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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26
A FEW WORDS TO WORKERS.
A Plain Statement of the Case Con-
corning Debtors and Creditors.

Gentlemen: ] fear we are laboring under
a great misunderstanding of facts which
have been woefully misrepresented to
Suffering, perhaps, the Inconvenience and
burden of a debt foolishly contracted, we
have been easily led to believe there was
class of creditors. majority, wealthy, and
class of debtors, the large majority, poor.
And being pressed for payment and COM
PEELED to pay if worth it, we have fallen in
with the thought that We were oppressed
by the money power, in whose favor, it has
been said, all laws were made and court de-
cisions rendered. Thus prejudiced, we have
almost consented to any injustice promising
to scale down or free US, with others, from
the burden of our indebtedness. The de-
vice of free coinage might be a blessing,
enabling the poor to pay dollar debts with
halves. We are half ashamed of the fact
when we state it. and never could have
consented to it without the conviction that
it was a. struggle of the masses, under
great disadvantages, against the Cypress
or hand graspng, relentless and inhu-
man. There never was more serious and
sad mistake. In regard to debt and credit,
there classes in this country. We
are all debtors and all creditors. No meas
ure intended to avoid honest payments but
will wrong the masses. Let us rid ourselves
of this short-sighted prejudice Even our
great government is debtor. and many of
its creditors and bondholders are dependent
widows and orphans. The great bankers of
land are debtors in the sum of $685.
397 919 to S75.500 depositors, business men,
not wealthy and wage-earners, besides
their stockholders, many of whom are per-
sons of quite limited means, depending up
on the dividends for their suStenance. All
the immense moneyed institutions are both,
similarly debtors and the workmen are
among their creditors. 1t would amaze us
to realize the great number of such cred
tiers and the immense amount of their
credits in the various savings, insurance
and other institutions of our country.
From statistics and other conservative
Inmates | discover there are not less than
%. $50 564 persons creditors in this way to
the amount of $14,0 93, 240. 549! People, the
people, common people, wage-earnerS.
And these startling figures do not include
clerks in the various departments of this
busy life officers, mail carriers, preachers
or teachers in our land, all of whose pres
ent dues would be scaled down nearly one
half by establishing free and unlimited
coinage of silver. legal tender. ait the
present ratio. Why? Because our expert
ence and universal experience have demon
strated that cheap money will drive good
money from circulation, and. unsupported
by gold. all present and future coinage
of silver dollars would drop to their bull
lion value. Are we, can we, be in favor
of this monstrous injustice? Can we be-
come participants in such robbery?
ONE OF THE WORKERS.
Indianapolis, Sept. %.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26

Bryan's constant railing at the rich comes
with bad grace. He represents a few score
of the richest men in the country. Senator
Stewart is worth tens of millions yet he
shows his greed by forcing down the wages
of his printers from SIS to Sc a week His
colleague Senator Jones. is one of the
wealthy men of the country. He is a man
of brains, a native of England and a man
who holds wealth above all else. During
the last Congress he. forced bill through
the Senate to establish, at the expense of
the government, a deep-water harbor on the
coast in California at point against which
the people of that State protested. 1t was
to cost S. 000 600. The insistence of Senator
Jones was due to the fact that he owns a
large tract of land at that point. Thus he
shows his regard for the people of a State
and the quality of his patriotism. These
are samples of the millionaires who are
behind the silver movement
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26
The POpocratic Photograph

