The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

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can draw it out according to his necessity
or inclination. in as good money as he put
IN. Great cheering)
CONFIDENCE AND DOUBT
This thing called business confidence
never shut up an American mill; never re-
duced wages or curtailed employment;
never refused loans; never got up a run on
a bank: never stopped a mine: never Gre
ated idleness among laboring men. Cap
plause.l When confidence is present with
us the sheriff has less to do (great laugh
ter and applause) and advertises fewer
forced sales; the court docket registers
fewer judgments; public charity is less i'm
voked and the free soup house is unknown
and unnecessary. Tremendous cheering0
come not singly, but n battalions. and suf-
fering falls on every community. zap
plause.) No part of our popua tion is ex-
empt 1t may come from one thing or it
may come from another.
Doubt in the business world is death to
business: (Applause and cries of That's
right.D We have it now We know the
hour it came. (Great cheering) We know
what brought. it: And | think we know
and cries of You bet We do.) We have
had it in the United States to a greater
or less degre from the moment it was set
tied in 1892 that our protective tariff laws
were to be changed. II continued until the
changes were actually made and still long
er until the people in 1894 elected a Re
publican national House of Representatives
and made il impossible TO cut deeper into
the industries OF our country. (Applause)
When the doubt of further changes had
been thus removed. then came the realiZa-
ton of the destruction which that tariff
law had done to some of our great indus
tries. entailing an injury felt in every
State and community OF our country Then
following that was a loss to the trea sury
from insufficient revenues under that legis-
latlon- Then the run on the gold reserve;
then bonds to make that gold reserve good.
Ihen the obstruction in the Senate to any
emergency Legislation which would supply
the loss of revenue entailed by that law,
and the very character of that resistance
in the Senate to legislation which would in
crease the revenues only increased the un-
certainty (Appause.)
Then, with all these burdens upon MS
the Chicago platform. with it's reactionary
provisions, came to further fret us The
world has been characterized not by Re-
publicans alone, but b7 the old and trusted
ace TO every invested interest in the United
States, revolutionary in character and d-
rectly leading to dishonor and partial re-
pudiation. Great cheeringD
The people this year are engaged in a
great national contest to restore the con-
fdence so sadly shaken by the succession
ly named. In less than five weeks
they will speak and make known their de-
West Virginia? (Cries of tMcKinlevi Nc
kinley" followed by tremendous cheering)
line II the people shall, with. ringing and i'm
pressixe voice, declare four weeks from
next Tuesday that the public credit shall
not be lowered the ational currency shall
not be degraded. the peace and tranquility
OF this government of law shall not be
broken, the revenues of the treasury shall
be no longer insufficient for the needs of
tne government and then that the tariff
shall no longer be inadequate to protect the
American workshop and the American mar
ket. business activity will return conf
dence will come back again courage will
take the place of fear work will be re.
sumed and prosperity will come to bless
and benefit us all. Great applause and
cries of That's 500 God grant to the
American people the wisdom to guide them
in the right. Great cheeringD
Il thank you my fellow-citfzens for this
visit and wish for you a safe return to
your homes Great applause)