Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-31
"a GREAT DAY AT CANTON
Mckinley Speaks in His Best Form
to Visiting Multitudes.
Ridiculcs tho Charges OF Coercion and
Intimidation and Champions tho
Cause of American Work.
ingmcn.


The republican nominee spoke IL times
during the day, each time to a fresh in
tiux of enthusiastic visitors.
One of the largest audiences of the
day was made up CHIEFLY of railroad
men in the employ of the Chicago, Rock
Island G. Pacific road, coming from Hor-
ton, kan, Eldon, Ia, Trenton, Mo-, and
Fort Wayne, Ind, the latter party in
cluding representatives of other roads
The Introductory address was made by
Mai. T. j. Anderson, general ticket and
passenger agent of the road. Among
other things Maj. Mckinley said in
part:
You are here, my fellow-citizens, be-
cause some how you feel. and deeply feel,
that things have been going wrong with us
for nearly four years. You are here be-
cause in your hearts you want to right that
wrong II possible. We may differ about
low to right It; we may differ about minor
policies of government and about internal
affairs, bGt we do not differ about the great
vital question that this country is suffering
and some remedy is required that will
speedily bring back to US the prosperity
from which we foolishly ran away four
years ago.
Some people seem to think the way to
b~ing back this prosperity is to debase the
currency of the country. Some people
seem to think can bring back work and
wages, traffic and transportation by call
ing 80 cents worth of silver dollar. Does
anybody in this audience believe ,nat?
Tremendous shouts of No no, never.'1
"They say, too, that coercion is going
on. The only coercion that is operating
in the United States to-day is that of rea-
son, conscience and experience.
This is the mighty force that leads but
never drives, and all this talk about coer-
con comes from a source that four years
ago deceived you. Is not that so, my fell
low-citizens? [Cries: Yes, sir; that's
right
'If they want to strike balance with
us, this democratic party, we are willing
to do it. We are willing to take the 80
years of republican control of this govern
ment, when we ran it under a protective
tariff policy and on a sound money basis
and ascertain what those two policies had
done for the American people, for you, for
the men on the railroads, the men in the
factories and in the mines, and contrast
1t with what the free trade policy has
done for the American people in the last
three years and half, for the balance is
bound to be in our favor. If they want us
to believe this remedy of 52-cent dollar
will be cure for all our ills, insist they
shall make up the loss they put upon us
during the last three years and half.
Coercion! Why, you would have to
coerce men from thinking. reading and
feeling to keep them away from the cause
of country and public honor this year. You
would have to make them insensible to
what they have experienced in their own
lives under this policy.
What we are in favor of is getting back
confidence, which lies at the foundation of
all business and without which it is stag
mated. We have had little or no confidence
during the last three years and half, and.
as though partial free trade and business
paralysis were not enough. they now raise
as their shbboleth that what we want in
this country is to adopt the Mexican or
Chinese system of finance.
mo, l answer forever, no. We want
that confidence that will lead the business
man to trust in the future and make plans
for his years work We want that conf
dence that will induce the men of capital
to put their money out, having faith that
1t will be paid back to them in as good coin
as they loan, principal and interest. and
until you get that you will have no per-
manent prosperity or business activity.
I'VE have in this country to-day the best
money in the world, but the trouble is we
do not get enough of it individually, and
the reason of that is because we have not
work. The thing the people of the country
are looking for this year is the lost Job, and
you can't get back tSe lost Job by DESTROY
ing business. You destroy business when
you destroy confidence, and you destroy
confidence when you defantly propose to
pay off debts, public and private, in a de-
preciated currency.
u
fldence-confidence in each other conf
dence in the future, confidence in our coun-
try-and spurn that doctrine that would ar
ray class against class, the rich against the
poor or employees against employers
when you support such doctrines then
there is chaos and business paralysis
would rather teach the doctrine of the
common brotherhood of man.
I'VE are all equal, equal under the law
equal in privilege beneath that starry ban
in n
equal In opportunity. If the older men In
this audience have not realized all they
hoped for in their own lives they have boys
and girls for whom they want to realize
them in the future. beg you shut not the
door of opportunity in their young faces
Encourage their ambitions; inspire them
to struggle to the front Under our form
of government they can get the highest
title which it is possible to achieve, that
of being Americans. You are proud of your
states. and you justly have right to be
proud of them but you are prouder still
to be citizens of the greatest government
in the world"
Members of the Hard Wood Lumber
Exchange and the Builders and Trad
ers' Exchange of Chicago were intro
Guced by Harvey S. Hoyden. In re-
sponse Maj. Mckinley said, among other
things:
What we ali want, whether we be dem
ocrats or re- iblicans, this year is return
of onfidcace-confidence that will start
the wheels of industry. confidence that will
bring the money out from those strong
boxes to which your spokesman has re-
ferred and invest it in productive ert ter
prises that will give employment to Albor
wages to workingmen. and prosperity to
all our people. We know that at one time
we had this confidence: we know when wf
lost II, and we know how we lost it, We
know also, how to get it back again.
I'VE cannot get confidence back again
by threatening reputation. We cannot
get 1t back by debasng the currency will
which we do our business.
mo man will lean anybody money who
has openly declared that after he gets II
he proposes to pay 1t back in 5O-cent dol
lars. That's the proposition of the politica
party which stands opposed to us this year
"Ccnfdence is the capital of the world
We do business on confidence largely. w,
do not transact all our business with actua