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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-30
A SHAMELESS DEMAGOGUE.

Mr. Bryans recent speeches have been
largely a repetition of his earlier ones
though he has fashion of clothing his
demagogic appeals and fallacies in new
words. At Lynn, Mass, he undertook to
meet the statement that confidence is nee
essary to the restoration of prosperity, and
this is the way he did it:
They are trying to run business in this
country with a larger and larger per cent.
of confidence to the amount of money on
hand. And if they go on the people will
observation has been that if conf
dence man comes into community the
man who has the least conf
dence has the most money when the fellow
goes out. You say Il am hungry They
say. Il have got a remedy; Jus: nave conf
dence, and If you have not had full meal
you will feel just as good as if you had. !"
You say you can't get work. They say,
Just have confidence: you have work and
find a market for our shoes Just have
confidence, the people will buy and they
will buy There is only one place where
they think the confidence game won't work.
You go to one of these men who is all the
time talking about confidence and ask him
to borrow money. He says. What secur-
all the confidence you want" He will tell
you he is not loaning on confidence this
year. Why is it the financieIS are so anx-
ious for you to have confidence in them
when they don't have any confidence in
you?
Aside from the f1ippancy this it shows
utter ignorance of the element of business.
or else a purpose to play on the ignorance
of his audience. That confidence is abso-
lutely essential to business is a fact so
generally known that even Mr.. Bryan can
hardly be ignorant of it, yet he sneers at
the idea and tries to convey the impress
sion to his hearers that the confidence
which conservative men say is necessary
to the revival of prosperity is of the same
kind as that practiced by confidence men,
The confidence which Mr. Bryan thus at
tacks is at the basis of all business 1t is
but another name for credit which is the
mainstay of the commercial world. Great
as the volume of our currency is. nine
tenths of the business of the country is
done on credit or confidence. and would be
if the volume of our currency were in
creased a hundred fold. He sneers at credit
the purpose of entrapping and fleeing poor
men, and intimates that the country would
be better off without it. Away with con-
fidence and credit" says this business re-
former and financer of the school.
I'VE have been fed confidence too long.
What we want is less confidence and more
money and he adroitly conveys the idea
that with the free coinage of silver there
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-30

1t may be pertinent ito ask how Mr.. AL
bert Sahn, Mr.. Cleveland's postmaster, and
Mr.. w. H. Hawkins, United States marshal
by virtue of Mr.. Cleveland's kindness, feel
since the free-silver Democracy jeered and
hooted at the picture of the President on
the Cleveland Clubs banner and insisted
that it be turned to the wall. These gem
tlemen are actively engaged in prosecuting
the campaign for the rabble who screamed,
Take it out, Down with Cleveland
when the club bearing his name marched
into Tonlinson Hall, with his portrait on
their flag, and who yelled their approval
when it was ANONYMOUSLY turned to the
wall and buried beneath the free-slver de-
vice of one of the ward clubs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-30

been called viz: The effect on the holders
of fire insurance policies. Suppose a man
is carrying a given amount of insurance on
his house. store factory mill or other
property. The amount of insurance is
gagged on gold basis. all buildings now in
existence having been erected on that basis.
If a man carries $40, 900 insurance he counts
on recovering that amount in gold or its
equivalent in case of loss. The effect OF
free-silver coinage would be to scale down
his policy one-half. OF course, the face of
IT would remain the same and in case of
total loss he would be paid $4,000 but as
they would be 50-cent dollars he would
really get only the equivalent of s.. 900 in
gold. This would ruin d great many per-
sons who now regard their policies as of
full value, and count on them as a ready
resource in case of fire.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-30

M. H. s., Mllgrove, Ind: National bank
notes are not legal tender, but are receiva-
BILE at par in payment of dues to the United
States. except duties imports and for
payments by the United States. except in
terest on the public debt redemption of
national currency and they are receivable
by any national bank at par for debts
owing to it. Each bank is obliged to re-
deem its own notes at its counter, on de-
mand, in lawful money" that is legal
tender notes, SO that while the national
bank notes not themselves legal ten
der they are convertible into legal tender
on demand. The total amount in circula-
ton is $215 79S,526, which is only about half
much as the banks would be entitled
TO under the law if there were profit enough
in circulation to induce them to apply for
it. The highest amount outstanding at any
time was 1858, 742. 034, in 1882, and the lowest
s167, $50, 906, in 1891. Since the year last
named there has been an increase of $4S,-
247,s20. aaa' s1clr7
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-30
Freedom.

