The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-11-04

thrones sc-pters. standing armies. and
all the required machinery of oppression
but unexampled ignorance and degrade
tion and vast population known a
proletarats. men who have no NOR,
voice in controlling public affairs thar
so many horned cattle. They are thu
victims OF conditions which the golt
standard advocates are trying to estab
lish in the United States. and which
will be expedited should Mr.. Overstreet'
bill, now pending in congress. become ;
law, because every line. paragraph anG
section has but one purpose in view
which is to establish in the United
States, upon the specious plea of ICON
prehensive and enlightened monetary
system. a gold standard system O
finance.
To recapitHlate the Overstreet bill
which is an issue in the Indiana cam
paign. il is seen that
!. 1t makes gold the standard of value
2. IL makes the silver dollar a sub
sidiary or minor coin.
u IL dttlaA NS tnah lloA cAANtA bOt
lars shall be coined.
4. 1t makes all government bonds
now outstanding. payable in gold coin
5. Ii makes all obligations of tn,
United States payable in gold coin.
6. Ii makes the coinage of gold fre'
and unlimited and denies to silver tint
coinage rights accorded TO gold.
7. In the interest Of bondholders 1
seeks to destroy the contract between
the government and the bondholders
which under the law makes United
States bonds payable in ''coin." gold o.
silver. payable only in gold coin"
Under such circumstances it is no
surprising that the Republican press d
the state does not want the Diversified
bill to be an Issue in the campaign
and the Indianapolis News. than which
there is no Republican paper in th'
state more devoted TO the gold standard
Sees distinctly that the Overstreet bill
is fraught with danger TO the party
As an expression of goldbug sentiment
the Overstreer bill has less circumlocu
tion and jugglery in 1t than is found
In any other bill upon the subject in
troduced in congress.
The bill. as has been said, is the pro
duct of the indianapolis monetary con
vention. but the Indianapolis News
now that the people of Indiana bepiI
to comprehend the monstrous. If not in
famols. provisions of the bill, declare
that the Republican party has never in
dorsed il. According to The News. nc
body seems 10 have indorsed the Over
street bill. not even the convention tina
nominated Mr.. Ovcrstreet as a candidat
for congress dared to indorss the Over
street bill. And yet The News says:
MIR. Overstreet deserves great credi
for introducing the commission bill IL
congress. 1t is carefully prepared
measure, the work of men skilled II
finance and economics, and is probably
supported by wider and more infiuen
tial constituency than any other meas
ure of currency reform that has yet been
proposed"
Notwithstanding such commenda
tions, The News. with all of its goldbu.
proclivities. is afraid that the discussion
of the bill will work disaster to the Re
publican party and 20 goldbugism gen
orally. The News on that point is right
All that is required is to get the provis
ions Of the Overstreet bill fairly befor,
the people Of Indiana; this done. it viii
transpire that. as The News dare no
indorse 1t as an issue, and as the Repub
lican convention dared not indorse il a,
an issue. and as the congressional con
vention, which nominated Mr.. Over
street for congress-. dared not indorse il
as an issue. the people at the polls IL
November will not indorse il nor any OF
its goldbug. national bank, money
power provisions.
Ii is cheering sign to see such a
goldbug Republican sheet as the Indi
annapolis News playing rawfish-back
ing down and back ing out-and pro.
testing that the Overstreet bill. con,
cocted by goldbugs and introduced in
congress by a goldbug congressman, Is
not an issue in the campaign. because,
forsooth. the bill was not mentioned in
conventions. though the infamies which
il advocates were mentioned and in.
dorsed. Such crawfishing and protest
ing only shows that the Republican
party. which lacks the courage to stand
by its own issues. ought to be defeated.