The Indianapolis journal., 1896-10-21

low the thinking power and the conscience
OF the American people. tApplauseo
this government declare that sixteen ounces
OF silver Is equal to ono ounce of gold Does
that make It so? (Cries of 'No.o Why. all
the kings army and all the kings men
cannot do that Laughter.) If you want
TO know what ounce of gold is worth
you nave got to go to the merchant; if you
want to know what an ounce of silver is
worth, you have got to go to the mer-
chant. The government cannot fix the
price of silver and gold any more than it
can nix the price OF potatoes and wheat
The government might as well declare one
Dnsnei I,,h q oats was equal to one bushel Of
Is equal TO one ounce of gold.
Suppose, in the old times. when coon
skins had market value. there should
nave been law in this State that one
mEskrat skin was equal to one coon skin
and Congress had so declared and all the
legislatures in the world had said so; and
you went into this store and the merchant
there would tell you that it is not so. I
won take that ar that rate. Now, ii is
precisely 80 with this matter of the govern
ment Undertaking to make q double stand
ara. 81, we cannot fix the price of anything
potatoes. And that being so, If some one
else had said it, l would say it was non
My countryn1sn this government cannot
make two UNEQUAL things equal to each
to have in school: Things that are equal to
INC same thing are equal to each other
mat is Just as applicable to money to
the same thing cannot be made equal to
each other by the decree of all the kings i'm
the world. 80
DO you want a cheap dollar. either at
% cents or at some fiuctuating and uncer-
tain point between so cents and a dnIiaro
sLrles or Never") Who is it going to help?
MY countrymen, you have been listening-
ana speak to some Democrats to-day. I
LII sure, some-you have been listening for
LnlrLy years to the denunciation of the
iatinr iaf,n because you said it was class legis-
iaei iavon, at,o now, was there ever such class
say 20 these silver mine owners that
they can bring their silver to the
unlIeo states mints, and for every cents
e Ine government that it is worth a dollar
Ihey will be benefited 1t is the most per
mcious, faa,, the most direct, the most unjusti-
liable class Legislation that ever was nro.
posed by any party in the history of tnc
United States. (Applause.) Mr. Bryan him
seln , ADMITS that the Silver-mine owners
VIII get what he calls an incidental advan-
Iage. Yes, l should say so, a very direct
ana enormous advantage. Who are these
people! They talk a great deal against
piuuocrats and rich men. The richest men
1n TINS country are the owners of those
mines and the men who have made their
money by luck and not by work To-day
some who have the most prodigous and
easily made fortunes in this country are
weoIhlns w with MI Bryan to get the product
q tne silver mines into the mints of the
United states at twice it's market value
How are you going to be helped? Where
does you sharc of the profit come in?
have them again by straight, honest, CON
servative methods. We will maintain the
parity OF our money; we will adopt a rev.
enne Dill that will pay the expenses of the
governments revenue bill that will en-
courage home production, instead of i'm
porting foreign goods a revenue bill that
Will establish confidence in the minds of ali
me ne people-when we have elected McKin-