would-be chieftain, eastward bound.
Cries, Engineer don't tarry,
Fer fifty thousand volts of sound
Is what you have to carry
Now who be you, with wordy sauibs,
And gestures so Delsarty?''
"Oh, I'm his Popocratic Nibs,
The chief O. the silver party.
II the living photograph.
A double geared invention;
Free silvers walking cenotaph
With Populst extension.
Il way awhile, and when
My foil begins to lack words,
1 just reverse the crank, and then
L grind it over backwards.
I'm always loaded. What's your choice7
Sixteen-to-one .palaver;
Fac-s SMILES of Altgelds voice.
Or Tilmans rabid saver?"
Out spake that sturdy railroad man:
Come! All aboard, I'm ready.
But grip your pesky gab-mill tight,
And hold your throttle steady.
For by my word you are a bird:
real avis;
But like a parrot-once you re heard,
From more infection save us!'
The train goes flying Ger the trace
A double headed missile
The one behind all scIfckety -clack,
The before, all whistle.
And thus throughout the country
That talk-machine is creaking.
While many a Popocratic brow
Grows black as it is speaking.
Come back, Come baekv' they wildly shout,
And curse their braying lion.
You're letting both your ears stick out.
Oh, Bryant Foolish Bryan
tbs vain That endless phonograph
Keeps winding and unwinding;>
Though some may frown and some may laugh
1t just goes on a-grinding.
Memo
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26

Mr.. Bryan's second invasion of what he
calls "the enefnys country is charac-
teristic of the man. Unless he is insane he
cannot hope to accomplish anything by a
new campaign tour in the East, and es-
pecially in New England The verdict of
Vermont and Maine will be repeated with
added emphasis by every New England
State. Yet Mr.. Bryan is prosecuting his
campaign in that section of the country as
vigorously as if he really expected~to ac-
complish something by it. 1t must be that
he thinks he is a man of destiny and that
every blast upon the bugle horn of his
Irresistible oratory is worth ten thousand
votes 1t is a case of abnormal vanity and
phenomenal seIf-confidence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26

No other person is more responsible for
the present free-silver agitation and the at
tempt to debase the currency and delude
and defraud the people than Senator John
P. Jones' of Nevada. Mr.. Jones began
his senatorial. career in 1873 as rampant
advocate of the single gold standard, and
declared in the Senate in favor of gold as
1.-The custodian of commerce. 1.-The most
potent agent of commerce" and 1.-THE COM
mon denomination of values" Since then
his silver-mining interests have led him to
become a champion of the white metal.
1t is a singular fact that this acknowledged
leader of the free-silver movement should
be native of the country to which Mr..
Bryan makes such frequent illusions in
his efforts to excite popular prejudice and
passion. Senator Jones was born of Eng
lish parents in England. He can be a Sen
atcr of the United States, but, under the
Constitution, he is not eligible to the Of
flee of President. He is however, eligible
to Cabinet position, and if Mr.. Bryan
should be elected President he would prob
ably make Jones Secretary of the Treas
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26
NOT LABOR'S FRIEND.
Concluded from First Pageo

what the farmer is interested in is when
he has a customer to whom he sells his
good bushel of wheat, in d full, round meas
ure he wants to be paid in a good, full,
round dollar applause and cries of 'Goodn
Good! Jan interrupted and undepreciated
and never to- be deprecated dollar Great
applause and cries of 'Hurrah for McKin-
leyio That is what the Republican party
stands for this year. Among many other
good things, it stands for law and order:
it stands for the honor of the government;
it stands for the honest payment of public
debts; it stands for public honor and pub
lie honesty. tremendous cheering.)
II thank you for this call, and j know
you have not had your dinner, and Repub-
licans never interfere with the dinners of
the people; indeed, it has been their aim
to help them get dinners, and good din
ners." Great applause and cries of Nc
Kinley is all righti)
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26

Democrats who are looking for good ma
teriai for campaign speeches will find some
of the best in the last report of the late
Secretary of the Treasury Manning. For
instance, one of the main reasons which he
gave against silver coinage, except by in
ternational action, was the fact that the
price of wheat in India, in rupees, had not,
in 1886, changed for years, yet the British
speculator could purchase silver for 70 cents
an ounce get it coined into rupees and
purchase just as much wheat for the rupee
as seven or eight years earlier. By pur-
chasing the wheat so much cheaper he
could undersell other competitors, and thus
force down the price when the supply was
constantly above the real demand He eSti-
mated that this manipulation of Indian
wheat cut the price in the world % per cent.
AS for the rupee. when expended for gen.
eral merchandise, it fell with the deprecia-
ton of silver bullion. This statement is
worth while recalling because the silverites
claim that the trading in wheat with silver
was a good thing for the Indian wheat
grower, when, in fact it was simply a good
thing for the dealer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26
boundary Dispute Settled.

