The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-20

bic for it ought not to be put in power or
continued in power. What brought this
Country in 1893 the Democrats said ii was
the Sherman bill. Mr.. Cleveland said IL
was the Sherman bill: IL was the unwise
legislation OF the Republican Congress pro-
vlding for the purchase OF four million ana
a half ounces Of silver every month and the
for IL. he said the bankers and the moneyed
men or the country had become uneasy;
our gold was going abroad and they were
afraid we would come upon a silver basis.
He said in effect If this sherman Dill can
be repealed promptly we shall have good
times at once. You all remember that. And
Congress was assembled TO act upon that
single question. Everybody was greatly
anxious lest they should do something else:
Mr.. Cleveland practically said TO them; i
want you 10 come together and 10 repeal
the Sherman law, and when you have done
that Tb l Want You to : y go 4i home nszs at o m the in
terest. IL was supposed. OF silver, as an ex-
preston of friendliness to silver as money.
coinage Of silver-that every man should
have the right TO bring silver that was
worth - cents TO the mint ana snat me
would make Ii worth a dollar and give II
back TO him. A great many people thought
that would make everybody happy. / can
see how that was a good thing for the men
who owned the silver mines, but not for
the people generally: There was a feeling
man bill. They said: We will test this
question; whether it is true that there is
only a small excess of silver over what we
are coming. two millions dollars a month
produced; whether, If this is taken mp. sill
Yer will go 10 an equality with gold. We
undertook TO buy four and a half million
ounces every month, and issued paper
money to pay for il. We gave the coun-
try a hundred and fifty million dollars more
currency by the Sherman law
Mr.. Cleveland said he wanted this law
repealed. and though the Democrats had
denounced it in their platform. when he APP
| pealed to his party nearly one-half OF the
Democrats In the House and the Senate
ans said: This was an experiment.; it was
the best thing we knew at the time; il has
not done SO great harm as you think; it
failed its purpose, but Mr.. Cleveland wants
1t repealed. We will help him repeal it,
1 have not much to say L approved ii and.
under the same conditions existing then, 1
would ~ 90 IT asain; In what a contrast cont IS the
was TO the way our Democratic friends
dealt With the same question! When we
were Democrats who have since squarely
voted against free coinage when they had
power TO make il a law. but were then vot-
their breath: TO put the President in a
hole am CAD to say our Republican
such motive. They have had in mind the
good of the country and nave put their
pride under their feet when IL seemed that
own enactment, advance the public good.
THE CRY OF CHEAPER GOODS.
What was the cry in 1ss2-that this new
tariff legislation was TO be had in the in
terest of cheaper things, greater cheap
ness, cheaper goods. How much we heard
about that The merchant and manufac-
turers were advised that a tariff policy was
to be inaugurated that would cheaper
everything and by that they were warned
not to buy or produce anything except on
orders I think this country has one great
danger threatening that is not even men,
twned. 1t is a great peril for non sequiturs
from all logic Is it not surprising that
this Democratic promise that you were to
be given everything that you wanted to
buy cheaper while your wages were not
10 go down at all, was accepted by every
oooy? Could not you see the folly of such
nave a cheaper coat and a cheaper shirt.
and the tailor was to have cheaper shoes
shoes. Don't you see the folly of that ap-
peal-that the things that you bought were
10 be cheapened and the things you sold
TO go up. That miserable piece of i'll logic.
that non seQuitur that eminds me of
Hoods picture of a horse that had broken
away from the buggy and at the head of
the road mad turned back TO look al the
man sitting in the buggy. This was the
non sequitur. Workmen's wages were TO
be the same; We were to introduce a very
much larger amount of English goods: we
We're to make just as much here. On, my
friends, the wretched III logic of an these
promises: Is it not surprising that men
were captured by these appeals TO ignor-
ance, prejudice and manufacturers were
cenounced as robber barons? The man who.
ny thrift, had saved money and put it In a
mill instead of a mortgage was the enemy
or his fellows and the oppressor of the
men TO whom he paid wages. II was not
only the false. but 1t was a cruel doctrine
10 teach to our people. for it divided them;
u broke UP that sense of community and
common interest and kindness that ought
10 characterize our communities.
Now. my friends. the Democratic party.
after constituting the committee in August.
1888, 10 prepare a tariff bill for report at
the earliest possible moment in the regular
SESSION In December went to work on II.
but the trouble with the whole business
has been that there is no Conference in the
democratic party upon the tariff question.
IL Is an aggregation OF differing views upon
v = suo'eet. what was the result? Mr.;
means of the House, a profess
sor, is a man of responsibility and char
studied economy questions and is full of
book knowledge about tariffs. His theory
was that America was fenced in, and that
tne work TO be done was to tear down the
fences. He told his English friends who
banoueted him in London that was the
project that the Democratic party had on
hand-to tear down fences and let our
people out so that they could compete with
Great Britain for the m of the
world; and he warned his hearers when
we got the fences down which now re-
strained us and get into the field of the
world, we would be a very sharp and ugly
competitor for Great Britain. / think that
the report says that at that point there
was applause and laughter. You never
knew an Englishman TO hear a threat
against England's supremacy, either in
arms or In and applaud ii. un-
less he thought that IL was a very fool
ish threat, unless he was in the project OF
the man who threatened an opening to his
WI advantage. AS / said the other day,
they have a great many advantages over
us in the worlds commerce. l thank God
for the fact that American diplomacy all
through the story of the formation OF
the JHted States, Central and South Amer
lean republics has been a sentimental Gt-
2lomacy. 1t has not been a selfish COM
mercial diplomacy.
BRITAIN'S DIPLOMACY
1.-THE diplomacy of Great Britain has beer
always characterized by commercial ag-
gression and has been free from sentiment
She has pushed her MINER at the point
OF the bayonet upon the weaker nations OF
the world and blown her goods from the
mouths of great guns into the ports OF
trusting nations. as her opium into China
We cannot get commerce that way q
voice, Hadn't ought to- No, we hadn'
ought 10. Our policy has been sympathetic
towards any feeble nation whC
was trying to struggle up into a higher anC
more secure national life. They have seiZeC
the world wherever il was weakly held
England has seized a large part of Asia
! and iartprly Germany France and italy