Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-15
THE VISIT TO CANTON.
COAL REGION PEOPLE WELCOMED
BY WILLIAM M'KlNLEY.
Pennsylvania Excursionists, Including
Several Freeiand Voters, Addressed by
the Candidate for President-Talked
About the Tariff and Sound Money.

the Candidate for President-Talked
About the Tariff and Sound Money.
The excursion to Canton, run by the
Lchigh Valley Railroad, on Monday,
was taken advantage of by fifteen Free
land people. The section which passed
through here consisted of six cars. and
including the Schuylkill, Hazleton and
Freeland people there were just ninety
people aboard. Many of those who took
advantage of the excursion did so on ac-
count of the very cheap ride.
The following are those of Freeland
who accompanied the train: IL. c.
koons, j. c. Berner, A. Oswald, b. +.
Davis, NJ. II. Hunsicker, George Hart
man, Jonah Evans, Henry Tully, b. f.
Rute and daughter, Owen Fowler, Ely
Crawford, Andrew Zemany, Richard
Drumtra and Elmer Salmon.
The trip to Canton was made in very
good time, the party arriving their short
ly after the schedule figures. 1t was
raining heavily, but the enthusiasm of
the eXcurSionists was not to be overcome
by the elements, and with cheers they
marched to the Tabernacle, where Cover
nor Mckinley received them. The dele
cation was headed by ex-Congressman
Charles n. Brumm, who, with the Re
publican candidate, made some of the
greatest silver speeches ever delivered
in congress.
Replying to the address of Mr. Brumm.
Major Mckinley said:
Mr.. Brumm and My Fellow -Citizens.-Yo
have greatly honored me in having iourneyed
so long distance to bring assurances of your
good will. 1t gives me pleasure to meet my
old friend, your spokesman, with whom |
served for years in the national house of rep
rcsentatiVes. 1t also gives me pleasure to
meet ana welcome you to my home and to say
| appreciate most highly your visit and the
encouraging message you bring.
1t was scarcely necessary to advise me that
the people of the anthracite regions are i'm
favor of Il protective tariff. believe in that
great American doctrine which lies at the
foundation of self-preservatiUn. / believe it
is the duty of this government to encourage
its own people and to pass such laws as will
give to them the largest opportunity to i'm
prove their condition-the highest scale of
wages and the greatest encouragement to
their skill and their labor. We have in this
country more free trade than any other coun-
try in the world-but is free trade among
ourselves. We believe in free trade in the
United States in the same sense that we be-
lievc in equal and reciprocal obligations which
belong to every family. We trade with each
other with absolute freedom and without
restraint, and engage in free and unrescntrul
rivalry in all occupations, employmcuts and
Of IT ,,ttt WI,,,
trade with other countries it should be in
those products which we cannot produce our
selves. That seems to me to be the dictate of
an enlightened patriotism, and it is certainly
one of the great fundamental doctrines of the
Republican party. The other nations of the
world owe no allegiance to this governments;
they contribute nothing to its support either
in war or in peace
If ever we needed money we need it now.
We need it for the federal treasury, for that is
in n condition of deficiency. Now my fellow
citizens, take ii that on the matter of the
tariff you need no arguments; but it is said our
trouble is not the tariff, but the money, and
the way to have prosperity is to set our mints
to running do not believe that any portion
of the idle miners of the anthracite region
would be employed if every mint in the Unit
ed States were started. Now, | take ii, what
ever may be our employment, we want good
money a money that will buy all purchas-
"p,u ornw Ugs tho tJienot i 'ey ro Is pe,,er In4m
Ohio ot It's fncc vnIuo is not no coed ,'1I,a', -,
to have for all purposes as money that will
pass at lts face value in every state of the
union. Nor is IL money that is only current in
the United States at its face value, and which
must stand discount everywhere else, as
good as money that is current in every civil
lied country