The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-28
PRESIDENT M'KINLEY SPEAKS
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ing our people to build ships of com merce. It can assist in every lawful manner private enterprises to unite the two oceans with a great canal. It can do all these things, and ought to do them: but with all this accomplished the result will still be intellectual un- less supplemented by the energy, enter prise and industry of the people. It 1 is they who must build and operate the factories furnish ships and cargoes for the canal and the rivers and the seas. It is they who must find the consumers and obtain trade by going forth to find it.
 Much profitable trade is still unenjoy- ed by our people because of their pres ent insufficient facilities for reaching \ desirable 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 under stand exactly how to reach them With | least expense if we would enter into | the most advantageous business rela- l lions with them. The ship requires the l shipper, but the shipper must have se- 1 cure promise that his goods will have | a sale when they reach their destina- l tion. It is good rule if buyers Will | not come to us, for us to go to them Ib l is our duty to make American enter :, prise and industrial ambition, as well | as achievement, terms of respect and l praise not only at home. but among 1 the family of nations the world over ] There is another duty resting upon the national governmental coin mon ey and regulate the value thereof. This l duty requires that our government shall regulate the value of its money by the highest standards of commercial honesty and national honor The mon- | ey of the United States is, and must | forever be, unquestioned and unassail- l able. If doubts remain they must be | removed. If weak places are discover | ed they must be strengthened. Moth 1 ing should ever tempt us-nothing ever l will tempt us-to scale down the sacred | debt of the nation through legal tech- nicality Whatever may be the lan- guage of the contract, the United States | will discharge all of its obligations in the currency recognized as the best throughout the civilized world at the times of payment. Nor will we ever consent that the wages of labor or its | frugal savings shall be sealed down by permitting. payment in dollars of less value than the dollars accepted as the best in every enlightened nation of the earth.
 Under existing conditions our citizens cannot be excused if they do not redou- ble their efforts to secure such financial legislation as will place their honorable intentions beyond dispute. All those who represent, as you do the great con- servative but progressive business in terests of the country owe it to the peo- pie to insist upon the settlement of this great question now, or else to face the | alternative that it must again be sub mitted for arbitration at the polls. This is our plain duty to more than seven million voters, who fifteen months ago | won great political battle on the is- sues, among others, that the United States government would not permit Q doubt to exist anywhere concerning the stability and integrity of it's currency
 or the inviolability of it's obligations of
 every kind. That is my interpretation
 of that victory. Whatever effort there- fore is required to make the settlement
 of this vital question clear and conclu-
 sive for all time, we are bound in good
 conscience to undertake and, if possi-
 ble. realize. That is our commission
 our present charter-from the people.
 It will not suffice for citizens nowa-
 days to say simply that they are in
 favor of sound money. The peoples s
 purpose must be given the vitality of
 public law Better an honest effort
 with failure, than the avoiding of SC
 plain and commanding a duty. The difficulties in the path of satisfactory
 reform are, it must be admitted, nei-
 ther few in number or slight in degree; but progress cannot fail to be made
 with a fair and thorough trial. Ar
 honest attempt will be the best proof
 of sincerity of purpose. Discussion
 cannot hurt, it will only help the cause
 Let us have full and free discussion;
 we are the last to avoid or evade it
 Intelligent discussion will strengthen
 the indifferent and encourage the
 friends of stable system of finance
 Ealf-heartedness never won battle
 Nations and parties without abiding
 principles and stern resolution to en- force them, even if it costs a continu
 ous struggle to do so and temporary
 sacrifice, are never in the highest de
 gree successful leaders in the progres:
 of mankind For us to attempt noth ing in the face of the prevalent falla.
 cies and the constant effort to spread
 them is to lose valuable ground already
 won and practically to weaken tht
 friends of sound money for their bat
 ties of the future. The financial planl of the St. Louis platform is still a:
 commanding upon republicans anC
 those who served with them in the las campaign as on the day it was adopted and promulgated. The tariff part O ; that platform has been engrafted int
 public statute. But that other plank
 not already rebuilded into our legisia tion, is of binding force upon all of us What is it?
 ''The republican party is unreserved
 ly for sound money. It caused the en actment of law providing for the re
 sumption of specie payments in 1879
 since then every dollar has been a! good as gold.
 "We are unalterably opposed to ev cry measure calculated to debase ou
 currency or impair the credit of ou country. We are therefore opposed t, the free coinage of silver, except b!