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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03
The New York World gives the names of

The New York World gives the names of
thirty-eight individuals and corporations
who are credited with fortunes aggregat-
ing 1886, 900, 900 that have been made ont of
mining and are now the strength of the
Silver Trust. No one of these individuals
is credited with less than 81, 000,0 900, and
t~wenty-four of them are rated at from
SO. 900, 900 to $40. 100000. The World adds to
these millionaires and mufti-millionaires
less hat forty mine owners, whose wealth
in the aggregate is $40, 900, 900. This makes
the total wealth of the Silver Trust $685.
600, 600. But for this aggregation of wealth
interested in silver, mines. silver would not
be an issue in the campaign and Mr.. Bryan
would not now be a candidate for the pres
idencY.
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Deposits in i'm
: npria 81

These figures illustrate in compact and
striking form what is set forth in more
detail in those which follow. There are
some variations, apparently due to the fact
that other than savings deposits are in
Guided in one or two cases i'm the table just
given.
The champions of silver have found il
difficult to deny that Great Britain has
advanced with giant strides in wealth and
resources since she planted herself upon
the gold standard in 1916, and restored
specie payments in 1923. They have attrib-
uted her prosperity to the fact that she is
a creditor nation, and have, in some cases.
denied that the British masses shared the
prosperity of the bankers and merchant
princes. The statistics of the savings bank
deposits show that the humblest English
man, Scotchman and IriShman has had his
share in the growing wealth of the United
Kingdom. The holders of money deposited
their savings down to 1864 in private saw
ings banks, which were managed by trus-
tees. The government about that date es-
tablished postal savings. and the deposits
have increased nearly tWenty-fold during
the past generation. The following tables
give the annual deposits in the United
Kingdom in both classes of banks. with
the net holdings at the end of the year
for representative years. all but three of
them being since the suspension of free
colna@e nv -" Latin Union, German and
the United States:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

With the growing prospect Of the election.
of Mckinley confidence is returning. The
Amoskeag mills, at Manchester. N. H., Civ
ing employment to seven thousand people,
the factories in Waltham, Mass, the Ell
eenor iron works at, Hollidaysburg, the Ty-
rome iron works at Tyrone, Pa, and
the Burden iron works in Troy, N. ",
which closed about the time of Bryan's
I omination. have resumed work. These are
samples. but they Indicate the better feel
ing in business circles as the shadow of
Rryanism grows less. ID,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

When Governor Altgeld declared that the
deposits in savings banks are those of peo-
pie of wealth who cannot lend it through
the banks he forgot that there are nearly
five million of such depositors, and that in
the Eastern States the number of deposit
ors largely exceeds the number of voters.
KS a matter of fact, the records of many
savings banks show the occupation of the
depositors, and these records show that in
the ratio of over 9 to l the deposits in saw
ings banks are the hardly. saved earnings
of the people who work for, wages. OF the
same class are the shareholders of building
and loan associations. At least so per cent.
of the shareholders are people who either
work for wages or from very slender in
comes save something against the rainy
day. OF both there are more than seven
millions. Anarchist Altgeld puts them
among the rich. so that to his lawless
dupes it may seem a virtue to cheat them
of a half or a third of their savings.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03
The United Kingdom
trustee Savings Banks.
Received C.nifaI nac 81

These figures show total deposits In Brit
ish savings banks in 1894 amounting to
more than 9l32, 70O,0 600. or about $3.50. 000. 900.
These dSepos1 &c od distributed per capita
United Kingdom in the middle of 1894. would
afford an average of about SIT per head. or
$50 for a family of five. 1t is obvious that
the stationary condition of the trustee saw
lngs banks in recent years is due to the
preference for the postoffice savings banks.
which have multiplied their deposits four
times since the general suspension of the
free coinage of silver in Europe. The ag-
gregate deposits in both classes of banks
have more than doubled within these TWEEN
ty-two years since the contamination of
the conspiracy against the human race"
Depositors, of late years. have not only
gene TO postal savings banks with new de-
posits, but have transferred large amounts
directly from the trustee banks TO the DOS
tai banks. these transfers reaching e9S4. 755
in cash in 1888 and ES29,05S in 1889. The
most striking evidence of these figures is
the great increase in postal savings de-
posits during the five years ending with
1894. This increase has amounted 10 ~ Nor
cent, and the new deposits have increased
In an even more striking ratio. The United
ings deposits. but their per capita has not
advanced materially since 1891, while the per
capita of the United Kingdom has increased
more than -, or more than $40 for a family
of FIVE. The depoSitors of the United King
dom. Knowing that their financial system
v as anchored to the rock of the gold stand
ard. have felt no hesitation in intrusting
their increasing earnings to the savings
institutions established by the government
and by private enterprise
FRENCH SAVINGS BANKS.
The frugal people of France have yet to
learn from Mr.. VIM. J. Bryan that 1.-THE
gold standard is "A conspiracy against the
human race" They only learned the habit
OF employing banks instead of old stockings
after the Franco-prussian war, SO that the
savings banks deposits prior TO 1880 do not
fairly represent the riches of the people.
From that time down to the present. how
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03
No Of
John II. Hale I'm pnbiic Life.

