The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-11

der, recognizing its value. And vet these
gentlemen say that it got all its value from
exactly the other way. The legaI-tender
law rests on the value of the metal. Why
L, nea g9ld ,o valuable don't know Why do
do so many people get idiotic about cleo
ton! | don't know. But these are facts
many, people give a value to gold and
that value is recognized by the lawmaking
power, and that is all there is to the legal
tender act.
Now, what ! want TO say to you tonight
is, IN this country We want good money
prosperity Tor nation or an individual
without honesty. without integrity and it
is our duty to preserve the reputation of
the great Republic. (Applause.) Let us
nave sense enough to vote for our own in
terestS- We did not have it in 1892 U.augh-
teri / hope we have learned something in
the last four years. So remember that
money is something that cannot be made:
that it has TO be found. Recollect that
that you cannot make something out of
nothing Just keep that in your minds.
WHAT AMERICANS WANT
After discussing the tariff question Col.
Ingersoll continued thus
We don't want fiat philosophy and we
don want any silver swindles. We want
business. That is what want. Wind
ana water are our servants. Let them
Let them toll. Start the fires and let la
Dor, with its countless hands, have work
and where there is work there is want.
That is what ] want. L want protection
and prosperity. / want good sense and
business. Do not deceive us with debased
coin. Give us good money. the life blood
of business, and let it flow in freely through
the veins and arteries of commerce. That
Is what we want; That is what we want,
business.
we won't have it unless we have conf
dence n the future, and no sensible man
dence in an adminstra ton to be governed
by the new Democracy. We want credit.
Credit is based on confidence, and when we
nave good times, you know, everybody
nearly has credit. Every mans mouth is
mint that issues dollars. When a good
fellow with good job goes to the grocer
worth of coffee, charge it, he has added $40
to the currency of the United States. He
buys horse and gives his note for a hun
dred dollars he has inflated the money.
they won't credit then they say money is
scarce. There is just much money as
there was before. Credit is scarce. That is
the trouble. Confidence is gone, and yet
they are gong to give prosperity Is to /.
What does that mean? That will mean six
teen men M, for 81 Sixteen men hunting one
the sixteen, fifteen failures. bankrupts.
And now, what is the next question? Is
make money by law. can we keep the peace
by law? That is the question Is this
government Yer m Of people? Can the people
obey? Shall we be bound by the decision
of the highest tribunal, or shall we depend
upon the mob? That is the question.
hate the mob spirit. Civilized men obey
the law. Civilized men believe in order
Civilized men believe that man that
makes property by industry and econotny
has the right to keep it. Civilized men be-
Heve that that man has the right to use it
character by the manner in which he uses
it. If he endeavors to assist his fellow
men he will have the respect and admira-
ton of his fellow-men. But we want
government of law We do not want labor
questions settled by violence and blood I
want to civilize the capitalist so that he
Will give what labor is worth. / want to
educate the workingman SO he will be will
ling to receive what labor is " orth. want
to civiliZe them both to that degree that
they can settle all of their disputes in the
high court of reason.
.'But when you tell me that they can
stop the commerce of the nation, then you
preach the gospel of. the bludgeon, the
gospel of torch and gun. L do not believe
in that religion. 1 believe in a religion of
kindness, reason and law The law is the
supreme will of the supreme people, and
we must obey it or We go back to saw
agery and black night. l stand by the
courts. I stand by the President who
deavors to preserve the peace. / am against
nobs. am against lynchings and / be-
ieve 1t is the duty of the federal govern
ment to protect all it's citizens at home and
abroad, and I want a government powerful
enough to say to the Governor of any
State where they are numbering American
citizens without process of Iaw-I want the
federal government to say to the Governor
OIL lf1dC Oldle. sup, StCp SASuulLS Tie
blood of American citizens. And If you
cannot stop it we can / believe III "A gov>
eminent that will protect the lowest. the
poorest and weakest as promptly as the
mightiest and strongest. That is my gov
ernment This old doctrine of State sover-
eighty persisted in the flame of the civil
war. and | tell you tonight that that infa-
nous lie was surrendered to Grant with
Lees sword at Appomattox.
WHO SHALL 1T BE?
eve have got to make our choice. I
I'll
Then you have got to choose between Me-
Kinley and Bryan. 1t won't take you long
to make up your minds. 1 admit that Bry
an is honest. If he was not his intellect
uaI pride would not allow him to say what
he does He is honest. He is a Popu-
list, a Socialist and a Democrat.
Great laughter.) His head is filled with
vagaries, and his brain is a kind of polit-
ical insane asylum without a keeper. Nc
Kinley is a trained man. Mckinley has
level head. He is sensible, candid: He
is American in every drop of his blood.
He was d soldier when Bryan was in his
mothers arms. He was a soldier; he is
a statesman he is the apostle of protec-
ton; he knows the road that leads to
prosperity; he knows the way to business,
and he understands honorable methods.
Shall we take Mr.. BRYAN? Imagine Mr..
Bryan's Cabinet. For Secretary of State, lg-
natius Donnelly; for Secretary of War
Tillman; Secretary of the Treasury. Coin"
George; Attorney-general, Governor Alt
geld Secretary of Agriculture, George Fred
Williams; Postmaster general, PETER and
his whiSkers; for Secretary of the Navy
Coxey. Then he could keep off the grass
Then would come the millennium. The
cryptogram and the Bacon cipher and State
laws, free silver, single tax, fiat money
destruction of banks and credit, bondhold-
ers and creditors mobbed, courts closed
debts repudiated and the rest of the folks
made rich by law. think had better
take Mckinley. If he should die. a capa-
BILE, honest man would take his place
Garret A Hobart. If Bryan should be
elected and he died. imagine. sitting in the
seat of Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Watson.
That is enough to give a patriot the night
mare. Let us stand by Mckinley.
Fellow citizens, make up your mind to-
night Now is the accepted time. Vote
for good money. Vote for integrity. Vote
against silver swindles and reputation
Vote for protection and prosperity. Vote
against free trade and depreciation. Vote
for business and good wages. Vote against
idleneSS and hunger.
Vote for the enforcement of the law
Vote to uphold court and precedents in the
preservation of peace. Vote to keep con-
tracts sacred. Vote to preserve life, prop
erty and liberty. Vote against the mob
Vote against the dagger, the torch and the
bomb. Vote for law and order. Vote for
the glory of the great Republic. Great
applauseo
it's reputation through the world; for its
credit in all the marts of trade, fol. the