The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-16
OUR JACK CADE.
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/ Mr.. Bryan contends in most of his
| speeches that the stamp of the government
| on silver bullion, to an unlimited extent,
| will raise the value of the metal, which
| is now quoted at IS cents an ounce, TO
| 81 29 an ounce. He is not in doubt about
| it, but makes the statement with the as
surance of one who knows. All that it is
proposed that the government shall do is to
stamp each 1929 grains of standard silver
| one dollar: these would be coined for the
individual or corporate silver bullion own
err, and what is now worth 80 cents would,
Mr.. Bryan says, be worth 100 cents in gold.
| The Boy Orator may vary his statement to
suit audiences and sections, but he made
| that statement several times in the East.
In his letter of acceptance this same
travelling candidate for the presidency de-
clared that the government of the United
States has nc constitutional right to enter
a State and enforce federal laws unless
the President has been first invited to do
so by the State executive. Not much of a
lawyer, he did not hesitate to declare that
all statutes authorizing the President to
use force in the States to prevent viola
ton of the laws of the United States are
unconstitutional. In regard to the enforce
ment of the acts of Congress, it is prac-
tically no government unless Governors in
States make it such. Conspirators in the
States could raise and equip hundreds Of
men with a view of Selling the minis, to
the end that the mintng of metals may
be stopped. Fiat money advocates have
at times expressed hostility to the mints
suppressed. Mr.. Bryan declares without
qualification that the President of the
United States has authority under the
Constitution to march troops into State
in which there is a mint to suppress an
armed mob which might be intent on cap
turing and sacking one of these institu-
TONS to retake it if captured by an
armed body, unless he should be first re-
quested to do SO by the Governor of that
State. Ignoring the Supreme Courts which
have recently declared that the federal
government is supreme where it is ques-
ton of enforcing the laws of the United
States, Mr.. Bryan declares that all laws
authorizing the President to use force in
executing federal laws are demonstrations
al. Nevertheless this government, whose
power is so weak that it cannot protect
a mint if assailed, can by the use of the
stamps of that mint, raise the value of the
tens of thousands of tons of uncofned sill
yer, worth 90 cents an ounce to
double that value! According to the Bryan
wisdom if the Congress should pass a free
coinage law and there should be conspir-
acies in the States in which there are minis
to prevent coinage, and the Governors were
in sympathy with those conspiracies the
United States government, with the miracu-
lous power to double the price of silver
bullion, could not carry that law into eff
feet.
There shall be in England seven half
penny loaves sold for penny; the three
hoped pot shall have ten hoops and L will
make it a felony to drink small beer" said
Justice Jack Cade. years ago. 1t seems
that in William Jennings Bryan this coun-
try has legal lumnary OF the Jack Cade
order.