The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-29

which we have grown in wealth and com
mercial importance as no other nation has
platform that is revolutionary In Its char
he,er agnoIing as !, a0es all LAWS LAWS OF
as it does all true economic principles in
Its advocacy of the free and unlimited
quite. double It's commercial or bullion
value. 1t is claimed by the advocates OF
money with which to transact the business
OF the country. The fact Is that we have
three times the circulation of any free
silver country. We are suffering to-day
not from contraction OF the currency. but
from contraction of credit. from the alb
sence- of confidence on which all true pros
perity rests. Confidence in each others
In the future. in the permanence OF
trade conditions in the stability of mar
assurance that capital legitimately in
vested will secure an adequate return. We
have hard times when there is mutual dis
trust, when suspicion Is engendered, when
capital refuses not only to engage in new
already in operation. Money is being put
away to-day in bureau drawers. in cracked
Ieapots IN old stockings, in out-of-the-way
the apprehension of further disturb
a s OF values is removed by the cleo
day. When that good time comes, as como
1t VIII, this money will issue from it's
wheels. to start your spindes and your
looms, to relight your furnace fires. to
Of factory and farm. and TO bring back
again that old-fashioned, Republican pros
the return of which we all so ardently pray
BRYAN AND LABOR.
Mr.. Bryan stated in his speech in the
Chicago convention that Republican legis-
lation had placed crown CT thorns upon
the brow of labor, ignoring the fact that
when the last Republican President retired
from office the condition of the American
workingman was one of unprecedented
prosperity. He was better fed. better
housed and better clothed than the work.
ingman in any other country. He
working full time at highest wages. and
was paid in a dollar that had the largest
purchasing capacity that dollar ever had
In the history of any country. Instead OF
placing a crown of thorns upon the brow
dsny ana aeno or the
breast of the workngman, which he wears
nowhere else.
When Mr.. Bryan was speaking in New
York he was asked what he had ever done
for labor. He replied: Read what / have
said (as If anybody WOULD and see what
| have done, and conclude for yourselves"
l would call your attention to the fact that
efforts, laws were passed prohibiting tho
importation of alien contract labor. pro-
viding for the incorporation of national
trade unions, and creating department of
labor. We demand in platform this
year that all differences between employ
commerce shall be submitted to national
board of arbitration for settlement. When
ever the Republican party has had OPP
portunity to legislate in favor of the work.
ingman it has placed that legislation upon
BY what sort of financial hocus pocus
by what trick of Iegerdemain, by what
sieight-of-hand performance, by what touch
to be able to float the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at parity with gold? Do
they assume that our territory IS so vast,
our resources varied and bounlleSs, and
the energy and ingenuity of our people so
marvellous, that we can do what we will at
pleasure. although that pleasure runs coun-
ter to historical precedent practical expert
of There re eera
things that we CAM do independent of any
other M. nation. We can for instance sa , en-
eign power shall obtain a foothold upon
this continent. We can preserve our share
ton, keep silver and paper al a parity with
gold. We can convert deficit into a sur
against us into a balance of trade in our
favor. We can enact such industrial legis-
lation as will prevent the commission or
nay. crime, the borrowing of money In
times Of peace to pay the running expenses
of the government. All of these things we
can do without the cooperation of any for
eign power. We can only, however, sustain
close intimate and successful business re-
lations with other nations through the
adoption and maintenance of a common
will not answer. 1t would degrade us to
the level of second and third-rate powers.
Commercial supremacy is not a matter of
sentiment, but is secured through strict
observance of the laws governing sound
trade. We could no more obtain our share
of the worlds commerce after debasing
our currency than we could wage success
full war against France, or Germany, or
Austria, with the discarded flint locks that
our .grandfathers used at Lexington and
Bunker Hill.
MOBOCRACY.
There are other planks in the Chicago
platform as deserving of condemnation as
the free-silver plank They assail the
rights of property, the well being OF society.
all that we have bought most dearly and
prize most highly IN the civilization of to-
day Institutions that we value above life
or property or peace or comfort or any
thing material are In jeopardy and must be
defended at any hazard. The Republican
party believes in organized labor and re-
spects its rights. 1t bids Godspeed to the
wage Garner in all efforts, not only to main
tain but to increase his wages. 1t Is un-
alterabiy opposed, however, to the use of
the torch and the bomb, to the employment
of incendary or revolutionary methods TO
redress real or imaginary grievances. We
believe in courts and respect their decisions
and will resist to the uttermost any at
The act for which President Cleveland is
most severely condemned in the Chicago
given character to his Administrations;
which has done more, perhaps. than any
strengthen the foundations of our govern
ment and to command for it the respect
of all good citizens. What was the situa-
ton at Chicago when the President inter-
vened? The transmission of the mails. the
transportation of freight and the safe con-
duct of passengers were absolutely I'M
peded. Lives and property were being
wanton1y destroyed Cars were burning,
railroad tracks were being torn up and
other acts of pillage threatened. The Gov
ernor of Illinois refused to interfere. Tho
mob was king. exultant in the belief that
1t had the tacit sympathey if not the active
cooperation of Altgeld. 1t was then, and
then only, that the federal government
stepped liz and said this thing must stop
The courts were appealed to, order was
restored, Chicago saved and the ability OF
the people to govern themselves again vim
dicated. A government that is incapable or
enforcing law and order is not worth living
for. much less dying for. The prophecy or
Macaulay will be near fuifillment when
ever majority OF our people condemn tho
action of the general government in quell-
ing disturbances which the State authort-
ties refuse to suppress. If that time should
ever come the glorious achievements OF the
boys in blue will have been in vain, for We
will have proved ourselves wholly un-
worthy Of their exalted patriotism and Of
rich heritage.
INTEGRITY OF THE COURTS.
The attack upon the Supreme Court Is
not only unjustihable but wholly mischiev-
CTS. That court is the greatest judicial
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