The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-12
FIRST. GET YOuR BULLION.

Almost everybody has heard of the re-
cipe for cooking a hare, which begins,
First, catch your hare The injunction
commends itself at once by it's reasonable
ness and aptitude. 1t does not take much
reasoning power to conclude that the cap
turing of the hare must be preliminary to
any process of cooking, and the fact that
the animal is fleet and fugacious, and
therefore somewhat difficult to capture,
makes the direction particularly apt
The recipe for obtaining silver money
under the Bryan free-coinage plan is as
simple that for cooking a hare, and
should begin in a similar way-"Flrst, get
your bullion The Popocrat candidate has
told his audiences over and over again
that the free coinage of silver will make
money so plenty that it will be easy to get.
He also tells them that the government
controls coinage and the people control the
government, it rests with the people to
have as much money as they want. 1t is
undoubtedly true that under free-silver
coinage at the ratio of 16 to the govern
ment would be obliged to coin all the silver
bullion sent to the minis stamp every
fifty or ffty-two cents worth of 1t as
lone dollar and return it so stamped to
the owner. Thus everybody who had or
who could obtain silver bullion could have
it converted into silver dollars at that rate,
and the more bullion he had the more mon
ey he could get. The coming process
would be simple enough and the profit to
the bullion owner would be enormous. The
first step in the proceedings is to get the
bullion. This done, the rest is easy. Mr..
Bryan does not tell sthis audiences how to
obtain silver bullion, but probably he would
if he had time. He makes it plain, how
ever, that every person who has bullion
can have it coined into fifty-cent dollars,
and therefore it will be q. mans own fault
if he does not profit by the arrangement
All he has to do is to get the bullion. This
he can do by buying a silver mine and
working it on his own account, or he can
owners. Although they asking the
government to stamp every sixteen ounces
of their bullion as worth an ounce of gold,
they will be very glad to sell any amount
of it at about half that price. In other
words, every person who has an ounce or
a pound of gold can buy with it about
thirty-two ounces or -thirtytwo pounds of
silver bullion, which he can have coined
into fifty-cent dollars So If man does
not care to buy "a silver mine all he has
to do is to get quantity Of gold and buy
bullion If he has not gold in bank or
boarded in his house he can sell piece of
real estate, convert the proceeds into gold
and then buy bullion. Or, If he has no real
estate he can sell some of his government
bonds or other personal property, or he
can hypothecate some of his securities, or
get two or three good indorsers on his note
and borrow the money in bank. No doubt
every Bryanite in Indiana, every calamity
shrieker, every street-corner loafer who is
yelling for more money to do the business
IF the country could easily raise gold in
some of these ways. There will be no diff
Guilty in raising money to buy silver bullion.
and the mine owners will have dead
loads of it to sell There is enough silver
in the mines to supply every. person in the
United States with a great many fifty-cent
dollars and if every does not get his
or her share it will be owing to sheer neg
lect or shiftlessness in not getting the bull
lion and having it coined.