The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-10-22
GEN. HARRISON HOME AGAIN
He Returns to indianapolis From His
Stumping Tour.
CANDIDATE BRYAN CRITICIZED
General Harrison Attacks the Democratic
Candidates Reference to Those People
Who Save the Country Every Year
at SO Much Per Save"

INDIANAPOLIS. oct. 22.-Genoral Harri-
son arrived at his home in indianapolis |
last night at 40. Leaving New Albany
ut 10 o'clock in the morning, he made
eleven speeches before reaching Indian
apolis. There were notable gatherings at
Salem, Orleans Bedford and Blooming
ton. At Salem he said in part;
"Mr. Bryan proposes to abandon the
money system we have now and TO intro
duce the free coinage of silver When
change is proposed the first thing you
want to do is to ascertain what the pres
ent conditions are and then how they are
to be changed. The present conditions
are that we are a bimetallic country. We
are coming both gold and silver as money
about 500 100000 OF silver and about
/ S6OOOO),OOO of gold and paper money,
based on and redecmable i'm coin. Every
silver dollar and every paper dollar is
maintained on an equality with gold.
| You don't stop TO look at it; you don't
consult a bank director further than to
see whether it is genuine. If it is not
counterfeit it goes, and it goes for 100 cents
on the dollar, paper money, gold money or
silver money
"The Democrats say that this is practi-
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they say they want double standard. A
standard is a measure. You havca stand
ard bushel, a standard peck, a standard
yardstick. They are measures and just
so the standard dollar is measure. The
others are measures Of quantity or length
this measure is a measure of value. want
TO know how you can maintain two stand
ards If they are not of the same size or
length. Can you have two standard bush
els when one is only half as much as the
OtherY Can you have two standard yard
sticks when one is only half as long rs the
other? You cannot maintain a double
standard OF weight or measure or value
unless each one of them is the equivalent
of the other.
owe are using silver now, but the gov
ernment is buying the silver at the market
price; it is coming it on its own account;
it is making whatever profit there is in it
for the people; it is putting behind this
silver dollar the pledge of this govern
ment that it viii maintain its equality
with the gold dollar. We limit the
amount that we coin, and by limiting the
amount, by putting this governments
pledge behind it we can maintain certain
amount of silver at parity with gold and
we are doing il now. Their proposition is
that we shall turn this all over to the
mine owners that this government shall
build its costly mintS, equip them with
costly machinery, pay high salaries to
their assayers and minters and coiners,
and that we shall put all this freely at the
service of the men who own these silver
mines. A dollar like that, unsupported
by the government, unlimited as to tho
amount Of coinage, cannot be maintained
at par.
ut is proposed that this great govern
ment with its bonds outstanding, held by
trust companies, held by savings banks as
security and Investment for the small
earnings of the widow and the orphan and
the workingman who has made his de-
posit, shall, instead of paying in one hun
dred cent dollars, as promised discharge
all these public obligations in fifty cent
dollars
'Ihe people of this country love it;
they love its honor. If they had not loved
it, if they had not held its honor in price
less esteem, they would not have sent out
those great armies in the civil war. They
loved it so that men died for it with the
light Of glory in their faces as the light OF
life went out. They loved its honor and
S they kept it whole They love its honor
( commercially and they will not have this
5 government put in "a position of repudiat-
e ing one half of its just obligations.
! "NIr BRYAN has spoken with some con.
temnt of those neople who he saws have
, been for thirty yenrs saving this country
every yeor at so much a save Whom aid
, he nilude toy These veteraDs who escorted
mo to this stondy That hand of Union
voter,ns which has racentIv been travel.
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