The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

elaborate silver argument into smithereens
in short order.-Orleans Progress.
Has anybody been heard to express regret
that he voted for sound money and protec-
ton last year Auburn Dispatch.
Popocraey is now dealing in futures, back
ing falling prices of products and a restora-
ton of calamity.-Lafayette Courier.
Last year the great majority OF the In
diana fairs were financial failures. This
year they are financial successes. These are
Republican times.-Franklin Republican.
The honest gold standard and the patriotic
American protective tariff have saved the
country from the Mexican 40-cent dollar and
rescued it from British free trade.-Vevay
Reveille.
Mortgages are disappearing. values are
climbing upward. factories are running.
business is improving and the free-silyer
advocate is consolate.-Connersville
News
The Indianapolis Sentinel is still fighting
the return of prosperity. But paper that
continually refers to the Governor of it's
State in the undignified term 'goober" cam
not expect much influence in retarding the
coming of good tines.-Anderson Herald.
If any one wants proof positive that prices
have largely advanced and that "confi-
dence" has been restored let him go out
among our farmers and attempt to buy
stock, hogs, young cattle or sheep and he
TO put price upon them.-Parke County
Journal.
The country and the people generally are
beginning to share the farmers citation. The
city merchant is welcoming the town and
country merchants, and the channels of
trade, almost run dry with the financial
drought of the last few years, are once
more filing up with the long-delayed tide
of prosperity Madison Courier
Farmers are going right along in their
preparations for sowing big crop of wheat
regardless of the fact that VIM. j. Bryan
and other free-silver howlers told the peo-
PIE only year ago that wheat would pc
Evidently the farmers now see that those
Popocrat speakers lied.-Vincennes Com
mercial.
To-day the farmer gets more than twice
for his wheat what free silverites last year
promised him if their cause won. They said
he would have 81 per bushel in silver, but
they could make no promises as to what sill
yer would be worth. 1t is worth about 40
cents now, so the farmer who receives full
100-cent dollar for his wheat gets more than
two and a half times as much as he would
if free silver had triumphed.-South Bend
Tribune.
VIII the gentlemen who a year ago were
telling us that this country was going to
everlasting smash and the people to wretch
edness and poverty please tell us how it is
that the individual deposits in the national
banks are to-day the largest in their his
tory; also, how it is that farmers are pay
ing off mortgages right and left and getting
good prices for their products, with silver
lower than at any time in its history?-Win-
amaze Republican.
The miners in this State are always made
a cats paw of every time a strike is de-
clared in the East. The operators in the
Pennsylvania fields get a large stock of coal
ahead and during the dull season get some
of the professional labor disturbers, or lead
ers as they are generally styled to get up a
strike. Miners in Indiana and Illinois are
then induced to strike in sympathy for the
down trodden of earth. They go out and
almost starve to show their allegiance to
the cause of labor They go hungry, almost
starve for principle; they beg; they work
on the sympathies of the public and of labor
organizations generally, and finally, after a
voluntary idleness of many weeks or
months, go back to work at the same old
wages. Their losses are never compensated
for by any gains they undertake to make.
In the meantime the operators In the East
have been reaping a golden harvest for their
black diamonds. The operators and miners
here both suffer, the one in the loss of or
ders and the other in the loss OF wages.
-GreencaStle Banner-Times.