Mckinley Epigrams

I do not know what you think about ít, but I believe it is a good deal better ;o open the milis of tlie United States to the labor of America thau to open ;he mints of the United States to the silver of the world. Having reduced the pay of labor, it is now proposed to reduce the valué of the rnoney in which labor is paid. We want in the United States neither cheap money nor cheap labor. We will iave neither the one nor the other. The post which the United States must occupy, both in wages and indus;ries, and in the integrity of its finances and currency, must be at the head of the nations of the earth. We must not forget tliat nothing is cheap to the American people which comes from abroad when it entails idleness upon our ora laborers. If free coinage of silver means a fiítythree cent dollar, then it is not an honest dollar. If free coinage means a liundred-cent-dollar equal to a gold dollar, we will not have cheap dollars, but dollars just like those we now have, and which will be as hard to get. The bitterness of the war belongs to the past. lts glories are the common heritage of us all. What w-as won in that great conflict belongs just as sacredly to those who lost as to those who triumphed. Honesty, like patriotism, can neither be bound by state nor sectional lines. Financial dishonor is the tlireatened danger now, and good nien will oblitérate oíd lines of party in a united effbrt to uphold American honor. To have been a faithful soldier of the Union is no less a source of joy iu our advancing years and inflrmities than a precious legacy for family and friends. It blesses him who gives and enriches him who receives. It is a record of patriotism and service in the severest trials of our history. You might just as well understand now that you cannot add valué to anything by diminishing the measure of the valué with which the thing is sold or exchanged. The home marketis the bestfriend of the farmer. It is his best market. It is bis only reliable market. It is his own natural market. He should be protected iu its enjoyment by tarifflegislation, and this home market should not be permitted to be destroyed by lessenfrig the demand for American labor and dimishing the pay of American workmen, and thereby dimishing the demand for agricultural products.