tion of Washington, "There should be no North, no South, no East, no West, but a common country."

It shall be my constant aim to improve every opportunity to advance the cause of good government by promoting that spirit of forbearance and justice which is so essential to our prosperity and happiness by joining most heartily in all proper efforts to restore the relations of brotherly respect and affection which in our early history characterized all the people of all the States.

I would be glad to contribute toward binding in indivisible union the different divisions of the country, which, indeed, now "have every inducement of sympathy and interest" to weld them together more strongly than ever.

I would rejoice to see demonstrated to the world that the North and the South and the East and the West are not separated or in danger of becoming separated because of sectional or party differences.

The war is long since over; "we are not enemies, but friends," and as friends we will faithfully and cordially co-operate, under the approving smile of Him who has thus far so signally sustained and guided us, to preserve inviolate our country's name and honor, of its peace and good order, of its continued ascendancy amongst the greatest governments on earth.

WILLIAM M'KINLEY.

CHAPTER XX.

SALIENT EXTRACTS FROM MAJOR MCKINLEY'S ADDRESSES TO REPRESENTATIVE DELEGATIONS.

E

VEN before the date of the publication of his

brilliant letter of acceptance, and thence on

to the day of his triumphant election, Major McKinley was called upon daily-almost hourly-to address various visiting delegations upon the supreme issue of the campaign. His speeches were always to the point, pungent in phrase, and pregnant with fact. As in his letter of acceptance, so in his speeches, he multiplied the resources of the campaign for sound money, and gave convincing arguments for an honest standard of value.

Three days prior to his acceptance of the nomination, he addressed a body of 500 farmers, and made an earnest appeal for an honest currency. In the course of his address he said:

"Can the farmer be helped by free coinage of silver?

"He cannot be helped because if the nominal price of grain were to rise, through an inflation of the currency, the price of everything else would rise

also, and the farmer would be relatively no better off than he was before.

"He would not get any more real value for his grain than he gets now, and would suffer from the general demoralization which would follow the free coinage of silver. You cannot help the farmer by more coinage of silver. He can only be helped by more consumers for his products. You cannot help him by free trade, but, as I have shown, he can be hurt, and seriously hurt, by the free introduction of competing products into this country.

"Better a thousand times enlarge the markets for American products than to enlarge the mints for the silver products of the world. You might just as well understand now that you cannot add value to anything by diminishing the measure of the value with which the thing is sold or exchanged.

"If you can increase the value by lowering the measure of value, and you want to benefit the farmer, then make the bushel smaller, the pound lighter and declare a legal dozen less than twelve.

"The home market is the best friend of the farmer. It is his best market. It is his only reliable market. It is his own natural market.

"Prosperity of manufacturers is inseparable from the prosperity of agriculture. Set all our wheels in motion, set all our spindles whirling, set all our men at work on full time, start up the idle workshops of the country, bring back confidence and business, and the farmer will at once feel the influence in the

greater demand for his products and in the better prices he would receive. When the farmer has. found a market for his goods, he wants his pay for what he sells in such unquestioned coin that he will know it is good not only to-day, but will be certain to be good every day of the year and in all countries of the world.

"Free silver will not cure over-production or underconsumption. Free silver will not remove the competition of Russia, India and the Argentine Republic. This competition would remain if you would coin all the silver of the world. Free silver will not increase the demand for your wheat or make a single new con

sumer.

"You don't get consumers through the mints. You get them through the factories. You will not get them by increasing the circulation of money in the United States. You will only get them by increasing the manufacturing establishments in the United States."

Again, he said to the Chicago Commercial M'Kinley Club on August 29th: "If there is one kind of money that is good in every civilized world and another that passes in only some parts of the world, the people of the United States will never be content with anything short of the best.

"We have been doing business on that basis since January 1, 1879. We will continue that policy so long as we have a just regard for our honest obligations and high standing as a nation.

"Free silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, or about half its

true bullion value, is not a full dollar. never made times hard. And poor made times good.

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money never

year is for the

My fellow-citizens, our contest this country's honor and prosperity. The need of the hour is work for willing hands, work and wages for the unemployed and a chance to earn the good dollars which are now idle and are only waiting in their hiding places for a restoration of confidence.

"Our contest is for the good faith of the nation and the welfare of the people, and we can proclaim with confidence the same supreme faith in the people which upheld Lincoln in every trial of the war. As he said, 'Intelligence and patriotism and a firm reliance in Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulties.' In this faith we submit our contention to the great tribunal of the people."

ANTE-ELECTION SPEECHES.

It is not easy to comprise within the compass of this volume even brief extracts from a few of the leading ante-election addresses delivered by Major M'Kinley, but we cull the following:

To the Colored Riflemen of Cleveland: "I congratulate you, gentlemen, upon the splendid progress that your race has made since emancipation. You have done better, you have advanced more rapidly than it was believed possible at that time: you have