The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

| train by q mounted escort and taken in
| carriage through streets crowded with
| cheering people to the public square, or
! esplanade, where stand had been erected
! The town had been gayly decorated. and
| such streets as We're not jammed with peo-
| pie We're filled with unhtched vehicles OF
| all sorts, showing that the farmers had
! come to town in force From 10 600 to II 600
| people We're packed in the square and as
! many more seemed to be abol IT the streets
unable to get within hailing distance of
| the speaker. The crowd was enthusiastic
to a degree and its cheering was redoubed
when a magnificent bunch of yellow Mare
chal Neils was handed up to the ex-Presi-
/ dent on the stand.
General Harrison was introduced by Col
Milton Peeden, and when the cheering had
| subsided somewhat spoke as follows;
My Felow-citzens- am glad to meet
| this morning many of my friends or
| Henry county, 1t is one of the counties
! good order, for its promotion of education
ard for the intelligence of its people. 1t is
| one of the counties that is great in the
| productions Of rich agricultural region
| 1t has been distinguished in the past-as
conspicuous devotion to the principles of
! the Republican party. We have always
| been able to depend upon Henry county
| I'VE are involved in campaign that
| concerns not only the prosperity of our
| people but I think their honor. 1t con-
| Germs not only the prosperity OF our coun-
| try, but it concerns our national honor.
| 1t has been said by Mr.. Bryan and by
| many following his lead that the Repub-
| lican party is wearing mask-that ii
| is not openly and candidly declaring its
| principles / deny that that IS true. The
| Republican party prociaims its principles
and the cornerstone of all our beliefs
| upon the money question We proclaim this
| proposition-that every dollar we have-pa-
| per, gold or silver-shal be as good as any
| ther doiar. (Applause) We proclaim ana
adhere to that principle because it is the
| only honest principle.
Things that are called by the Same name
| ought to be the same things. tApplause)
| When you call one thing a dollar and an
other thing a dollar they ought to be the
| same thing. If they do not the use or
these terms continually cheats and deceives
| the people. When you contract to pay a
| dollar, or some man contrats 20 pay one
! to you, or when you sell your wheat and
| corn for such a part of Il dollar on the
| bushel or for a dollar. you want to know
! what that means, and you want 1t 70 mean
| precisely the same thing when you make
| your contract as it is when you fulfill your
! contract. Therefore we say dollars shou
be equal. If they are not who is it that
| suffers most?
| THE Democratic platform of 1892 de-
ciared in favor of the parity OF all our dol
| lars, and every Democrat In Henry county
| voted for that principle. 1t is the Repub-
| lican doctrine to-day and the Democrats
| have abandoned it. What did they say In
1892? They said a deprecated dollar, 4 dol
Was particularly destructive to the inter-
ests of the farmer and OF tne la2oring lo5
man. Go and read that platform or 1857,
and you will find it there recorded 1hat
is just what l am saying TO you to-day,
and l can appeal in support OF thls proPo-
sition to the experience of many men who
we had a time in Indiana when dollars
were not equal We had time when We
had free banks and we had some paper
dollars that were worth 10 cents, and some
25 cents. and some so cents and some IS
fa 0f a
dollar | want TO recall your experience
and ask III to recall 1t 70 yourselves Whp
of those dollars? Was it not the farmer,
who lived out in the country who was Out
CT reach Of the telegraph OFFICE, who could
not keep himself advised? Suppose some
man came out frora town to puy steer
| and you sold it and took the money that
was given to you. Perhaps the man who
bought the steer was honest and paid you
the mon " at what was its vaiue that day,
but you We're busy on your iarm you c1ald 13uni
it in your pocket day or two. Wren you
came to town to buy househoid supplies
10 to % per cent. The bankers didn lose
anything: they knew Just what bonds Were
deposited to secure that money; tney Knew Knew
wi at the value of those Eonds was In New
York And they were always shaving that
money safely. They. were perhaps making
money by dealing in these appreciated
farm the man in the shop VINO TOOK an
early breakfast and worked until the sun
those things was being imposed upon ana
A DIRTY DOLLAR.
..That is what | call "a dirty dollar. (Ap-
nlauseO I have never said-and l take it
that the men who mpute that saying to me
know that l never said it-that the silver
dollar we are using to-day maintained at
mar with gold by the pledge of the govern
ment to make it So was a dirty dollar. 1t
is not a dirty dollar. But when this sup
port which the government is now giving to
it is withdrawn; when we coin silver, not
on government account but coin it for the
mine owners; and that silver dollar be-
comes like the old paper dollar we had in
In1iana-a fuctuating dollar that goes UP
and down-then | say OF such Il dollar that
it is a dirty dollar, for 1t does cheating
work. (Applause) We propose then 10
maintain the parity of our money, as the
only honest thing.
Now, my friends, do our Democratic
freely to the coinage OF silver that It's value
will be maintained so that these doilars Will
be at par with gold? Mr.. Bryan says he
thinks Uaughter) In all seriousness,
have you not right to cal upon Demo
Gratis who tell you SO to give you some ms
All history is against it. Look at own
experience. We coined first the ratio OF
Is to l. and in doing that we undervalued
gold; for the true reIation as il turned out
was about 1850 TO /. What was the result?
This is history; II is not what | think, bur
went out of circulation. There was not
got god spend osIar an goid 5e aoh doIar woq5q qor
dollars worth of something at
the store when they could sell that gold
dollar to the bank at a premium. SO gold
went out of circulation. Then we changed
our tactics and we made the ratio or 10
to /. In doing that we undervaiued silver
at that tine, and silver went out of use. 1t
went out of use so that our change left us
quarters, half dollars and dlmes. Be
with the silver dollar, they We're worth more
than gold and went out of circulation.
That is experience; that is history.
What aid our government have to do
in order to keep silver change in use among
the people? They had to reduce the amount
of silver that in the half dollars and
quarter dollars Sc that there not "a
half-dollars worth of silver in the half
dollar a quarter dollars worth in the
quarter. BY putting in more alloy they
kept those coins among us. The govern
ment coming half dollars and quarter
dollars then. and whatever profit there was
in it made for the government and for
the people. But presently the Secretary of
come and have silver coined for themselves
What was the result? The bullion brokers
would take two silver dollars ana bring
them to the mint and get four silver haH
dollars and have dime and nickel near
ly left over In other words. they made
about per cent. profit off of the people by
that coinage
What our experience with green
backs? When had a greenback dollar
that had to issue in the stress of the
war gold went absolutely out of circula ton