Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-06
SOUND MONEY.
McKinley's Speech to the Foraker
Club Giving a Resume or inc
Issues Of the Campaign.

Canton, o., July lit was less t ma
an hour after adjournment Of the Cnl1
cago convention when the Thirty-second1
| Ward Foraker Club of Cleveland arrived
| in Canton 300 strong, with their wives
and daughters. They marched at once
to Governor Mckinley's residence. Ne nrel
President ID. III. Lucas had made 4 pre-
sentation address Governor Mckinney
| said:
"Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen
| and My Fellow Citizens: 1t gives me
very great pleasure to welcome yol TO
my home city and to my home, ana ap-
preciate more than | can find words TO
| express the honor and the compliment
of this CALL / thank you for your CON
CALCULATIONS and the assurances OF sup
port which you make for the great prln-
| 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.)
"My fellow citizens, recent events have
| imposed upon the patriotic people OF thls
country responsibility greater than the
Civil war. Then it was struggle to pre-
| serve the government of the Cnlled
| States; now it is struggle to preserve
| the honor of the government. (Crlss OF
eyes" and applause)
Then it was a contest to save the
| Union; now it is contest to save spot
less it's credit. Great applause) Then
| now men of all sections can unite, and
| will unite, to rebuke the reputation OF
| our obligations and the debaseme2t 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
| 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 en-
| ployment to American labor. Great ap-
plause)
| 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 conf
| dence by a 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 Inaugural
| ton of the ruinous policy which has
brought down the wages of the laborer
and the price of farm products, it's advo-
| Gates now offer a 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, 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 it's declarations to the sober and
considerate judgment of the American
people: Great applause)
L thank you again for this call and
greeting, and it will give me very great
pleasure, ladies and gentlemen, to meet
you all personally" (Apause.)