The age-herald., 1898-02-08
next time. We now have enough to elect"


 report of the Indianapolis monetary con-
 vention. It had been heraided by the east
 ern papers as a marvellous exhibition of
 statesmanship. because 1t was non-parti- san. There are now but two parties; one for gold and monopoly and one against
 Those who signed that report were mem bers of the first named organization. The
 army of gold is marching under the ban
 ner of the republicans.
 Touching the question of international agreement, he said that a man who was
 willing to allow the single gold standard to remain in force for short time was
 willing for it to remain all the time. It Is system upon which trusts nurse and flourish.
 A Parable Money "You have all read more recently than T." said MT. Towne, "the parable in the scriptures about the man who was going to leave the country, and gave one of his
 servants ten talents, to another five and to the third one talent. When he returned the man whom he had given ten talents had increased it to twenty talents; the man that had five talents then had ten talents. But the man that had been given one talent had buried 1t in the ground,
 and dug it up when his master returned.
 You remember also the masters unchar- itable remark that to him that had in-
 creased his money should be given more,
 but from him that had not should be taken away even what he had. Suppose this man had owned property in the United States in 1873, and had sold that property
 and removed to China or some other coun- try intelligently governed in regard to the | money question. Suppose from the pro-
 ceeds of the sale he had given one man
 $10O000, to another 900 and to another SIG, 900.
 Suppose he returned in 1897 and asked the first man what he had done with his
 money, and he replied taht he had built factory and for a time had made money and paid good wages to honest working
 men. That after awhile prices began to fall, but he thought that they would soon go up again, and resolved to double the capacity of his factory. In order to do this he had mortgaged the plant. Times | failed to improve, money grew more scarce and finally he had lost all.
 "The second man would say that he had bought him a farm and had raised wheat"
 AAlA fAOOut OCttoh
 Voice in the audience: "Talk about cot
 ton; we will understand you better"
 'I did not hlce to refer to so disagreeabe
 a subject" replied MT. Towne. Qaugh-
 ter).
 Continuing his parallel he said: For @
 while the price of wheat was high and he
 did well, but 1t soon began to drop and the sheriff sold him out.
 
 certed when the master began asking about
 his money, but when the others had fin-
 ished he came forward jingling the gold.
 He said that he had buried it in the gar
 den and 1t had lain useless for many years. It had not paid an honest laborer. nor clothed a. poor child. It had not built a school house or improved @ highway. But after lying idle for so long a time in any
 market of the world 1t would buy twice
 as much as it would the day it was buried" Loud cheering).
 "They tell you that is honest money. It 1 runs away from work. It is worth noth- ing but to be gotten together to buy gilt
 edged securities which represent the sweat and toll and unrequited labor of the hon. est workman"
 "The financial plank of the St. Louis
  said Mr. Towne, ''but was written in New York and carried there in Tom Platt's in- side pocket. They were identical except the words (which we promise to promote, speaking of international bimetallism, and these were inserted at the instance of statesman from the central states in order that he mdgh hang on by his eyebrows
 A man hardly ever leaves a party but is roll n stay o McKiniey's Inconsistency The speaker said that Mckinley told him personally that he hoped to bring about international bimetalMsm, and then inn
 mediately appointed Lyman J. Gage secre- tary of the treasury. 'If Mckinley had been sincere in his desire he would have l never been guilty of this inconsistency" "Mr. Wolcott in his lame speech on the report of his mission, said in the senate that one of the principal drawbacks they had encountered in France were personal letters from Lyman Gage to prominent French officials saying bimetallsan of any
 kind was not desired by this country. Mr Wolcott said that he hoped they were forgeries. MT. Wolcott knew they were not forgeries. The sound money of the bankers Is good money to get in debt with, but bad money to get out of debt with" 'Men have asked me-" said MT. Towne | eff panic would not occur if silver was restored to its rights. A panic would be l impossible. A cheap dollar means high goods. A man puts his money in a box l and locks it up when he knows that when | he takes 1t out it wdll be worth more than | when he put it in. When he knows that prices are going higher he will be anxious | to invest.
 "Go,d bugs talk of silver as a commodity | and of gold as god. They are unreasona- | ble in their idolatry. They worship it as