Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 4 September 1896 — Page 4

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1696.

THE KISPCKLICAN TICKKT.

National.

For President,

WILLIAM IM'KlNLEY, Ol Ohio. For Vice President, GAKUETT A. IIORAHT.

Of New Jersey.

State.

•n

For Governor,

JAMES A. .MOUNT. For Lieutenant Governor, W. S. HAGGAltD.

For Secretary of State, W. D. OWEN. For Auditor of State,

A. C. DAILY.

For Treasurer of Stato, F. J. SCHOLZ. For Attorney-General,

W. A. KETCHAM.

For Keportor Supreme Court, CHARLES F. KEMY. For Superintendent Public Instruction.

D. M. GEETING. For Statistician. S. J. THOMPSON.

For Appellate Judge, First District,' WOODFIN D. ROBINSON. For Judge Appellate Court, Second District,

WILLIAM J. HENLEY.

For Judge Appellate Court, Third District, JAMES B. BLACK. For Judge Appellate Court, Fourth District,

D. W. COMSTOCK.

For Judge Appellate Court, Sixth District, U. Z. WILEY.

District.

For Congress.

CHARLES B. LANDIS. For Senators. ROBERT CARRIC1C. SAMUEL R. ARTMAN. For Joint Representative.

JOHN M. KELLAR.

County.

For Judge of the Circuit Court, MELVILLE W. BRUNER. For Prosecuting Attorney,

DUMONT KENNEDY. For Representative, EDWARD T. McCltEA.

For Clerk,

RANKIN C. WALKUP. For Treasurer, WILLIAM JOHNSON.

For Recorder,

WILLIAM II. WEBSTER. For Sheriff, Ii. C. HARPER,

For Coroner.

PAUL.T. BARCUS. For Surveyor, HARVEY E."WYNEKOOP.

For Assessor,

HENRY M. BILLINGSLEY. For Commissioner, 2d District, HENRY W. HARDING. For Commissioner, 3d District,

ALBERT T. HORNBAKER.

IN the matter of fusion between the different wings of the Bryanitesx the Democrats have offered to give the Populists two electors while the latter demand seven, and there you are.

TRUST the people. Give them a little time to think. The great bulk of them are honest, and only want to know what is best. The man with but

a

lew dollars and a humble home is just as anxious for the Nation's prosperity as tho man of millions even more, for his daily comforts and necessities are dependant upon it. Because this is so, much good will result from the campaign«of education now being inaugurated.

THE promises that the Democrats are making on the question of free silver are as visionary as the free trade question of four years ago. The fairy tales then told the people captivated them. They believed that free trade would bring lower prices and make better times. They have fully realized how they were deceived. They have tasted of the bitter cup of deception and now another issue is sprung upon them. The people are asked to accept this visionary theory and go experimenting with it. Are you ready to accept it? We believe not.

•SENATOR MILLS' POSITION IX1S!):J There are few better arguments against the silver monometallism that would follow free coinage of silver than those made by some of Bryan's present supporters. On Sept. 19, 1893, Senator Mills, of Texas, said:

In 1879 gold became the standard •which measured all values in this country. It is now the standard—the uniform standard of value of the commercial world. We are invited to abandon this standard and go to a depreciated standard of another metal. It will be just as fatal as if we went to the depreciated standard of paper money. I denounce now in this country the attempt to shift and change the standard of values for the purpose of enabling the debtor to

cheat and defraud his creditor out of one-half of what he has promised him, and in doing so to put the country upon a variable and shifting standard of value, by which the people will be plundered continuously from one end of it to the other. Every contract now in existence in the United States made since 1879 is on the gold standard, and where a dollar is mentioned it means a gold dollar or one as good as gold and I will never vote for any law that enables a man to cancel an obligation to pay 100 cents by paying 57 cents.

