The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-19
SCORED By MORTON.
The Secretary of Agriculture Hits
the POpulists and Siivcrites.

the fOpuIstS SfIfcTAtcs.
CHICAGO, Oct. 1S-Secretary of ASri-
culture Morton had something to say
about silver, and he gave the Populists
a touch in his speech before the National
Commission of the Worlds Columbian Ex-
position to-day. Secretary Morton came
here to take part in the fair quietly, but
yesterday the commission learned Of his
presence, and an invitation was forthwith
sent to Mr.. Morton to come out with the
national commission to-day. Mr.. Morton
said in part: Everything in the civil
lied career of our race seems to have been
massed here-an object lesson from all
the centuries to teach Americans their du-
ties and their possibilities. To be sure,
as your president has intimated. underlying
all sciences and arts is agriculture, and it
has just begun to dawn upon the agricul-
tural mind that it needs individual deve-
opment and self-reliance in each citizen
rather than gregariouS organizations which
may be deputed given power of attorney
to think for the farmers. We all under
stand that, so far, Grange and Alliance
organizations have been led to attend to
something else besides farming; that they
have been worked, to use the parlance OF
the day, by journeyman farmers, who
have for political purposes farmed the
farmers (Applause) These organizations,
as a rule have attended to every other
thing except agriculture. Applause.) They
nave instructed the public as to how banks
ought to be organized and how railroads
| ought to be managed; they have even gone
so far as to prescribe new methods of coin
age for the general government. Laugh-
ter) The many fallacies which have been
evolved for the allurement Of the farmer
for his best interests are very catching.
There is nothing in this world SO attractive
to humanity as the possibility of making
something out of nothing. The teaching or
many of the journeymen farmers who
have organized societies throughout the
baS a that
money of country is simply legal ne
ton. They forget that so far, In all his
TO make medium of exchange or meas
ure of value out of something which had
no commodity value before it became mon
ey. (Applause.) We have arrived at a pc
riod now in finance which takes one back
to the Investigations of the alchernistS and
sorcerers of the dark ages. You all re-
member reading of those weird incanta-
tons in caverns and secret places by the
alchemists of olden times when they at
tempted to find the philosophers stone or
to create value out of thin air. But the
alchamist and the sorcerer and the as
trologist long since passed away, and 1T has
been left for the modern advocates OF
many fallacieS to evoke, by the magic OF
their wand from the vacuous Vicera or
nothingness. vast volumes. The conciu-
sion of the sentence was lnaudlpie, OWING
to the loud applause.
That which our people need, first and fore
most, more than any other one thlng, IS an
honest unqetua d tss bnet OF onav n
the world then the United States wants
gold We want, we desire and we must
have a permanent standard Of debt settle
ments a permanent and unfuctuating meas
ure Of values and medium of exchange
The paid admissions TO the fair to-day
were go l21: vest arday 27S LAG. There were
over sixty thousand of the children on the
grounds, yesterday, keeping up the celebra,
ton of children's week, and they enjoyed
the day as only children can. To-day they
came in increased numbers and overran the
gatekeepers. a.,
AS Saturday approaches interest in the
Manhattan day exercises increases; IN, Inc
have not vet been finished, but are rapidly
assuming shape. Thousands of New York
ers are now on their way to swell the at
tendance on Manhattan day, and, In the
meantime. the local organization, known as
the Society of the Sons of New York OF
which ex-Mayor Cregier is president, Is
preparing to entertain the Gothamites. III
thepresent beautiful Indian sumner We fbnt
| tho attendance on Manhattan day will reach
well up towards half million