The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-01

Talks to GOOdly Crowds at Kendall
willie and LigOnier.

Another brief run brought the party to
Kendallville. where dense crowd of about
five thousand had packed themselves about
a stand erected few yards from the sta
ton. The Republicans of Noble county had
prepared for an all-day rally and had just
finished with a parade something over q
mile long. In the crowd was big sound
money club of Lake Shore employees with
Il number of original transparencies. Gen.
Harrison was escorted to the stand by the
reception committee, who had boarded the
train at Waterloo. and was received with
prolonged cheering. He was introduced by
n. j. Graves and spoke follows:
My Fellow -citizens-We are near the
close OF this great campaign. and 1t looks
as II We were going to have Republican
Weather-very Gear and sunshiny, but
lite Snappy We have had a great deal
OF talk, a great deal of reading, a great
deal OF thinking. We have had some very
crooked talk and some very crooked think
ing. But, my friends. these issues are not
hard: you may be drawn off into remote
speculations, but the proposition of the
free coinage of silver at the ratio of is to
l is Simply a proposition to make half dol
lars doilars-that is. to call them dollars
rather than to make them dollars; because
calling things don't make them so. That
is the trouble with our silver friends. When
you write in the law that l6 ounces Of sill
yer is equal to one ounce OF gold. it does
not make it so. The value of things is
always regulated in the market. If you
want TO know what wheat Is worth you go
to the man who is buying it; you look at
the market quotations: you don't so TO the
revised statutes. If the revised statutes
ell you would not put any faith in it. 1t
is precisely so with silver and gold they
are commodities and the market deals in
sold as bullion: and what an ounce of
either is worth depends upon what man
will give for it. | do not deny that when
nnvf civ. ttxr
to anything it gives il value: that 1t
gives it some more value than II had be-
fore: but 1t can't give it fixed value or
intrinsic value of thing, the market value
OF ii, is the only thing you can depend upon
when you want to know what anything is
worth.
Mr.. Bryan says it is unpatriotic to talk
about asking cooperate of other ma
whipped the British at Yorktown and We
adopted Declaration of independence
and, having done that, wants to know why
we can't do the other thing. We can give
Il legal-tender quality to money, but we
can't give it n fixed value. If England
should give silver legal-tender quality it
would help some and if the nations of Flu
rope were to give 1T a legal-tender quality
it would tend to keep ii up. / do not know
whether all combined We could keep it up.
but certainly tie more that tried TO keep
1t up the more likely we would be to sue
coed. This government can say that a
silver dollar of 4121s grains is legal ten
keeper shall give you for it in the way of
goods. What we all want is a dollar that
will buy just as much at the store S the
law says it ought to-1oO cents worth that
Will be the same thing all the year around
that VIII not go up and go down. If you
nav nave "a a dollar that is see-sawing
up and down somebody gets
caught with it every time il
is passed: We contend. therefore. that
we had better keep our present system of
using a very large amount of silver about
four hundred millions. supported by the
governments pledge to keep it as good as
gold; and. in connection with IT. six hun
dred millions of god. That is better than
to adopt free silver and drive the gold out
Of use and have free silver that is worth
about half as much as the dollar we have
now. What would be the effect? You would
have to readjust the business of the coun-
try: every storekeeper would have to
change the marks on his goods: every man.
Cfacturer would have to do the same
everybody would have 10 put himself on q
new business basis.
If Mr.. Bryan were elected on Tuesday
and the country believed that We might
have free coinage of silver. every creditor
10 whom a debt was due would insist upon
the payment of it before We got these
paid he woul1 go to the courthouse and
send the sheriff. And If the man who owed
bank he would be refused. The banker
would say: can't afford to let you have
good money and take the risk of getting
cheap money in return The whole com
mercial credit of the country would be
gone. Business would stand in anxious
expectation and dread. There would be a
universal panic throughout this country.
The man who Is running a factory would
shut down; the man who is in business
would curtail his business: the man who
has money would lock il up Will YOU ac-
cept the invitation to put this Nation upon
a plane of dishonor: to say that she shall
pay her bonds. which are held by people
VINO have honestly invested in them and
dollars?
But whatever you may think of the sill
yer question. L appeal to my Republican
friends; i appeal TO my patriotic friends
can you afford TO elect man who stands
upon platform declaring that il another
Chicago riot interrupts your communities
ton with that city and subjects you and
your family as you attempt TO enter IL to
the risk OF having the train thrown from
the track. that he would leave the man.
agement of that affair to Governor Atgeld
Can you afford to elect a man who III the
mails were INSTRUCTED. would not think Ii
WAS his business TO open way for them
and who would say that it was a State
affair? My friends. that old doctrine was
put 10 sleep forever when Lee surrendered
to Grant. i do not believe that our Dem
ocratic friends are going TO stand it,
Speech at Ligonier.
At Ligonier, the next stop, the arrival of
the train was greeted with loud cheering
from the crowd of about four thousand
people packed about the station. A decor
ated stand had been erected to the leeward
of the depot, and thither General Harrison
was conducted by the reception committee
which had boarded his car at Kendallville,
and was introduced by Mr.. Huffman. lie
was received with enthusiastic cheering
and talked about fifteen minutes. declaring
that the victory was already won. The
Bryan people were basing their hopes OF
success, he said, upon two propositions
| one that the farmers were fooled with the
notion that free silver would help them to
get something for nothing and the other
that the workingmen intended to go to the
booth and vote directly against what they
have been declaring they intended to do
His speech. in part. follows:
"My Friends-It is pretty near over. and
| IL is all right. ,ApplauSe-) There are three
States in tho East that the Democrats
have always fought for and almost al
ways won i'm national campaigns that are
lust as certain to go for William Mckinley
| and Carrot A Hobart next Tuesday as
Massachusetts. They have practically
| abandoned the campaign there. They seem
| to think that the Yankees are too smart
| to be fooled by their cheap-money tricks
| and so they have withdrawn their agents
| and are centering their efforts on the
West. where they think we arc not quite
| so smart. But they will know Us better
after next Tuesday.
They are making the campaign upon
| the proposition that the farmers of this
country are class that can be fooled
! that they are a class OF men who are
In dobf nd that urarf ~ nav