The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-10-03
THE LACK OF CONFIDENCE.
The Cause of the Existing Depression
in Business.
CANDIDATE M'KINLEY'S VIEWS
In an Address to Citizens Of Ohio and
West Virginia the Republican Leader
Explains the Cause and Points
Out the Remedy.

CANTON, o., Oct. 8.-Aside from two
organized delegations Major Mckinley
yesterday had many distinguished callers
Among them were Harry Garfield of
Ohio Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of
Massachusetts, Theodore Roosevelt of
New York, Congressman Dingley of
Maine and Hon. John Dalzen of Pitts
burg
The visiting delegations were received
in the Tabernacle. The first delegation
to arrive came on a special train of four
coaches from Wheeling, representing the
Pan Handle counties of West Virginia.
Another detachment of the same party
came by way of the Wheeling and Lake
Erie a little later The delegation was
presented by Attorney I. NJ. Garvin, OF
Wheeling.
Before Major Mckinley reached the
Tabernacle to address the West Virgin
ians a special train arrived with II delega-
ton from Huron and Seneca counties, o.,
and the two delegations were merged into
one meeting Major Mckinley made n re-
sponse to all in an address in which he
said in part:
1T gives me special pleasure to meet at
my home in a joint meeting the citizens
VI w GSJ lIBlulu ulll VI my own nuUlNG
state. A Republican has no embarrass-
mentin speaking to an American audience
He does not have to make a different
speech for different locality. What he
would say to the people of West Virginia
or any other state south he could say in
New England or in the far west or on the
Pacific coast, for the principles of the Re
publican party are as national as our flag
Thpir hpn tbp GOOD Of
American interest and section.
1.-THE great thought of the people of this
cou ntry, wherever they may reside OF
whatever may be their occupation, is how
we are to get back as a 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 master
full genius, among our people that we had
between 1880 and 1892, but we have not
the same degree of prosperity now that
we had then. And what is the trouble?
1.-THE trouble with the country is a lack
of confidence AS to what has brought
about that lack of confidence we may diff
fer, but that there is lack of confidence
every citizen everywhere must concede for
every citizen has felt it in his own expert
ence. When confidence is present with us
the sheriff has less to do and advertises
fewer forced sales The court docket regis
ters fewer judgments, public charity is
less invoked, and the free soup house is
unknown and unnecessary. When conf
dence is shaken misfortune comes not
singly, but in battalions, and suffering falls
on every community No part of our
population is exempt. 1t may come from
one thing or it may come from another.
Doubt in the business world is death to
business We have it now. We know the
hour it came. We know what brought it,
and l think we know how to get rid of it.
1--WE have had it in the United States to
a greater or less degree from the moment
it was settled in 1892 that our protective
tariff laws were to be changed Itcontin.
ued until the changes were actually made
and still longer until the people in 1894
elected a Republican national house of
representatives and made it impossible to
cut deeper into the industries of our coun-
try, When the doubt of further changes
had been thus removed then came the re-
alization of the destruction which that
tariff law had done to some of our great
industries, entailing an injury feltin every
state and community of our country.
Then following that was loss to the
treasury from insufficient revenues under
the legislation, then the run on the gold
reserve, then bonds to make that gold re-
serve good, then the obstruction in the
senate to any emergency legislation which
would supply the loss of revenue entailed
by that law, and the very character of that
resistance in the senate to legislation
which would increase the revenues only
increased the uncertainty.
"Then with all these burdens upon us,
the Chicago platform, with its reaction
ary provisions came to further fret us.
The effect of this platform upon the busi-
ness world has been characterized, not by
Republicans alone but by the old and
trusted leaders of the Democratic party as
a menace to every invested interest in the
United States, revolutionary and directly
leading to dishonor and partial repudia-
ton. The people this year are engaged in
a great national contest to restore the CON
ldence so sadly shaken by the succession
Of events which l have briefly named. In
less than five weeks they will speak and
make known their decree.
"If the people shall, with ring ing and
impressive voice, declare four weeks from
next Tuesday that the public credit sh all
not be lowered, the national currency
shall not be degraded, the peace and tran
guilty of this government Of law shall
not be broken, the revenues Of the treas
ury shall be no longer insufficient for the
needs Of the government, and that tariff
shall no longer be inadequate to protect
the American workshop and the Ameri-
can market, business activity will return,
confidence will come back again, courage
will take the place of fear, work will be
resumed and prosperity will come to bless
and benefit us all, God grant to the
American people the wisdom to guide
them in the right"