The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-04

Naiue IL contains more silver tnan the
american standard silver dollar. Of course
when left home all the money / had was
American money. That money consisted OF
nauonai bank notes, gold and silver. In
Mexico II is impossible TO purchase any
thing or to obtain entertainment upon the
oasis or through the exchange OF Amer
lean money. So IL became necessary, wnen
1 crossed the line into that republic: TO
exchange my American money Tor mexican
money. This did, and for every dollar OF
american money / had L obtained IN
exchange two dollars and eleven cents.
thus In less time than l can tell II l
doubled my money with IL cents 10 spare
on each dollar. l said TO myself, This Is
the greatest scheme / ever saw. i never
made as much money in my life in so snort
time. But / was reckoning without my
most. The first thing l did was to buy a
sleeping car ticket from Laredo TO the
City OF Mexico, distance OF 500 miles on
narrow gauge car with a berth about half
as long my body and hardly wide.
and / got it for the insignificant little sum
OF $40: Upon arising the next morning and
stopping at little Mexican shack for
breakfast, 1 got a cup OF coffee without
sugar or cream, crust of stale bread,
and a little piece Of jerked beef so tough
that no man could eat it. and it only cost
me ". On my arrival at the City of Mexico
1 stopped at the SAM Hotel, which Is the
best hotel in the Republic, and remained
there twenty-four hours did not inquire
as 10 what their rates were, but l re-
NAMED there twenty-four hours and when
l came TO pay my bill L was informed by
the accommodating clerk that IL was only
S24 1 crossed entirely through the Re-
pubic over the isthmus of Tehuantepec to
the old Aztec town of Tehuantepec on the
Pacific coast and there sold my American
gOid Tor sZ.2O Tor each dollar had.
PRICE OF LABOR.
Judge Wiley told the crowd of his ex-
perience in hiring labor in Mexico. being
interested in large plantation there.
I'VE employ about $50 men," said he, land
pay them from IS to sis a month each,
which is the highest wages paid for COM
mon labor in Mexico. This amount we
pay in Mexican money which is worth
from 40 to As cents Of American money. On
this they live, keep their families in shacks
and sleep on the ground"
Captain English said in part: while I
appear before you as an advocate OF the
election of the Republican party, my posi-
ton on the great questions now before the
country Is nevertheless consistent one
ana the same as 1t has always been. The
party of Thomas jefferson and Andrew
Jackson was party of national growth
and expansion, and ii was always the
proud boast of the Democracy of the past
the original thirteen States was brought
under the beneficent folds Of our protecting
flag by past Democratic Administered atoms.
Likewise the old Democratic party of the
faSe "oo away q SOullQ-ilOUty party lIOtll
the hour Of its creation. and under the
leadership or Jefferson, Jackson, Tilden,
Hancock and Cleveland reiterated its devo-
ton to sound financial principles in every
platform, whenever it made utterance upon
the subject from the time of Thomas JEFF
ferson in 1901, the founder of the Demo-
cratic party, to the days of William J.
Bryan in 1896, the destroyer of the Demo-
cratic party. The tariff, which was the
paramount issue in the past between the
parties, was totally abandoned by the Kan
sas City convention as an issue, and no ref
erence made to it separately as such. The
word tariff does not appear anywhere in
that document except once where it is used
indirectly in connection with another SUBJ
Ject. The merit or the demerit, the justice
or the injustice of the tariff itself is not
mentioned at all. Therefore the attempt on
the part OF the new-found leaders of De-
mocracy to hold old-time Democrats in line
on the tariff question can hardly meet with
success, In view of the fact that they have
totally abandoned 1t as a paramount issue
themselves.
NEVER AN EXTREMIST.
while upon this question I desire 20
say that / have never been an extrem-
list upon this issue, advocating a middle
ground between the extreme of excessive
high protection on the one hand and the
extreme of radical low tariff on the other,
always favoring such legislation as would
produce the requisite revenue to properly
meet the needs of the government and
give the fullest necessary protection to
American labor and American industry.
And as delegate to the Democratic ma
tional convention of 1892 L voted
ton against the clause which was
notion motion Of Mr. H' Neai. 'o Of Ohio, Upon which
declared that the federal government had
M iftffi To INN or ol!-
lect tariff duties except for purposes Of
revenue only. The vote upon this ques-
ton in the Indiana delegation was fifteen
to fifteen and my vote was among those
in the negative. The tariff therefore being
abandoned as ar important issue the trust
question cannot be made a dividing issue
because all the parties in this contest have
declared in their platforms against trusts,
which leaves but two great issues now
before the people of the Countrywide ques-
tons OF sound money and expansion. Upon
these / take my stand by the doctrines
OF the old Democratic fathers and against
the new found PoDulistic representatives
who have stolen the honored livery of
Democracy to serve the Populistic devil In.
The student of our political history will
have to admit when the national CAM
paign of 1892 came around that the issues
that had previously divided Republican
and Democratic parties had all gradually
passed away, save the tariff. The extreme
states rights theories had been settled
by the result of the civil war. The con-
stitutional amendments had become a fixed
part of our fundamental law. The acts or
reconstruction had ceased to be living is
sues and there was no material difference
between the two parties upon the money
question; and. however much the platform
constructors endeayored to create them.
but one real issue remained and that was
the tariff. The so-called Democratic ma
tional convention of 1896, as soon as they
assembled, Immediately pushed the tariff
to- the rear, where the Kansas City con-
vention of 1900 has wholly allowed it to re-
main. In the meantime, the Republican
party has taken the same patriotic stand
upon the questions of sound money and
expansion which Jefferson and Jackson
advocated. And, i,eeping pace with the on
ward march of civilization, leaving be-
hind them all false theories OF finance, have
with discerning intellie ice laid aside
ali past claims of the support of a double
standard and in high, honorable and posi-
tive terms declared in favor of the single
gold standard-the standard of the civilized
world. Therefore, with the questions grow
ing out Of the civil war happily settled
forever, with the tariff longer para
mount issue. and with the present Repub-
lioan party standing as firmly as a rock
for the old Jeffersonian and Jacksonian
principles of sound money, expansion and
the honor of the flag, there is no reason
why any patriotic old-time Democrat can
not with a clear conscience take his place
in line with the present Republican party