Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-08
SOUND MONEY.
McKinley'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
cago convention when the Thirty second
Ward Foraker Club of Cleveland arrived
in Canton 300 strong, with their wives
and daughters They marched at once
to Governor McI<inley's residence. After
President ID. III. Lucas had made pre-
scntation address Governor Mckinley
said.
"Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen
and My Fellow Citizens: 1t gives me
very great pleasure to welcome You to
my home city and to my home, and | ap-
preciatc more than | can find words TO
express the honor and the compliment
of this call. l thank you for your con-
gratulationS and the assurances of sup
port which you make for the great prin-
cipes for which this year the Republican
party stands. (Applause) l 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 responsibility greater than the
Civil war. Then ii was a struggle to pre-
serve the government of the United
| States; now it is struggle to preserve
| the honor of the government. (Crias of
| "Yes" and applause)
"Then it was n contest to save the
| Union; now it is a contest to save spot
less its credit Great applausc.) Then
now men of all sections can unite, and
will unite, to rebuke the reputation of
our obligations and the debasemcat of
our currency. (Applause)
In this contest patriotism is above
party and national honor is dearcr than
any party name. The currency and cred
| it of the government are good now, and
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 ap
plause.)
This is impossible with the distrust
that hangs over the country at the pres
ent time, and every effort to make Oul
dollars or any one of them worth less
than 100 cents each only serves to in
crease the distrust. What we want is 9
sound policy, financial and industrial
which will give courage and confidence
to all, for when that is done the none!
now unemployed because of fear for tn,
future and lack of confidence in invest
ment will quickly appear in the channels
| OIL trade. lCrleS OF ou are right, ma
Jor, and applause)
Gentlemen, the employment of on
idle money, the idle money that we al
ready have, in gainful pursuits will pu
! cvery idle nun I'm the country Mt work
and when there is wo.k there is wages
and when there are work and wages
there are consumers, who constitute tn,
best market for the products of our soil
Having destroyed business and conf
dence by a free-trade policy, it is nov
proposed to make things still worse b,
entering upon an era of deprecated cur
rency. Not content with the Inaugural
tion of the ruinous policy which ha
brought down the wages of the laborc
and the price of farm products its advo
Gates now offer a new policy, which will
diminish the value of the money il
which wages and products are paid
(Applause.) Against both of these w,
stand opposed.
Our creed embraces an honest dollar
an untarnished national credit, adeouot
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, an,
submit its declarations to the sober an,
considerate Judgment of the America,
people, Great applause)
Il thank you again for this call an,
greeting, and it will give me very grea
pleasure, ladies and gentlemen, to NEE
| YOU all DprSOnDlIyu - (AnIousoI