The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-30

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the prodigal for whom the fatted calf
killed owing to the fact that he was
a supporter of Mr.. Cleveland four years
ago
Mr.. FouIke's Address.
Mr.. Foulze was received with much
thusiasm and held the closest attention of
his audience for two hours. In the course
OF his address he said:
THE political crisis which confronts us
brings back to my memory the spring of
1851 the year of the beginning of the war.
No who lived in those days Will ever
forget them. l remember that before that
time men were greatly divided in their po-
litca views; a few were III favor of imme-
date emancipation everywhere. large
body demanded that slavery should be kept
out OF the Territories, but left alone in the
States; another party believed that the new
settlers ought to determine the question for
themselves while still another faction con-
tended that the Constitution carried slavery
into all parts of the country subject to
the FEDERAL government. When STATE after
State seeded there were some who main
tanned that these States must be brought
back by force. others contended that there
was no COVER to coerce them, while others
still. who did not doubt that power, be-
lieved that it would be wiser to let the
erring sisters depart in peace but when,
in Charleston harbor. the first gun was
fired upon the Gag. these differences We're
at once forgotten: men were no longer
lists. In the enthusiasm which followed the
outbreak Of the war there were were but but, two
base faction Of its foes ~ 0' '' '''o
To-day a feeling much the same per
of different policies of administration. We
favored or opposed the annexation of
Hawaii. the interference in, Venezuela. the
recognition of belligerency in Cuba. Even
the tariff question. important it was,
was essentially a matter of domestic pol
icy intimately affecting our interests, but
not Our honor, nor our national life. But
when on the 9th day of last July, from
the great city by. the lake. the grim form
the time came when differences like these
must sink into the sea and when the men
who loved the good name of their country
must stand side by side to do battle against
a common enemy.
The issue at stake is hardly less impor-
tant than was that of 1861. Then it was
the question of our national unity; to-day
1t is the question of our national integrity
While | have no controversy with the
sound-money Democrats. who have organ
lied separate party and placed a separ-
ate ticket in the field to me it seems that
the vital question is. how best to overthrow
that aggregation of wickedness set forth in
the Chicago platform and represented by
the candidates of the Chicago convention
In my humble opinion, the best thing that
j can do is to cast my vote for Mckinley.
and not to throw it into the air. A whole
vote is more effective than half vote To
sound-money Democrats who are opposed
10 Mckiniey and protection. put the cues
disastrous. a tariff under which our coun-
try has enjoyed prosperity in the past.
debased coinage under which it can never
maintain either prosperity or self-respect
in the ire? If you believe that free coin
age re the worse alternative then /
ask 70. 20 oppose it effectively as you
can and to vote for the only candidate
who can defeat it.
TEST of HONESTY IN MONEY.
Mr.. Bryan says that the test of honesty
I'm money is found in the purchasing power
of the dollar; that an absolutely honest
dollar would be absolutely stable when
measured by average prices. 1t seems to
me that the test of the honest dollar is its
ability TO measure a given amount of hui
man labor, Other things may rise or fall
the weather may give poor crops or bad
crops, and make corn cheap dear, but
the Drawn and muscle of the average man
remains substantially the same. Let me
lnllustrate s. Suppose we leave this great
and betake ourselves to some distant tract
removed from civilization and the dwell
fngs of men. Here let us start a little COM
mun1ty of our own. Land has no value and
gold is procured with great skill by wash
mountains. Here let us establish our set
tlement and go to work. One days work
will produce in gold dust amount that
weighs the same as our gold dollar. Part
OF our own community are miners who
wash out the gold but there are others
supply the miners with their primitive
food and clothing; and land is cleared
wheat Now, one days labor applied to
that wheat will produce bushel or it will
lay up one cord of wood. The average
or one wild deer for food. So the miner
exchanges his gold upon equal terms for
the wheat and the wood, and the skin and
days work. But the next year the crops
are more bouHtiful and the shooting is
for cutting the wood and raising wheat
One days work will produce two bushels
and two cords of wood but Just the same
amount OF gold comes from the miners
washing the second year as the first. The
represented in human labor
Now what is the real standard of
commodities, one of which now only rep
sents half a days work. is it the gold
which represents the same amount of labor
before? Suppose thAt during the FIRST
year one of the miners, who has denied
intnd so 9he orf n so Of s e has
100 days work. He lends 1t to the trader
of the settlement, who promises to pay it
be paid? Mr.. Bryan wouldssay that gold
has become a dishonest standard, because
the production of it has not increased as
rapidly as the production of wheat and
wood. and skins. and wild game; but it
represents the same quantity of work now
that II did the year before, while other
things do not. This time of payment comes
and the trader says: I win give You 100
100 bushels of wheat But the miner an
swers: No; 100 skins. or bushels. or cords
represent only one-half the labor which 7
gave for my gold You must give me back
my gold, dollar for dollar. or else YOU
must give me twice the skins and twice the
bushels or cords of wood for they only
cost half the same amount of work to pro-
duce them.
My friends. is it the gold-dust or is it
the skin. or the bushel, or the cord of
wood which makes the honest standard
OF value The skin, and the bushe and
the cord OF wood correspond closely to the
general average of production, but it is not
ought to rule Now, If the gold dollar to-
day represents more work than il did In
1873 Mr.. Bryan might have cause TO com
plain. but IL does not represent even as
mach labor as IL did then.
THE CRIME OF '73"
There is another thing which shows
that the act of 1879 was not the cause 81
our present industrial paralysis. If this
act caused business depression. that de-