The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-05
INDIANA NEWSPAPER OPINION.

We have free trade, and there are sixteen
men to one job. Give us free silver and we
will have thirty-two to one-Portiand COM
mercial.
If the people of this Nation had as much
confidence as they have money. prosperity,
and happiness would again come to US.
Plymouth Republican. 49,
Some of our free-silver friends who
walked the streets and talked loud few
weeks ago are now whiStl1ng to keep up
courage.-Seymour Republican.
To vote with the party that brought
about these hard times, to secure a remedy
for them. is like swallowing the snake 10
cure its bite.-Converse Journal
If Bryan is elected we shall be on the sill
yer basis before he is inaugurated, and be
in the same class with Mexico, China and
Japan.-Crawfordsvill Journal. a.. j,
We have S. more money per capita than
we had in 1873. What we want is an oppor
tunity for this money to circulate as it
circulated in 1892.-Delphi Journal.
1t will be as difficult four years hence
to argue silver with Democrat as it now
is to have him review his tariff talk of
four years ago.-Danville Republican.
Mr.. McKinley's plea for the home mar
kets will strike home to every workingman
who has had his labor and his wages cur
tailed by Democratic experiments with free
trade.-Goshen Times.
1t costs a Benton county farmer a cent
and half to get bushel of oats thrashed,
but Bryan wants his silver-mine farmers
crop to be run through the government mill
free.-Fowler Republican-Era.
When the smoke of the November battle
shall have cleared away the only nucleus
left of the Democratic party to rebuild on
will be the organization formed in the In
dianapolis Observation-Disclosures Palla-
dunn.
There is just as much sense in arguing
that to change the number of pounds in
bushel of wheat to thirty will benefit the
farmers there is to place this country
upon a silver standard and put 50 cents
worth of silver in a dollar will benefit the
common people-Orleans Examiner.
They needn't tell me-" said the free-sil-
verite in his street-corner discussion, that
dollar with SO cents of silver in it won't
pass for a dollar when it is backed up by
70,00000o of people. He overlooked the vi
tai fact that 100000 people would not
back up the silver dollar coined under free
COMA ge.-Attica Ledger
The party that appeals to the ignorance
of the masses is dangerous one, at least,
but when it adopts platform condemning
a President for performing oath-bound
duty in the suppression of disorder. makes
stab at the Supreme Court and is entire
ly and wholly anarchistic in it's tendencies
it becomes doubly so.-Warsaw Times.
If the gold dollar has increased in value
until it is worth 200 cents, as Mr.. bryan
contends, our farmers are getting twice as
much for their agricultural products; Ia
borers twice much for their days work
and manufacturers twice much for their
products as they think they are receiving
for our dollars are all equal to, and have
the same purchasing power, as d gold dol
lar.-Muncie Times.
Every man who works for wages should
keep in mind the fact that William j. Bry-
an was one of the free-trade leaders in
Congress and that he voted and worked for
the passage of the Wilson-Gorman anti-pro-
lection law, which resulted, as everybody
knows, in throwing hundreds Of thousands
of laborers out of employment and turning
an era of prosperity into long period of
universal Observation-Disclosures Courier