The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-23
TO NEW WORKERS.
Bryan's Attempt to Arouse Prejudice
Condemned by Mckinley.

twelve coaches After marching to Major
McKinley's home Hon. A. c. Wade, OF
Jamestown introduced the visitors in a
brief speech Mr.. Mckinley replied in the
following words:
Mr. Wade and my Fellow-Citizens-I is
especially gratifying to me to welcome to
my city and home citizens of the great EN-
pire State of New York 1t is proud thing
to be citizen of the first and greatest
State in the American Union, but it is
prouder still to be a citizen of the mighty
American Nation. Your call at any time
would have been most welcome, but your
coming far on such an inclement day
to testify your devotion to Republicanism
is most impressive and significant act.
/ thank you for it on behalf of the Repub-
lcan cause and congratulate you and the
great people and State that you for the
time represent on the splendid prospects
for local and national success.
1T is difficult to realize-and / sometimes
think that the country does not realize
that as immense as the agricultural re-
sources of the West are yet New York
is still the first State in both the value
of her farms and farm products. Your
counties are among the most northwestern
in that splendid group of magnificent agri-
cultural counties stretching across your
State having in 1880 an assessed valuation
of 81, ,056, 116 141, and yielding annually from
your twenty-three million acres $17S 600. 900
worth of products. Your farmers, there
fore, are quite as much Interested in the
proper settlement of the free silver, tariff
and reciprocity issues in this campaign,
which in Importance dominate all others,
as the farmers of any other section of the
country, and so whatever may be said of
these subjects, the fact ought to be con
stantly borne in mind that the farmers of
New York are quite as much concerned
in point Of actual property at stake as
those of any other State or section. of the
Union.
the West and South against the East is
therefore but a mischievous and unpatriotic
effort to arouse prejudice and hatred
by the same causes and feeling the same
business depressions as those which disturb
and harasS the whole country. l have no
sympathy my fellow-citizens, with cause
based upon mere hate and passion. 1t is
beneath the aims and purposes of patriotic
freemen and l am glad to note that it
receives no encoura cement from the sturdy
citizens of New York
How Strikingly the names of the illus
trious Hamilton and the empire State of
New York are inseparably connected We
cannot think of@the great events of our
history without at once aSsocia ting them
together, and we cannot recall any exam
pie of like nature so conspicuous unless it
be the inSeparable association of Washing
ton and Jefferson with Virginia and Lin
coin with Illinois. Fortunately these states
men are our own countrymen, and we can
much they may have differed in adminis-
trative policies they We're always and at
all times together for the honor of the
country. Great applause.) No man of
his time left a more lasting impression on
public legislation than the eminent leader
more than any one else, secured her rati-
fcation of the United States Constitution
than to any other citizen for our protect
i've tariff system, which he always steadi-
tary system, for, beginning with the first
coinage act, April 2, 1892, every law en-
acted down to and including the act of
May. 1875, providing for the resumption of
specie payments, was based upon the prin-
ciplles laid down by Alexander Hamilton
and supported almost in their entirety by
Thomas Jefferson. (Appause.)
DOCTRINES OF THE FATHERS.
I'VE have heard a great deal in this cam
paign about the doctrines of the fathers
Hamilton favored both gold and silver as
money, though he preferred gold alone
himself, and the government of the United
States entered upon the use of both.
Hamilton announced the great fundament-
al principle when he said: There can
hardly be a better rule for any country
for a legal money than the market ratio.
In other words every coin should contain
enough metal so that when melted it will be
worth just as much when 1t is stamped
money the bullion or market value al
ways to be the same as its legal money
value This was the doctrine of both Ham
ilton and jefferson This has been the un-
devating policy of the government under
every administration and has been the
settled policy of all the great parties of
the country from the beginning of the
government.
known the Sherman law. we insisted on
putting into that law the doctrine of Ham
lltOn. that the parity or the TWO metals
must always be sacredly maintained. The
Republicans wrote into that law--for both
branches of Congress and the presidency
were in the hands of the. Republican party
"a solemn pledge which is as binding an
agreement between the government and the
people ever made Here is the Ian
guage: 1T is the established policy of the
United States to maintain the two metals
(gold and silver at parity with each 9TH
er upon the present legal ratio or at such
ratio as may be established by law This
was the act of the F'ifty-first Congress,
passed by the Republican party for
the purpose of preventing the free
coinage of silver at a ratio. of
to silver the Greatest use as oney givlng ans
for that purpose providing for the utiliza-
tion of substantially the full product of the
ration in recent years in support of the
Hamilton idea of their parity. The Fifty
third Congress. elected in 1892 and Demo
cratic in both branches. with President
Cleveland as the chief executive, elected
by the Democratic party. also recognized
land was convinced that the coinage
of silver was becoming such a peril to the
country that he called Congress together
in extraordinary session Aug. T. 1893, and
Congress, at his earnest solicitation. pro-
the so-called Sherman law. and in doing
this wrote into our public statutes this ex-
clared to be the policy of the United States
to continue the use of both gold and silver
as the standard money, and to coin both
gold and silver into money of equal in
trinsic and exchan geable value, this equal
ity to be secured through international
agreement, or by such safeguards of leg
slation as will insure the maintenance of
the parity in value of the coins of the two
metals and the equal power of every dol
lar at all times in the market and in the
payment of debts.
A DEMOCRATIC ACT
This was the act of the Fifty third Con-
gress under President Cleveland. an act by
a Democratic Congress and a Democratic
President. approved by Democratic ad-
ministration and indorsed everywhere by
the Democratic press, and, as / believe by
the masses of the Democratic party. 1t is
true that we Republicans can take salts
faction in the fact that it would not have
passed the Senate except for the earnest
support of Republicans and none more
prominently than Senator Sherman himself
But the Democratic party was solely re-
sponsible for our legislation then. and its