The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-22
A souND-MoNEY EDITORIAL.
1t Appeared in the Columns of the
German TeIegraph.

German Telegraph.
There is consterna ton in the ranks CT the
silvertes and Popocrats. Yesterday u was
discovered by some of the leading sup
porters of the Chicago platform that one.
of the very few papers in the State ti'at
has been counted on Popocratlc, Sill
veratic organ had published Il strong sound
money editorial article. This paper was
none other than the German Telegraph of
this city. and while it's editor j. B. Ieup,
was engaged last night delivering free
silver speech at Mozart Hall the very peo-
pie who are the leaders in the movement
which he was espousing were trying to find
some satisfactory explanation for the fol-
lowing, which appeared in the editorial
column of the German Telegraph Friday
morning:
I'm the stamp on a ten-mark piece the
government says this and nothing more:
In this piece are 1884 grams OF me goo;
can get for this quantity of gold the gov
eminent does not know and does not care,
but it says further If you owe me or any
body else ten marks you can be relieved of
your obligation upon payment OF such
ten-mark piece.
of the government over coinage, that IS,
so long the government does not see Mt
abuse its power it can coin money OF less
value, stamp it with a greater value ana
command that in the future the COINS sinai.
be taken at their face value in paying
debts. But this is nothing more or less
than robbery. The creditor is cheated OUT
of a portion of that which is due him. And
in the exchange of merchandise Such an
act of violence would, besides bringing
about embarrassing complications, have the
consequence that you would have to pay
more of this cheap money for the same
article than you paid for it in good money;
The nominal values of merchandise would
fit themselves to the values of the money OF
low value, or, in other words, would go up;
the exchange values would remain the
same
The above is only the last half of the
editorial article which is causing so much
trouble in the ranks of the silverites and
likewise in the Office of the German Tele-
graph whence it emanated. The first part
of the article was of silvery style. 1t
started out by stating, as if asserting, sew
eral of the stock arguments Of the silver
| ties Then it proceeded to blow these argu-
| ments full of holes, and wound up with the
above convincing conclusions.
An explanation has been offered for the
peculiar article The leaders of the Pop
| ocracy thought the Telegraph had deserted
| the cause of Organism. The Daily tribune
| a sound-money German paper, reprinted the
| above part of the article Saturday, and IN
Commenting upon it asked if the editor OF
| the Telegraph had gone crazy. But the
meeting last night showed that Mr. Jeup
| mental condition is the same as 1t was be-
! fore the article appeared. He can talk fol
| free silver as ably as he formerly wrote fol
| It, The explanation for the above article
/ is said to have come from the office of the
| German Telegraph and is to the effect tina
when it appeared Mr.. Jeup was out of the
! city and had a man writing the editorla
/ for the paper In haste to fill up the space
Thursday night it is said the substitute
| ran across the article which is causing al
! the trouble in an exchange. He read dowr
part of the way. came TO the conclusion
| that it was a "corker'' for free silver anC
| sent it out to the composing room in sucl
a hurry that he forgot to give the exchange
credit for it. But for his forgetfulness tn
article would have been credited to an
| not have been half great. But for hi
| carelessness in not reading all the articl
| IL would never have appeared. This is TIL
| unofficial explanation for the freak in news
| naper work.