The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05


labor to labor by machinery. 1t is a sign
of progress. Nay. more, it is an inevitable
result of progress. Every country that has
achieved Industrial greatness has adopted
a gold standard. Every country that Tags
In the rear of progress still clings to the
silver standard. tApplause.) No country
in the world has deliberately adopted a
silver standard. Those who maintain it
to-day do so because they cannot help it.
Nowhere has 1t been proposed that the
coinage should be debased for the benefit
of citizens except in the United States, and
in the closing days of this nineteenth CEN
tury. too.
Now. Mr.. Bryan has told us all that
can be said in support of this theory of
improving the condition of men by reducing
There is still a vague talk about bimetal-
ism. the talk that it is better to have two
metals than one. upon the general theory
that some men believe it to be better to
have two horses than one. They have an
idea If there be two metals in circulation
there will be more money. Nothing can
be more absurd than that. There can be
no such thing as a double standard. The
measuring of all commodities or labor or
thing to the value of the one commodity
which we choose as the standard. 1t is
simply a mental comparison.
SILVER is kept on a parity with gold by
a simple process The government issues it
at 100 cents and agrees to take it back at
a hundred cents. and that agree
ment keeps the coin at a par
ity with gold. / could agree to take
the chairman's tie at a hundred dollars,
6ho Il "a SOOo that aStFfi<ICiAr
but suppose / was to say / would take
all the ties in the world that could be
hundred dollars each. l would not redeem
that promise very long. In about five
minutes / would be swamped, even if [ had
all the wealth of the Vanderbilts and As
tors behind me-.
Mr., Bryan would have you believe that
under free coinage the government would
give s1.29 an ounce for silver-that is to
say 37114 grains of fine silver will be worth
700 cents. But there again, Mr.. Bryan
about what is meant by coinage. The gov
ernment, under free coinage. does not fix
any value of the coinage at all. 1t does
TX a value on coins under limited coinage.
Mr.. Bryan says when there are plenty of
dollars 1t is easier to get them than when
they are not plenty, but how easier. or what
is the method to get at them, or who is to
get them. is a thing he does not explain,
because he can't.
BUSINESS NOW LANGUISHING.
THE business of this country is anguish
Ing now because everywhere men are
doubtful as TO the kind of money that will
be received if they should part with money
now. Everywhere men are gathering to
themselves their commodities and their
money, fearful of what may happen if
Bryan should be elected. The amount of
money in the country is very small for the
amount of business that is done. The
amount of money in circulation is a billion
and a half. Every production of a dollar
does not require a dollar in money. l can
take a dollar and buy fruit outside of this
hall and the fruit dealer can buy neck
ties. and the man who sells neckties can
in turn buy meat. and the man who deals
and it may pass in twenty hands.
My friends. there can be no hatred of
rules which govern mankind. When we
see the spectacle of a man going across this
country skiing the people of the United
States to intrust him with the powers and
privileges OF an office in which he will he
called upon to administer the law, and
bases his appeals to their suffrage upon
appeals to their hatred and their distrust
of each other, he shows that he misunder-
stands the purposes for which government
is formed. He shows that he is not fit TO
be trusted by a people as honest and in
dustrious as the American people. CAP
plause.) L do not object to anything that
has occurred in this canvass. / am glad
that the issue is present. A man never
knows the quality of the ship in which he
sails until she has been menaced by the
tempest and the waves. (Applause.) A
mar never knows the security of his gov
eminent until he sees the assaults which
seen this ship of state ride safely through
the tempest and storm of civil war. We
will see her ride safely through this tenn
pest OF hatred and strife sought to be
aroused in the breasts of the American peo-
pie by the agitators who think they can
ride into power over the objections of the
thwarted by the intelligence and Judgment
Of the American laborer. Great applause.)
Ii there were nothing involved in this CON
test except the defeat of Mr.. Bryan. /
would not be here tonight, for that is ac-
complished already. (Laughter.) There is
something more than that. We must not
be content with a defeat by a bare ma
Jority. We must not be willing to admit
for an instant that there can even be a
minority respectable in numbers found to
support a programme so disreputable in it's
proposals. CApplause.) This defeat must
be so overwhelming that no demagoGue will
ever again find profit in attempting to turn
discomfort into disloyalty. (AppIause.) The
American people must show that on a
moral question they are always unanimous.
(ApplauSe.) To promote that unanimity /
am with you tonight. / have turned my
back on the party which l have loved and
with which | have affiliated for over twenty
years (applause). never before having
scratched a ticket, never having failed to
vote for the Democratic nominee for every
office / was called upon to aid in filing"