The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-01
IN DEMOCHAIIC !" HIAH~
jam Of $4,000 People mt Columbia City
and a Big Parade.

IN DEMOCRATIC WHITFIELD
jam of IL 900 People mt Columbia City
and a Big Parade.
swift run Of a mile a minute brought
the party to Columbia City, and II ire
mendous crowd, unbounded enthusiasm and
such other surface indications as an alb
sence of Bryan badges count for anything
the Republicans are likely to make good
their claim that they will carry this DEM
ocratic stronghold, even though 1t De
purely agricultural county. There were
about 900 people there, three times the
population of the town, and they had
procession in the morning that went ahead
of anything they had ever seen before in
Whitley county. 1t was much like the
other agricultural parades, with plenty Of
cavalry troops and floats and martial mu-
sic enough to last year. General Har-
rison was driven from the station to the
courthouse square, where his carriage was
caught in the dense jam of people and ex-
tricated with much difficulty. He was given
a rousing welcome upon his appearance
and his speech was warmly cheered. He
said:
my Fellow-citizens-I will address some
of you, few of You, for it is quite impossi-
bic with my voice broken by some twenty
speeches since left home yesterday morn
ing. to reach the outskirts of this vast
meeting-one of the very greatest that 1
have seen on this trip.
I'VE hear a great deal of talk about mon
ey. The most important thing is that you
should have confidence in your money and
that your money should have confidence in
gold being cOwardly money. Everything
that is worth anything is little scary
when the house is on fire. not the cook
stove. Gold is scary when 1t Is proposed to
put in use with it another money that is
mt nod V0tr mill
that is not scary till you get money
that is not good for anything. l said that
it was necessary that money should have
will lend it to you. The man who has it
must have confidence that he will get it
money as he loaned. If he has not he will
not lend you any; he will lock it up till
better times come.
panic? Mr. Bryan has been calling atten-
days money on call in New York has been
100 per cent. for money? 1t was not the
merchant; he was getting accommodations
mas or been per exced Mr. rs
the very men he has been generally de-
nouncing. 1t was the stock broker in Wall
street who had bought stocks on margins
and whose stocks had gone down, and who
had to put up margins for few days till
the market turned; and he had to pay what
anybody demanded for money. Why was it
that money was not easy? Because of q
lack of confidence; because of Mr. Bryan's
campaign camp because of the Chicago plat
fear that If these theories are carried out
II they put their money out now. it will be
paid back to them in cheaper money. That
is what makes the trouble. l put it to any
man who hears me- if he has accumulated
bX INDUSTRY and care a little money,
FISK OF being paid back i'm fifty-cent dol
lars? We must let everybody know that
we do not intend to depreciate and degrade
nf ON
erybody will be glad to put his money to
work and to put it out at fair rates of in
terest
THE 1s TO 1 FRAUD.
They want to coin silver freely at the
ratio of 16 to i; and why Is to /? If the
government can make the 16 ounces that
are now worth about half an ounce of
gold worth a full ounce of gold, why can
1t not make ten ounces of silver worth an
ounce of gold? Why waste six ounces?
But the government cannot fix this value;
1t must take its value as it finds it in the
market; and if it expects two dollars to
circulate freely with each other one must
be worth as much the other. If it is
not one will get scared; it always has.
When we had greenbacks that were worth
40 cents on the dollar, gold and silver both
got scared and nobody saw anything of
them. We had the cheap money and moth
ing else and so # will be If we coin silver
and gold freely at q wrong ratio. We will
have silver. but no gold. We will not. UNI
III people are ready to pay a dollar for a
truth is that morey has its code of morals.
A good money will not associate with bad
money; it never has.
What will be the first effect of free
coinage! i want my thoughtful friends
here to-day to think of this and see il 1
am not right in saying that it will require
all the business Of this country to be put
upon a new basis. The storekeeper would
have to change the mark on his goods to
correspond with the dollars that he is going
| take it into account. Nobody would know
Just what was going to happen. Making
silver legal tender would add some value
| to 1t, but no man could tell how much 1t
| would add; SO that nc man would know
what to do: If you were trading you would
say: Il will stop; will wait till this thing
| shows itself, until sec what is going to
happen The manufacturer would say: L
will shut down my factory The store.
| anything Every man would stop and
wait to see how this experiment that Mr..
Bryan suggests was going TO turn out
Every man who had money coming to him
would press his debtor for payment.
IF you had money out and you were
AFRAID OF change that would give you
back deprecated money wouldn't you try
| to get it in as quick you could? Sup
! pose the man who is pressed for money
/ says / will go to the banker and see il
| i can get it, The banker would say No
| sir these are hundred-cent dollars 1 have
| and 1t looks as If there was going TO be
/
| till 1 find out what is going tc happen
| You say, I will promise to pay You back
| the same kind of money He will say,
| Your Democratic platform says you are
| going to pass a law that will make SUCH
| Z. promise illegal and il cannot be enforced
| they say they won't allow anybody TO make
! a contract to pay back as good money as
| he got The result of this would be that
| this country would be rocked from center
| to circumference by IA great commercial
| panic that would bring to distress every
man in it,. except the banker. who had his
| money locked up.
Mr.. Frewen, of England one of the lead
ing free-silver men, while urging us 10
| adopt that policy. i'm an interview i'm New
| York recently, admitted that the first ef-
feet of free coinage would be an all-pcrvad-
ing panic. Take that home with you: that
| IL you are to have free silver. you are to
| have il at the cost OF a great panic. at the
cost of utter stagnation in business. while
everybody awaits to what this fatal
| experiment in finance may bring about.
| No. my counrrymen. the good old honest
dollar of jackson and of jefferson, the good
| old hundred-cent dollar. is the only dollar
for the poor man and the farmer. the only
| dollar for honest men who want to pay
| their debts honestly and want to be paid
honestly.
Il do not ike the declaration of the Chi
| cago platform that when Anarchists and
| thugs seize upon our great railroads, tear
| I'D tracks and stone railway trains, that
| the President OF the United States. sworn
| to enforce the Constitution and laws. shalt
not enforce those laws until he has asked