Geo. W. Julian, i'm the Century.
During his sixteen years of service I'm the
Senate he was known TO the whole country
for his knightly courage i'm facing the EN-
battled hosts of slavery. He was equally
well known by his sallics of ready wit and
his Astounding good nature. without which
he would not have been able TO stand In
his place as the representative of a hated
cause. They softened the asperities OF de-
bate. and perhaps averted personal as
saults. He kept down the ire of his enc
mics by compelling them 10 laugh az the
moral gro~tesqueness OF the attitude ia
which he placed them. He was anything
but II fanatic on the slavery question: he
never gave countenance 10 any scheme of
disunion or any form of revolutionary ac-
his strong common sense. He had no de-
sire to be singular He loved the approba-
ton of his fellows. and would have lived
I'm peace with all men. But ne mad cor
~ylctions and followed. them. and for the
sake of those convictions he would have
been ready to lay down his life.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

Mr.. Bryan would scarcely have mentioned
the failed bank In Lincoln In the far East,
as he did. If he had believed that anyone
would have picked him up ana found out
That the failed bank had his four or FIVE
year-oid unpaid note for $1,000. The Incl
Ident Illustrated the Bryan method OF not
|felling tire whole truth. He said that when
the bank failed it wed him and he had not
yet got his dividend. If he had told the
whole truth he would have said: The bank
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

A weli-known manufacturing establish
ment In this city sends the Journal the ad-
cana, or the Me xican Mining Journal. which
contains a proposition to give the company
a given space of advertising for one year
for $50 in gold. In the regular printed rates
the price in silver is 1921. The sender who
is the head of the indianapolis company
writes: This is the sort of money Bryan
wants US to have"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

For brazen shamelessness nothing has
ever occurred in Indianapolis to equal the
so-called fusion between the free-silver
Democrats and the Populists. This is not
the work of the masses, but of mercenary
and oliee-seeking leaders. The Journal be-
lieves It will be repudiated by thousands of
honest voters.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

THE face-both-ways Chicago Record
closes an article about the alleged coercion
of employees by demanding the facts and
asking the question: Are there really any
attempts on the part of employers to in
timidate and eoerce American working
men?" Scores of employers and scores of
organizations of employees have declared
such reports false. What more does the
Ot.-the-fence paDer desire?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

1t Is not necessary to urge people to go
TO Tomlinson Hall tonight to listen to
Bourke Cochran. Those who have any
doubts on the silver question should make
an effort to hear and compare his treat
ment of the subject with that of Mr..
Bryan next week.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

A Bryan paper in Minneapolis has stig-
matized Bourke Cochran las an old copper
head who said that the war was a failure
and did all in his power to starve our boys.
and aided the South in numbering Northern
soldiers in Andersonville." At that time
Mr.. Cochran was ten years of age and did
not come to this country until he was sew
enteen. Mr.. Bryan's father 1T may be said.
was an active c~opperhead during the war
In I.ineoIn's State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

ever. they have deposited their savings In
the banks. and the following tables show,
that they have not yet discovered that rails
ing and purchasing power OF the dollar
makes 1t more difficult to obtain possess
sion of the dollar" than when their minis
were open to silver. The tables give the
deposits in thousands of francs, dropping
three ciphers in order to economfze space:
National Savings Banks
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

During the month of September the
United States government coined 2,754, 165
standard silver dollars, every one of which
IT is pledged to maintain at par with gold.
Yet there are free-silver editors who MAIN
tain that the country is suffering from
s.gold monometallism.''
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owed me s73.03 when it suspended, but it
had had my unpaid note for 81 900 several
years" Possibly the failure of the bank
was the result of loaning too much money
10 men who gave no collaterals.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03
The Logic Of 1t.

Since Bryan states in accents cold
His purpose, fixed and steelly,
To cut off half the price of gold
By coming silver freely,
y new fear chills the gold bugs blood.
Already thick and mirthless-
What If he takes to coming mud
And renders gold all worthless"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

In all the hundreds of speeches that can
didate Bryan has made he has not come
within gun shot of an honest statement
OF or an honest argument on any issue of
the campaign. From first to last his
speeches consist of appeals. to passion,
preiudice aud Ignorance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03
lie VIII Find II No Joke.

