The herald., 1896-10-22
HARRISON'S MANY SPEECHES
Find Many Audiences, Though Meat q
Them Rather Small
Laborers Informed That More pfeteetlea lo
What They Need
silver pollrs Are Good now-No 3eop
son Why They Should Not
Be Equally Good Under
Free Coinage
Associated Press Special wire


INDIANAPOLIS. Oct. 21.-Ex-Presi-
dent Harrison's arrival at New Albany
today was the signal for most impos-
ing Republican demonstration. He ar
rived at 2 o'clock and spoke to an ent1u-
siastic crowd Of at least II. 900 people at
Scribner park.
Booming cannon and shrielking wllis-
ties added to the noise made by the cheer.
ing crowds. General Harrison spoke
for thirty-five minutes and severely ar
raigned the Democratic party, charging
1t with direct responsibility for the panic
Of 1893 and subsequent Industrial de-
preston. His remarks were directed to
the great number of workingmen Of New
Albany, who have suffered greatly by
the suspension of the numerous enter
prises here. He denounced Mr.. Bryan
as quack who was prescribing new
dose for the sick country, brought to q.
pitiable condition by Democratic tariff
legislation. He advised that since his
hearers could date all their troubles back
to 1892 the only recourse was to cast their
votes for q candidate who stands for
conditions that prevailed prior to that
time. After the speech Mr.. Harrison
and parry left on a northbound train.
| General Harrison's first stop. after leav.
ing New Albany was at Borden. where
! several hundred persons crowded around
| the platform and listened to him. A
| small but enthusiastic meeting was held.
General Harrison arrived at his homo
here tonight at 7:45. Leaving New AL
bany at 10 o'clock this morning he made
eleven speeches before reaching Indian
q nfo1
at Salem, Orleans, Bedford and Bloom
ington.
At Salem he said in part: 'Mr. Bry-
an proposes to abandon the money sys-
tenn we have now and to introduce the
free coinage Of silver. When a change
is proposed the first thing you wantto
do Is to ascertain what the present con-
ditions are and then how they areto be
changed. The present conditions are
that we are bimetallic country. We ara
using both gold and silver as money.
about $400 000, 900 Of silver and about
$6O0.0O0,000 of paper money based upon
and redeemable in coin. Every silver
dollar and every paper dollar is main-
tanned on an equality with gold. You
don't stop to look at 1t: you don'tcon-
suit bank detecter further than to seA
whether it is genuine If 1t is not
counterfeit it goes; and it goes for one
hundred cents on the dollar-paper
money, gold money silver money. The
Democrats say that this is practically
the gold standard ,and so it is; and they
say they want double standard.
Now, ask you to bear with me while
I speak on this subject Of standards.
A standard is a measure. You have-a
standard bushel, a standard peck.
standard yard stick. They are measures
and just SO the standard dollar n .
measure. The others are measures OF
quantity or length. This is a measure
of value. want to know how you can
maintain two standards if they are not
Of the same size and length Can you
have two standard bushels when one In
only half as much as the other? Can you
have two standard yardsticks when ono
is only half as long as the other? You
cannot maintain a double standard Of
weight or measure, nor of value unless,
one of them is the equivalent of the
other. The law can make a dpllar a le-
gal tender to pay debts. but how much
it will buy in the market you will have
to find out in the market. If the mer-
chant says he will give you two yards
of calico for gold dollar and one yafd
for silver dollar, that establishes the
relative value of your two metals. no
matter what you have in your law books.
We are using silver now. but the govern
ment is buying the silver at the mar
ket price; it is coming it on its own ac-
count; it is making whatever porfit there
! is in it for the people; it is putting be-
| hind this silver dollar the pledge of this
government that it will maintain its
| equality with the gold dollar. We limit
| the amount that we coin and by limiting
the amount. by putting this govern
ment's pledge behind it, we can maintain
a certain amount of silver at parity
with gold; and we are doing it now.
Their proposition is that we siall turn
this all over to the mine owners; that
the government shall build its costly
mints and equip them with costly ma
chinery, pay high salaries to thtyr assay
ers and minters and coiners, and that we
shall put all this freely at the services
of the men who own these silver mines.
A dollar like that, unsupported BY the.
government, unlimited as to the amount
Of coinage, cannot be maintained at par
! Mr., Bryan has spoken with sems cons