The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-01
dollars. by calling a half dollar q dollar
you will be worth two thousand. You will
get rich very fast that way.
FALSE POLICY.

you viii be worth two thousand. You viii
get rich very fast that way.
A FALSE POLICY.
II do not like that policy, for several
reasons: First. because 1 do not like any
thing or anybody that pretends to be what
it Is not. j like dollar TO be a dollar and
a man to be what he pretends to be-to
wear the button that his heart approves.
and not false button. tCries Of Good"
Good" and cEeers.) 1 don't like ii because
iiuctuating dollar, what they call cheap
liar. IS a cheat. 1t is not what 1t pre-
tends TO be. but it cheats the men that
handle it and the men to whom it is paid
for wages or for produce. That is why l
don't like 1t. Four years ago, my Demo
your Chicago platform-the dollars must be
kept equal, must be real dollars as well as
pretended dollars, dollars that nat, have
gress can't fix the price OF any
thing. Which one of you farmers would
ever think of going 10 Congress and asking
them to pass law TO put wheat at dol
lar and a quarter? You would say that is
foolish The law can't put it up; it is the
demand for 1t that puts 1t up; it is more
people to eat it; it is the failure of crops
somewhere that puts it up. but the law
cannot put it up. If you want to know
what wheat Is worth you don't go to your 1r
lawyers ofnce to inquire, you go down 10
the elevator and ask what 1t is worth.
You find it in the market reports and not
fixing the relative value Of silver and gold;
the government cannot make silver worth
SO much. If it uses double STANDARD II
must use silver for what it is worth In
the market and gold for what it is worth.
Now, do not deny that the legai-tender
quality gives certain value to the thlhg
that is made legal tender. During the war
greenbacks were a legal tender, but they
went down below forty cents on the dollar.
You could pey debts with them at dollar.
but IL you went to the store to BUY they
brought just as much as forty cents worth
of gold would buy, and no more. You can
make it legal tender but you cant cant give nd
1T is very apt to go down while the farmer
has it. Not only that. but it is not honest
for us to do IL. What will it bring about!
1 ask you to think of this
Suppose Bryan were electe,I next tues
day and this ccuatry were told we were go
of 16 to 1. My friend here has loaned his
neighbor thousand dollars, and 1t is past
due, but ne has not been wanting the Inc
friend and taking the interest; what Will
he do? He will say: i had better call that
as l loaned if l let that lay over | might
have to take fifty-cent dollars for it, And
he says to the man that owes him, Pay
what thou owest; and he says. I can't
and will take your farm But you say.
Wait, l will go to the Goshen bank there
banker and he says No; these are good
dollars L have got; the probability is we
are going to have tifty-cent dollars. and
fifty-cent dOllars'-and no man will lend you
any money. Money will be boarded; put
away in the vaults; gold will be put there
dread awaiting to see what comes out Of
this thing. Business will be paralyzed;
borrow it no more; the sheriff will take
their stock; and panic. universal and all
pqervading will go through this his land be he
the effect Of it, and / warn you. my coun-
trymen. as one having no possible interest
in this thing except the interest or an
and his countrys flag-I warn you. whether
Democrats or Republicans. not to step over
this fearful precipice. (Cheers)
ALTGLD'S DOCTRINE.
"And then they say at Chicago that
the President cannot enforce the laws of
the United States without asking the con-
sent Of the Governors. Naughter.) There
was great riot there; incendiaries, thugs,
men of violence, tore up tracks, burned
cars, stopped interstate commerce, stoned
the passenger trains upon which women
and children were journeying from State to
State-it was interstate commerce-the
Constitution puts that in the care Of the
general government; the mails were
Stopped-that Is IN the care of the general
government, and because Mr.. Cleveland
used the powers of the general government
to enforce the laws of the general govern
ment Governor Altgeid. of Illinois. whose
sympathy with Anarchists has been so
much charged and suspected-protested
that the, President of the United States
was violating the State rights of Illinois
NO. my countrymen, Democrat and Re-
publican, my comrade in war, my patriotic
Indiana friends VINO arrayed themselves
in the great part this State had in estab-
fishing Lincoln's doctrine, that the laws of
the United States were to be enforced by
the President in every State not only
hQ
opposition of a Governor-(cries of That is
right; that is what we fought for! and
workingman, and especially every railroad
man. is interested that the governments
control of this interstate commerce should
be asserted and maintained. This benefi-
cent legislation, which i used my ut
most power as President to pro-
ennces that has put fpsgb safety
the air-brake and the automatic coupler to
save the lives and limbs of these brave fell
lows who operate the trains-how would
that have been possible If the United States
had not had jurisdiction these trains?
You would have had to go to the legisla-
lures of forty-five States to accomplish that
This control should be kindly and vet
forceful in exercise so You may safely go
Oh journey from one State to another;
so you may safely send your property with
out danger of tribute or interruption from
here to the seaboard
;, MY countrymen. Indiananians. Repub-
hcans, Democrats, will you consent that
good old Andrew Jackson, who said the
Union should be preserved. and threaten ed
South Carolina nullificators with the hal
ter; and Abraham Lincoln who supporte ed
by the boys in blue. put down once and
forever the doctrine of states rights when
these doctrines crossed the national author
ity-will you consent that man shall be
your president who processes that in such
q case he would bend his knee to Governor
Altgeld, instead Of exercising his own con.
stitutional power" (Cries of mo! Mo-
and cheers.)
WARMTH AT WARSAW.
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