The night is here. and from the under world
from demon lhroats burst of fury rolls,
For those who stand freedoms heights
with freedoms flag unfurled.
vi rage. Then SIence-see the vibrant ground
As rise the dark battalions from the deep
W here traitors thrive and thieves their watch
fires keep.
And toward freedoms ranks
With stealthy footsteps creep
More dense the GREATNESS gloom. My heart in
fear,
To far space cries: ''The coward foes draw near
And pierce the brave who stand by freedom S
side,
Oh! Must they fall in vain? Had they but died
In combat, Their memories with man
Might evermore abde,'
oh thou who lowest freedom, Knowest thou not
Ihat from divinity she sprang? Each spot
In all the spheres she fills. All space
Her dwelling is; and they who face
Become divine akin to gods,
AS of the gods begot.
They live to make men free; and though they
die
OF all forgotten. and in ashes lie
They rise immortal And their work begun
For man. by man goes till time is done,
Till evil dies, till is free and earth
And heaven are one
--Zerelda n. Mccoy in Tacoma SIM
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-30
BrsMARCk,s LETTER GARBLED.

When the letter of Bismarck was given
out by the Governor Of Texas it occurred
to Judge julius Schulze editor of the Texas
Vorwaerts, to obtain a copy of it. As it
was on file in the Governors Office this was
easy thing to do. He obtained a copy,
which is printed in German in the New
York World, as well as a translation of
his own Below is the translation of the
letter by Judge Schulze:
Friedrichsruh, Aug. a, 1886.
Honored Sir-Your esteemed favor of July
l has been received. / have always had
a prediction for bimetallism, but while l
falllble in opposition to experts. believe
to this day that it would be commendable
to obtain by endeavors of those nations
Chiefly engaged in the worlds commerce
an agreement in the direction of bimetal-
lism.
The United States are in political econ
omy, less hampered by their government
than any of the European states, and
if North America should find it compatible
with it's interests to take substantial step
in the direction of dmetalism, j believe
that such step would exert a beneficial in
1uence upon the establishment of inter-
national agreement and the union of the
European states. Assuring you of my
highest respect, L am your most obedlent
servant, V. BISMARCK.
The following is the letter as translated
and printed by the direction of the Popu-
lists:
Friedrichsruh, Aug. "a, 1896.
Honored Sir-Your esteemed favor has
been duly received. / hold that this is the
very hour that would be advisable to bring
about between the nations chiefly engaged
in the worlds commerce a mutual agree
ment in favor of the establishment OF BIZ
metallism. u
The United States are freer byNar in
their movements than any nation of
Europe, and hence if the people of the
United States should find it compatible
with their interests to take independent ac-
ton in the direction Of bimetallism. / can
not but believe that such action would eX-
ert most salutary influence upon the con-
summation of international agreement.
BISMARCK.
These are very different letters. Bis
marck did not say, if the Schuze transla-
ton is correct. 81 hold that this is the very
hour that would be available to bring about
an agreement" Neither did he make any
allusion to independent action by the
United States. So far from using these
words expressing independent action by
this country, he uses language looking to
the possible desrablity of interna tional BIZ
metallism, saying that lit would be com
mendable to obtain by endeavors of those
nations chiefly engaged in the worlds COM
merce an agreement in the direction of BIZ
ynetallism.'
This garbing of the letter of Bismarck
is a fair sample of the rascality which the
desperate dupes of the silver mine owners
are resorting to in order to deceive the
American peODfe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-30

