The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-04

| classes in their applications state it would
| be injurious to their personal interests
| why don't the money changers and TIT
| attorneys of these great trusts and corpora
| tons write in their applications that tn,
success or the Chicago ticket would be in
| furious to their personal interest? They
| want II understood that the laboring mer
are influenced by personal interests, bu
| these great leaders of the gold STANDARD
| are simply interested in the public veal
Ihere IS great difference between those
| who advocate bimetallsm and those wht
| advocate gold standard.
! ASK farmer why he wants bimetalisn
and he says because it will be good fol
MN. He IS not worrying about somebody
| else he has troubles enough Of his own
| II IS the same with a laboring man or a
| business or a professional man. They say
| they cannot prosper unless the great pro-
duclng classes, on which everything rests
also prosper; They want bimetallism be-
| cause it is for themselves as well as for
| the mass of the people. Ask a financier
| why he favors the gold standard. VIII he
| tell you because it is good for him? YOU
never heard one of them saw it: YOU never
| heard one of them say it. daughter) They
want something that will help somebody
else. they say they want it so that the
| farmer when ne gets dollar-when he
| gets dollar-(great laughter, will get a
good dollar They want it because it is
gooo Tor somebody else Tell them that
these people whose interests they plead
are willing to risk the effects of bimetaI-
| ism and they rise to the full height of their
moral stature and say, Shall we let these
people hurt themselves, Great laughter !
We will ram the gold standard down their
cause we love them better than ourselves
When you ma a man tnat Is always
reelihs Tor your watch; see he does not
reach you | am afraid some of our op-
Ronents add the crime of hypocrisy to
the sin of avarice. There are principles
winch underlte the money question, prfnci-
pies which you must understand before
you can enter into a discussion of the
clple is that the value of a dollar depends
on the number of dollars You have to
learn tha5 scarce money. means dear
CHASING power of a dollar whenever you
change the number of dollars Our Op-
ponents dispute some of the statements,
put no writer on political economy will tell
you that volume is immaterial Now
When the value of the dollar depends on
the number of dollars, then the number
of dollars becomes the important matter.
How can you raise the purchasing power
OF a dollar? By legislating some of the
Tor money increase more rapidly than the
supply of money, and dollars will rise in
c cre + pnrcha IA 1a power Dollars are the
Circulation except through the channels of
legislation.
THE WALL-STREET DOCTRINE.
Now, my friends L assert that when the
government prohibits the making of do.-
lar by an individual, then the government
assumes the solemn duty of creating enough
dollars for the people to do business with
(Applause) You tell me that the govern
creating dollars for his own use and then
refuse to create the dollars which he needs.
My friends, that doctrine has not any sup
port outside of Wall street. (Applause)
No man dares to defend that doctrine be
fore community like this or before any
promlscuous parties and yet the very men
VINO invoked the law of 1873 to strike down
a part of The peoples money now deny
the right of the peope to invoke the law
to replenish the currency of the Nation.
(Cheers.)
Il know that whenever we express an
opinion on the money question that we SUBJ
York f1nanciers. (Cheers.) But. my friends,
when / have read their ideas on the money
question and the ideas Of every one also
on that subject am constrained to believe
that there is only one passage of the Scrip
ture with which they are familiar. and that
is that passage which says that a great
many years ago certain wise men came
from the East. Great laughter and APP
plause) They think that they have been
coming from that direction ever since.
daughter and applause.)
we do not like to be called Anarchists,
but 1 would rather be what opponents
call an Anarchist than to confess that sew
enty millions OF people are not able TO at
tend to their own business. Some of them
are now out of the Democratic party-they
say for our country's good. (Applause0
We can't build wall TO keep anybody from
getting out of the Democratic party be-
cause then nobody outside could get in
All we ask is that when man leaves the
Democratic party he shall have IL reason
and not one tucked away in a pocketbook
Great applause) We expect some men to
leave the Democratic party. We could
nave kept them in had we wanted to if we
had made the platform mean nothing. CAP
plauSe.)f IL the Democratic platform on the
money question had been what our op-
ponentS wanted it it would have been lust
like the Republican platform because both
would have been frauds. (Applause) If
we had adopted a platform like the Repub-
l1canS and nominated candidates who would |
pledge themselves not to do anything with
out first going down to New York and ask
ing what ought to be done what would |
have been the result? Why, these mag |
mates would have been able to sit back and |
say they We were both good men, the coun- |
try IL safe under either Great laughter) |
we could have had that sort of a carnDaian |
we wanted 1t. But somehow the majority |
of the people in that convention decided |
they wanted another kind of a campaign
and so they made platform that brea thes
Tremendous and long continued |
lppiause) The very parts of that platform
Which have been most hurtful to the men
VINO have used the Democratic party for
private gain and their country for public
,Iundef are those nearest the hearts of the |
american people. We are not losing anv- |
,ody from our party except the great big |
Democrats. Gaughter.) And don't yoI
now when great Democrat breaks into |
ne republican party he makes a hole so |
lS that great many little Republicans |
an run out. daughter and applause) We |
an nave their moral support, but we will |
ct along without their immoral incubus
$50. (Laughter) We won't have their ip-
roval, but it is awfully high-priced an
royal, anyhow, to buy in these hard times
nder gold standard" Great laughter
nd applauSe.)