WASHINGTON, Sept. PA cablegram
from Managua Nicaragua, just received by
the Costa Rican minister, Mr.. Calvo, con-
veys the news of the ratification by the
Congress of Nicaragua of the convention
for the final settlement of the long pending
boundary question between those two coun-
tries. The convention was previously APP
proved by the Congress of Costa RIGA and,
according to one of its provisions, the two
governments shall ask the President of the
United States for the appointment of an
engineer who shall act an arbitrator in
any case of disagreement between the two
respective surveying commissions of the
tNxn ri
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26

During the past fiscal year CTS pension.
ers were paid 13S,21400O in one-hundred-
cent dollars j. the silver barons can have
their way the country will go to silver
basis when the $13s. 214, 900 will lose large
part of its purchase power. This would be
robbing a million old soldiers to enrich a
few thousand millionaire siver-mine~ own
ers. Nevertheless, there is said to be a very
sham Dmocracy that they are anxious to
make the contribution to the mine owners.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26
IT'S REPORT DELAYED
WORK OF THE VENEZUELAN COM
MISSION NOT YET COMPLETED.
Prof. Baer's Examination of the
ished Before October 10.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25-The report of
the Venezuelan commission appointed last
January to investigate the British-Vene-
zueian boundary dispute viii probably be
made to the President shortly before Con-
gress convenes in December. 1t was ex-
pected that the report might be ready
by Nov. l. but complications in connection
with the work in Holland has caused de-
lay. The several members of the commits
sion have been at work on different
branches of the subject all summer with
a view to reaching a decision early as
possible Justice Brewer the chairman of
the commission. has called a meeting of
the commission for Oct 8, and it was
thought that at that meeting all the nee
essary data could be submitted and the
decision arrived at. All the work of the
members of the commission had been ar
ranged with this purpose in view. The
material collected in Spain by the British
and Venezuelan governments relative to
the original Spanish possessions in the ter
ritory in dispute and the material from
the Propaganda at Rome where the rec
ords of the old Catholic missions are kept
is in the possession of the commission
and copies were distributed to the men,
bers as rapidly they We're obtained. This
material, with the exception of some docu-
mentS which Frederick Coudert one of the
members of the commission, will bring
with him from Rome, is complete.
The prospective delay will be incident to
the work of Prof. Baer. who has been
charged with the task of ransacking the
Dutch archives in Holland. Prof. Baer was
instructed to make d most thorough search
for anything that might have q bearing on
the subject and to obtain accurate copies
OF all documents His Investigations led
him to London. Justice Brewer yesterday
received a cablegram from him, saying that
his work in London had been completed
and that he would return to Holland, but
could not finish before the middle of Oc-
tober. This information was disappoint-
ment to Justice Brewer, who had hoped
that all the original material would be in
hand by Oct. 8; However, the commission
can proceed with the examination of the
other material until Prof. Baer arrives, the
latter part of October. Prof. Baer has
Kept Justice Brewer informed of the prog
ress of his work, and his information has
been promptly distributed among the mem
bers of the commission, but, as Justice
Brewer says, in the decision of a question
of such grave Importance and far-reaching
effects each member will be obliged to ex-
anime the documents for himself. With
the submission of the report to the PreSi-
dent the commissions work ceases.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26
One Granted, the other Denied.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-The President
has granted a pardon in the case of J. ".
Phillips convicted in Alabama of illicit dis
tilling and sentenced April 90 to fifteen
months Imprisonment and 500 fine the
prisoner being in an advanced stage of con-
sumption. The application made in the
case of D. G. M. Chisholm convicted in
Georgia of counterfeiting, for restoration to
rights of citizenship has been denied. The
President says that he is usually quite will
ing to restore rights of citizenship to those
who have been convicted of crime, and
after having suffered punishment, appear in
time to redeem their characters and live
honest lives, but that in most cases of this
kind q term of probation is required as a
test of the sincerity of their professions of
refOrma ton
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26

