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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-07
THE TALK ABOUT COERCION.

The fact that many employers of labor
including railroad companies, manufac-
turers. contractors. ETC., are opposed to the
free coinage of silver, and are doing what
they can to avert what they think would
be a national disaster is causing much dis
tress to the silverites. The companies and
firms alluded to charged with trying to
coerce their employees into voting for
sound money. If the charge We're true it
would be a serious one. Nothing is more
sacred in this country than a mans right
to vote he pleases, and nothing should
be more odious than attempt on the
part of an employer to coerce or unduly in
fuence his employees to vote against their
convictions or wishes. The line against
any kind of coercion should be clearly
drawn and strictly enforced. But it does
not follow that an employer may not ex-
press his opinions and like any other per-
son. present reasons and arguments to his
employees why they should support a GER
tain policy or vote certain way 1t would
scarcely be proper for him to ask how they
intend to vote. and he has no right to know
how they do vote, but he has perfect
right to appeal to their intelligence and
present reasons why they should vote
certain way. An employer has the same
right to do this that any other person has,
and his employees should have the same
right to reject his arguments or advice
that they have in the case of another per-
SON. With an understanding as to this
relation there is no coercion, and the sug-
gestlon of such a thing is equally in
sulting to both parties. An employer who
feels that important interests are at stake
ought to be willing to try and help his
employees to right understanding and
conclusion, and if he frankly admits the
right of his employees after hearing his
arguments to vote as they please they
ought to be glad that he takes interest
enough in them to make a respectful ap-
peal to their intelligence to think as he
does. An employee who calls this kind of a
respectful appeal coercion insults him.
self. This is country of free speech as
we'll as of free suffrage. The right of
speech is not confined to professional poll
boy orators An employer of labor has a
perfect right to do a little campaigning on
his own account. and his arguments ought
to be all the more effective if they are
based on business instead of partisan con-
SidarationS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-07

G. c. M. Oakland City: Major Mckinley
did not fail: he signed the paper of man
who had befriended him, Those notes were
not redeemed. as Major Mckinley had been
led to believe they would be, as that when
the man failed it was found that, to make
payment, every dollar of the property of
Major Mckinley and his wife would be
swallowed UP. They preferred to do this
but several of the numerous friends of
Major Mckinley assumed his responsibility
so that he can gradually pay off the liza bill
ity. When the calamity first fell upon
Major Mckinley he proposed to abandon
public life, and GO into the practice of law
to earn livelihood after all the property
of himself and wife had been given up
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-07

one that they were lying. From the tenor
that Mr.. Bryan is lying about the matter.
Fairer, because the man who advises an
other man to live a lie and be hypocrite.
is in all probability a liar and hypocrite
himself.
1t is well-known fact that the employ
ers of large bodies of men are not so un-
wise as to attempt to dictate or coerce
their employees in the matter of suffrage
In 1892 a large part of the men employed
in the protected industries voted for Mr.
Cleveland when they knew that their en-
ployers desired the election of General Har-
rison. Some of the most prominent of the
local leaders in the Democratic party are
foremen in factories controlled by Repub-
Hcans. The men are employed because
they are faithful and efficient. In 1894 the
larger part of the employees in the larger
establishments voted the Republican ticket
because they had learned that free trade
is a snare and delusion. If the intelligent
men who work in factories, shops and on
the railroads are with the sound-money
people this year it is because they are con-
WINGED that it is the best thing for them
to do. In all the world there are no men
who are more jealous of their independence
than the mass of those who work in fac
tories and shops. Therefore, when Mr..
Bryan represents them as wearing a politi-
cal badge 90 the dctation of an employer,
he insults hundreds of thousands of men
as much as he would if he should slap each
of them in the face. The object of the
Populst demagogue is to fill the hearts of
wage-earners with malice against those
who pay wages. He will fail; the thought
less will applaud such incendiary express
sions and his advice to men to be hypo-
critics, but the man who insults the hun
dreds of thousands of wage-earners as has
Bryan in this quotation, will be held in
universal contempt ere long.
Answering the assertion that the gold
standard confers no benefits upon labor,
every intelligent wage-earner knows that
while the price OF labor under the Repub-
lican system of protection gradually ad-
vanced in money as good as gold, and four
times as much it is in any silver coun-
try for the same labor, the silver wages
did not advance in Mexico or Japan, but
fell in purchasing power compared with
gold. When Mr.. Bryan declares that gold
paying the highest wages and where the
condition of the wage-worker is best, has
done nothing to advance the interests of
labor, he proclaims himself an ignoramus
a falsifier.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-07

