The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-09
Mr.. DYES FINE SPEECH
A PROMINENT DEMOCRAT SHOWS UP
THE DANGERS OF BRYANIsM.
An Address to the Russell CInb-Pop-
0cracy's Promise to Farmer and
Laboring Man keenIy Analysed.

last evening. The room was crowded Win
Democratic advocates of sound money who
showed their appreciation of the telling
points made on the political issues by Mr..
Dye, by frequent applause. Bryan and his
espousaI of the Popocratic platform was
roundly condemned. Said he in part:
'One of the greatest blessings of civiliza-
ton is that it brings within the reach or
greater measure of the commodities nee
eSsary for their support and comfort;
first, by creating greater abundance OF
all good things and bringing q larger
amount of the same within the reach or
the masses for consumption ana ENJOY
ment. Civilization is q process that creates
abundance; that makes things cheaper and
easier TO obtain by the toillnS mllllons; II
lifts them up from lower 10 hlgher
plane of existence; conferS upon them more
of the comforts ana enjoyments OF Ire;
gives them new hopes, new aspirations and
cient world was slave. In medieval
times he was d serf In America to-day
he is free citizen, armed with the ballot,
educated in the public schools owning, or
hoping to own, the home that shelters his
family. Not only does civilization cheaper
commodities, but it increases wages. By
the increased productiyeness of labor, and
the Increased intelligence of the working
man. and the power OF combination. he has
been able 10 obtain gradually more ana
more of the goods of this world for his
daily labor. While commodities grow cheap
wages rise. Since 1S4G the average wages
have doubled in this country since 1860
they have risen more than so per cent, and
there is no country in the world nor in his
tory, where the laborer has received so
large a share of those commodities which
are necessary to a comfortable existence as
in the United States this day.
REVERSING ORDER OF PROGRESS.
Now. what Go Bryan, Tillman, AltgeId
and Debs propose? The complaint of the
presetn monetary system in the Chicago
platform is that it depresses the prices of
products. They propose to reverse the law
of progress and to make the prices of COM
modities higher without any suggestion of
Increase in the wages of those who toll
The sole and avowed purpose of the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at Is to
is to increase the price of commodities, to
reverse the law of civilization, which makes
commodities cheaper and more abundant
and brings them within the reach of the
1aborer. There is no other end or aim
proposed. The products of the farm which
are now worth 90 cents, upon the gold
standard, they tell us will be worth 100 cents
in deprecated coin. Yet, there is sug-
gestion of any increase in the wages of the
toiiers who are to be paid in this depre-
increasing their wages by legislation. That
is matter OF negotiation of bargain. The
increase or wages is slow and painful
contest of adjustment and mutual con-
cessions. Wages. as we know from our ex-
peflence with deprecated money during the
war will increase, but the increase will be
slow. and it will fall far short of the in
crease in the prices of commodities.
And not only this. The man who is de-
pendent for his daily bread upon his daily
labor must have constant and regular en-
ployment. No sane man slpposes that one
half of all existing obligations could be
confscated by payment in deprecated coin
without affecting credits and producing
confusion and bringing disaster upon the
industrial enterprises which depend upon
credit, and furnish employment to millions
of men.
LOCAL ILLUSTRATIONS.
can tn,
goods for the worlds markets must lay
in vast stores of material in advance Nor
dyke & Marmon, who sell their mills in
Mexico, South America, Australia and
Egypt, cannot wait for orders. They must
lay in their materials in advance. How
they buy in the face of q threat that
the standard of the value is to be changed
40 per cent? The Atlas works, that fur
nishes employment to hundreds OF men in
the manufacture Of machinery for the
worlds markets. must lay in their supplies
one year, two years in advance. When
they are threatened with a. sudden change
of the standard of value what can they do
as prudent business men except to furl
their sails and prepare for a storm? And
the labOrers who We're relying upon con-
slant and regular work to support their
families find themselves without employ
ment. The 1,500 men who work in the glass
works at Muncie not only interested
in the maintenance of their present rate
OF wages, but IL constant ana regular en-
ployment, and when the industry that fur
nishes such employment is embarrassed the
laborerS suffer.
But this is not all. There is no part of
the community who are more deply inter-
ested in the enforcement of law and the
preservation of order and good government
than the men who live by their daily ton.
Our Industrial system which depends upon
credit and undisturbed transportation over
our railroads cannot flourish in the time of
disorder, and disaster is sure to come when
thousands of men, without work, without
hope, made discontinued and hostile.
Mills and factories cannot transport
their products to the market when the rail-
roads are torn up by Mr.. Debs and men
supporting Mr.. Bryan, who are hos
tile to the present social order. They can
not furnish work to their employees when
there is so much disturbance in the finan-
cial world that they cannot sell their COM
What Mr.. Bryan holds forth to the wage
Garner is that he shall receive less of the
commodities necessary to his subsistence
ana comfort for his daily wages; that his
employment shall be made more uncertain
by the confusion and disorder that is sure
to follow q sudden change in the standard
of values, and the turning out of employ
ment of thousands of men. And when that
confusion and disorder comes-and it is Ger
tain TO coIne-can we rely upon Mr.. Bryan
and Mr.. Tiilman and Mr.. Altgeld and Mr..
DebS to maintain and enforce the law to
restore order?'
HOW WILL FARMERS PROFIT?
''Will the farmer assist in this war upon
civilization itself? What has the farmer to
gain by the delusive promise of Mr. Bryan
to raise the price of his cotton and his
wheat by paying him in deprecated
money? Can Mr.. Bryan raise the price of
wheat? Can he repeal the law of supply
and demand? Can he overcome the compe-
tition of India with it's 600 miles of
railroad, of Argentine with its 5000
miles of railroad, of Egypt and the Black
sea pouring it's wheat into the markets of
the world? VIII we be enabled to consume
any more wheat at home when we have de-
stroyed the ability of the wage Garner to
buy it? Is not the price of surplus
wheat fixed in the markets of the world in
gold. the worlds money? Will the ex-
change value of a buShel of wheat for 9TH
er commodities be Increased by payment in
deprecated money?
Mr.. Bryan talks about bimetallsm. We
cannot have two standards of value-two
dollars one worth 100 cents and one worth
53 cents or 70 cents We can silver a
we now do. and as we always Will, but it
must be maintained a parity with gold
the money of the world No sincere and
two standards, whether OF length, or of
weight or OF value, at the same time
Neither can a country With an Industrial
system like ours. which must sell its prod
ucts in the worlds markets, divorce it
self from the worlds standard of money
If we had silver nOnometallism. as we
would have under free and unlimited COIN
age of silver. the value of all articles ex-
ported to the worlds markets must be
measured in the worlds money, and the
purchasing power of our silver money
would be measured by it's value as COM