The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04

was hard to find work. lApplause) Wages
are regulated by labor. No legislation can
make men active. Legislation may con1s-
cate the product of mans toll, and by con-
f5cating ii discourage men from industry.
but legislation can create nothing. A gov
eminent can produce nothing of its own:
1t therefore has nothing to bestow. When
Mr.. Bryan advances the programme of ben
citing some section. of the community. he
must begin TO piunder some other section.
Briefly. he proposes to remonetize silver. to
make 50 cents worth of silver a dollar,
and as you make money plenty, to use his
own words. then you win Increase the price
Of commodities. But you can't increase the
price of wheat. or corn, or hogs by any
change in that system without those who
had clothes and shoes TO sell taking adj
vantage of it also.
The 1aborer cannot change every day the
rate at which he sells his capital, or that
which he has to sell. He cannot wait every
morning to adjust the price of his labor,eor
the time he would take in the discussion
With his employer would be deducted from
his days work. {Applause.) He is seeking
to oppose the men upon whom depends the
prosperity of the country. Applause.)
INTERESTS ARE UNITED.
II noticed in the speech which he de-
Hyered yesterday. L know SO many people
who have no dollars at all who would be
glad to get some worth SO cents This is
the contribution of a presidential candi-
date. daughter and applause) Every
man with a dollar in his pocket is inter
1865 - tAAS PNi AcSA PO"1A "a liz W.
lar. (Applause.) Every man who has saved
some part of each dollar which he has
earned is deeply interested in maintaining
the value of his economy. You can't have
agricultural prosperity without having gen.
eral prosperity. If / were to go back to
New York tonight and were anxious to
obtain the warmest welcome ever extended
TO a person who had gone on u Western
eyer grown on the American continent was
about to be harvested. That news would
quicken confidence everywhere; it would
start the wheels. of business almost in a
moment. There is no interest which New
York, can have that Indiana does not share.
The expression has been used somewhere
that the farmer is to sow in silver and
reap in gold: Uaughter). He is to have a
dollar of 311A grains in circulation for the
payInen OF his domestic debts, but he will
sell his crop at the European price for gold,
which Is worth 700A grains of silver. Now
translate that from Bryanese into English.
What does it mean? 1t simply means an
using false measures: There is nothing
original about that. Give your laborer one
kind OF dollar and a dollar nearly twice as
good for your own product.
The farmer who has been as patriotic
in peace as he has been brave in war,
call of country and Of Gods he to be |
cheated, is he to be cajoled and seduced by
find ready Judgement in tie mind of a
thief, but would be stamped under foot
by honest men? Great applause.) The
"AD IiAsshCo tIelI odSSCSllolI ~ liz |
American farmer misunderstood the his
tory of this country. When Mr.. Bryan
tells you as he did the citizens of West
Virginia, and as he will tell you next Tues
day night-he will If he makes his whole
speech-that the silver dollar in 1878 was
worth $1.03, why he ~refutes all that he
says about the contraction of the currency
from the demonstration of silver;
NO gold-using country can absolutely
silver, because in the smaller trans
actions of life in which money is most like
ly to figure. gold cannot be subdivided so
as to meet them all, and therefore silver is
an absolute necessity All gold-using
are more or less bimetallic coun.
tries; but no silver-using country in the
history. of civilization has ever yet used
any gold and never will. (App1ause.)
This defeat of Populism and Popocratic
must be final, crushing and de-
cisive. (Applause.) Tonight [ stand be-
fore you declaring that in the presence of
the peril which now overhangs the country,
cannot reconcile my conscience to even
half hearted measures of opposition; I can
not justify myself in the sight of God un-
ess | vote for William Mckinley CHEERS
and applauSe.)