The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05

and a silver standard has passed, and cap
ital will be quickly invested to take adj
vantage of the low market and thus be
able to reap the fruits of a rise in values.
washington Gazette.
Those people who prefer a half dollar to
enough in this country to insure the cleo
ton of Mr.. Bryan in observation-disclosures
Times.
What a splendid rebound of business con-
f1dence will occur on the morning of the
4th of November when the overwhelming
triumph of Mckinley is
Gle Times.
There is no middle ground in this cam
paign. You must either vote with the par
ty that wants to smash up things or the
party. that wants to build up things.
Goshen Times.
Every dollar paid for wages in American
factories adds to the income of the Ameri-
can farmer. Put the mills to work and
give the dollars we have something to do.
-Thorntown Argus.
To reduce this country to a silver stand
ard, or, as Bryan puts it, from a 200-cent
dollar to a 100-cent dollar, would be a vio-
lation of every contract in America--North
Vernon Republican.
Let us-not forget that with cheap money
comes cheap labor. The former would
mean bankruptcy and reputation. while
the latter would bring national disgrace.
Evansville Journal.
The Democratic campaign four years ago
was a campaign to. cheaper things. Is it
possible that things are SO cheap that it
is necessary to make a cheap money to
match?-North Manchester Journal.
Bryan says people find more profit in
boarding money than in investing it. This
was not the case until Bryan and his other
free-trade associates got possession of the
government in 1S92.-Decatur Journal.
1t is safe to say there will be no free-sil-
yer Republicans in this county by Nov. 3.
The few soreheads that have gone over to
the PopOcratic party in the hope of getting
an office won't cut any fgure.-Carthage
Record.
MIR. Bryan voted for free wool. BY this
act the price fell about 40 or SO per cent.
and sheep lost half of their value also. Mr..
Bryan now wants free silver, which would
make another cut in the price of both sheep
and wool.-Greenfield Republican.
If people would recollect that coin is sim
ply tampe bullion, and that when it is
coined on private account its purchasing
power will simply be it's commercial value,
the subject of free coinage of either gold
or silver would be better understood.
Huntington Herald.
That this is a year favorable to small-fry
Popocratics politicians is still further at
tested by the fact that GIL ShankIin is
enjoying the distinction OF being men
toned in connection with the United
States senatorship to succeed Daniel w.
Observation-Disclosures Courier.
This talk about the coercion of en-
ployes is all bosh. How is it possible to
coerce a voter under our present Australian
ballot law? When a man gets into the lit
tie booth with his ballot and his stamp
only himself and his Maker knows how he
votes.-Mishawaka Enterprise.
The money power must go."-Indianap-
oils Sentinel. Yes, it will go-to the polls
and defeat Bryan. That same money pow
er is composed of the masses of the indus
trious and frugal citizens of the United
States, and it has sense enough to know
its own Observation-Disclosures Item.
Business men who have demonstrated
their ability to conduct their own affairs
successfully have an intelligent apprecia-
ton of the political situation as it now
presents itself, and it is encouraging to oh
serve that they are everywhere combining
TO save the country and themselves from
SenSeieSS agitation and from reckless adj
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Courier.
The election of Mckinley means at once
a revival of business and a restoration of
confidence, for everybody will know Just
what to depend upon for the future. A
manufactures will not hesitate to open his
factory and no man with money will hest
tate to invest it, and thus Idle capital and
idle labor will become active together.
Greenfield Republican.