believe, or had the
power to adopt the value of thing,.it would
| not need to resort to taxes; it would simply
| set its mints to work and make the necessary
money to pay its running expenses There is
another thing would have you all know, that
is. the Government cannot get gold or silver
except through the Gus stom-house or the In
| ternal Revenue Office or from the sale OF
| public lands without giving something for it,
| just us you and have to give something for it
| if we want gold or silver or paper money.
| Now how does the Cover nment distribute
| its money? Some body asked me that question
| the other day. How does the Government dis.
tribute the money? The Government distri.
| butes its receipts-its annual receipts-by an
appropriation of Congress to its creditors.
That's the way the money of the Government
| is distributed. 1t is distributed in payment
of the army, the navy public improvements,
rivers and harbors, the great postal service Of
the country, the Congress, the interest on the
! Government bonds and the principal of the
| Government bonds, and the pensions of
| soldiers, and there is no other way for the
Government to distribute any money it has
| except to the people it owes. There is no such
| thing as a general distribution of money by
| the Government of the United states.
| The point / want to make in the little talk
! give you this morning is that the Govern.
ment does not create money, cannot create
money, and whatever money it needs it has
got to collect from taxes on its people, either
| by system of direct taxation or by system
| of indirect taxation known the tariff, and if
the Government wants TO have any gold or
| silver minted for its own use it has got to pay
| for that gold and silver just as you and 1 have
! to pay for it If we want it for our purposes.
| [Applause.l
He concluded:
and it will give me very great pleasure to
meet and greet each one OF you. [Applause.l
Major Mckinley spoke briefly. His
utterances were full of patriotism and
strong pleas for the cultivation of broad
| National spirit.
The next speech was to the Ashland
| County delegation. Responding to the
remarks of DR.. Chess, the spokesman, he
| said:
| had expected to concentrate the visiting
| delegations from Ohio into one audience to.
day, but the delegations that are coming are
| so large that there is no hall in the town that
would hold them. daughter and appIause.l
Taking mp the money question he said:
| 1t is proposed now that we shall enter upon
the day not only of deprecated currency, but
of deprecated paper money. But to that the
! Republican party answers: "No; forever no."
| Some people seem sometimes 10 despair of the