The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14

tural products. Could a thousand millions
more of agricultural products have been
bpought here? 9 We We sold all the the wheat and
corn and meat products that Europe could
take al the price that prevailed. Who can
tell at what prices Europe would have
taken FIVE hundred millions or even one
hundred millions more of our agricultural
products than she did take? The mere
statement of the proposition is enough to
disclose the error on which II is founded,
and shows the importance OF uniting man
ufactures with agriculture, or, Jefferson
states it, putting the manufacturer by the
side of the farmer" In fact both must, in
our country, depend almost exclusively on
the home market. It is folly, If not
crime, TO attempt to change IL in these re-
spects. 1t would oring g,1,it futn ana bank bank-
such a result accomplished The greater
the diversity of industries in any country
the greater the wealth proc ucing power of
the people and the more there is for labor
and capital to divide the more Independent
that country becomes.
on the matter of the tariff you need
argument, but it is said our trouble Is not
to have prosperity it to set our mintS to
running. Great laughter and applause.) l
do not believe they would employ any por-
was started Now / take it, whatever may
A money that will buy all purchasable
things, whatever they are. is better than
money that viii not. Is not that so? (Cries
at its face value. as it used to be in the
days of old State banks, is not as good a
money to have for all purposes as money
that will pass at its face value in every
State of the Union. Is not that SO? (Cries
Of That's rightn} n N9r 4nsd IS mensy ssf that Is
face value, and which must stand dis
count everywhere. as good as that which
is current in every civilized country.
Great apDlause)
(Which would you rather have for your
wages-the money with purchasing power
good world
limited in its PURCHASING power to a single
country or a single State? Which would
the farmer prefer in payment of his prod
ucts-a money recognized good and equal
and purchasing power is limited to
country? The thing called money and
for is more valuable TO US if it is good. not
somewhere only, but everyWhere-not in
one place, but every place (Applauseo 1t
is very comforting thing to anybody who
has money. much or little. to feel all the
time that it's value cannot be affected by
hard times or deprecated in his hands by
panic, but that it rests all the while upon
solid and Interchangeable value recognized all
the world over.
tit depends on its own value. Cheering
and cries of That's right!) When you
have earned one hundred dollars you want
to feel that you are worth one hundred
dollars and that it will not be diminished
in a day or a week or month or depreciate
while it is in your hands or when it goes
out of your hands. That is the kind of
money we have in this country now-the
best money known to the civilized coun-
tries of the world i is to the the interest Interest Of Of
every citizen of the country. no matter
what may be his business. to maintain that
money at its present standard. ST.. oAPpiause,2
that much, L desire to thank you again for
the pleasure which this call has given me.
home city and a safe return to your
homes.