The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-16
BAD CASE OF MOB HYSTERIC
TOO SMALL FOR THE LIONS
SKIN HE is WEARING.
AltgeId the Most Dangerous, hut the
Through His Covering.

oAASiSS ttANa F1o AAAAiNAE
iastically received. Governor Altgeld's
name, when mentioned, was greeted with
Jeers. The address was quite long, covered
all the vital issues of the campaign and the
speaker minced no words in making his
points plain to his audience. At the con-
clusion of his address Mr.. Roosevelt was
given repeated cheers. He spoke in part
as follows:
1T is not merely school girls that have
them at times. and SO do well-meaning
dernagogues when their heads are turned
gence and their minds inflated with the
possibility of acquiring solid leadership in
the country. The dominant note in Mr..
organs utteranceS and in the campaign
Wased in his behalf is the note of hysIerla.
For Mr.. Bryan We can feel the contemptu-
Gus pity always felt for the small man I'M
eNpectedly thrust into a big place. He does
not look well in q lions skin. but that is
on him. But in Mr.. Altgeld's case we see
all too clearly the jaws and hide of the
wolf through the feecy covering. MIR. Att
geld is a much more dangerous man than
Mr.. Bryan. He is much slyer, much more
intelligent, much less silly, much more free
The one is INSCRIPTIONS from vanity. the
other from calculation. The one plans
wholesale reputation with a light heart
Intelligence and is intoxicated by hope of
power: tho other would connive at whole
sale murder and would justify it by elab-
crate and cunning sophistry for reasons
known only to his own tortuous soul. For
a country to put a man like this in control
of her destinieS would be such a diShonor
as 1t is scarcely bearab!e to think of.
Our foes are waging a campaign which
rality and ability. With the majority of the
men who want cheap money the silver dol
lar is desired, not because of any abstruse
theories about the benefits of bimetallism,
but because it is the first step toward fiat
money. These men hamoio a silver dol
lar because 1t Is cheaper than the gold dol
lar, just as they would champion a upper
dollar rather than one of silver, IL copper
could be made the issue at the moment.
But the Organizes do not depend and can
not depend only upon the cry for cheap
money. Dishonest finance is only one of
their rallying cries; they wish also u de-
based judiciary and an executive pledge not
to interfere with violent mobs. What they
spirit of discomfort. They seek to rally to
their banners all the forces that make for
social disorder and national destruction.
who see their profit IN social CONFUSION,
hoping to find it, if they be d~emagogues. in
the shape of high office; or Ii they are more
vulgar wrong-doers. in the opportunities Of
fered by a general relaxation of the laws.
1T is both amusing and melancholy to
see the straits to which the apostles OF this
doctrine are reduced the minute they, in
any degree, endeavor to put it into practise.
The present movement was started largely
in agricultural communities, and, in order
to appeal to those among the farmers who
were diScOntented ii was proposed to allow
them to pay all their debts in money worth
half what 1t is at present. The largest
creator class In the United states Is the
class of wage earners, and now the Popuiist
and Popocrat leaders find themselves awk-
wardly placed when they endeavor to ex-
plain to the workingman just how he is go
ing to be benefited by having his wages cut
down one-half.
THE CREDITOR CLASS.
"There are many of us who can swim in
troubled waters; but the poorest. the most
helpless. the men who now find it the most
difficult to live, are the very people who
rro,,1J nN down cnnnnSt in tho storm
Mr.. Bryan is very apt to rail at
the creditor class. He forgets that
the largest class OF creditors in
this country is the class of wage earn
ers. Under free silver their wages would
be- worth half what they are now. If there
was a great imitation of the currency, the
prices would go up rapidly; wages might
after awhile go up a little, but they would
go up very slowly and never as high as
prices. Mr.. Bryan says that the gold dol
lar has grown too fat; let him remember
that IL the workingman can only earn a
lean dollar he can only buy a lean loaf.
Many of the arguments of our foes are diff
ficuit to meet, simply because they are so
absurd that it is nard TO speak patiently
about them. One of these Is the talk about
what the lunatic portion OF our opponents
are fond OF calling the crime or 1913,
when. as they say. silver was 'demone-
tized' by stealth. AS a matter of fact the
bill which demonerized silver was before
the two houses of Congress for over two
years; it was printed thirteen different
times and the proceedings in relation to
it coupled nearly $50 pages of the Con-
gressional Globe.
only those who lend to private individuals
what these private individuals urgently
need, but also those who, in the time of
the Nations need, loaned the Nation itself
the money with which to carry on the ma
tional business. 1t Is true that we had to
for some of the bonds which have been re-
Gently issued, but this was due more than
any other cause to the fact that Mr.. Bryan
and his precious associates of the repudi-
alton stamp by their antics made the loan
dangerous. With a proper tariff and a
proper financial system we would not have
to borrow at all. Mr.. Bryan and his as
sociates then insisted and now insist that
money to the government out of half their
loan. Just SO long as there is a possibility
of honor so blunted as to make such a
man President SO long they Will have to
pay 4 Ugh price for their folly:
italists. What is q capitalist, anyhow?
Every man who saves money is a capital
list. Mr.. Bryan and his suporters-Messrs
merely class hatred, but sectional ha tired.
They strive to make you people, of the
mighty West believe that We, your brothers |
in blood and feeling, whose homes are in
the East, are alien in interest TO you"
we Repu~blicans-we. the men of the
party OF Lincoln and Grant and Seward
and Sumner and ChaSe-thougn we take
cur teaderS from 4 ny sect On or the country, /
as a matter of fact, more often lind them
in the West than in the East. About that |
we care absolutely nothing, so long as they
are good Americans into whose hands it is
safe to intrust the interests of America.
They talk of the East as being hostile to
the West IN this campaign. We of the
East glory in the West. All that the East
asks now is to do as IL has done
before and help place a Westerner in
the White House. We believe that the
campaign should he wageG on the moral
even more than the material issue. Mr.. I
Bryan and Mr.. Altgeld. turning aside from
The American principles of government, re-
pudiating everything that has made the
name of America Il symbol Of hope among
nations, seek TO substitute n crazy fabric, |
patched up from the WORKOUT theories of
every European dreamer and European ag-
itator. |
""We appeal to no class and TO no sec |
ton. We appeal to all the citizens of this
land alike-mereiy as Americans. We ask
you to vote against Mr.. Bryan, not merely |
because his success would mean the impov- |
erishment of the poor and the trouble of
the rich. the breaking up OF homes, the |
d .spatr If strong men and the hungry mis- |
cry of the women and children, but
because the laws OF right and jus
tice bid you to oppose him. 80 nation
can long hold Its pace In the world IL IL
does not strive 10 live up to a lofty mora: |
local, and We ask you to join i'm the over- |
throw of the enemies of American honor :