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

greeted with tremendous cheering. His
speech told well with the crowd, and he
was frequently interrupted with loud evil
dences of approval He said:
My Fellow -citizens-I am glad to see you
this morning. / hope our early morning
call has not inconvenienced any of you.
"a voice: We are all at leisure and
laughter) Leisure is a good thing when
you want it, but it is a terrible calamity
when it is forced upon you. The Demo-
Gratis agree that these are. not pleasant
are sadly out of joint. He feels called upon
to propose some remedies. He agrees that
the country is sick, 1t IS woeful condi-
ton of things in this land of great wealth
and great resources when We find great
mills that have been built, have been equip
ped for work, idle-their fires eXtinguished-
the benches at which honest men were ac-
customed to toll, and where they. earned
comfortable subsistence for themselves
and their IA niles. unoccupied, It is an
evil condition of things, and every patriotic
man will desire to remove the obstructions
no reason why in this land of ourse every
man who is willing to work should not
man who works should not get out of his
daily toll a comfortable subsistence for
himself and for his family If it is not so
to-day. it is because somebody has made
mistakes. 1t is because some clumsy hand
has taken hold of the delicate machinery
You We're promised good times four
years ago if you would adopt Democratic
measures. You We're beguiled into accept
whether there has been fulfllment in any
part of the programme? fCries of No.
ingmen, merchants-have you realized the
least OF the good they said would come to
you? Has not evil come where they
where they prophesied prosperity?
1 The prophet is abroad in the land again.
you, and which they said would bring
health and strength has brought weakness
and suffering: and now some of the same
yxifI,
prescription, and with equal confidence that
Il Il 5n, you Will accept it it viii do you good.
given you what he calls a remedy and it
has brought increased suffering are you
gong to trust him again when his ig-
norance Of your condition and his ig-
norance of remedies adapted to your con-
dition have been 50 .woefully illustrated
once? They have made you poor by stop
ping the factories. They have made YOU
poor by taking away your work and wa ges:
a card trick-by calling fifty cents a dollar
Laughter.) Even that won't help some of
Seda, you II you % have been BROUGHT very low:
there I say 1t is no better than card
trick It is simply sort of legerdemain.
ton. pioposi-
What you first want is work How is
Work yne to To9 to bring that
look at this; no man who has not some in
oeTest rest TO believe an error: no man who will
cdinly and dlspaSsionately consider this
great question. it seems to me- can believe
that free-siver coinage wifi open the mills
OF the country and put the idle men at
work. 1t won't bring you the work: and
IT you nave work now it will c1t yol1r
vases IN two; because it is impossible by
Ieglslaton to control the law of values.
you may say by law that a particular
thlng is worth SO much. but that decIara-
mas the thing to sell agrees with the law
II is as true of silver as it is of wheat
worlds marRsts ky saT x 1 btf tfe value Of t. The
II as coin and give 1t a legal tender cIfaI
iity mat will enable men TO pay debts with
1t; but when you take that dollar into a
store to buy something the storekeener fs
the man who will tell YOU what il is worth
and not the law (Cheers.} There is M
law. and there can never be q law - tba4 no
VIII compel the storekeeper of whom Won
buy your living supplies to give You as
dollar as he will give for a gold dollar He
VII rate your money the banker rates
~, as the market rates it, and not as tna
law rates it, when you come to offar - 'iie ie
exchange for merchandise i
HOW TO FIND WORK.
SO, 1t Is work We want. We had IT and
we were robbed of it. We had it and W.
lost it; and, as 1 suggested yesterday r.
you have lost something and Won know
when you lost it and you know where vo,,
were when you lost it, you had better go
back there to find it. daughter and cheers)
You had better readopt the policies that
were IN vogue when you had it. You know
what those remedies will do for YOU You
accepted them, and through years thew
gave You vigor and health You aban-
doned them and took up with the new
remedies proposed and lost your haa IN
Hadn't you better go back and find re-
stored commercial and business health just
Where YOU lost it-by readopting a revenue
policy that does not leave the national
treasury bankrupt; by adopting a. revenue
policy that does not send the treasury into
the money markets to borrow money in or
der to meet the current expenses Of the
a in
that does not flood our ports with foreign
goods while shutting down our own fac
tories. Under Republican administrat ton
with Mckinley at the helm (cheers) and
Republican Congress to support him you
90 not need to rest upon my promise that
good times will return. You need only to
rest on your own experience of what those
things have done for you. (Cheers,)
L do not like the propositions of the Chi
cago platform that relate to the powers Of
the national government In 1861 eleven
States combined and put their armies i'm
the field to establish the doctrine that the
government of the United States could not
enforce its laws in those States without
the consent of the State authorities Brave
men for four years advocated that doc
trine-not in the attempt 10 set up anarchy
for they proposed to establish govern
ment in which the rights of persons and
of property should be respected but at the
end of that war, comrades friends. VIC
thought we had established the doctrine
that it was within the constitutional pow
er, that it was the constitutional duty of
the President of the United States to en-
without asking anybodys consent.
(Cheers.) 1t cannot be that a Chicago
mob-it must not be that Chicago mob
shall reverse this constitutional policy and
degrade the dignity and diminish the just
powers of the national government.
Mr. Bryan, by his adoption of the Chi
cago platform, has virtually said to the
people OF this country that If Governor
Altgeld Is chosen Governor of Illinois
again and he is chosen President and red
handed incendiarism and anarchy seizes
the great post routes of the country and
stops interstate commerce and intimidates
United States marshals. that he will use
his power as President. but Will ask the
consent OF Governor Altgeld.
Financial policies may come and go;
tariff and free trade may succeed each
other with their revulsions and their eras
of prosperity. If make a mistake in
finance we will get out of it; but if we
once establish in this country of ours the
doctrine that the laws of ,he United States
can only be enforced III any State by the
consent and cooperation of the Governor,
we have wiped out our great history; we
have dragged the flag in the dust; we
have destroyed our constitutional system
of government and that once destroyed
once surrendered, we may never he able TO
recover.
Whatever you think OF free silver. are
you willing to vote this year for u man