The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-22
HARRISON AND BRYAN BOTH ON
THE STUMP, in THAT
STATE.
BOY ORATOR TURNED OVER
HIS POSITION ON FINANCE ATTACK.
ED BY THE REPUBLICAN Ex-
PRESIDENT.
SAW MANY SOUND MONEY BADGES
At Several Places Mr.. Bryan Eel,
Called Upon to Notice Their
Prominent Display.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. 21.-Gen.
Harrison arrived at his home in Indian
apolis tonight at 7:45. Leaving New
Albany at 10 o'clock this morning, he
made eleven speeches before reaching
Indianapolis. There were notable gath
erings at Salem, Orleans, Bedford and
Bloomington. AT Salem, where the
principal address of the day was de-
livered, Gen. Harrison was welcomed
by booming cannon and shrieking
whistles, which added to the noise
made by the cheering crowds Gen.
Harrison spoke for thirty five minutes
In part he said:
Mr. Bryan proposes to abandon the pres
ent money system and to introduce the free
coinage of silver. When change is pro-
posed the first thing you want to do is to
ascertain what the present conditions are
and how they are to be changed. The
present conditions are that we are BIZ
metallic country. We are using both gold
and silver. as money-about four hundred
millions OF silver and about six hundred
millions of gold. and paper money based
upon and redeemable in coin. Every silver
dollar and every paper dollar Is maintained
on an equality with gold. You don't stop
to look at it; you don't consult bank di-
rector further than to see whether it is gen
uine. If 1t is not counterfeit it goes, and
it goes for one hundred cents on the dol
",
The Democrats say that this is practically
the gold standard, and so 1t is; and they
say they want double standard.
Now, | ask you to bear with me while 1
speak on this subject of standards. A stand
ard is measure. You have a standard
bushel, a standard peck, a standard yard
stick. They are measures, and just the
standard dollar is a measure. The others
are measures of quantity of length; this is
a measure of value. / want to know how
you can maintain two standards if they are
have two standard bushels when one is only
half as much as the other? Can you have
two standard yardsticks when one is only
half as long as the other? Ycu cannot main
tain double standard of weight or measure
OF value unless each one of them is the
equivalent of the other. The law can make
dollar legal tender to pay debts, but
how much it will buy in the market you will
have to find out in the market. If the mer-
chant says he will give you-two yards of
calico for gold dollar and one yard for a
silver dollar. that establishes the relative
value of your two metals. no matter what
you have in your law books.
We are using silver now; but the govern
ment is buying the silver at the market
price; it is coming it on its own account;
it is making whatever profit there is init
for the people; 1t is putting behind this sill
yer dollar the pledge ! OF this government
that 1t will maintain It's equality with the
gold dollar. We limit the amount that we
coin, and by limiting the amount by put
ting this governments pledge behind it, we
parity with gold; and we are doing it now.
Their proposition is that we shall turn
this all over to the mine owners; that the
government shall build its costly mints,
equip them with costly machinery, pay high
salaries to assayers and minters and coin
ers, and that we shall put all this freely
at the service Of the men who own silver
mines. A dollar like that unsupported by
the government, unlimited as to the amount
of coinage, cannot be maintained at par
1t is proposed that this great government,
companies, and by savings banks, as security
and investment, for the small earnings of the
widow and the orphan ana the provident
workingman who has made bis deposit, shall,
instead of paying in one hiindred-eent dol
lars, as promised, discharge all these public
obligations in fifty cent dollars. The peo-
pie of this country love Il; they love its
had not held It's honor IN priceless esteem,
. they would not have sentsout these great
armies In the civil war that It's fag might
died for it. with the light Of glory in their
faces as the light Of life went out. They
loved its honor. and they kept 1t whole.
They loved its honor commercially and they
legations.
We were tempted to do what is now asked
In the old fat money times. They told you
that the redemption of oHr greenbacks in
gold would bring destruction to the country.
The people said:
of that note the United States will pay to
bearer dollar and, come what will, we
will not sully the achievements of our arms
by financial repudiation.
You heard my voice in that campaign
appealing for national honor. You heard my
voice then saying to you that resumption
would not hurt, but would help you and
call you to witness now whether what
said then was not true
There is another proposition want to say
word about Mr.. Bryan has spoken with
some contempt Of those people who, as he
says, have been for thirty years saving this
country every year at SO much save. To
whom did he allude? These veterans who
egcorted me to this stand? That band of
Union veterans which has recently been tray-
cling over the country speaking to the peo-
pie and especially to their comrades on these
great Issues? Did he mean that gallant man
that heroic patriot, that man Of God Gen.
Howard, who gave arm. to his country
in the war? Did he mean gallant old Gen
Sickles WHO gave leg to his country in
the war? Or did he mean Corporal Tanner
who gave both legs to his country in the
war? Did he mean these men by that term
of reproach-men who have been saving the
country every year for thirty years at so much
a save? These men and their sons, their
fathers, their mothers are all interested that
the honor and dignity and just constitutional
powers Of this government shall be preserved
They may be sneered at by the young man