TIIK REPULTL.ICAX POSITIOX. Bryan considers himself peculiarly felicitous when he thinks he is driving the Republicans into a hole on the question of a gold standard and international bimetallism. He claims that the Republican party wants to get rid of the gold standard, a bad thing, by substituting international bimetallism, an impossible thing. Now, any thinking man who reads the St. Louis platform, can see that it declares for international bimetallism as the best monetary system, to be obtained as soon as possible, for the gold standard as the next best thing to be retained until the best is attainable, and against the silver standard as the least desirable of all. McKinley, as President, with the aid of his allies in Congress will make every effort during his administration to bring about international bimetallism. If he fails, the gold standard will still prevail under which the United States has progressed so rapidly in the last twenty years as to excite the wonder of the world, making an advance in wealth never equalled in the history of nations. On the other hand if Bryan is elected we shall be on the silver basis before he is inaugurated, and be in the same class with Mexico, China and Japan.

VEEMOST'S SIGNIFICANT DECXAKATION. The Vermont election can have but one interpretation—a prophesy of the doom of free silver.

In 1892 the total Republican and Democratic vote for President in Vermont was 44,317. In Tuesday's election the total vote was 08,000. This means that the people were aroused to the importance of the issue as never before. The campaign was fought out on National lines, the Democratic candidate for Governor repudiating the gold platform upon which he had been nominated and espousing with all his strength the silver delusion.

The normal Republican majority is about 20,000, the majority this year is 39,000. This means that Democrats voted the Republican ticket. Up to this time [the largest majority was 30,554 in 1S7(5 and the smallest 14,303 in 1890.

Every county in Vermont shows bigRepublican gains and every county except three shows big Democratic 'osses. This means that the sentiment .or sound money was general throughsut the State and not confined to the :ities.

The census of 1890 gives the total number of farmers and agricultural laborers in Vermont as over 52,000, showing it to be decidedly ati agricultural State. The number of railway employes, carpenters, teamsters, quarrymen, stonecutters and unclassified laborers is given as 25,000. There are no large cities in Vermont and few small ones. These facts show that the farmers and workingmen voted egainst free silver.

Viewed from any point the advo cates of an honest currency cannot but take hope from the Vermont election. It is but a forerunner of the greater victory of November.

TI1E GERMAN PHALANX. The German character is ever and always strong, sturdy and stalwart. The principle of frugality reaches from tin Fatherland to wherever the sun may shine on one of the Teuton race. Being thrifty, economical and careful, always intent on providing not only for the present, but for the future of his family, the German is conservative and builds on a rock rather than the shifting sands. This is one reason why the German soldier, is every ^inch an engine of war and why Wilhelm has an empire invincible. "When the greenback craze swept over the country the German voters were iolid phalanx against the demagogic Dispensation of fiat! They saved Ohio from tho repudiationists of that age. And, so in this campaign, of the 50,000 German voters in Indiana, an umbrella will shelter those in any one community who will vote to stamp 50 cents wo^of silver as §1 and Mpxicanize not only our finance but our individual conditions. Free silver is the antithesis of German tradition and German honor in finance, and will have 110 more effect in alluring the German vote than would a broadside of snowballs iu piercing an armada.

Had the McKinley tariff not been repealed, our national income would have paid all of Undo Sam's expenses without the necessity of issuing bonds in times of peace. Reciprocity was opening profitable markets for our grain and stock, and ere this every surplus product of the farm would have been in demand from the countries beyond the seas. But Democratic free trade abrogated reciprocity and reduced our revenues. Markets lowered prices, because abrogated reciprocity cut off the McKinley demand. The treasury borrowed money to pay expenses because the repeal of the McKinley bill beggared revenues. and so the disaster was a doublo

ender, placing its heavy liana on till producers and filching with its skeleton fingers infinitely more money for current expenses than the free trade policy produced. The free trade lunacy of Cleveland's administration has cost this country, directly and indirectly, moremoney than did tho suppression of tin rebellion. It was a popular measure before the people in 1892. Disastrous as has been its practical application, it does nob compare with the ruin that will come with a change of our financial policy to tho wild-cat, level of a free mintago of silver.

A DioCiU37cD DEMOCRAT.

