The Indianapolis journal., 1896-10-13
FOR THE OWNERS OF FIFTY MINES.

But for ffty-odd paying silver mines
| there would be no silver issue in this cam
paign. IL the bullion in silver dollar had
| continued to be worth 1e3 cents in gold.
1 as 1t was in 1870, there would have been no
discovery, except by the advocates of pa
per money. that there was not enough gold
/ TO maintain the money standard of the
world Those mine owners would have
| been content to let the old leaders run the
| Democratic party and make the campaign
| on its merits The mine owners Senators,
| in such an event. would have led in insist
| ing. as they did in 1870, that gold is the
money of civilization" There would have
| been no Coin Harvey, no proclamation
| of general calamity, no dreadful orator
| with overworked tongue and unused
| thinking apparatus. The many thousands
| Of lying tracts and pamphlets sent out by
/ the falsely named Bimetallic League would
| never have been distributed to deceive and
mislead well-meaning people.
| Had it not been for the owners of fifty
bonanza silver mines, sixty-nine of the sew
| enty millions of American people would
| have been as ignorant of the existence of
| William J. Bryan to-day as they Were the
J day he broke into the Chicago convention
| with his stolen and distorted metaphors.
| Had not the owners OF the fifty mines al
lured the naturally wrong-going Senator's
| of the Southern States and their devoted
| Turpies in the North, by promise of polit-
| ical power, they could not have been con-
verted to the heresy of a 50-cent dollar.
| Green Smith, John w. Kern, District At
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| would not have been Inundated by joining
| those whom they denounced a few months
| ago as robbers.
The few score rnillionaires who own the
| fifty silver mines have not been spending
| millions of dollars to propagate the de-
| mand for the coinage of their silver bullion
| because they are philanthropsts. They are
| in the campaign as an investment. They
have invested their money to promote the
| silver crusade for the same purpose and
| taking the same risk they would in
| opening a new mine. They have spent
millions in pamphlet distribution, in lobbies
at Washington and in paying lecturers to
delude the people into the idea that more
money is needed for business and that
| the millennium will have dawned when
| Congress snail vote TO stamp tnelr annuAl
| output of $50, O0O0oo or more of silver bull
| lion, as valued in the markets of the
| world $4,000, 900. They nothing for
! the people.
They will be greatly benefited for
| q time by the free and unlimited
| coinage of silver bullion. VIII any 9TH
| ers than these mine owners and
a few spectators be benefited by the
unlimited coinage of silver dollars? VIII
any one of the ten millions of people who
sell labor and skill for dollars be benefited
by having those dollars Mexicanized? Do
the millions of men who depend upon the
profits of trade and manufacture imagine
| that they will be benefited by a- debased
| and f1uctuating standard for the measure
of value?
There is not a man, except the mine
/ owners and the brokers who deal in de-
| preciated and 1uctuating money, who will
| be benefited by the scheme of the owners
/ of the fifty silver mines.