The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-02

friends. to a unique situation. You had
speak In your midst to-day a man who
ticket-because Mr.. Cochran, who spoke
here to-day, has openly and boldly de-
clared his intention of voting the Repub-
Hcan ticket-and yet a man who openly
says that he Is going TO vote the Repub-
lfcan ticket is sent around over the coun-
try by men who call themselves sound
money Democrats and who pretend to be
supporting another ticket. (~Applause.) /
am not criticising Mr.. Cockran's declara-
but | ask you whether in all the history
of this country you ever knew a political
party that employed a man to make
speeches under it's auspices when they
knew that he was not going to vote for
the ticket which they said they were going
TO vote for. (Applause.) My friends, | call
your attention to it because / want to show
you what a transparent fraud the boiling
Democratic organization is; It has all the
characteristics of a gold bug Republican
except the courage TO vote for the Repub-
lican ticket.
The gold standard is a tyrant in time of
peace and a coward in time of war. The
gold standard rules will a rod of iron
when it has control, and at the very mo-
ment of danger it deserts like a traitor
and goes to fight for the country's enemy.
| call your attention to the fact that the
advocates of the gold standard offer you no
hope OF relief They give you no plan. The
only thing they can say to you is to be
content with what you have and thank God
that 1t is no worse than it is. I think that
1t is possible to carry contentment too far.
| heard of a man once who had always
been taught to be content with his lot, and
finally he became very poor and traded Off
his coat for a loaf of bread. and then q
dog came along and snatched away the
bread before he had a chance to eat it. He
felt a little indignant, but finally the old
feeling of contenment came back to him,
and as he watched the dog turn around the
corner he said to himself, We'll, thank God,
l still have my appetite left daughter
and applause)
think that then, if we do not have the
money that we need, we ought to be CRATE
full that we still have a need of money
which no gold standard can take away.
tApplause.) They go on the theory that the
people will not wake up while these syndi-
Gates are operating, or that, if they do
Gates will have had so much that they do
not care for any more. They remind me
of the man living down in the swamp, and
the neighbor inquired once of his servant
whether he did not suffer from the mos
quitoes. The servant said no; that his
master was not troubled by the mosquitoes.
and the man inquired why, to which the
servant replied: Why, by night master is
so drunk that h. does not know that the
Mosquitoes are after him, and by morning
tt mosquitoes are so drunk that they do
not care to bite him any more. daughter
and applause.)
My friends, our opponents. instead of
trying to relieve the distress of the people,
SIMPLY walt until the people have suffi-
cieluy recovered from the last infiiction
and then they tempt to afflict them again.
They remind me Of a story that was told
of a doctor. He did not live in this State
dIu tIitIcIOI6 II can De no TGllectlOn Ol
any physician here. (Laughter.) He was
called to attend a child and the child grew
worse and worse until finally it's life was
despaired.of. The doctor said to the moth
er: Nothing more can be done. Don't pun
ish the child by giving it any more medi-
cine. If it is restless just give it a little
water That is all that can be done The
mother watched the child during the night
and in the morning she thought it better.
She watched it through another day and
she thought it was still improving. She
watched 1T through another night, and still
she thought that the child was growing
stronger. And then the doctor came again.
Somewhat surprised not to have heard of
its death before. he examined the child
and heard what the mother had to report,
and then said to her: Madame, the child
is better. The child is stronger than it
was when ] was here before. If it con-
tinues to improve as it has improved for
the last thirty-six hours it will be soon
strong enough to take some more medi-
cine Great applause;l They give US a
bond issue and then they let the people
recover a little from that until they are
able to stand another bond issue. and so
they keep 1t up: and they tell US that they
are administering the most important
financial treatment of the patient" U4augh-
teri