Watts-I notice that the editor of Tit
Bits is contemplating tackling the Amer
ica's cup next year. If he do. he will find
it no joke.
Potts-Of course he will find it no joke.
If it were a joke he would just steal it
without racing for it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

The Sentinel should cease berating men
who have found reasons for changing their
views on the silver question in six years
Low 1t has faced about since it's silver
panic editorial of last spring.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

The people should not forget that Mr..
Charles M. Cooper, of this city, is a candi-
date for Congress. Serious as the cam
paign is, its humorous side should not be
altogether neglected.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

Washington Post.
Bob Ingersoll is to take the stump. Rob-
ert will probably take Mr.. Bryan TO task
for the manner in which he has attempted
to use the Bible III his campaign speeches.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

A Popocrat remarked yesterday that he
could not tell whether the Democrats had
swallowed the Populists or the Populists
the Democrats. If the combine should
have any offices to dispose of the Populist
would know which was the swallowed from
IN experimental point of view.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03
UnhappiIy Put.

Bills-Say. old man, lend nle five dollars,
will you? sH
Wills just loaned my last five to
Strykes for the sole purpose of getting rid
of him. I'm awfuly sorry. If you had
come fifteen minutes sooner 1 could have
done as much for you.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

Mr.. Bryan stakes his reputation as a
financial prophet that the free coinage of
silver at 16 to 1 would send the price up to
S1.29 an ounce, but the stake is not a daz-
xling one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03
Savings
Private Savings Banks

theSe figures snow that nearly 1901. OuO
Erenchmen and women have on deposit in
tnelr savings banks more than 4.l00, 900. 0C0f.
or ABOUT $500. 900, 900. This amounts TO about
III per capita for "a population OF IS, 22S. 969
in 1896. or SOS for a family of five. The
Inrlltlness and economy of the French peo-
PIE are ihdicated by the fact that nearly
nan tne deposit books of the private banks
are held by members of the female sex.
me average deposit in the national savings
the private savings banks 500f (S100.) The
mean deposits in the private banks in
creased from 255f l$5N per depositor in 1879
70 1901 $50. in 1892. and 50Sf ($i00) in 1898.
me fact that there are 5000. 600 depositors
indicates that nearly every French family
is represented. for. even If husband and
wife were depositors in every case, the
iamilles represented number two and one
naif times as many. or %, o0Q, 600 souls.
Much OF the increase in French savings
since 1873 has been due, as stated, to tho
changes in the financial habits of the
extremists. however, requires that they
snouid have had no money to deposit un-
Facts OF the above table show that deposits
OF about $780, OO, COO In 1872, just before the
crime of 1879" have swelled during TWEEN
ty-three years under the gold standard TO
$500 600. 600, while the population has shown
no material change. The progression since
1880 has been rapid in the national savings
banks: while the private savings banks
have fully held their own.
France. in proportion to her population.
is not far behind the United States in her
recorded savings. Her advance since 1882,
about the time when the coinage of stand
ara silver dollars in the United States UNI
der the Bland law began to threaten their
financial stability, has been from about SO
to S1 per capita, while the United States
nave advanced only from SIS to $26 per
capita.
RECORD IN BELGIUM.
Mr. Bryan's theory that the gold stand
ard is "a conspiracy against the human
race has not yet obtained much Judgment
in the minds of the workingmen OF Bel
GUM. They have increased their deposits
in the savings banks forty fold since 1870,
when they were enjoying all the benefits of
mints open to silver. not only in Belgium.
put In France, switzerland and Italy under
the treaty of the Latin union. TIL follow
ing table of the deposits in the national
savings banks shows how complete has
been the failure of Mr.. Bryan's alleged
conspiracy to arrest the savings of the
laboring men of Belgium by increasing the
purchasing power OF the money in which
they are paid:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

When candidate Sewall said that for fifty
years contracts for the carriage of freight
had been made payable in gold he admitted
that for that period gold has been the
money of the commercial world.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03
Gond MIME.

Philadelphia Press.
Mr.. c.. ". G~oodnaster is a Palmer and
Buckner elector IN the Ninth Kentucky
district. In q 'sticker' campaign such a
name is simply out of sight.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

The free coinage of labor by the pro-
lection of American industries would be a
vastly better thing for workingmen than
the free coinage of silver.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

Hon. Bourke Cochran, of New York, who
will speak at Tomlinson Hall tonight. is
not a Boy Orator.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

The Cheerful Idiot.

BY the way" asked the shoe clerk
boarder. what is supposed to constitute a
star boarder?'
"A star boarder.' said the Cheerful Idiot.
kindly taking the trouble of answering off
Mrs. Hashcroft's hands, "a star boarder
is one who finds no trouble in making the
raise when his bill is due
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JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY,
indianapolis, Ind.