e. b. M, Redkey: Jan. 1, 1866. extra
flour was quoted in this city at IS to So;
superfine, 81; fancy brands choice old red
wheat. $1.60 to $3.50 per bushel; wheat
by weight, 75c to $1.25. The following prices
are added: Refined sugar, 1920 to 201ac;
extra sugar, tic to 1Sc; New Orleans
molasses, 81 to $1-30; nails, 6p., 1925 to $3.50
per 100 pounds; glass, Sx10, $3.50 box. jan
1, 1867, fancy flour was quoted at $780,
extra. $40; superfine, $3.50 to s.; choice red
wheat, $3.50 to $3.50; corn, 40c; granu-
lated sugar, Ice to 161ac; raw sugar 12c to
lac; 6-penny nails. SS.25; common pine
boards, $3.50; cotton batting CSC to 4Oc
Dec. 81, 1867 wheat, $2.25 Dec. 81
1868, fancy flour, $S.25 to $40; superfine 50
to Sc; red wheat, SLIGO to s1.65; cattle, $3.50
to $3.50. 1t appears from the foregoing that
wheat rose from an average of $1.70
bushel Jan. l, 1866, to an average of 1872
year later 81 cents bushel, and that,
during the year 1868 wheat fell from an
average of $2.52 bushel to an average of
N.62 a bushel, or 80 cents. These unpre-
cedented fluctuations took place in three
crops, when the country was upon a paper
money basis. During 1866 the premium on
gold fluctuated from q to so per cent; in
1867, from 35 to 43 per cent, and in 1868,
from 351a to 451A per cent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-07

A correspondent in Oakland City writes
that a prominent Democrat there asserts
that the Republican platform of 1892 de-
clared for free silver. The writer knows
that this was not the case, but has no copy
OF the platform at hand to refute the false
hood. Doubtless other Bryanites are tell
ing the same story, SO the text of the plank
of the Republican national platform of 1892
is given, as follows
The American people. from tradition and
interest. favor bimetalliSm; the Republican
party demands the of both gold and
silver for standard money. with such re-
Strictions and under such provisions, to be
determined by legislation. as will secure
the maintenance of the parity of values of
the two metals, that the purchase and
the debt-paying power of the dollar wheth-
er of silver, gold or paper, shall at all times
be equal. The interests of the producers
of the country its farmers and its work
ingmen. demand that every dollar, paper
or coin. issued bv the government shall be
as good any other We commend the
wise and patriotic steps already taken by
our government to secure an international
conference to adopt such measures as Will
insure a parity of value between gold and
siiver for use as money throughout the
world
1t will be seen that there is no phrase in
the foregoing which can be twisted to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-07

Der. and for this reason they are organic
ing for the protection of the farmers and
themselves against a financial heresy
which would first destroy the farmer and
through him the implement men.-Wabash
Tribune.
The blue and the gray have never been
n.ore closely associated since the war than
they are in the ticket nominated at In
rational convention. While the ticket can
not possibly win in the present campaign,
IL Will serve as a nucleus around which
the better elements of the Democratic par
" may gather and preserve themselves
from a disgraceful death at the hands of
the Bryanites.-Wabash Tribune
We do not wonder that Bryan felt COM
plimented by the presence of Governor
Matthews at his meeting here, as he ex-
pressed it, ITO extend a welcome in per-
son. The number of Democrats of ma
t1onal fame who have stood by him In his
advocacy or Reputation of the national
credlt mas been so few that the SIN lll-bore
polltlcl2n Of Nebraska may well congratu-
late himself that so wel-known a chief
executive had the condos. ension to unbend
himself and not only welcome him. but
raise his voice in advocacy of his PERM cious
policies. 1t Is doubtful though if Governor
Matthews, in doing this. raised himself
very highly in the estimation of his party
in this 81 elton, as his argument was bou.
as impotent as Il C 1ald possibly lave been
ard indicated that he had 70 heart in Bry-
in the estimation of a good many Republic
ans who have learned to respect him for
his sturdy good sense in administering the
affairs OF this -State.-EIkhart Review.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-07
LABOR DAY.