William Guvitt's Scorch ins: Arraign incut of tlio lSryiui Democracy. Mr. William Gavitt, a prominent Democrat cf Evansville, has written the appended letter: Lew Wallace, Esq., Crnwfordsville, Ind.: "MY DEAR GKNEKAI,—Sou ask mo if tho platform adoptod in Chicago pleases me. It does not. it was controlled by master mechanics of mischief. I never knew that the devil had so many advance agents. It has convinced many that such Democracy means destruction. They have built and will build mountains of misery, notwithstanding the heavyweight liars to be sent out to deceive the people. The 'silly' season opened when that convention was called to order and will end with the dog days. Apparently, they are determined to sandbag the fair name of this country. It is a monstrosity and tho most unamerican thing in America. We can learn from it that all the enemies of this country are not across the water. I have ofton heard it said that in times of war the enemies of this couutry were iu the Democratic party. I am sure that in times of peace tlioy are in the Democratic party, and I hope that the party that, upheld this country in •war times will do so now. Senator Hill, who has repeatedly said, 'I am a Democrat,'was permitted to speak, but was not allowed to preside over the convention. Such men as Whitney and Assistent Secretary Hamlin were ignored. Did you notice that Hon. Charles S. Fairchild, ex-secretary of the treasury (the purest man I ever met in politics), obscured himself? "I never thought that Democracy would be controlled'by anarchy. What' a cantankerous convention! What a blue-ointment crowd 1 Hip pockets quart size, hats boots No. 9! If Mr. Bryan is all right ho got mixed with bad company. Jesse James' spirit must have controlled them. Their policy is a dagger to assassinate the prosperity of this country. I believe in liouest money because they don't. I never knew the Democratic party to be opposed to honest money and as they have no candidate before the people I will vote for McKinley. No man has more brains or more heart than McKinley. "Thero is no longer room in theDemocratic party for a soldier or a soldier's son, and if I am to believe Hopkins, Democratic ex-Mayor of Chicago, thero is no room for a Mason. I have lived to see the day that the flag was trampled in the mud in Boston, on the fourth of July by Democrats—the flag hauled down in Honolulu by Democrats to see man who helped take the remains of your friend, Smith Gavitt, my father, from the battlefield robbed of his deoortion of honor (his pension), without a trial and without a warning. I have lived to see the day that a man recognized as the enemy of honest labor and described in labor's own writing as having all the bad bad and none of the good qualities of the devil—a slavedriver at heart, an enemy of the poor—Appointed to one of the best offices in the land. They have turned merchant princes into paupers, skilled mechanics into tramps, nailed up the factory doors and now want to force people to sleep in the parks and make soup out of their underware. They havo hoisted the pirates' iiag. The American people should haul it down. I want to help by voting for an American who is not only willing but determined to uphold'and protect American industries and American institutions—one who prefers free schools and free speech to free trade and free silver one who will open the factory doors, call the men to work, rekindle the furnace fires and make the country what it should be, the grandest on earth. This,1 believe McKinlev can and will do.

WIULIAJI GAVITT."

A Million IVnsions Threatened. Before the campaign is fully opened, before the Popocrat candidate has been officially notified by the repudiationists of half a dozen states that they are with him, he findshimself confronted by one great army of solid citizens.

The first call of a veteran soldier to tho men who wore the blue to organize once more iu defense of their country and to fight down the attempt to despoil its honor was answered by 100,000 loyal voices. While the forces of fraud and repudiation are gathering strength, almost 1,000,000 voters will be iu lino to resist them on one issue alone.

For,not only their country's honor but their own rights this army of veterans is contending. For their heroic (services in the or for services of their fathers or husbands, this grand army of pensioners receives, not as a gratuity but as a right, p:.y fr :n tho union that they helped to preserve. The silver nine ownrioiKllvuts and rebels would on this pay down one half. For tho 100-ceiit dollars iu which pensions are paid the enemies of tho country would sabstitnte •"i:i-cent dollars.

By the time the savings bank depositors, the life insurance policy holdters, the building and loan associations and tho benevolent organizations are enrolled with the war veterans for the protection of hearth and home it is difficult to guess whero, except in the sage brush and among the white trash of the south, the votes for Bryau and repudiation are to come from.

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THROWS A BLIGHT UPON THE BUSINESS OF THE COUNTRY.

Manufacturers and Merchants Fear to ltlakvCnntraets lor tho Future—The Ilesult is That Thousands of Workmen Arc licin£ Thrown Oat of Kinployiucut^ ..

