The Indianapolis journal., 1896-08-31
INDIANA NEWSPAPER OPINION.

bryan Is making MS campaign test OF
endurance and wind He has the latter but
the former is beginning to weaken.-Peters-
burg Press.
The Republican campaign of education is
having its effect in curing many afflicted
with the free-silver complaint.-South
Bend Courier.
The people have found that a little tar
im reform goes a mighty long way with
them-towards the poor house.-Kendall-
Vile Standard.
The only way the workingman can be
benefited by the free silver coinage is for
MIN TO get possession of silver mine.
Goshen Times.
Free trade brought business to its present
deplorable condition. Free silver would
cause far more distress than free trade has
done.-North Vernon Reporter.
The establishment of free trade four
years ago can truthfully be called the crime
of go. and the effort to bring untold misery
and bankruptcy on the country is the crime
OF '96.-Fowler Republican Era.
The more the workingman ponders over
the problem OF how he is to be benefited
by doubling the wealth of the silver mine
owners the less he will be able to solve ii.
-knightstown Sun.
The Populists make a great fuss about
watering stock by corporations. They pro-
pose to water silver by making 81 cents
worth of it pass for 100 cents. That is 49
per cent OF water.-Princeton Clarion.
Governor Matthews some days ago said
that the sound-money Democratic vote of
this State for a separate ticket would not
reach 1000. 1t will go far beyond that
number in this district alone. - Muncie
News.
The free silver craze has driven more
money out of sight and destroyed more
confidence than anything that has hap
pened to this country since the day our
independence was declared.-Mount Vernon
Republican.
McKinley's letter and Harrison's speech
come like shots from sixty-four Founders
in battle. Their logic Is irresistible to any
hending it and in frame to receive the
truth.-Richmond Palladium.
No reasonable farmer expect to buy
farm machinery at half price and sell his
produce at double price in the same kind
of money. And yet that is what Mr.. Bry-
an and his followers are trying TO make
the farmers beliave.-Attica Ledger
When each workingman of this country,
no matter what his vocation, gets a guar
anty that he will get 81 in wages under a
silver standard for every dollar he gets
to-day, then he may vote for such stand
ard.-Morristown Argus.
The great letter of William Mckinley and
the great speech of Benjamin Harrison
have effectively brought the truth home to
all thinking people. Each is a masterpiece,
letter and speech. superb, magnificent
Kokomo Tribune.
Let us employ what money we have now,
and. If business demands a larger circula-
ton, more can be added, but whatever We
do, let us not debase the currency in which
we transact business No good can come
of 1T. but harm to everybody.-Muncie
Times.
The colt that swan the river to get
Grink of water was the embodiment of wis
dom compared with the man who can be
taken in by the free-siiver promises of the
Democrats this year. after being deceived
with free trade four years agO.-Rockport
Journal.
The character of a man can best be
judged by the compapy he keeps. and when
Bryan indorses the Anarchistic utterances
of Altgeld and the rebel spleen Of Tillman
he prostitutes himSelv to their level and
cOnfesses himself unworthy as they of
public confidence public truSt.-Lafay-
cite Courier
Thoughtful people are realizing that some
other cause than the so-called crime of
| 13' is at the root of our financial and in
ade in our history was that from 1880 to 1880,
| followed by the marvellous year 1S92.-Sey-
| mour Republican.
There is absolutely nothing standing in
| the way of prosperity except the effort to
debase the currency and to continue to
w a
protection from languishing industries until
that debasement is consummated.-Owen
| County Journal.
| Set the wheels of industry in motion and
the wheels of commerce will start. Restore
| confidence and these wheels will turn. and
| the farmer will at once feel tho influence in
| the greater demand for his products and in
| the better prices he would receive for them.
| I-Middletown News.
Under Republican tariff the production
L
| dustres of the country, but to-day, as the
| result of the assaults upon 1t by the free
traders-of whom Bryan was one of the
1 nosiest and most vindictive-it has
| dwindled to contemplate proportion.
| Mount Vernon Sun.
| The calling in of loans, the discovery of
| those having small accumulations in banks
| or building associations that their riches
| had been deprecated one-half, and the
| many other evils which would follow the
success OF free coinage, would soon af-
ford evidence that times can be worse
| Franklin Republican.
Let the free-silver craze be entombed SC
| deep this fall that its advocates will not
even hear the loudest blast of Gabriel's
trumpet. Then prosperity will crown our
country and every laborer will get his hon.
| est dollar OF paper. silver or gold, as he
| has been getting, and the silver craze viii
never be heard of again.-Vincennes Com
| mercial.
Prices taken without relation to wages
mean nothing. Low prices will do us nc
good if we have work and no money
with which to buy anything. and free trade
means no work and money whether Il
q means low prices or not. Higher prices viii
do us no good II there is nobody TO buy oul
goods and With factories shut down anC
people out of work, neither the farmer no.
any one else has a market for his goods
Columbus City Mall
| If every merchant and manufacturer VIII,
believes his business would be injured b,
| a debasement Of the currency, and ever,
wage-earner who knows that free coinag
would double his living expenses withou
| giving him any compensation in the way @
| an increase of wages, would ally himSel
with a club formed for the purpose of pro
| noting the cause of honest money, nationa
prosperity and good government, the eff
feet would be far-reaching.-W Plai
| Dealer.
The people Of Gas City and Jonesboro d.
not have to go away from home to secur
the hardest and most convincing argument
that even the prospect of free silver and
cheap dollar are having a blighting effec
on the manufacturing industries of tn
| country. The factories right in our mds
| and upon which We base our local pros
| perty are either closed entirely or ar
| running just force enough to fill order
| that are coming in. Not a factory In tn
| stock for future sales.-GaS City Journal.
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
Miss Marie Corelli is entertaining a part
of lady grouse shooters at Killiecrankis