The celebration of Labor day has more
significance in this country than it could
have in any other, if the observance ex-
listed anywhere else, and more and more
significance here every year. Such a holt
day could only exist in a country where
free institutions and free men combine to
where every legitimate movement finds ex-
preston in organization and cooperative
action. Labor day is as distinctly an Amer
lean holiday as is the Fourth of July or
Washngtons birthday. The first general
observance of the day occurred in Maine
Sept. s. 1887. Now it is a legal holiday in
thirtytwo States In 1888 Congress passed
a law establishing a Department of Labor
to be under the control of a Commissioner
of Labor Now twenty-nine States have reg
ularly established bureaus of labor and in
dustrial statistics. These bureaus and the
labor laws passed in recent years by many
States, including eight-hour laws and laws
for the protectfep of labor in various ways,
show that great progress has been made in
that direction In so far such organiza-
ton and legislation contribute to the pro-
lection, advancement and elevation of labor
but their beneficiaries should take care that
they are not made means of discriminate
ing against or prosecuting any class of
workmen The protection and elevation of
labor and the keeping up of wages to the
highest point possible under given business
conditions legitimate and commendable
objects of labor organizations, but when
they are used to Cypress any form of free
labor or as means of exciting hostility
between labor and capital they lose sight
of the fundamental principles of free gov
eminent and become engines of evil
Labor day celebration has much greater
significance in Indiana than it could have
had a few years ago, because the discovery
OF natural gas added largely to the number
of manufactures and wage earners in the
State. just now, unfortunately, owing to
the present tariff law and the added eff
fects OF the free silver agitation, many of
these establishments are either closed or
are employing but few persons compared
with what they formerly did or will do
again when better times return The Jour
nal would rejoice to see every one of these
closed establishments running again with
many new ones added, and every working
man In the State now out of employment
employed at better wages than ever before
but this cannot be till we have wiser tariff
legislation and an end of the free silver ag-
itation. The best celebration of Labor day
would be a unanimous declaration by all
labor organizations in favor of a protective
tariff and sound money
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-07
AN INSULT TO WAGE-EARNERS.

A few days ago the Journal called at
of his speeches, advised his hearers TO
treat those who were engaged in the pro-
mitigation of the gold standard as they
would treat those who were making war
upon their families and homes" He could
scarcely go further than thac IN advocating
revolution. In one of his harangues last
week he said:
/ have had men tell me they We're UNI
der compulsion TO join Republican clubs
and wear the insignia of Republicans.
the condition of the man who feels his wife
and children Juggling at his garments, and
who knows that want may stare in the face
those whom he loves If he dares to assert
the sovereign right of an American citizen
/ recognize the embarrassment of his posi-
ton. Let him wear the opposition button
IL he will. Let him put his name on their
club list If he must Let him contribute to.
the campaign fund If he win, but let him
remember there is one day in the year wnen
as he phases. l willing for you to be
Republican every day in the year If you
will just be Democratic on election day. /
am willing for you TO wear gold-bug but
tons for all the rest of the time if when
you enter the booth you will remember
benefit upon those who toll. and that ii
was never indorsed approved or sane
toned by any body of the people except
those who hold fixed investments and trade
in money or profit by the extremities of the
government.
If any men have been to Mr.. Bryan with
that story the chances are hundred to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-07

mean the free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer in the ratio of 16 to /. Instead it de-
clares that both shall be used under such
regulations as will insure the parity of
value of the metals, SO that the purchasing
ana debt-paying power of the dollar,
whether of silver, gold or paper shall be
at all times equal. The free and unlimited
coinage of silver would destroy all parity.
Furthermore, if the Republican platform
had meant free coinage for silver. why did
Colorado, and most of the other silver-pro-
ducing States, with Kansas. give their cleo
toral votes to candidates upon other plat
forms?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-07