For the third time Methodists are vot-
ing on the question of admitting women
to the General Conference as delegates.
The first time comparatively little interest
was taken in the matter, the second time
a large number of local conferences voted
in favor of women, but the delegates Sc
cured fell just short of the number needed
to give the victory to the women. There is
some fear by the advocates of the measure
that the members will neglect to express
themselves the third time as decidedly as
they did before but the situation is bet
ter understood now than at first and the
prevailing sentiment of the churches is UNI
doubtedly favorable to giving women
voice in the manag cement of affairs, success
will probably crown their efforts when the
General Conference meets three years from
now
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-30

half in Spanish, has an article on invest
ments of foreign capital in that country,
and after suggesting that the success of
a loan from German capitalists might be
lesson to overcautions WalI-street bank
ers. concludes thus:
Up to the present and we note it with
regret the American sent here to nego-
tate loans or other business, is, though
undoubtedly clever at home, absolutely
lest in these ATTITUDES. That is our marked
bv Hi brngi5a au 20 notice e it w
be remedied; and we wish 1t most heartily.
The Journal confesses that careful
reading Of this paragraph, both forward
and backward, leaves sense of mystifica-
ton as of something unsolved. The lines,
or perhaps something between the lines
carry an impression not wholly pleasing
but all unpleasant doubt as to whom the
pronoun our" refers will be passed over
in view of other utterances of the esteemed
Venezuelan contemporary. In answer to
inquiring readers it explains its position in
relation to United States politics and in
forms them that it believes that Demo
cratic principles under the normal condi-
tons which exist in the United States. are
best calculated to serve the interests of the
people, 1t does not believe in the free
silver doctrine however, and boldly de-
clares that it will support Mckinley and
the gold platform The Caracas paper is
congratulated on its good sense, and is
hereby advised to get its eagle out and be
ready to join the triumphant procession
after Nov 2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-30

One of the surest signs that Mckinley is
gaining is the insistence of Popocrat papers
that railroad men and other workingmen
being "coarced'' into his support. 1t
is so patent that a large majority of these
classes of citizens, especially of railroad
men, are for Mckinley and sound money,
that the Popocrat organs find it necessary
to try and break the effect of the move
ment The coercion theory is a very silly
one and as the Journal has already
pointed out, very insulting. The Sentinel
of yesterday says:
They can be coerced into Joining Nc
Kinley clubs and wearing Mckinley buttons.
They can be coerced into putting Mckin-
ley pictures into their windows. They can
be coerced into supDressing their senti-
ments or uttering sentiments IN which
they do not believe.
This is equivalent to charging that the
railroad men who are marching and shout
ing for Mckinley are utterly lacking in indie
pendence and honesty. They ought to re-
sent this insulting imputation by increased
activity for Mckinley.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-30

