The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-21
HITS THE nuLL.s EYE.
Elder III. n. Pritchard Tells What
Kind % 81 Silver Men He Is.
Rushville Repuhlioan.

Rushvile Republican.
We have read a good many yards of lit
erature on the money question. but never
anything that went by a shorter cut to
the ruth or hit harder when it got there
. ma the Following letter. There is no cor
neI OF Rush county in which Elder Pritch-
norhood in which his Judgment and his
r moIu on such question will not carry
MelsnI and be read with care and conf
X Peters. and reads:
. nj came ai1t home last night from Madison
Snnt Upon counties and your letter OF
sept J was received. YOU inform me that
s s.FI6er Rfnshville paper has published that
Eiuer Henry Pritchard has espoused the
and sewall;" hope my friends in Rush
county will not think i am demented. I
am for the silver dollar that is worth 100
GEMS 1s me same as a gold dollar. ! want
e oIo ooliars. not cheap dollars worth 30
csiits. l want full yard of cloth-thir;y-
SIX lnches-not a cheap yard. eighteen
lnches !ong. ! want the standard yard
the cloth. and ] want the standard dollar
OF the world TO measure the dollar /
TO purchase the bullion. coin as many sill
yer dollars as we need. pay them out at
iVo cents to the dollar. and take them
government. This will give the silver dol
dollar.
Mr.. Bryan and his Chicago gang pro-
pose to change all this. They demand that
the government stop. purchasing bullion.
pledged to make it good; but the miner
shall bring his bullion and the government
shall coin fer him the money free of
charge, and some twenty thirty miners
VINO own all the money, stand pledged to
make their money good to all the people
So seventy millions aof people are asked
TO get down and serve few miners, do all
their work free of charge. pay all the
bills for coming their money for them
ana trust these miners to furnish them
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dust, and their money will have nothing
but their dust and ashes to make il worth
All that Bryan has promised in his
speeches is free coinage will sgive the peo-
ideas are as cheap as his money. But will
not the nat stamp make the money
transforming power of fiat that some seem
to have. We cannot make twice two five
by fiat nor fifty one hundred. If we
fiat make him a wise financier. ] heard CT
a man who believed SO fully In the chang
ing power of fiat that he had his mule
he went to milk he got her heels and not
the milk | do not want to be kicked by
1 will vote for Mckinley
The charge that silver was demonetized
the word mint are the same word. To
monetiZe silver is to convert silver into
money and to demonetize silver is to stop
mnting or stop making money out of sill
ver.N This was not done. On the other
hand. the government commenced then
and there to coin silver as she had done
before. and from '73 to rs coined seventy
five millions of silver money-five millions
more than half as much as she had coined
ment that Congress. in '73 demonetized sill
yer is another great big one. and will
make a splendid addition to the Chicago
platform. They dropped the old dollar
from the law, and we had none coined for
five years. But we had thirty-six millions
of trade dollars and thirty-eight millions
of subsidiary money coined in that five
years Was that demonetizing silver?
There is large amount of falsehood pub
The Congress of 1873 did not limit the le-
BARTENDER quality of subsidiary coin That
was done by a Democratic Congress-. under
a Democratic President. in 1858. 1t was
left In rs just as the Democrats made it.
a legal tender for 81 In lsI9 Congress
that to-day.
In 1878 the old dollar was restdr4aeto the
law and the mint. and we have had some
four hundred and thirty millions of them
coined since that. Now. If having but lit
tie silver money before '73 made farm prod
ucts higher the coming of some six
hundred millions of silver money since -
the cause of farm products going DOWN.
products of the farm would be worth little
or nothing, This would be the logic, but
this is not true.
1t is a want of confidence in business
that did the mischief. 1t was the Wilson
bill, that Bryan helped to make law. that
destroyed confidence Children cry for
cause they have no work, and they have
no work because the shops and factories
To vote for Bryan, who helped to make
this bill and who stands by it, would be
as foolish as to swallow rattlesnake to
cure the bite.
/ am not in politics. but ] have lived un-
der free trade and seen money stamped
for few men to make good. that was
not worth one cent. and ] don't want
any more Free trade and free silver VIII
close ali the mortgages stop all or NEST all
of the business and bankrupt every simple
ton who votes for these in the person of
Bryan, with the hope of getting cheap
money to pay his debts.
I close in the language OF Burns:
Some books are lies from end to end
And some great lies were never penned.'
OF course the phrase some books in
cludes some papers also.
HAR. PRITCHARD.
Indianapolis, Sept. 10.