Persons sending the Journal through the mails
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All communications intended for publication in
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

BY the way, who is "coercing" the thou
sands of business men who are rallying
around Mckinley? And what employer
sintimidates'' the farmers?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

If the sound-money Democratic managers
expect to accomplish anything in this State
they should begin active operations at
once.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

It seems to be the opinion of many
sound-money Democrats that MIR. Bynum
moves very slowly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
A word-Pnfnter.

"Daubyn tells me that he is thinking of
trying his hand at a picture of a prize
fight 70
We'll. / knew he was an artist in oils,
but 1 didn't know he leaned toward word
painting." EIl -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

Kansas City Journal.
1t will be noticed that Bryan's chances
of election are not good enough TO boom
the market price of silver.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

Mr.. Bryan to Messrs. Sewall and Wat
son: Heads | win. tails you lose
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03
Wants to Talk More.

Chicago Post.
sand conquest"
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ST. ~LouIs-Union News Company, Union d.

WASHINGTON d. C.-Riggs House. Ebbitt
House, Willard's Hotel and the Washington
News Exchange. Fourteenth street, between
Penn. avenue AMI II street.
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THE IsDIANAPOLIs JOURNAL.

Can be found at the following places:
NEW 1ORK-Windsor Hotel and Astor House.
2l7 Dearborn street
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street.
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Individual Ay. per

The recorded savings of the people of
Belgium have increased under the gold
standard from SIS per family in 1850 to s6C
per family in 1894. Even the savings of the
children, for whom there is a special saw
lngs bank system. have increased from
zoo, 9O4f in 1884 to 5.472, COST on Dec. 81, 1884,.
while the number of children able to make
deposits has doubled. Evidently the chill
dren of Belgium are sadly in need of "a
campaign of education" to awaken them
to the fact that 1.-The gold standard is "a
conspiracy against the human race
THE HOLLAND STATEMENT.
The banking statistics of Holland tell a
similar story. Her savings bank system
was hardly developed as late as 1881. when
there were only 942 separate accounts and
1885, forms ($S4O, 0OO on deposit. But, not
withstanding the clutch of the gold stand
ard at the threats of labor and of business,
deposits have multiplied six fold In the ten
years from 1885 to 1894 and depositors have
multiplied nearly fifty fold. The present
number of depositors is about one in ten of
the population, or one in every other fam
uy. and the total deposits are nearly $15.-
GO0,0 or about $50 for every deDositor. The
following table shows the growth of the
number OF accounts. the annual payments
into the savings banks in forms Gao cents),
and the balances held during representative
years since Holland planted herself firmly
upon the gold standards.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

Rates to Clubs.
Subecrihe with Of o,1r nnrnernns agents
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-06
RULE OR RUIN.

Some of the sound money" Demo-
cratic papers of the east severely de-
nounce those members of the party
who, believing the financial question
to be the chief one before the people,
have announced their intention to bolt
the Chicago convention should a gold
man be named on gold platform.
They brand the threatened split as the
exhibition of the policy of rule or
ruin
But stop for a moment. Whence or
iginated the sentiment that the money
question is of chief Importance this
year? Was it not in the gold centres?
Was it not in the White House? Did
not Mr.. Cleveland and his secretary of
the treasury, Mr.. Carlisle, give ample
proofs of their policy to hold tariff
reform, strict construction and all the
rest of the Democratic articles of
faith, OF subordinate Importance to the
one newly found and un-Democratic
doctrine that there should be one
money standard in this country? Did
they not do all this? Is it not they
who have invited that which these
gold standard people condemn? To the
Moloch of the gold standard they have
been willing to and have sacrificed
party, principle, patriotism.
From the days when Jefferson OPP
posed the governmental theories Of
Hamilton down to the present day the
Democracy of the land have believed
there were certain fundamental prin-
ciples of government without which
there could be no liberty no equality.
1t was on these principles that they
have builded in the past; it is upon
them that they rest their hopes for
the future. Yet Mr.. Cleveland has
not hesitated to let go all these that he
might carry out his one idea as to
what the United States need-the gold
standard. To him and Mr.. Carlisle is
owing the defeat of the Democratic
party of Kentucky. They were willing
to surrender all the truths of De-
mocracy and accept all the heresies of
Republicanism for gold. And today
Secretary Hoke Smith is in Georgia
doing what Secretary Carlisle did in
Kentucky.
If the Democratic party goes down
to defeat in November. the cause of
that defeat may easily be traced to
Grover Cleveland and his worship of
gold, gold, gold.
1t is he who has inaugurated the
policy of rule or ruin; not the silver
Democrats who propose to stand by
tho constitution and the money Of the
constitution-gold and silver.