The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-07

ing silver literature all over this country,
there would have been silver question.
North Vernon Republican.
There could be no more odious kind of
class legislation than that which the Bry-
antics seek to effect in the form of 30
Ter cent. reduction of wages for the benefit
OF the owners of silver mines.-Huntingto
Herald.
The orator wheels seems to forget
that poor man cannot afford to lose a
part of his wages by depreciation of AZ per
cent. as easily rich man lose the
same per cent. of his fortune.-Terre Haute
Express.
Four years ago Democracy was telling
the people they were being robbed by high
prices chat merely existed in the minds of
the Democratic speakers) This year they
are telling them that high prices, caused by
the circulation of a deprecated dollar, is
the only way out of the difficulty that nem
ocratlc miSmana cement has brought upon
the NatioH.-Evansville Journal
The free silveriteS claim that free COIN
age will double the price of everything the
farmer has to sell, but they say nothing
about the doubling in price of everything
the farmer and laporing man has to buy.
-CoV1ngton Reporter.
The National Democracy has been organ
lied just in time to prevent the name Dem
ocrat applied to political party from
becoming obsolete. The Bryan brand of
Democracy will simply be a Renaissance
after Nov. 3.-Anderson Herald.
Which is the better policy to encourage
a man to defraud his neighbor by paying
his obligation in a debased currency or to
help him to earn an honest dollar by CIV
ing him an honest days work at good
wages?-Greenfleld Republican.
Governor Matthews has probably realized
the fact by now that there are quite a y.n3d
many Democrats in the county who can't
be induced to trample on the time honored
principles of their party ut the bec.: and
call OF such men as Aitgeld and Tillman.
-Worthington Times.
The Bryanites are claiming that free sill
yer has been a good thing for Mexico by
compelling her to make her own manufac-
tLrcd articles. Uncle Sam knows of a bet
ter sort of protection than degrading his
L oney so that other folks won't trade with
hm.-Coumbia City Mail.
One of the two hundred sound money
Democrats in town, after witnessing the
cold reception that Bryan received at the
depot here yesterday remarked that his
candidate, Palmer, would create more
tEuSiaSm than did the silver champion
-MIshawaka Enterprise.
The Republican party told the truth in
1892, and the Democratic party lied itself
into power Isn't the party that tod the
truth four years ago entitled to more credit
than the party that then lied to tire Cum
try, and is to-day disowned by its best ele-
ment.-Mount Vernon Sun.
AS the people become enlightened the
subject, Bryans speeches on the question
of free coinage are beginning to fall dread
fully fiat. He possesses neither the depth
nor the breadth of a statesman, but he's
as full of cheap talk as a soda fountain
is of hzz.-Connersville News.
Mckinley aims to unite all classes and
make this Nation what it should be-
harmonious whole in which eacn class shall
seek to promote the prosperity and hap
plneSS or all. Bryan'S speeches are a con-
tinuous effort to array one class against
another.-Richmond Palladium.
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on platform which declares in effect ,bat
the experience of the world on the money
question is of no account and that me fu-
ture results of dangerous expert meats in
finance can only be judged by the 'tn;tgin-
alton of boy orators.-Liberty Herald.
Silver is not the money of the poor and
gold is not the money of the rich but a
silver dollar or a paper dollar that is as
good as gold dollar is the dollar of the
people and it is the dollar of all the in
terests which depend upon the prosperity
or the whole OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Sun.
Free and unlimited coinage of silver say
the Populistic-Democracy, will give the
country plenty of money, and the laborers
plenty of work. That sounds very much like
I892, when we We're advised to vote for
cleveland and free trade and get a dollar
a bushel for wheat-Parke County Journal.
William Jennings Bryan will always re-
member his reception at LaPorte, for it
could not have been any colder had it
been packed in a cold-storage building all
summer Even the prominent free-silver
Democrats were not on hand to give their
candidate the glad hand.-LaPorte Herald
Mr.. Bryan has been promising the farm
ers and taxpayers cheaper dollars with
which to pay their debts and taxes but
he does not promise the soldiers that their
pension dollars shall be any larger than
the dollars that men will have to use in
cheating their creditors.-Vincennes Com
mercfal.
The depreciation of silver has not been
caused by the action of any particular
nation or cotere of men. any more than
the deprecated price of wheat and horses
overproductio1, and has been regulated by
the great law of supply and demand.
Journal.
The farmers fools. They know
that the law of supply and demand IS IRE
great factor in fixing the price of both
wheat and silver. They ~iso K;:ov that :;
protective tariff, with reciprocity. mas dome
more to increase the price of whea- than
any legislation that has been or can be
enacted GreenSDurg Standard.
If Mr.. Bryan had the idea that the great
throng gathered around the grand stand on
the government grounds last night was
composed of his admirers and supporters
he was deceivng himself. A poll of the
voters OF the crowd would undoubtedly have
shown u large majority for Mckinley
Bend Tribune.
Most people believe Mr. Bryan is sim
cere in his advocacy of free silver coinage
He is either honest or dishonest. If dis
honest he is not fit to be President and
ought not to be supported by honest people.
If honest he would infiict injuries the coun-
try would not recover from in half 4 CEN
tury.-New Albany Tribune.
Bryan says the way they will get the
free coined silver into circulation the mine
owners will pay it to their hands. That's
Just it, the poor laboring man will be the one /
who will have to take deprecated money
At SOund-money wages and when he comes
to spend it he will find that it will take
twice as much of it to get the necessaries
Of life under sound money.-Noblesville |
Ledger.
The adherents of the Chicago branch of
the Democracy sheer at the Indianapolis
ticket and convention, call it an annex to
the Republican party, Hannacrats. and so
on. but it is certain that they would feel |
much easier if they knew that the men who
are behind the indianapolis ticket were to
vote for the ticket nominated at Chicago
instead of voting against it, as they are de-
termined to do.-Terre Haute Mail.
Fort Wayne has a motorman living al
406 Broadway. He is in the employ Of the
street railway. He works eleven l.ours ger
day and receives $3.50 per day, worth 100
cents on the dollar. He has brother in |
Mexico engaged in the same BUSH ass with
other employees. This brother works SIX
teen hours per day and receives 81 i'll Mex |
isan silver worth 80 cents in our money.
Fort Wayne Gazette.