Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-10-10
AT CANTON.
Mckinley Addresses Large Crowds
From West Virginia and Ohio.

Canton, o., Oct. 3.-Delegations from
Wheeling, w. Va, n from Huron and
Seneca counties, Ohio, called on Major
Mckinley yesterday. They were ad-
dressed by him IN the tabernacle. Ma
jor Mckinley said;
Ladies and Gentlemen and My Fellow
Citizens: 1t gives me special pleasure
to meet at my home in a Joint meeting
the citizens of the state of West Vir-
GINA n my own native state. A re-
publican has no embarrassment in
speaking TO an American audience. He
does no have TO make "A different speech
for a 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 Pacihc coast, for the principles Of
me rsgsn siss gar5y a as as A natia sasiil N.
terest and section.
The great thought Of the people of this
country, wherever they may reside or
Whatever may be their occupations, Is:
How are we TO get back as a nation TO
the old conditions of business activity
n prosperity? Something has gone
wrong. We have the same We
nave the same men, the same mines, the
same manufactures, the same money.
the same masterful genius among our
lNCpiS Ia we Hdu between 1881 and
1882, but we have not the same degree
OF prosperity now that we had then.
n what is the trouble? In a single
word, the trouble with the country ia
a lack OF confidence. AS TO what has
brought about that lack of confidence
we may differ, but that there is a lack
OF confidence every citizen everywhere
must concede, for every citizen has fell
1t In his own experience. Now, Whai
Is InlS tn1nR Da116R sahncirAH. -A-a
dence?' 1t Is a belief in the stability OF
Vaiues, faith in our markets and ON
money, faith thai the consumption of mex
year VII be as great or greater than the
present one; faith that men will have WORK
and that the currency of the country VII
be liked and stable and undeprec.at!ng ii
value; The merchant has confidence
th.s aud,enre may may De some merchants IL
confidence when he stocks his shelves will
more goods in expectation of larger sales
me manufacture has confidence when ht
increases his machinery, hires more men
adds a new factory, lays in his material
In advance, certain that II will not decline
before his finished product is sold, conf.
dent that he can pay wages to labor and
prices for his raw material, and not fine
In the end that his goods VIII be driven oui
or the American market by foreign goods
under a free trade policy. The laborer feels
employment he buys a lot and starts the
building of a house for himself and fam.
ily. The farmer feels this confidence wher
he plants generously. confident that what
he reaps VIII be in demand and bring him
fair return for his toll. The railroad com.
pany feels it when 1t extends its lines and
its switches, gets new equipment and i'm.
proves It's old equipment and gives employ.
ment 20 work.ngmen. The banker feels Il
when he loans freely Of his capital and de.
posts, and knows that when his loans are
returned they will be IN good sound money
And the depositor feels this confidence
when he takes his money from its hiding
place-where much Of it Is today-and put:
II IN a bank, sure that he can draw 1t GU
according to his necessity o r Inci;na
thing called business confidence" neve:
shut up an American mill; never reduced
wages or curta.led employment; never re
fused loans; never got up a run on a bank
never stopped a mine; never created Idle
ness among laboring men. (App.ause.)