Vice President Brooks, of the Pennsylva-
mia. railway, made a very effective speech
to the great meeting of railroad men at
Terre Haute. In his preliminary remarks
to the boys" as he called them. he said:
There is one sad thing about this occa-
sion. and that is that we are all coerced.
Don't we look as though we were coerced?
Isn't there a sort of sad, detected appear
ance about us just as though We were
driven down here-as though some men in
or Frankfort were here with whip that
reached across the Atlantic, and who were
flashing each one of us into this turnout?
The bows saw the point and roared.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26

May IS, 1896, ex-senator Kern declared
that it would be q monstrous outrage to
pay off the six millions of poor people who
have 81, 500. 600 in savings banks and loan
associations in 50-cent dollars. Judging
from his speech, it will be all right if the
money taken from the six millions goes
into the Golfers of six thousand silver
mine owners
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26
General NEWS.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-H. l.. Bishop
was to-day appointed postmaster at Bry-
ant, Jay county, vice L. J. Willard, re-
moved.
Mr.. B. f. Hough and daughter of In
dianapols, are here
The treasury lost to-day $50, 100 in gold
coin and S., 400 in bars, which leaves the
true amount of the gold reserve $119,649, 102.
Gold to the amount of 81 600 900 wdS to-day
deposited in the subtreasury at New York
in exchange for currency.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26

At the meeting of sound-money Demo-
Gratis in Richmond, Va, a few nights ago,
at which Governor O. Ferrall, of that State,
presided. he replied to the charge of bolt
ing as follows:
If I appoint an agent to buy me bread
and he buys me poison / am not bound to
Democratic convention to nominate a Dem
ocrat for President and adopt & Democrat
ic platform and they nominate Repub-
lican, Populist or Prohibitionist and adopt
a Republican, Populist or Prohibitionist
platform there is no rule of ethics which
requires to vote the ticket or indorSe
the platform, and if l decline L am no par
ty bolter. But suppose. for the sake of ar
gument. I am a bolter technically, then /
ask again what have / bolted? Party prin-
ciples? No; but party organization. How
do the delegates to the Chicago convention
stand? They stand out in bold relief as
boilers of Democratic principles. Which of
occupies the more enviable position?
When l an forced to choose between the
two positions there will never be any queS-
ton as to my choice. / will cling to my
principles and tear loose from the organi-
cation which seeks to strip me of them,
and so will ever man who cheriShes his
principles, has tie courage of his conV1c-
tons and possesses true manhood.
Governor o'Ferrall is made of very diff
ferent stuff from some of our local Demo-
Gratis who are now engaged in apologizing
for ever having had any principles.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26
officer to BE Court-MartiaIed.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-A court-mar-
tial, headed by Colonel Simon Snyder,
Nineteenth Infantry, has been ordered to
meet at Fort Wayne, Mich, Monday, Oct.
5, for the trial of Lieutenant William NJ.
Williams retired officer living in Detroit,
for nonpayment of debts. Lieutenant Will
liams has been in similar trouble before,
when he was court-martialed and sem
fenced to dismissal, but through the Glenn
ency of General Schofield he was given an
Of chancn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26

The government is now coming silver dol
lars at the rate of about 100000 a month
According to the monthly treasury state
ment. the total number of silver dollars
coined up to last July was 430, 100 OIL on
Sept. 1 there were 434, 500, 041, showing a
coinage during July and August of 3.712, 000
This coinage is from the silver bullion pur-
chased under the Sherman act, and
the dollars, like all other standard silver
dollars, are receivable for customs and Ie-
gal tender for any amount. During the
last six months there have been more full
legal-tender silver dollars coined than there
were during the period from 1892 to 1873.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26