The candidacy of William Jennings Bryan, Popocrat and free silverite, for theolFice of president of the Unitod States has already borne its first fruits, and such fruits as might well induce those who support his cause to halt for a moment and see where he is leading them. Already the shadow of a depreciated currency and repudiated obligations has cast a blight upon the prosperity of tho country so widespread and so disastrous as to bo fairly appalling. Business paralyzed and great enterprises tottering or crashing down thousands of wage earners out of employment millions of dollars locked up in idle plants financial distress and general distrust are among the results lie and his platform have brought upon tho country.

From all the land are pouring in daily reports of unprecedented business depression, of mills closed down, of financial difficulties and commercial failures. Buyers provide themselves with so much only as their absolute needs demand, manufacturers only produce enough 1o fill small orders, and all are waiting. The railroad systems of the country, the surest barometors of general conditions known, are suffering from a falling off in freierht traffic such as even the panic of 1893 did not produce. Everywhere retrenchment is laying aside in idleness men whose families are dependent upon them and their daily toil. Tho small tradesman is already feeling the burden, and it is a rapidly increasing one. The only relief is work, and until that can be provided the general distress must continue to grow.

Capital, proverbially timid, has withdrawn itself from extended operations and lies idle but secure until the certainty of monetary integrity shall inspire again the confidence to put it forth. And all the wliilo expenses are going on money is needed, and honest money but the orators of free silver and supporters of Bryan stand in the way It is not that the cause of tho trouble is not understood, nor is it because it cannot be removed, that the stagnation of all business continues. It is simply because nearly three months must elapse before the remedy is applied. How widespread that mischief is only those actively engaged in the affairs of the day and the enterprises of industry can know. What is true of one industry is almost equally true of any other, and until Republican victory in November shall banish the specter of free silver from the land it must remain *o

What "1(1 to 1" Would Mean. Amid all the demagogism of the day there is nothing at once more foolish and more wicked than tho talk about "poor men's money," or the "money of the people" as distinguished from the "money of the rich." Men of the Alt-geld-Eryan-John Most stripe are trying to persuade voters that a currency of 50cent silver dollars, while it might lessen the income of "gold bug millionaires" and "Wall street sharks,"would greatly benefit farmers, wage-earners and the common people generally. Now, apart from the palpable wickedness of a proposition thus to' set class against class, and to enrich one part of the Nation by robbing another, a little reflection will show it to be equally false and delusive, and that these demagogues, in preaching plunder of the rich, are really plotting for the further impoverishment of the poor.

There cannot practically bo two kinds of money in circulation. The money of the rich and the money of the poor must be the same. The same money that the millionaire receives from his dividends or coupons he must pay out. again to his employes and to tradesmen. If it be gold, or currency at par with gold, then gold is the money of the poor man as well as of the rich. If it be a depreciated currency of silver or paper, it is the poor man's and the rich man's alike. If by any chance there be in existence two kinds of money, only one of them, and that the poorer, will be in actual circulation. That is a law as inexorable as the law of gravitation itself. The 100-cent gold dollars would be hoarded by every man fortunate enough to possess them, whether the rich man, with 1,000,000 of them, or the poor mau, with 100, and the 50-cent silver dollars would alone be iu circulation.

What then? Depreciated currency being universal, who would suffer most from it? Not, we may be sure, the rich men, against whom these Populist-An-archists declaim so vehemently. The man whose income is §100,000 a year might find it inconvenient to have it cut down to §50,000. But how about the man whose income is only §1,000? Would he not find it much more inconvenient to have to get along on $500? And the laborer who is now getting $2 a day, how would he fare on only §1? And the farmer, when he got only §1 for the same amount of produce for which he now gets $2, what would ho think of "cheap money."

For be sure that is exactly what it would mean. The free coinage of silver' at the 1(5 to 1 ratio would instantly drive gold and its equivalent out of circulation, and would leave in circulation nothing but silver dollars and their equivalents, worth only 50 cents each. The laborer would have to accept them for his wages, and the farmer as the price of his produce. Each man might receive as many dollars, so called, for his labor or his goods, as before, but they would have only half tho old purchasing power. The market value of tho farmer's grain and cattle would thus be reduced one-half. The laboring man's wages would be reduced one-half. That is exactly what the adoption of tho Chicago platform would mean. It would fob the rich. It would ruin the poor.

