The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-25

found cheaper wheat and cotton markets,
and have gone to them Argentine fur
board ship for European ports at 3sl2 cents,
ana yet Argentine is 9: silver country
Mr. Outhwaite exploded another false
illustration Bryan made at the Outset OF
ms campaign in appealing to the 1gnor-
ance and prejudice of his audiences by
asking every man who had a gold dollar
to hold up his hand. Bryan had not
discovered at that time. said Mr.; Outh-
waite that the gold dollar was demone-
tized in 1890 and that there has not been
one coined since" Mr. Cultivate re-
ferred to the fact that one of the small
banks of Columbus o.. paid out over $780,,
was commonly supposed that the gold
was sent there for that purpose by the
government while as a matter of fact
every dollar of it was taken in the common
of it was current in that community,
said he 1T is not quite SO current now as
is defeated" loud applause;( Then he
asked every man who mad silver doisars
forest of them. he said. Il thought that
Mr.. Bryan said it had been demonetized,
and yet ii seems to be current coin or TINS
community. That certainly cannot be de-
monetization. Ever since 1873 the money
in this country has been growing more
The speaker showed up some of the. con-
ditions that exist in Mexico, one OF the
NEST prosperous if not the most prosper
Gus, of the free-silver countries. Down
there, he said, two Mexican dollars Will
pay a days wages for blacksmith. one
ana d NAH VIII pay Il DIiChletSSi WiAiiC II
takes a house servant three days to get
of them. Cooks get two and half
days to get one of them. Policemen and
street-car conductors get one OF them Tor
a days work. Their dollars will each buy
two pounds of bacon three and one-half
pounds of lard, five pounds of cheap beef,
five pounds of mutton, but 1t takes two
bought in Indianapolis for fifty cents of
American money.
He showed by a review of the events of
hie-%o how, Gil iG n
try by law to maintain the parity OF the
two metals, whether at the ratio of IA. Is
the Bryanites when they set themselves up
as being the followers OF JEFFERSON, JACK
son and the host of early leaders IN the
party. declaring that they never even UNI
dertook to point out anything Jefferson
said that showed HIM to believe 1t possible
to fix the value of the two metals. on the
contrary, Jefferson said that the problem
is a mercantile problem, and that in deter
mining the ratio that ought to be fixed,
the only safe plan was to inquire into the
relative market value of the two metals
in the nations with which this country
traded and then strike average. He re-
ferred to the fact that the experience OF
this country has always demonstrated that
by law not in keeping with the commercial
ratio, the cheaper metal has always driven
out the dearer.
BRYAN AND A PANIC.
Bryan himself admits that we might
have panic before we could get to a safe
panic? The best way to avoid panic at
this time is to see to it that the State of
Indiana casts it's electoral vote against
William j. Bryan This appeal was re-
ceived with a wild demonstration of APP
plause.
Regarding prices, Mr.. Cultivate gave
statistics proving that Bryans assertion
that falling prices are due to the monetary
condition is false, for while silver has
steadily declined from time three months
after the act of 1873, other prices have not
fallen concurrently, and within the last
three or four years, he said, wheat sold Tor
81 buShel. Silver, he said, has fallen 312
cents an ounce in the Last sixty days, WnlIe
wheat has advanced in the same time. The
decline in silver he said, was due to the
in the number Of mines, methods
Forty times as much silver
has been produced since 1873 as was pro-
duced in that year. The orators of the
Bryan school admit that the law of supply
and demand has something to do with
prices of others articles. Doesn't it prob
ably have something to do with the price
of silver?" asked Mr.. Cultivate. The
great argument for 10 to is the times are
out of joint and were born to set them
right in other words, Elect us and we will
restore prosperity to the country. We are
going to drive all of these gold Democrats
they come back in sackcloth and ashes
In conclusion Mr.. Cultivate said, after |
the great evils that would come |
upon all classes of people, especially the |
that he wished to appeal to |
his hearers to take up the question, in |
vestigate it and then vote to maintain the |
integrity of the country we'll as the well |
fare of every man, woman and child in it.