The concluding words of Hon. Carl
Schurz's able speech ought to be read and
pondered by every American voter. After
showing that the demand for the free coin
age of silver at 16 to 1 meant reputation,
rascality and the destruction of confidence
between man and man, he said:
Fellow-citizens, think this out. 1t is a
grave matter-a matter of vital import to
the existence of this Nation The father
who teaches such moral principles to his
children educates them for fraud, dshonor
and the penitentiary. The public men who
teach such moral principles to the people
educate the people for the contempt and
adherence of mankind. The nation that
accepts such moral principles cannot live.
1t Will rot to death in the loathsome stew
of its own corruption. If the nation ac-
cepting such moral principles be this Re-
public, it will deal a blow to the credit CT
democratic institutions from which the
cause OF free government will not recover
for centuries.
The moral aspect of the case has not had
any stronger presentation than this.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-07
CURRENT MAGAZINES.

prisoners of Conscience" a story of
Shetland is the title of two-part novel
cite by Amelia f. Barr. which is begun in
the September Century
The Bookmans September poster rerre-
sents a yelled girl leading that e,celle
csc lanterns. But who ever did read any
thing by. such light?
Percival Lowell contributes an account
of some of his latest observations on Mars
to Popular Astronomy, taken from the
Flagstaff "a. To observatory. He also
gives some charts of the Marian polar
caps.
The publishers of the n wv Bohemiln an
nounce that the magazine has discontinued
pubica ton. This is the Cincinnati rnaga-
zine which was established n oder to af-
ford unappreciated Western Writers a
means of communication with the wo. Id.
Among the subjects discussed in the Sep
TENDER Eclectic are: The Incarnation"
The Bah and Babism' Public Sentiment
in America on the Money Question.
Talks with Tennyson." ''Champa gne,''
"Oliver Wendell Holiness Art and Life
ana New Letters IF l-dwar Gibtcn.
Godeys Magazine devntes considerable
space to the history of anna Ella Carroll,
who is said to have furnishel invs .casIe
aid to the Union during the civil
war, but whose servi ,es were ne.cr OIL
and an effort is being made to perpetuate
her memory
The editor of the Philistine hiss tcen to
Europe and the curr mt number OF his
magazine is largely given up to The notes
he made there of bookish ;!.nos Team
Farrar contributes a paper on Westminster
Abbey. in which he speaks quite disre-
specially of some memorials 10 tn. ncbi-
ity found there
The Spokesman-Reyi view. of SrGhane
Wash sends out n handsomely r..n;ed
and illustrated book called "A E."s for
Empire" which consists of true tales of
the Northwest. and is really m a6iveI tise-
nent of the .tttr cti0nS ard adya,I:atee OF
that region It's stories, howsN en- arc state
ments of fact and as such ma &c interest
ing reading.
John NJ. Stahl. secretary of the F'arrnor rs
National Congress end Pan-A merican Ag-
ricultural Parliament. asks in the Sc, EN-
Der number of the North American Teview.
Are the Farmers Pop iii $50 eontcnail.s
that American farmers. a body. have al
ways by their votes proved themselves soil
citous for the national nOlInr. ilnd hat they
will do so again in the ;ppr olching Gee
ton.
When young man Of lirerIr. turn ] Cw-
adays feels that he has ss.sat and original
thoughts, and does not find editors Of
periodicals sufficiently appreciativc of his
work. he starts a miniature naea.Ino of
his own. The number uf these aIeer little
publications Is great t3at Ia net in
the business can name tnem all. The latest
and Is called the Ma--ie. Is worthy Lur-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-07
LEGAL-TENDER SILVER.

