Connecticut western news., 1898-02-03
M'KINLEY'S ADDRESS.
THE PRESIDENT ON CURRENCY AT
 MANUFACTURERS BANQUET.

Pledge Made la the Republican ri.t-
 form at st. Louis-Ths Necessity Fer
 Financial Lesislation Emphasinsd.
 New York, Jan. 2s.--The third annual banquet of the National Association of Manufacturers was given last night at the waldorf-Astoria. IL was the largest public dinner ever given in New York. and the resources of the hotel were taxed to the utmost 10 accommodate the members and guests on one floor. Nearly 1000 were served in the large ballroom and It's adjoining rooms and in the Astoria annex.
 The president of the United States was among the guests. He was cor- dially greeted when he entered and again when, introduced by the chair man, Warner Miller. he arose to speak His address aroused even more enthu- siasm.
 The other speakers, Mir Search on The American Manufactures" Senator Frye on "Our Merchant Marine" Charles Emory smith on Reciprocity and Commercial Expansion" and Hen ry E. Rowland on The Industries of a Nation as Affected by Its Lava" were cordially received. but the honors of the occasion were with Mir. Mckinley.
 Demapd For Currency Reform.
 The president. after expressing his gratitude for the compliment paid him and referring to various obligations of the government to the people, said re- garding the currency question;
 There Is another duty resting upon the national government-"to coin money and regulate the value thereof" This duty re ihe value of it's money by the highest standards of commercial honeHty and na- sonsl honor The money. of the United States is and must forever be unouesuoned and unassailable. If doubts remain. they must be removed. If weak places are dln- ing should ever tempt us-nothinE ever will tempt us.to scale down the saGkd debt tract the United states wiii diseharss SC s syn sii of It's obligations in the currency rscog- world at the times of payment. Nor will we ever consent that the wages of labor or It's frugal savinRs shall be
 rs Of sss value hnn shs 8oaps sessped a Ss as the best In every enlightened nation of
 Under existing conditions our citlasns cannot be excused if they do not rcdoubls their efforts 10 secure such financial legis-
 s,Sn a, % he1 .nss ssn resent, as you do. the great conservative but progressive business interests of the country owe it not only 10 themselves. but to the people. to insist upon the settiement of this great question now. or else Co face the alternative that it must be again sub mitted for arbitration at the polls, This Ia our plain duty to moro than To000oo voters who l5 months ago won n great political the United states government would not permit a doubt to exist anywhere ( s eern- ng the stSsi,y s SnS ,n,eeg of sSr of every kind. That is my interpretation of that victory. Whatever effort. there. fore, is required 10 make the settlement of thls vital question clear and conclusive Cor all time we are bound In good conscience 10 undertake and IT possible. realise That is our commissioners present charter
 It viii not sufice for citizens nowadays to say simply that they arc in favor of peoples purpose muet be given the vitality Of public law. Better an honest effort with failure than the avoiding of 60 plain and
 The dlficuities ln the path Of a satlafae- tory reform arc. must ef admitted, nsi. but progress cannot fail to be made win a fair and thorough trial An honest at. | purpose Discussion cannot hurt. it will only help. the cause. Let ua have fuli will strengthen the lndifrerent and eneour. | age the friends of stable system of finance.
 The financial plank of the st. Louis plat | form iH ntlil as commanding upon Repub- | leans and those who served with them ia | tho last campaign as on the day it was adopted and promulgated. Happily, the tarin part of that platform has already been ingraftcd. into public statute. But | that other plass not already builded Into our legislation is of binding fierce upon ali of us.
 This is in reality a command from the people who gave the administration 10 the party now in power and who are still anx- Iousiy waiting for the execution of their free and omnipotont will by those of u8 who hold commissions from that supreme trlhunal