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McKinley Letter: Free Silver Threat to Prosperity
Canton Aug 26 Maj McKinley republican nominee delivers a formal response letter urging defense of the gold standard and opposing free coinage of silver. He warns free silver would wreck values, depress wages, disrupt credit, and threaten national prosperity while pledging protective tariffs and a strong economy built on labor and industry. He cites international trade, reciprocity, and national honor as stakes and urges unity and lawfulness.
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