The Indianapolis journal., 1896-09-09

committee on reception and president of
the Columbia National Bank, who was
formerly Republican. and spoke as fol-
lows:
Ladies and Gentlemen am going to
talk to you little while. There are others
here who are prepared to discuss the issues
of the campaign in your presence. am
trying to do as little work as possible. l
think have been doing my share SO far as
time is concerned But / want to avoid
getting tired by resting, but / get
ask you TO listen to me but a short time
II IS now just about one month since l left
Nebraska and turned eastward. 1t has
been an interesting trip. l want to assure
you that the sentiment in favor of the free
coinage of silver is a growing sentiment.
II far surpassed my expectations in the
East. and / found among those people the
producers Of wealth, the farmers and the
laborers. who are joining with you to free
themselves from the domination of those
financial influences which have controlle!
our legislation and our financial policies.
HE MEANS ST. JOHN.
You will find in the very shadow of Wall
street as bitter hatred to the influences
from which you have suffered as you will
find among the farmers of Nebraska and
ali through the East / found farmers VINO
have been Republicans who were openly
supporting the free coinage of silver and
were asserting that they had as much right
to attend to their business as the New
Another thing noticed and that is the in
tense earnestness that characterizes this
campaign. l have not found a lukewarm
man anywhere They have been for us
Tor US or against US. | am glad to see
that, because, my friends. politics is a
issues as confront the American people
now.
I'VE have a financial system which has
been injurious to the masses of our peo-
pie. We have a financial system which
has brought gain to those who have
cured it and untold loss to those who have
suffered under it, and we are now con-
II onted with proposition that we must
keep this system until foreign aid comes to
American citizens to discuss this great
ovcrshadowing issue and determine for
ourselves what ought to be done with the
Republican platform, which, without de-
tending a gold standard declares that it
must be maintained until the leading ma
tons of Europe shall join in a substitution
of double standard This is the plat
form, and the candidate who stands upon
it has emphasized that declaration as
against the maintenance of gold stand
ard, either for one day or forever.
The Democratic party has declared for
the Immedate restoration on Of the american ne
ty, but the Silver and Popuiist parties
Both of these have, Joined with the Demo
cratic party in making this paramount IS
sue of the campaign. They are trying to
drag in other questions. but, my friends.
there be no other fusion until we first
determine whether the people of this coun-
try are able to have their own policy and
until we have decided upon it,
Il don't know whether all OF you fully
realize the intensity of the struggleS in
which we are engaged. Our opponents be-
gan the campaign by asserting that the
American people were not able TO establish
bimetallism, and then when they found
there was a revolt among. the American
people against such a policy, they have
commenced a system of coercion and ter
rorism, insisting that the masses of the
hat lxir of a
rorism and coercion is manifested in two
ways: In the first place. the heads of
great corporations are undertaking to COM
pei their employees to support the gold
standard.
rations assert the right to control the votes
of those who vote them. then we have pre-
sented to the American people a greater
question than the silver question. If a cor
poration has the right to control the vote
of employe on one question it has the
right to control on every question These
corporations were not constituted for any
such purposes. They are creatures of law.
Has the law given unto these corporations
any such powers? No. my friends, and no
people who love their government will ever
intrust these powers to any person or cor
poration. If corporations is not Intrusted
it's will, then the corporation that attempts
it usurps it's rights and becomes a danger
GUS power in free government
Il WARN YOU, FELLOW CITIZENS"
IF there are those here who are opposed
approve of the conduct of these corpora
tions that attempting to vote their en-
ployes. We may be the ones to suffer now
but / warn you, my fellow-c -citizens- that
the time may come when these very corpo-
rations will turn themselves against you
and your families with all the accumu-
lated power that your Endorsement of their
conduct now will give them.
Not only have some of these corpora
tions attempted to coerce their employees
but the great money power centered in
New York has been attempting to coerce
the people who do business with it. A paper
a few days ago said of a Montana bank
which had failed that the reason given was
that the managers of the bank were advo-
eating free silver, and, therefore. the New
longer. and enforced the collection of a
note which they held on the suspended
bank My friends. do you think you are
under a government of the people? / want
to ask you what you think will be the re-
suit II we get to be a government by banks
II we could but trust our affairs to a New
York banker we might endure it for a time
but when you remember that the New
York banker is under the control of the
LONDON banker, l ask you to reflect before
you submit the destinies of free people to
a few tinanciers
ter, a failure which, in my judgment was
largely due to the sale of bonds and to the
TACT that the Eastern bank was drawing
in money from circulation from business
from the channel of trade to invest in gov
ernment bonds. If, my friends, You have a
financial policy which permits q few tinan-
tlerS TO close your banks at will and swai-
low up your deposits and depoverish YOUR
DeoDle,I want to ask if it is not time for
you to consider whether this cannot be
stopped.
we have been toe that we cannot borrow
money from abroad unless we have finan-
cial system that is satisfactory to the peo-
pie abroad. My friends, you let them con-
troll your financial system and YOU will
never see a time when you can get out of
the clutches of those who are dominating g
your financial policy. ] assert the right of
the people OF this country to have their own
financial system and 10 regulate their own
affairs, and if foreign people do not want to
loan money to us under these conditions we
the conditions will be so favora BILE that we
soon Will have money to loan them.
In my humble judgement q proper fnan-
cal policy for the last twenty years would
have left the people of the United States
Independent of foreign monsy. But instead
of that we are more dependent to-day than
We were twenty years ago. If that is So
where. will it be twenty years from now if
we follow the same system. We have al
products by their financial policy and then
when our exports have not been sufficient
to pay the enormous drains of New York
exchange they have taken our gold and
when they take our gold they do not want
to leave us money to do business with in it's
pace.
TWO QUE STIONS.
."They tell us that if We have the free
coinage of silver that silver will come in
and gold out We reply to them that