Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-02-04
IGNORED GUEST OF NATIONAL AS.
ISOLATION MANUFACTURER
DISCUSSED The MONEY QUESTION.
pledges Himself to tho Interests Of
Opponents OF Bimetsllism and DE-
clares for Sound Money.


OF the United States, which took place
Thursday night at the Waldorf-Astoria
hotel, in New York, was one Of the
largest and most elaborate affairs OF
the kind ever given in the city. One
thousand guests were seated at the
tables.
President Mckinley was received at
the hotel at $50 p. IN. and half an
hour later he appeared in the reception
room, where he held levee for more
than an hour.
The banquet hall was magnifcently
decorated.
The widest enthusiasm prevailed
when President Mckinley was intro
duced. Men stood in the seats; women
in the boxes waved their handker-
chiefs, and the uproar drowned the
speakers voice. The cheering and
clapping OF hands was redoubled when
q toast was drunk to the president.
President Mckinley spoke slowly
and was plainly heard in every por.
ton of the hall. He said in part:
81 scarcely need remind you that
we do not meet as strangers. Neither
your business organizations nor your
social reunions are altogether unfa.
miliar to me. 1 have been with you
before, not as guest as now, but
rather in the capacity of host Your
object now, as gather it, is to go out
and possess what you never had before,
You want to extend, not your notes,
but your business. / sympathized
with your purpose then; 1 am in full
accord with your intentions now
"The government is restricted in its
power to promote industry. 1t can aid
commerce, but not create it. II can
widen and deepen rivers, improve its
harbors and develop its great national
waterways, but the ships to sail and
the traffic to carry the people you must
supply.
YMuch profitable trade is still unen.
joyed by our people because of their
present insufficient facilities for reach
ing desirable markets. Much OF it is
lost because of lack of information
and ignorance Of the conditions and
needs of other nations. We must
know just what other people want be-
fore We can supply their wants.
"There is another duty resting upon
the national government: ITO coin
money and regulate the value thereof.
This duty requires that our government
shall regulate the value of its money
by the highest standards Of CONNER
cial honesty and national honor. The
money of the United States is and
must forever be unquestioned and I'M
assailable. If doubts remain they
must be removed If weak places are
discovered they must be strength
ened.
"Under existing conditions our citi-
zens cannot be excused if they do not
redouble their efforts to secure such
financial legislation as will place their
honorable intentions beyond dispute.
All those who represent, as you do, the
great conservative but progressive
business interests of the country, owe
it not only to themselves, but to in
sist upon the settlement Of this great
question now, or else to face the
alternative that it must be again sub
mitted for arbitration at the polls.
This is our plain duty to more than
1000, 900 voters, who fifteen months |
ago won a great political battle on the
issue, among others, that the United
States government would not permit
doubt to exist anywhere concerning
the stability and integrity of its cur
rency of the inviolability of the Unit
ed States obligations of every kind.
That is my Interpretation Of that vic.
tory.
THE financial plank Of the st.
Louis platform is still as commanding
upon republicans aud those who served
with them in the last campaign as on
the day it was adopted and promul-
gated. Happily the tariff part of the
platform has already been engrafted
into public statute. But that other
plank not already builded into our
constitution is of binding force upon
oil of us. What is it?
The republican party is unreserv-
ediy Tor sound money. 1t caused the
enactment of the law providing for
the resumption Of specie payments in
1873; since then every dollar has been
as good as gold.
we are unalterably opposed to
every measure calculated to debase
our currency or impair the credit of
our country. We are, therefore, OPP
posed to the free coinage of silver ex-
cept by international agreement with
the leading commercial nations of the
world, which We pledge ourselves to
promote, and until such agreement
eau be obtained the existing gold
standard must be preserved"