Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-08-01
SOUND MONEY.
McKinIey's Speech to the Foraker
Club Giving a Resume of the
Issues of the Campaign.

Canton, O., July lit was less than
an hour after adjournment of the Chi
Ward Foraker Club of Cleveland arrived
in Canton 300 strong, with their wives
and daughters. They marched at once
to Governor McKinley's residence. After
President d. H. Lucas had made a pre-
sentation address Governor Mckinley
said:
and My Fellow Citizens: 1t gives me
very great pleasure to welcome You to
my home city and to my home, and APP
preciate more than 1 can find words to
express the honor and the compliment
of this call. l thank you for your con-
CALCULATIONS and the assurances of sup
port which you make for the great prin-
ciples for which this year the Republican
party stands. (Applause) 1 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 this
country a responsibility greater than the
Civil war. Then it was a struggle to pre-
serve the government of the United
States; now it is a struggle to preserve
the honor of the government. Ceres OF
Yes and applause)
."Then it was a contest to save the
Union; now it is contest to save spot
less it's credit. Great applauseD Then
section was arrayed against section;
now men of all sections can unite, and
will unite, to rebuke the Reputation OF
our obligations and the debaseme1t OF
our currency. (Applause)
In this contest patriotism is above
party and national honor is dearer than
! any party name. The currency and cred
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 APP
pla.4sshe ;l :. ;noss,h,o Wit, tho a;s+,rs+
| 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
| now unemployed because of fear for the
| future and lack of confidence in invest
ment will quickly appear in the channels
| 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 era of deprecated cur
rency- Not content with the Inaugural
ton of the ruinous policy which has
| brought down the wages of the labore1
and the price. of farm products, its adyo-
| 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 its declarations to the sober and
| considerate judgment of the American
| people: Great applause.)
thank you again for this call an6
greeting, and 1t will give me very great
| pleasure, ladies and gentlemen, to meet
| you all personally" (Aplause.)