E. b. NJ, Redkey Ind. The stamp of
the government does not add anything to
the value of a gold coin. The law requires
that the coins shall contain so much fine
gold by weight, and while they are made
legal tender the law provides that if
through wear or any other cause they have
lost anything in weight even the smallest
fraction of a grain. they shall only be legal
tender for their weight. This shows that
it is the weight of gold in the coin and not
the stamp of the government that gives it
value. If a gold coin of full weight is
melted or pounded it is still worth precisely
much it before or after it was
coined. The Director of the United States
Mint in his report for 1895, page 1SS, said:
During the last generation-that IS, ever
since the 18th of February 1862. when the
paper evidences of Indebtedness legal tender
many have naturally grown up with ali
sorts of misconceptions and delusions on
the important subject of the currency
Hence it is that their fundamental notion
of money is false one, and although they
know full well that the silver coins of the
United States at present nearly half
of their value to the stamp of the mint
which they bear and the pledge Of the
government to maintain them at par with
gold and that to that extent. the value
of these silver coins is fictitious and not
real. they persist in preferring shadow to
substance In the currency of the country,
or at least to consider shadow quite as
good as substance. Although aware that
one thousand silver dollars bearing the
stamp of United States mint thrown into
the melting pot and reduced to the form
of bullion, will produce a quantity of metal
that will yield the holder little more than
$500 in any market of the world, while one
thousand gold dollars also bearing the
stamp of the United States subjected to the
same process. will come out of the 6rucible
still worth $1,000 in any country of the
wolrd, they insist that the silver and the
gold are equally good currency They have
apparently never asked themselves what
becomes of nearly so per cent of the value
of the silver dollar after the stamp of the
United States mint has been obiterated
from it and it has been changed in shape;
in what the departed value consisted while
the stamp remained intact and the form of
the coin unaltered; whether the lost value
was real or imaginary: whether the stamp
was the expression of a truth or the con-
trary; and whether. without the whole
power of the courts and the executive back
of it, the silver dollar would pass on its
own intrinsic merits. otherwise than by
the compulsory circulation given it by the
strong hand of the law. HtfH
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-30
WORkINGMEN ALL RIGHT.
Industrial Vote Is Turning Rapidly
Toward Mckinley.
New York Special.


Advices received at Republican head
quarters in regard to the industrial vote
are very encouraging. There a time
when demonstration of hostility toward
the Republican ticket among the laboring
classes gave the managers of the Mckinley
campaign considerable uneasiness but a
very decided change in sentiment has been
going on in that quarter during the last
two or three weeks. Free silver appeared
friends of the walking-d delegate sort among
the workingmen, and noisy displays for
Bryan were the order of the hour in not a
few industrial centers The Republican ma
tional committee. through it's innumera BILE
agencies, began over a month ago a most
aggressive campaign to counterfeit this in
huence, and the results of their efforts are
being seen. Speakers went among them in
whom they had confidence. literature by
the hundreds of tons was distributed tend
ing to prove that sound and stable cur
rency was TO the direct advantage of wage
earners, and that free silver would inevi-
tably work them an injury by reducing the
purchasing power of the cash received for
their work. 1t only needed energetic and
intelligent campaigning in that quarter to
produce direct results and to counteract the
Would-be leaders who had arrayed them
selves on the side of Bryan and in support
of the Chicago platform.
Reports from manufacturing points in the
doubtful States of the Middle West and the
border States are especially encouraging
and Chairman Hanna anG riS associates
have an increasing sense of confidence in
the outcome. as each mail brings confirma-
ground among the wage earners. Mr. Han
brought to a realization of the dam
ger of heavy losses in the labor vote about
the time of his last visit East and it was
while here that he, in conjunction with the
other members of the executive committee
organized the campaign among the wage
earners. winch is as before remarked
yielding fruit Not for many, many years
has such energetic and driving campaign
work been done in the industrial localities
by rival political managers as this season
The speeches of Major Mckinley to visit
ing delegations of workingmen are held by
cd in an
important degree to the happy results that
are noted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-30
Chairman Jones's Joke.


Senator Jones may not go into history as
the shrewdest political manager the cam
paign of 1896 produced, but as its chief hui
morist he will forever stand at the head.
He let loose his best joke of the season to-
day 1t was a great success. Even the Re-
publican managers admitted that and testi-
fled to their appreciation of its worth by
laughing uDroarously that passers-by
wondered If Maine had again demonstrated
her love for Sewall. Senator Joncs's latest
funny caper is to issue a bulletin in which
he gravely says he is going to prosecute
Mark Hanna and all the other members
of the Republican national committee for
conspiriLg to intimidate workmen to vote
for Mckinley. Jones announces this grave
ly SO TO make people think he is in earn
est. but those acquainted with his odd dis
position will understand ii is only his way
of poking fun at his opponents across the
way. His close friends say ii is the deli
cate way Jones has of letting the public
know that he believes Bryan and free sill
yer are badly beaten. and that all there is
left to do is to worry the Republican cam
paign managers. Having provided for the
proper circulation of his joke. Senator
Jones took the train for New York where
he is due to meet Bryan Hill and German
for conference.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-30

