The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-10

pay the obligations of the Nation I'm gold
or silver, 1 wish yor would divulge this
knowledge. for Mr.. Bryan won't. There
is no doubt about where we stand We
are for the gold standard and We are
for IL on the Atlantic seaboard and ~ the
Rocky mountains alike Ne stand for IL
TO have issues which do not wear thin
In any part OF the country. Now. gentle
men, some people say that the silver
issue is dead. Silver cannot be dead when
people are uncertain as 10 how a candidate
of one Of the two great parties would pay
the obligations OF the government No
issue is dead when you cannot tell whether
creditor. or pensiouer. whoever he may
be, is TO get 4S cents Or 100 on the dollar.
IL is dead TO the extent that nobody ven
lures to argue in its behalf. but IL they paid
our debts in 48-cent dollars. We would care
little as 10 the precise arguments by which
they reached the conclusion that warranted
that conduct.
EXHUMING THE DEAD.
. "All 1 want you to do from a material
standpoint Is TO exhume Mr.. Bryan's
prophecies Of four years ago, and then for
yourselves, compare those prophecies with
their signal nonfulhllments. The spirit
moved Mr.. Bryan and be prophesied. He
prophesied that unless you had free silver,
the wage-worker would stand idle in the
market place That was the prophecy
The fulfllment was that the wage-worker
has had very nearly double as much work
as before.
And he prophesied again. He said that
If We elected Mckinley, the farmer would
find the products of his farm diminishing
to so per cent. In different products. You
do not have TO take my word for antthing
of this Simply look at the statistics, or
find out what has happened among your
friends.
"And Mr.. Bryan prophesied again. The
savings banks attracted his attention, and
L 4 g.
posits OF the savings banks would dimin-
ish; and they have increased % per cent
He said that the amount OF money in cir
has increased from $40 10 $25
$50 far Mr.. Bryan had been saying that
everything would go down. He said mort
things that went down. Mortgages have
diminished IN amount by nearly 40 per
cent. When these things were pointed out
shown to him that we were prosperous, he
answered that II was not the Republican
party, but Providence that made US so.
Now / am perfectly willing to admit that
there has been a fusion between Provi-
dence and the Republican party The
Democracy has fused with about every-
thing else, but somehow or other IL has
Now, gentlemen. do not wonder that in
the hard times, when things were looking
pretty black. men turned TO strange gods
II has always been so since the day that
Moses broke the decalogue. / do not won
Ger, when a man feels sick and does not
know what is the matter with him and he
cannot find out. that he should try a quack
medicine once, but IL he tries 1t again
must question his intelligence.
THEY HAVE THE RIGHT.
''If the people Of this country want to go
back into the slough OF despond out of
which we have so painfully emerged-if
they want to do that why. under the Con-
stitution it is their inalienable right. But
when they get back there do not let them
advance the ''I did not know 1t was loaded"
excuse 1t Is of no avail to have good In
tentions IL We have not the common sense
to put them into effect. We must not
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