The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-22
BLooMINGToN.s OVATION.
General Harrison Refers to ryan
SIur on the W~orkinGmen-

bloomington was reached at $3.50 o'clock,
and here was encountered another dense
jam of people, estimated at from 10000 10
IL, COO, packed in the great open common
west of the station, and spreading out over
the tracks in such a manner as to wedge
the train in the moment it stopped. Gem
eral Harrison was given the same hearty
ovation upon his appearance that he has
become so accustomed to during this
journey, and was led to a stand near the
station, where he was introduced to the
multitude by Senator Duncan. When the
cheering had subsidized he spoke as foiioWs:
My Friends-I may be able to address
a few hundred of you, put my voice can
not possibly reach the limits of this ire
mendous audience. We are here in one OF
the university towns of Indiana: in one or
the common school counties. CT INDIANA
and the people | think are well taught l
believe the basis of your common schooi
and of your university teaching has been
integrity of thought and life; that men
should stand for honesty and should hon
estly and boldly. defend the things tnelr IN
tellects and their consciences approve. we
have been told by one who is seeking the
suffrages Of the American people that IT
honesty that men should for the sake OF
personal advantage, the retention OF tnelr
not; that they might wear the badge OF
Repubiicanism and pretend to be support
ers of its policies and of its candidates,
when in fact they were not. That is not
good instruction for the young OF America
or for the citizenship of America. 1 admire
the man who who defends his convictions
even when they involve personal loss. The
man who will not do it is not a worthy
G noIieins d aet he hnoI Bem mon Who p parttye saw SO
and wear it's badges, and We can give them
our respect; but the man who pretends to
own self-respect and the respect of every
body else. (Cries of Good. good!' and APP
plause.)
I'm a debate we ought always to ascer-
tain what is agreed in order that we may
present condition of the industrial and
commercial life of the United States is not
what it ought to be- Nobody wants to
perpetuate present conditions, because they
are evil conditions. You were prosperous
four years ago. No one can deny 1t. The
statistics of the commercial agencies the
records of business all show that four
years ago this country was enjoying very
TO find it. Restore the policies that were in
vogue then; put things back where they
prosperity we enjoyed then will come to
US again, Four years ago the Democratic
party said that the adoption of a free
perity to the country, and you tried it.
in the d"ei grave Tes yard iran ran thus h NY was We'll:
[ wanted to be better; L took medicine and
here ] lie That might seem to be an in
scription applicable to the history Of this
cratic party has side-tracked the tariff
free-trade advocates. | fancy he holds the
same notions to-day that he did in Con-
gress. but he isn't saying anything to you
about 1t. He knows that it will not do to
go TO the people again with the proposition
that his idea OF tariff reform will give
fire, and we have all had our fingers in
the fire. So he feels called upon TO substi-
icine, to relieve the ills under which the
people are suffering. 1t has never been
rounds #, H Il has us n no certiicate from any
body that it is beneficial to those who take
it; He asks us to accept it upon the faith
of his declaration, He comes to US with
prophecies, not with facts-not with his
torical illustrations of the effect of the
free coinage of silver at q ratio out of pro-
portion to the commercial ratio. He does
not bring from the painful history that has
nations in dealing with this currency queS-
ton q single historical Illustration to show
that free coinage. at "A ratio that is not the
bring prosperity to any country. 1t never
has done so, or he would give us the illus
tratlon. HE asks you to accept 1t from
him as from the Inns of a prophet.
HISTORY AGAINST BRYAN.
NOW, my friends, a prophet must be ap-
proved; he must lave his commission; he
must have been anointed; and we see in
the case of Mr.. Bryan, in his history, in
his experience in life, nothing whatever
that entities him to assume the role of a
prophet. On the other hand. history is
against him. l appeal to all who are con-
VI SACt - AA - -
all experiments that have been made in
England and France, by the Latin Union.
by every country in the world to circulate
silver and gold at a. ratio other than the
commercial ratio have not failed.
1T is one of the early maxims in math-
ematics that things that are equal to the
same thing are equal to each other, and it
follows that things that are not equal to
the same thing are not equal to each other;
and no la n. can ever make them so. When
one gold dollar is equal 10 the value of one
bushel Of wheat and one silver dollar is
not, then the silver in the silver dollar is
not equal to the gold in the gold dollar.
If you want to find out the ratio between
wheat and oats you will have to go to a
grain merchant. You cannot find it in the
statute books. Congress may enact any
foolishness on this subject; 1t may declare
d hushel of wheat to be equal to a bushel of
oats; but it is not so unless you can eX-
change one for the other.
And so all this talk of Mr.. Bryan's about
=. double STANDARD is foolishness unless we
accept his proposition that when We coin
minis, silver will go up until it is the equiv
alent of gold in the markets For that we
are again asked to rest upon a prediction.
and they failed you, and | ask you now
whether you are going to rest your polit-
, upon ae eRperie enes iai | t dh9h t the American on
people have tired of the predictions of these
financial doctors. and that they will go to
the experience which they have had and
which other nations have had, to settle this
great question.
1T may be bold in me to say so, but I
believe that Alexander Hamilton was a
greater financier than Mr.. Bryan; and I
believe that Thomas Jefferson was a
greater statesman than Mr.. Bryan. Those
men, in dealing with the early coinage of
our country, explicitly declared that if
we had a double standard. the silver in the
silver dollar must be worth as much as the
gold in the gold dollar. They fixed the
ratio of 16 to i because that was the COM
mercial ratio. Yet Mr.. Bryan and his fol-
lowers now want to disregard that alto
gether and to coin silver at a ratio of is
to /. when the commercial ratio is SO to l.
I wish our friends would show a little more
respect for history than they do. 1t is a
valuable study, because it is the record of
the past, and throws its light forward like
a great searchlight illumining the future.
There is another feature of the Demo-
cratic platform that / think I dislike even
more than / do the free-siiver feature. IT
is that the President of the United States
is not endowed with the power to enforce
the laws of the United States in the States
of this Union without asking the consent
of the Governor. The great war settled
that question; that the laws of the United
States covered every foot of the territory
of the United States and laid their imperi-
United States. Mr. Lincoln said 10 the
Governor of Kentucky. I do not intend to |
ask your consent to rnove the troops of the
United States across the State of Ken
lucky to punish rebels in arms in Tennes-
see That doctrine was maintained. And
row it is proposed that we shall have a sue
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