When some one in the audience at New
London, Conn. told Mr.. Bryan he was in
favor of the gold standard because every
nation will accept gold dollar for dol
lar Bryan said: why? 1 will tell you.
Because of its value; the reason why our
gold dollar and our bullion is worth the
same is because the law says that you can
convert the bullion into dollar at the
mint" How about silver?" asked the
questioner. Mr.. Bryan: When the laws
are So under the free coinage of silver, the
holder of silver bullion can convert his sill
yer into dollars at the mint, that will fix a
mint price for silver, as we have a mint
price for gold now, and our silver dollars
will be worth as much abroad as our gold
dollars" The mans ignorance is only
persons in the audience marveled at the
readiness of his replies, and at the quick
discontinue of his questioner. His asser-
ton that the value OF our gold coin is due
to the stamp of the government to the
privilege of having it coined free, and that
the same privilege would confer like
value on silver, shows dense ignorance of
the elementary principles of business. not
to speak of political economy monetary
science. An ounce of gold is worth as
much in the rough to the owner who takes
it out in Australia or California as it is
after it is coined, and would still be worth
the same if it were reduced again to a
nugget. Mr.. Bryan evidently belongs to
the class of ignoramuses alluded to by the
Director of the Mint in quotation printed
in another column.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-30

as gold. In less than two years after their
issue all but four millions of these notes
We're retired, being replaced by greenbacks-
Legal-tender quality in paper money cam
not keep it at par with coin unless ii can be
redeemed with coin, any more than writing
the word horse on a mule can make a
mule horse. The greenback is not mon
ey, but promise to pay money. When the
promise was not kept it deprecated like
any other note about the payment of which
there is doubt 2. The trade dollar was not
in circulation in this country prior to 1876
or even then, for the reason that the coun-
try was on paper basis, greenbacks be-
ing worth but S21a cents in gold Only s..
107,524 trade dollars were coined. Only p
06o, $50 were coined prior to 1877 and 303a, 10
were coined in 1877. They did not come into
circulation until 1878. and then they were
worth only their bullion value. The trade
dollar is inconsequential factor in the
consideration of the question No legal
tender power can keep the purchasing pow
of silver dollars above their bullion val
lie when this any other nation falls to
silver basis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-30
st. john and the Mugwumps.
Washington Post.


In this campaign the mugwump stands
out more conspicuously and more exas-
perating than ever before. 1t has been well
said that the mugwump is a person who
has been educated beyond his infelIectuaI
capacity. and. so far it goes the defini-
ton is admirable. But there is more in the
mugwump than that Being educated be-
yond his intellectual capacity he is luke
warm both as to his emotions and his mind.
He Is in state of moral and intellectual
lassitude He hates. but not violently. He
admires. but with reserve. lie can have a
swoon, but not "a rapture He is capable
of rancor. but not of passion. The dejec-
ton and the torpor of his brain extend to
his feelings and his instincts. and yet he is
unable 10 be altogether indifferent to any
thing He seems destined to go through
life in state of lukewarm turmoil admir-
ing and disliking things and persons in
turn. and always in "A state OF languid
worship of himself.
Perhaps ST. John gave the best descrip-
ton OF the mugwump in Revelation III:
f5-l6 when he said: II know thy works,
that thou art neither cold nor hot. 4 would
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-30

H. n. s., Terre Haute: i. All greenbacks
were legal tender during the war and after
for all public dues except customs. and for
all public payments except the interest on
the public debt. And all legal-tender green
backs were below par in coin for their is
sue in February. 1862. until within a few
weeks of specie resumption, Jan. l. 1879
The only paper issue OF the government
during the war that kept near par was the
demand notes of which S60,000.o00 were is
sued in 1851. They We're not legal tenders
They were at par with gold because they
could be used to pay customs duties. for
which no other paper issue could be used
Thus the demand note was nado as good