The Noblesville Ledger recently offered
standard silver dollar is not a full legal
tender at this time in this country, for any
amount" The Noblesville Democrat re-
plies claiming the reward for the following
reason:
The silver dollar is not a full legal ten
der at this time for any and all amounts,
you must surely know. We admit that
1t is a full legal tender for any amount as
between individuals. For instance you hold
your neighbours note for $1,000, payable in
coin; he has the option to pay you in silver
dollars or gold dollars, as best suits his
convenience. But not so with the bond
holder and money monger who presents
his bonds greenbacks or treasury notes
to the Secretary of the Treasury of the
United States He can refuse silver and
demand gold. The government, under Ben
jamn Harrison, having surrendered her
rights to pay these favored creditors in
either coin that best suits her convenience.
it is by this process that these Shylocks
are enabled to draw the 800 000, 900 gold re-
serve from the treasury and force the gov
eminent to issue more bonds every three or
four months in time of peace
1t would be difficult to condense more
error and misinformation into the same
space. All government bonds are made
payable in coin, and may be paid in silver
if the government so chooses. IT chooses
United States bond was ever paid in any
thing but gold, since the foundation of the
government. There is no law requiring the
bonds to be paid in gold, but it has ever
been regarded as an essential feature of
maintaining the public credit. In a letter
dated May To- 1864, Salmon P. Chase, Sec
rotary of the Treasury, wrote: 1T has been
the constant usage of the department to re-
deem all bonds in coin, and this usage
has not been deviated from during my
administration of it's affairs 1t has not
been deviated from since, and all Secre-
taries of the Treasury have construed
coin in the payment of bonds a. meaning
gold. The policy of the Harrison adminis-
tration in this respect was not different
from that of all its predecessors. If the
government chose to claim the right and
take the risk of paying its bonds in sill
yer it could do so, and the bondholders
would be obliged to receive it, but the
effect of refusing to pay gold would be to
send it to a premium and place the coun-
try at once a silver basis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-07
INDIANA NEWSPAPER OPINION.

Free silver will not make silver free-Mid-
dletown News.
Vermont was first to forge nail for Mr..
Bryan's silver-plated political casket.-Fair-
mount News
McKinley's speeches appeal to mans rea-
son; Bryan's to their passion and prejudice.
Goshen Times.
The Vermont farmers have set a splendid
example to the farmers of the country.
-Greencastle Banner-Times.
good dollar in the hand is worth Two
bad ones in the possession of the bullion
owners.-Greensburg Review.
1t is not more money but more business
we need. More money does not mean more
MISREPRESENTATION Standard.
The real crime is the crime of 1888, when
the Democratic Wilson tariff bill '-demone-
tied ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Republican.
Having. trified with the tariff AMI made
a mess of it. the Democrats now want TO
try their hand on the money of the Nation
Evansville Journal.
There are two ways of reducing wages,
one by paying in a less number OF dollars,
the other by paying in dollar OF less
value.-Owen County Journal
The people are getting on to the free
silver arguments. 1t is not a popular thing
to want to pay debts at 80 cents on the
dollar. That means epudiation.-Greenfield
Republican.
The sooner the defeat of the Popocratic
ticket is assured, the sooner there viii be
decided improvement of business and
larger opportunity for employment.-Ox-
ford Tribune
Thus far in the history of our country,
every party that has favored Republication
has been wiped out at the polls and 1886
promises to add another to the iist.-Sey-
mour Republican.
The fact is the business interests af the
country are afraid of Democratic lerisla-
ton. because every time it gets an oppcr-
tunity IL demonslrats its ineompetency
-Pendleton Republican.
Bryan's wholesale abuse of bankers is
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-07

for general object than has been It
messed for years" and that while .sMcKin-
ley will lose the votes of but very few who
have ever called themselves Republicans.
there will be heavy gains from the access
sion of Democrats" Yet Oregon is one of
the States which the Bryanites count as
certain, and the Oregonian is a paper
which, before the June election in that
State, deplored the situation from the Re-
publican point of view