The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-22

establishes the relative value of your two
metals. no matter what you have In your
law books
ernment is buying the silver at the market
price; it is coming it on It's own accouht;
it is making whatever profit there Is n 1,,is IL
for the people; il is putting behino thls
silver dollar the pledge OF this goVefnmetit
that it will maintain its equality with tne @
gold dollar We limit the amount that We
coin and by limiting the amount, oy put-
ting this governments pleoge oehino II,
we can maintain certain amount o. silEe. e
at parity with gold; and We are uoihS ~
now. Their proposition is that we snail
turn this all over TO the mine owners that
the government shall build it's costly mlnts,
equip them with costly machinery, pay
high salaries to their assayers and mlhteIs
and coiners, and that we snail put al tnls
freely at the service of the men who own
these silver mines. a dollar like that, un,
supported by the government, unllInltsu
as to the amount OF coinage, cannot pe
maintained at par. 1t is proposed that tIlis
great government. with its bonds outStahu-
ing, held by trust companies, heId py sly
ings banks security and inVestment LOT
the small earnings of the widow ana tne
orphan and the prudent worklhgnan WHY
has made his deposit, shall, instead OF
paving in observation-disclosures dollars, az
promised, discharge all these public oph-
cations in ffty-cent dollars
WILL NOT REPUDIATE.
1.-THE people of this country love 1t; they
love it's honor. If they had not loved IT,
if they had not held it's honor in priceless
SSlceLu lIty WOuAu llpl nav SN@AN 49,
great armies in the civil war that its flag
might not be stained They loved it so that
men died for it with the light of glory in
their faces as the light of life went out.
They loved it's honor and they Kept 1t
whole They loved its honor commercially
and they will not have this government put
in sa poSliii9n or repu1lfh Gheers We were
tempted TO do that in the old nat money
times. They told you that the redempt%lon ION
of 9faa.l in
struction to the country. The people SAID:
In the war times we wrote on the race OF
that note The United States VIII pay 10
bearer one dollar" and, come what VIII, we
will not sully the achievements OF our arms
by financial repudiation.' You heard my
voice, in that campaign appealing for ma
tonal honor. You heard my voice then say
ing to you that resumption would not hurt,
but would help you; and can you TO VIII
ness now whether what | said then was not
true. Great applause.)
There is another proposition L want to
say word about Mr. Bryan has spoken
with some contempt of those people who
he says have been for thirty years saving
To whom did he allude? These veterans
who escorted me to this stand? That band
travelling over the country speaking to the
people, and especially to their comrades on
these great issues? Did he mean that gal.
liant man, that heroic patriot that man of
God. General Howard who gave an arm TO
his country in the war? Did he mean gall
liant old General SickleS, who gave a leg to
his country in the war, or did he mean
Corporal Tanner who gave both legs to
his country in the war? Did he mean these
men by that term of reproach---men who
have been saving the country every year
for thirty years at so much a save? Those
men, their sons, their fathers, their moth
ers are all interested that the honor and
dignity and just constitutional powers of
this government shall be preserved They
may be sneered at by the young man from
Nebraska, but they will not be frightened
mouths Of cannon that her connr% hg
live. They do mean that we shall never
have. in this country as President one who
believes that he must first ask the Gov
ernor of any State permission before he
enforces the laws of the United States.
u The II te Chicago Platform takes Mr. Cleye-
nois, has recently given the key to the
whole situation IN speech in New York.
task for putting behind the marshas of
the United States the power of the United
of the. courts of the United States. Mr.
Altgeld fntimates that they ought to have
cal Salled d on him; they ought to have asked
men, every railroad is United States post
road; a man who obstructs it violates the
law Of the United States and may be tried
in the courts of the United States Every
railroad is channel of commerce between
the States, and that whole subject is ex-
uonal government; and yet in approving
that, that platform i,1 Mr.. Bryan. has said to the
should rise in Chicago again, if they should
tear up railroad tracks and burn cars and
the United States marshals in executing
theT Their Writs that he would not send the
army OF the United States to protect them.
put, put would bend the knee to Governor Alt
geld and ask him to do it. (Cheers)
My countrymen I do not misstate nor
exaggerate the importa ce of this ssue. ana
close by saying that it must not be- The
people OF this country asserted i'm four
years or strenuous war the doctrine that
me United States could enforce it's own
laws IN any State without asking any
body's consent. 1t cannot be that the Ma
,oo tlon that did that will in these times of
Pea1 Pedre e5ect a man to be President who has
9eciared that he does nor regard il as the
duty or right of the President to enforce
the laWS Of the ITnitnd StatoS