What can be done to Perfect our Currency? RESIDENT MCKINLEY has been MCKINLEY'S DRES criticized for not doing more than ATTITUDE he has, for Sound Money. The election of 1896 recorded the solemn verdict of the people in favor of Sound Money. The campaign was one of the most earnest in many years. The Sound Money advocates were convinced of the terrible disasters which would follow defeat, and the business and thinking men and women were aroused to great determination in their efforts. The result meant more than a mere political decision one way or the other. It meant that outside. of politics the people insisted that a platform meant what it said, and that such legislation must be enacted as would save the nation from future danger of financial dishonor and destruction of the property of the citizens by repudiation or by involuntary bankruptcy. In his first message after election, HIS FIRST President McKinley said: "We ought not to hesitate to relieve our financial laws from ambiguity and doubt. The situation from 1893 to 1897 must admonish Congress of the immediate necessity of so legislating as to make the return of such conditions impossible," and he recommended that 96703 MESSAGE |