Mr.. Bryan is constantly quoting the words
OF great men who have died, but he cannot
FIND one who left behind him a statement
to the effect that it would be a good policy
to coin so cents worth of silver bullion into
dollars for the benefit of an Individual
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26

Mr.. Shiveley's defense of his Peru speech
does not defend Those who heard him say
he said: Every hook-nosed Shylock from
Jerusalem to Omaha is boarding up his
gold" One reporter gave it: Every hook
nosed Shylock from Jerusalem to Oklaho-
ma" Mr.. Shiveiey says he did not mention
any place in the United States but said
"from Jerusalem to Jericho That does
not help his case at all. No doubt the
Jericho amendment is an afterthought-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26

Tense of the country and brings tears into
MS eyes whenever he talks about the flag.
Bryans Is of the kind that divides the
American people into classes and begs the
discontinued ones TO vote for him as the
only way of getting even with the pluto
Gratis and monopolists
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26

That neutral paper, the Chicago Record,
has INDUCED in a cartoon illustrating the
so-called partisan reports of a given politS
teal meeting in this State. 1t has been
copied by one or two alleged Independent
papers. to then. great delight. Now, If the
neutral paper in Chicago will publish car
toon, or a series of cartoons, illustrating
the contrasts which its intelligent and hon
est correspondent and its silver correspond
ent presented in their reports as to labor
and other conditions III Mexico 1t might
afford increased amusement and illustrate
the wabbling of neutral paper simply in
tent on catching all classes of readers by
catering to all sides.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26

1t is not railroad employees alone who are
being coerced; the farmers, the iron work
ers, the steel workers, the glass workers,
the commercial travellers, the oil men, bust
ness men-in fact, pretty much everybody
is likely to be coerced by common sense and
common honesty to vote for Mckinley.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26
AstOnished.

II believe in always getting full value for
my money! said the man with the thin
rose.
Il am astonished." said the man with the
red whiskers. Il never dreamed you let go
of your money at all. -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Ca,I be found at the following places:
NEW YORk-.Winusor Hotel and Astor House.
CHICACO-Palmer House and p. o. News Co.,
pa Dearborn street.
CiNCINNATI--J r. Hawley & Co., l54 Vine
LOtjt~ vTLLE-C. T. Deering, northwest corner
of Third and Jefferson streets, and LouisFisie
Book Co.. 356 Fourth avenue.
ST. LoUIS-Union News Company, Union Depot.
WASHINGTON, d. C.--Riggs House, Ebbitt
house, Wizards Hotel and the Washing Oh
News Exchange, Fourteenth street. between
Penn. avenue and + street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26

Word comes from New York that Sena-
tor Jones, of Nevada, one of the richest of
the silver mine barons, has contributed $1O-
600 to the campaign fund, yet that sum
from that millionaire is not SO much
as dime for the wage earners whom the
silver managers have asked to contribute
n dollar each
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26

OF course Mr.. Bryan cannot fail to know
That in no combination in the world are
there so many very rich men in that
composed of the men who are behind the
free-silver movement.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26
Doesn't Seem Consistent.

chicago OCtdII
It is hardly the thing for man to be ca
yerting over the country in "a special
car and denouncing ''plutocrats'' at every
cross roads where he is switched off to
make speech. And yet that is w. j.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26

The Honorable Green Smith has evident
1y come to the conclusion that the money
of India and Japan. which he ridiculed last
June. is good enough for the people of the
United States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26

a No honest man in his right mind can be-
1feve that the free coinage of silver by
this government will do other than force
the United States to silver recommendation
Ito the basis of Mexico, China and India
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26
Never Before.


Philadelphia North American.
Never before in the history of the Re
public did a candidate for the presidency
seek to attract support by condernning the
national administration for which his party
was reSnonSibIe
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26

Now that Governor Matthews has been
instrumental in forcing Green Smith and
other gold men into partial recanting of
their views, he may fairly regard himself
as the boss of the Indiana Democracy