assume the arduous and responsible duties of President of the
United States, relying on the support of my countrymen and
invoking the guidance of Almighty God. Our faith teaches that
there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers, who
has so singularly favored the American people in every national
trial, and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His
commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps."

He then took up the subject of _Money_, and said that he thought the
Government wanted to look closely into the Treasury matters, and devise a
means whereby we might be able to have as much money as we needed in
circulation, without having to keep the enormous reserve of gold, which
costs us such ruinous interest every year.

He would like to have all the laws relating to the coining of money and
banking of money carefully revised, and to put our money system on such a
sound basis that it will not be threatened with change at each change of
party.

He said that he hoped to make the other Powers of the world agree with him
about the wisdom of bimetalism--which means the equal use of silver and
gold. Many of our present troubles have been supposed to come from the
fact that we cannot pay our debts to foreign countries in silver, but only
in gold, and that we have not enough gold to pay all the debts we owe,
and so we are obliged to borrow gold from these foreign countries at
ruinous interest, to pay back again to them.

President McKinley hopes that we may arrange with other countries to take
silver or gold equally the one with the other, just whichever happens to
be most plentiful at the time.