The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23
INDIANA PRESS OPINION.

Reports from the farming region continue
to show that the farmers are reducing their
mortgages. This is hard on the silver the
orists, but good for the tarmers-CoVlnS-
ton republican.
All the protests from foreign countries
against our new tariff law serve only TO
emphasize the value to those countries of
the American markets. We propose now
to take care of our own markets as much
as possible.-Goshen Times.
In 1896 a great deal was heard from DEM
ocratic and Populist orators about the
crime of '7S' and the awful conspiracy
to demonetize silver. 1t will now be in or
der for these orators to view with alarm
the crime of '97'' and the awful con-
spiracy' of that year to enhance the price
OF wheat and wool.-Vincennes Commercial.
Free-trade newspapers are now sneering
at the possibilities and probabilities of this
country producing its own sugar, just as
they did when the manufacture of tin plate
began only six years ago. 1t will be but a
few years, however, until these same news
papers will be laughing out of the other
| corner of their mouths.-Crawfordsvi
Journal.
The demand for money has increased
greatly in the past few weeks, yet every
bushel of wheat, corn or oats, or pound of
WOOL or head of cattle or hogs that is Of
fered in the market has the money shaken
at them at advanced prices. 1t s not more
money we want, it is employment for the
consumer to enable him to buy The products
| of his own labor and that OF the farmer.
| -Pendleton Republican.
| The administration has been instrumental
in starting hundreds of idle factories, thus
giving men and women more work. The in
creased consumption of wheat has a ten
dency to make the price so higher No one
| but a bigot will contend for a minute that
times are not getting better. The farmers
understand this and they are not SLOW III
a tTrih N he G adj
minis MISUNDERSTANDING Press.
The prosperity that the advance in prices
Of agricultural products-which advance
covers many articles besides wheat-brings
to the farmers will quickly diffuse itself
throughout the entire community, and di-
the people. The farmer has had a hard
+ time, harder than the average wage work
er, in the past four or five years, and the
| whole country ought to rejoice in his pres
| ent good fortune.-Elkhart Review
meeting of the various committees of
the Indiana Bimetallic League has been
called Under the circumstances people had
a right to expect that the free silverites
would have the good taste to go into hiding
for time. Perhaps, though, this meeting
of the league is to make arrangements for
its own obsequieS. The Grant county Sill
yer League has the best of the state or
ganization 1t is dead, and knows it-Marion
Chronicle.
LEI lIlOS6 WIZ are dDi0 " grasp the Iudu-
cial paralysis which the fall in silver has
caused in Mexico try TO realize the con-
dition of collapse which would have taken
place in the United States if this country
was on the silver basis, as it would be be-
fore this time if Bryan had been elected.
The debt, governmental and private, which
the United States owes to the outside world
is, of course, many times larger than Mex
ico's, and all of it is contracted on the gold
basis. The billions of dollars of savings
n q n rEsTnT
scented by savings bank accounts, building
association stocks, life insurance policies
and other inVes tnentS would all be payable
ner-TimeS.