The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27
INDIANA NEWSPAPER OPINION.

A half a days pay for a full days work
is what labor will get If we Mexicanize
our money.-Muncie Times.
There is only one remedy for the existing
state of affairs. and that is the return to
power of the Republican party.-Worthing-
ton Times.
Assure investors that our money system
will be kept solid. with reasonable protec-
ton. and we will enter on q new era or
general prosperity.-Seymour Republican.
The political situation in Grant county Is
plain to everybody who has given it any at
tention. The Republican party is as strong
here now as ii has ever been. We may lose
a few Republican votes, but we will gain
more Democratic votes than We will lose.
Marion Chronicle.
The proposition of the Bryan Democracy
to lift the bullion value of the silver OF the
world from IS cents an ounce TO S1.29. by
the act of free coinage in this country
alone. is about as rational as the attempt
of a man to lift himself over the fence by
his boot straps.-Anderson Herald.
The free coinage of campaign lies which
the indianapolis Sentinel is Issuing from
it's mint is Quitting the market. While
the ratio Is 16 of falsehood to of truth,
the parity is about 81 to /. 1t keeps the In
~dianapolis Journal busy showing up the
baseness OF the coinage.-Crawfordsvilie
Journal.
The Indianapolis Sentinel may not have
been so stupid. after all, when it claimed
that Harry Thomas, of Ohio county, who
has since been proved 10 be a tongue-tied
colored man, had renounced the Republican
party and was making speeches In favor of
the election Of Bryan. Even a tongue-tied
man ought to be able to tell all there is TO
be told In favor of the election OF Bryan.
Wabash Tribune.
Whether we have sound money or not we
must have disaster so long as the destruc-
tive Wilson law continues to give to for
eign labor employment that belongs to our
labor and TO foreign producers. What our
people want, first OF all. is work. When
they all get work it will be because every
man who employs labor is disposing of his
product at a profit. Then he will be able 10
pay full wages, and these wages must be
paid in honest money.-Elkhart Review.
The i'll effects OF the agitation OF unlim-
tied coinage is having an illustration right
here at home, as well as all over the coun-
try. and in many places is becoming de-
cidedly serious. The Lesh Manufacturing
Company. Of this place, owing to the un-
settled outlook. will shut down on Saturday
next. and in all probability will not resume
will throw about forty employees out of en-
plOyment at a time OF year that they are
endeavoring to lay by at least a portion Of
their earnings for the coming winter.
Warsaw Times.
The Democrats are claiming that Mexico
is a prosperous country. and all on account
of free silver coinage. They claim,
on the other hand. that the United
States Is not prosperous, because
there is not a sufficient volume of
currency in this country. The per
capita Of currency is too small. etc. Now.
what are the facts as to the circulation per
capita in the two countries. Mexico has a
circulation per capita of only So. while the
United States has $3.50 per capita. more
than five times as much, so that argument
will not work.-Greenfield Republican.
One pretext for demanding free coinage
is that it will create a demand for silver.
But no one rises up to explain how the
coming Of silver into dollars and handing
the dollars over to the owner of the bullion
creates a demand or improves the mar
ket for silver. 1t will not be claimed that
to grind wheat free and return the flour
TO the owner of the wheat would create q
demand" or make a market for wheat.
There is no increase of demand" in either
case. The owner takes his silver to the
mint In the form or bullion n carries Ii
home with him in the form OF coins. The
transaction has no relation TO the market,
for no silver has either been sold or bought.
-Rushville Republican.
Sixteen of the twenty-six stockholders of
the First National Bank of Vevay are
women. There are eighty stockholders in
Vevay's Deposit Bank. and of this number
twenty are women, so in the two banks Of
Vevay there are thirty-six women stock
ho.dsrs. None of these women are wealthy.
the most of them are in very moderate cir
cumstances. and a few have about all the
surplus they ave invested in the bank
stocks they own. We are talking business.
not party politics, and are giving the people
some business facts to answer the blatant
demagogues who are going about the coun-
try denouncing bankers and men with
money, and trying to make 1t appear they
are the cause OF hard times. These SIAN
derers are sowing seeds of discomfort and
arousing p~rejudices that are injurious to all
the people.-Vevay Reveille.