But, its advocates contend, there

would immediately be a readjustment of prices. Wages would go up. Market values of products would go up. No matter if dollars were cut in two men would got twice as many of them. That is the argument. But who will bo convinced by it? Is any rational mau going to vote to have every dollar be gets reduced in valuo one-half, in hope that he will then be able to get twice as many of them and so be as well off as now? That would be a performance lit only for a desperate gambler. It is throwing away a certainty for an uncertainty, with the assurance that the uncertainty, if realized, would, after all, be not a bit better than the present certainty and with tho odds, as universal experience has proved, overwhelmingly against the uncertainty ever being realized. Not by such vain devices are prudent and intelligent American citizens to be fooled.

OBJECT LESSON IN SILVER STANDARD.

In Mexico, Where It Prevails, the Rich Get Richer and the Laborer Receives Beggarly Wages—Domestic Products Do Not Rise, The prico of imported goods in Mexico has been doubled by the fall in the price of silver. The increase in price of domestic products which are consnmed at home has been small. The price of tropical products, which are raised principally for export, has virtually increased, because they are paid for in gold, the international medium of exchange, and the premium on gold in Mexico has increased with the fall of silver. On this acconnt the producers of coffee And other tropical products have profited greatly and have grown very wealthy. The fal\ in silver has also had tho effect of developing our manufacturing industries.

How do you account for that Owing to the fact that wo must pay for Toreigu manufactures in gold, their price in the depreciated silver has greatly increased. Tho price of domestic manufactures, for which silver is paid, has not increased. The fall in silver has been in effect a species of protection which has become moro important than tho tariff. ould not a further fall in the prico of silver bo beneficial, according to tho .same reasoning?

No because manufacturers want just enough protection to enable them to keep the home market. They do not want any more than that. Furthermore, we must bear in mind that overy fall in silver is a detriment to our national finances. It is a detriment, too, to the railroad companies, which have invested gold capital and issued gold bonds, but Whose earnings are in silver.

IS Mexico prosperous on tho silver standard? Our prosperity is increasing rapidly, but it is duo to a number of causes, and not especially to the silver standard.

What is the effect upon wages of tho depreciating silver standard? They have not increased perceptibly. The same id true of Japan, where wages are very low. For this reason Japan and Mexico will in a few years be able to compete successfully with England and the United States because of the silver standard and low wages.

What is the ruling rate of wages for agricultural laborers in Mexico? Twenty-five cents a day. JOSIS V. LIMANTOt'H,

Mexican Minister of Finance, a guest at the Waldorf hotel in New York, in an interview with a reporter.

GENERAL SPINNER'S WARNING.

The Danger In Free Silver Pictured by the Late "War Treasurer" of the United States. General Francis E. Spinhcir. late treasurer of the United States, in a signed article opposing an increased coinage of silver—the very last product of his pen and published shortly before his death—warned tho people of the United States against the very condition that now confronts them, and predicted a most disastrous financial panic in the event of the free eoinago of silver. He closod his argument with these words, and they possess at this tinio almost tho force of a prophesy fulfilled as well as a peculiar interest:

I am nearly 8S yours old, and for more than lialf a century havo watched and taken an interest, in the monetary and commercial affairs of our couutry. I havo no interest of friends .a- self to subserve. I am standing confronting an open grave, and expect soon to sink into one. I love my couutry greatly, and I love its people more. The prosperity of our country and the happiness of its people that now are, and of tho ^oncralioiis that are to follow, are tiic subjects of solicitude nearest my heart. I cannot bear to sinlt into that grave without giving this my last note of warning. Jf the country would avoid a great calamity, let it restore gold to le tin? sole standard of values and the consequent iue isuro of nil transferable commodities. Fortify tlio United States treasury with gold coin, gradually, replace tJit' warehouse silver certificates with treasury notes of all denominations. from a fl cent to a SI,COO note, bused upon and redeemable from tho gold on deposit in the treasury. Issue low interest-bearing interchangeable currency bonds. This currency would not only have the gold in the treasury, but all that 0.5,000,000 people possess, as a guarantee for its redemption. Such nil arrangement of tins currency would constitute the treasury of the linited States into a safe insurance oflico against commercial revulsions and monetary panics. On tho other hand, an illy constituted and depredated circulation medium, a dual standard of values, a redundant, intlated currency bused nil a greatly depreciated silver coin, such as the silver cranks desire, are tho she-wolves that will breed and litter want of confidence, distrnst, fears, failures and panics upon our country, and disaster and ruin upon our people. Tho monetary course now boiug pursued is as sure to bring disaster as effect follows cause. Let the jieople be -warned of the danger tluit is before them.

