Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-02-03

! OF the kind ever given in this city.
The widest enthusiasm prevailed
when President Mckinley was intro
duced. lie spoke slowly and was plain
ly heard in every portion of tn. great
hall by the 1000 guests presen Presi-
dent Mckinley said in part:
The PresIdenta Address.
National policies can encourage indus
/ try and commerce, but II rem rs for the
people to project and carry them on. II
/ these policies stimulate Industrial develop
ment and energy, the people can be safely
| trusted 10 do the rest. The government
I however, Is restricted in its power to pro-
mote Industry. 1t can aid commerce, but
not create II. 1t can widen and deepen its
rivers. improve its harbors and develop its
great national waterways. but the ships TO
sail and the traffic to carry the people must
supply.
Must Know the Wants of Others.
Much profitable trade is sim unenjoyed
/ by our people because Of their present
I insufficient facilities for reaching desira Bile
markets Much OF 1t is lost because of a
lack of information and ignorance of the
conditions and needs of other nations We
must know just what other people want
before we can supply their wants. We
must understand exactly how 10 reach
/ them with least expense If we would
/ enter into the most advantageous bust
/ ness lations with them The ship re-
quires the shipper: but the shipper must
have assured promise that his goods will
Il have a sale when they reach their des-
/ tination. 1t is a good rule, If buyers will
/ not come to us. for us to go to them. II
| is our duty to make American enterprise
and Industrial ambition. well achieve
! ment, terms OF respect and praise. not
only at home, but among the family of
nations. the Y2rd over.
Our Money Must BE UnassaiIahIe.
There is another duty resting upon the
national government-'to coin ara regulate
the value thereof This duty requires that
our government shall regulate the value
/ Of its money by the highest standards of
commercial honesty and national honor
4 The money OF the United States is and
must forever be unquestioned and unas-
| sailable II doubts remain they must be
/ removed. If weak places are discovered
/ they must be strengthened. Nothing should
I ever tempt us-nothing ever viii tempt us
TO scale down the sacred debt of the nation
4 through a legal technicality. Whatever
may be the language of the contract the
/ United States will discharge all its obli-
cations In the currency recognized as the
I best throughout the civilized world at the
times Of payment. Nor will we ever con-
sent that the wages of labor or its frugal
4 savings shall be scaled down by permit
/ ting payment In dollars OF less value than
I the dollars accepted as the best IN every
enlightened nation of the earth.
Question Must BE Settled Now.
Under existing conditions our citizens
I cannot be excused If they do not redouble
/ their efforts to secure such financial Iegis-
lation will place their honora BILE inten-
tions beyond dispute. All those who repre-
sent. you do. the great conservative and
the progressive business interests of the
country. owe it not only to themselves bur
10 the people to insist upon the settle
menI Vi this great question now. or else
TO face the alternative that it must be again
submitted for arbitration at the polls
TINS is our plain duty to more than 7,000,-
600 voters who Is months ago won a great
political battle on the issue. among others.
thar the United States government would
not permit doubt 10 exist anywhere con-
corning the stability and integrity of its
currency or the inviolability OF its obli-
cations of every kind That is my inter-
probation of that victory.
StilI of binding Force.
"For US 20 attempt nothing m the fIce OF
the present fallacies and the constant effort
to spread them is TO lose valuable ground
alreaAy won and practically TO weaken the
forces of sound money for their battles OF
the future. The financial plank of the ST
Louis platform is still as commanding upon
republicans and those who served with
them in the last campaign on the day it
was adopted and promulgated Happily
the tariff part of the platform has already
been engrafted into public statute. But
THAI other plank. not already builded into
all of u.s. What is IL?
The republican party IS unreservedlv
fo- sound money. 1t caused the enactment
of the law providing for the resumption OF
specie payments in 1879; since then every
dollar has been as good as gold
I'VE are unalterably opposed to every
measure calculated 10 debase our currency
or impair the credit OF our country We are
therefore opposed to the free coinage OF
silver except by International agreement
with the leading commercial nations OF the
world, which we pledge ourselves TO pro-
mote and until such agreement can be
/ obtained the existing gold standard mist
be preserved. All our silver and paper cur
rency must be maintained at parity with
ma fax all ma 4 v.ea1
to maintain inviolably the obligations OF
the United States. and all our money.
I whether coin or paper, at the present stand
ard, the standard OF the most sH4lShteued
nations OF the earth.
Command from the People.
This IS in reality command from the
people who gave the administration to the
/ ma rtv now in power and who are still anx-
! lousy waiting for the execution of their
/ free ard omnipotenJ will by those of US
4 who ho,d commissions from that supreme
/ tribunal
II have tonight spoken in a somewhat
/ serious strain because 1 believe it is due
+ both 10 the membership OF this assocIa-
i ton and 10 the conditions under which
/ this assemblage has met. The conferences /
I and systematic efforts of such body of
men as this are capable OF infinite good TO
4 the respective communities In which the
members live and TO the nation at large.
/ The country Is now emerging from trying
| conditions. Il IS only just beginning 10 re-
cover from the depression in certain lines
I OF business long continued and altogether
unparalleled. Progress. therefore, Will nat
urally be slow. but let Us not be impa-
/ tient. Rather let US exercise a JUS pa
| thence and one which in time Will surely
bring its own high reward.
Faith in the Future.
Il have no fear OF the future OF our be-
/ loved country. While | discern in its pres
/ ent condition the necessity that always ex-
J lists for the faithful devotion Of its citizens
the history of its past Is assurance 10 me
/ that this viii be as Il always has been
| through every struggle and emergency.
| still onward and howard. Ii has neve SUI
/ fered from any rial or been unequal TO any
\ test Founded upon right principles. we
Il have nothing to fear from the vscissitudes
/ which may lie scroas our pathway. The
nation founded BY the fathers upon prin-
/ cic'ss OF virtue. education. freedom and
| human rights: nodded by the great discus
sicrs which established its sovereignty.
] tried Is the crucibie OF civil war It's in
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