The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-21

! treatment Everybody agrees that times
are out of joint: that the business of the
/ country is suffering and paralyZed; that
| the streams of commerce are drying up
that the farmer is getting inadequate re-
| turns for his labor and the capital invested
| in his farm; that the merchant on these
! squares is having hard time to sell his
| goods and d. hard time get the money when
ne has sold them. Something IS wrong; the
! people are not prospering. All our polltieal
/ physicians agree as to that far. but when
We have once established that We go apart
| Now, when a doctor comes TO look into
| your symptoms he always inquiries when
| you first began to feel sick, and l think ii
! is well enough to ask that question of you
| this morning. When did this thing come
upon you? When were you well and pros
| porous? / think there is none of you who
| cannot name the time. what was the
matter when we had a Republican policy
| in force in this country? (Cries of Moth
| ing" and cheers.) This country was pros
| porous; everybody was prosperous; we had
reached high-water mark in our prosperity; i
| When was IL you began TO be SICK ana
| poor? When Republican policies were over
thrown and free-trade policies were intro
| duced. Now. is that not true? (CrfeS or \ es!
and applause.) 1 do not ask my Demo-
| cratic friends TO say that was the cause
| of it | am only establishing the sequence
| in time of these events These troubles
| began when you repealed Republican
| tariff and put on the statute book tariff
| government Your troubles began about the
| same time the troubles of the government
| began. When the government found it did
| not have money in its treasury to pay its
| running expenses you found you didn't
have money in your pockets to pay yours
| tCries of That's so" and applauseD
| You have come to that time the Demo-
| Gratis have been talking about for thirty
| years the time of cheap things. Haven't
| your domestic speakers been telling you
| for thirty years you ought to have things
cheaper? And you have got it now. The
when they brought the cheap coat they
| brought cheap wheat along with 1t. You
| were not able to see the fallacy of their ar
gument at that time-that if you cheapened
! the things you have to buy you cannot
keep up to the things you have to sell.
! The farmer who wants to get fair price
| for his wheat ought to be willing to pay a
| fair price for his coat Then, again. this
cheapening process was to be brought
| about by introducing manufactured goods
| from abroad. You were to have a cheap
English coat or a cheap German coat. How
| was it to be made cheap? The man who
| made it was to get very cheap wages =
| Now, what do they want you 10 90!
| They cannot face this country upon the
proposition that these cheap times are
| good times; and what are they suggesting?
you to remember that Mr.. Bryan is as
| much g. free trader as ever he was, and
that his administration, if he is elected.
would be in favor of continuing the policy
| of bringing our manufactured goods from
| abroad instead OF making them at home.
We are not to have change on that lin line
| offer you a trick; that is all. They offer
mav gou seem ene1o to be higher-thougR in fact it
| is not a bit higher than 1t was before
| they offer you silver dollar the metal
|
| change for the dollar you have now, that is
| worth 100 cents.
WHAT HISTORY TEACHES.
! people never were made rich by the in
PRODUCTION of cheap and deprecated money.
History is full of illustrations, and there
has been but one result. Every time the
! experiment has been tried it has ended dis
astrously for the nation that tried it; and
it has been especially disastrous for the
| far nd tn WOrkngman.
| history defy any Democratic orator to
point to a single illustration in the history
| of the nations of the world where a de-
| probation of its currency ever wrought
| ter Now what will this dollar be worth? :?
All of our fathers said that we must look
| to the intrinsic value of the metal that
was in the coin. You may stamp thing
| a dollar you may make it legal tender
at a dollar. so that if / owe you 500 | can can
my debt. But debt-paying is only a small
| part of your business. When we have paid
| our debts we want to buy something more.
We go into this store here with one Of
/ these cheap dollars. Do you suppose the
| storekeeper will give you as much for that
| government can make this a legal tender
| but it cannot determine what the value
| shall be. The government cannot say that
one of these silver dollars shall pay for a
! bushel of wheat. 1t can enable this man
who has bought your wheat ana mas not OF
| payment; but when he comes to make an
| other purchase of you he will not get as
| much wheat for that dollar as for the
| other.
"Mr. Bryan says that silver will go UP to
| par, because, under free coinage, the gov
| ernment will be offering to pay a dollar for
| it in the proportion of is to Ito pay a dol
| lar in gold for every 412lA grains in silver
| government does not buy the silver at all.
1t has nothing to do with it except to stamp
| it and give it back to the man that brought
| it TO the mint. The government does not
| buy it, Unless j have read in vain, the
| unless l have studied this whole question
in vain-the result of such a thing will be
to defraud and to cheat the men who put
! their confidence in it, (Applause)
What do the Republicans propose to do?
To maintain all the money that is out at
parity And do you think we have a very
large amount of silver in use? We are
coming silver dollars. We nave coined
dollars as we ever coined in the history of
the government up to 1873. and we are
gold. That is the Republican policy-that
every dollar that is stamped has the seal
nairtained at par. so that the man that
has 1t can carry it in his pocket for
month and have Just as much money as he
1.-THE Republican policy. further. is TO re-
store business confidence. These people
jeer at confidence. They tell you gold is
coward, that it gets scared so easily and
runs away. If you want a money that will
not get scared. you will have to get one
that is not worth anything. You are scared
for the things you value most highly
When your house is on fire and your family
threatened with death, you scared for
the wife and little ones, because they are
precious. 1t don't matter so much about
the cook stove. So it is with any money
that is good. 1t is timid money because
1t is good money.
You are told a great deal about the op-
position of the rich. ] suppose somewhere
around this square there is a bank. | won
der you suffer one to be here in Spencer at
all-the banker is pointed out as your enc
my. Isn't it to the interest of the banker
that you have a big crop and get a good
price for it? Isn't it the business of the
merchant that you get good crops that
you may buy freely and pay promptly?
'It is a vicious. mischievous doctrine
that is being proclaimed to you, that these
people have an interest adverse to yours.
In this land of ours all wrought in
together like the yarn in the web. / can
not be prosperous unless the country is
prosperous, and / find my greatest pros
perity when you are prosperous. Money
wants to be employed The men who have
money want to get 1T out.
Il preach this doctrine. that here under
that good flag, the symbol of freedom un-
der this arching sky. where any Young man
may set his aspirations as high as the
stars. if he wishes; that We should have
kindly feeling between men; that every
man should rejoice in every other mans
prosperity; tnat all are united and that we
should all work together-not rend men
asunder, not embitter men with prejudice
but put these. sweet influences of pros
perity into every home, and the sweet in
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