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Silver and Farm l*riccs» [New York Post.]

Mr. Lucius B. Swift of Indianapolis has been making a collection of the prices of farm products in Indiana from 1873 to 1892 in order to test the assertion of the silverites that there has been a steady decline in such prices, and that it has been due to the demonetization of silver. These are the prices nearest to the farm. They show approximately what the farmer realized. The prices during the suspension of specie payment are reduced to gold values, and the results are the following: -J 1S73- 1878- 1883- 188S1877. 1883. 1887. 18112. Porn, per busliol... 35.11 41.8 IS" liO.S Oats, per husliul.... a».U ol.U aS.S !l5.a Wlioat, per bushel. 115 10-.U 7!l 87.2 Rye. per bushel 70.+ 57.0 IM Potatoes, pel' Imshi'l O.l.ii 50.8 5'.l. 1 Iiay, per ton H.31 9.47 8.21 11.54

Of the six crops there was only one in whicn tho Indiana farmer did not realize more in the last named period than in the iirst. That one was wheat, as to which there were peculiar influences at work in the increased cultivation and better means of transportation of that cereal in other parts of the world, especially in India, Argentina,, Southern Russia and Asia Minor. "How," asks Mr. Swift, "are Coin and Teller and Tillman and Altgold going to explain to the Indiana farmer whj^ the disuse of silver struck down one crop and raised up five? If the whole are reduced to tons, it will ba found that corn outweighs all the rest. What kind of a man is Coin to omit notice of such a orop or to take for comparison the one crop which had fallen in price and omit the five crops which had advanced?'

Mr. Swift does not "let up on them,"

however, by proving that they are dishonest in their statements. He follows the subject to the panic of 1893, and shows that the hard times that follow the period of 1888-92 wero due to a fruitless attempt to furnish a market for our silver mine owners. The BlandAllison act of 1878, under which we paid them $308,279,261 gold in 12 years, did not satisfy them. So in 1890 "we again allowed ourselves to be bullied by the silver mine owners, and agreed to nearly double our purchase of silver in order to help their market. Under this law, up to 1993, we purchased of them $155,981,002 worth of silver, out of which we coined $30,000,000, and stored tho rest as one would store hay or oats. Wo have it on hand now to the extent of 4,800 wagon loads, counting a ton to a load." Thii measure of greed and folly caused the panic of 1893, from which the farmers, as well as all other classes and trades, have suffered. vVe wero just beginning to recover from that disaster when anew agitation was started to upset the gold standard altogether by the freo coinage of silver at the ratio of 1G to 1. This is what we are suffering from now. Here is where tho farmer's miserv comes in.

KATTLKSNAKK.

Some of the farmers have commenced sowing wheat. Mrs. George Davis and daughter were on the creek this week.

Mr. Layson has rented Marsh Galey's farm and will move on it in the spring. Braxton Cash has rented Emmons Busenbark's farm and will sow a big1 wheat crop.

Mr. Ramsey is in Parke county hulling clover seed and making Republican speeches.

Simon Davis has rented a large farm in Fountain county and will sow fifty acres of wheat.

Fred Harrington has the grandest potato patch on tjie creek. Geo. Powers got lost in it and could hardly be found for the potatoes.

George Wert planned quite a surprise on his wife Monday night, it being her 33d birthday. Forty-two of her friends walked in on her betwixt 7 an 8 o'clock and she was so surprised that she could only say, "I do declare .Tames Weir ana sister and Jeremiah Ballman furnished excellent music on the violin and organ. All feasted on water melon and had a good time, after which all returned home wishing Mrs. Wert many more happy birthdays.

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