Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 30 October 1896 — Page 2
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FRIDAY, OCTOIJER 30. 1806.
YOTK for Bryan and the repeal of the law of supply and demand.
THK best dollar is the one which buys most, and the American laborers accept no other.
STAMP once in the square surrounding1 the eagle and let it go at that, and your ballot will count as a straight Republican vote.
Ir^cumi'.rk your ballot wrong, it requires only a minute to correct the error: but if you cast it wrong, it requires four years to rectify the ruisake.
CANDIDA-!K HKYAN is opposed to government by injunction, but he does not seem to be opposed to campaign by hold-up. lie holes up every town through which he passes. No money, no speech.
JOHN K. MCLKAN. the millionaire publisher of the Cincinnati Jviiijuircr. has been added to the list of silver men who have gold contracts in their safes. The list is Altgeld, Stewart, Pennoyer, Sewall and McLean..
Ei'im.UM MARMI, of Creenticld, who was secretary of the Democratic State committee in IhSS, and who has been a member of the Democratic State committee for ten years, has openly repudiated the Chicago platform.
IK a voter when he enters the polling room must say something, talk about the weather or anything else except politics. Don't ask for a republican ticket, a McKinley ticket, or any kind of a ticket. The clerks will furnish you a ballot and stamp with out the asking.
Tin: local ollicial ballot will be on white paper, not so large as the other ballot, but. big enough that no Republican will want to waste time and take the risk of "trying to vote a mixed ticket. Vote it straight. Stamp it •fence within the square enclosing the big eagle emblem, and stamp it nowhere else. This is the safe and sure way to vote. You take no risk of losing your vote in voting this way.
THE IJJCl'l'liJiICAX 1* OS IXI OX. Throughout this campaign Mr. Urvan has railed at the Republican platform and laughed it to scorn, for the alleged inconsistency in advocating the gold standard, and also bimetallism. In his speech in the Chicago convention he said: "Why if they tell us the gold standard is a good thing, we point to their platform and tell them that their platform pledges the party to get rid of the gold standard, and substitute bimetallism. If the gold standard is a good thing, why try to get rid of it'.' And if the gold •standard is a bad thing, why should we wait till some other nations are willing to help us let it go'.'" In his speech in Tammany Ilall, he said: "TheRopublican party doesnotsay that the gold standard is a good thing. The Republican party expressly declares bimetallism is better than the gold standard, because when the Republican platform pledges the Republican party to substitute the double standard, it makes a valid declaration that the other standard is desirable, iu preference to the single gold standard," And in almost all his other speeches he lias rung the changes upon this theme. The Republican platform does not propose to get rid of the gold standard at all, but on the contrary to continue it forever: that it does not propose to substitute bimetallism for the gold standard, but to have bituel-
Ullistn with the gold standard retained that it does not pledge the sub' Btitution of the double standard for the gold standard as Mr. Bryan alleges, and consequently does not declare bimetallism to be better than the gold standard as he erroneously infers. It appears therefore that Mr. Bryan's arguments on this point are based on false premises, and hence fall. On the other hand, it is apparent that not only is it not inconsistent for the Republican party to advocate bimetallism and also the retention of the gold standard: but that is the only possible way in which we can have bimetallism in practical use at all: and furthermore that bimetallism, as advocated by Mr. Bryan at the ratio of 1G to 1 with the abandonment of the gold standard, is not bimetallism at all, but monometallism,, and his project is not only an impossibility, but a patent absurdity.
XIIK CiOI.l) SXAXDAIIl). It is quite possible to have but one measure of value, and yet several metals serving as mediums of exchange, or money, under that single standard, just as we now have both gold and silver serving as money, or a medium ot exchange for article* bought and sold under the single gold measure. Indeed it is impossible to have the two standards of value in operation at the same time, because silver lluctuates so much that even if the ratio of value between it and gold was exactly fixed to-day by to-morrow the price of silver would have changed, and the equality of the standards being destroyed, the cheaper coins would drive out the dearer, just as the silver dollar in 1702, when it was I! per cent, cheaper than the gold dollar, drove the latter out of circulation until 1.-3-1: and just as the gold dollar in I.SIM, when it was 3 per cent, cheaper than the silver doMar, drove all the silver, dollars out of circulation until ISiiO, and instead of having bimetallism, we should thus be immediately reduced to monometallism. Hence it is clearthat in order to have bimetal" ism in practical use, we must have but a single measure of value, with the other metal adjusted in some way to thai, standard, either as our silver dollars now are to the gold dollars, or as the silver francs of France are to the gold francs, or in some other way, by international agreement or otherwise and furthermore that the. measure of value chosen, should preferably be, not fluctuating silver, but steady gold. Moreover it is perfectly clear that bimetallism does not involve abandoning the gold standard: that the gold standard does't necessarily mean gold monometallism: and that there is no inconsistency whatever in advocating the gold standard and also bimetallism with it. On this point the Republican platform declares as follows: "The Republican platform is unreservedly for sound money. It caused the enactment of the law providing for the resumption of specie payments in 1S7!) since then every dollar has been as good as gold." "We are unalterably opposed to every measure, calculated to debase our curreney or impair the credit of our country. We are therefore opposed to the free coinage of silver, except by international agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and until such agreement can be obtained the existing gold standard must be preserved. All our sih erand paper currency must be maintained at parity with gold and we favor all measures designed to maintain inviolably tinobligations of the United States and all our money, whether coin or paper, at the present standard, the standard of the most enlightened nations of the earth."
It will be observed that the platform is in favor of the gold standard (or measure): that is, is opposed to the free coinage of silver unless by international agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, which it pledges the party to promote and until such an agreement can be obtained it declares the gold standard must be preserved. As no 6ane man for a moment supposes that the leading commercial nations of the world, such as England, France and Germany, are going to abandon the gold standard in order to promote free silver,but on the contrary that the whole object of an international agreement is, while preserving the gold standard which those nations refuse to give up, to provide such safeguards as will admit of silver being again coined as money and circulating with gold, without driving the gold out, it is evident that the declaration of the Republic platform in favor of the gold standard until an international agreement is reached, is not a declaration that when that agreement is reached the gold standard shall be abandoned, but on the contrary that it shall be continued forever. Moreover, as an international agreement would prevent silver from driving gold out of circulation, and would permit both to circulate together, to open the mints to silver coinage then, would give us practical bimetallism, and not a silver monometallism, which, as we have seen, is all Mr. Bryan's project amounts to. The Republican platform there fore declares in favor of the gold standard, and of free silver coinage as soon as we can have practical bimetal lism, and not silver monometallism merely.
Tin Democratic revolt in Indiana :s enough to convince anyone that the brains, character and substance of the party are not supporting Brvan. llere are a few of the more prominent: W. D. Bynum. John I'. Fren/.el, John R. Wilson, Samuel O. Pickens, A. M. Gondii, ri. P. Sheerin, Sterling R. Holt, Charles L. Jewett, Judge Terhune James L. Keach Ueorge. Wolfe, John T. Dyb, llufus Magee, Judge John Nelson, Charles B. Stewart., W. Stewart, John McIIugh, Samuel Murdock, Col. W. K. McLean, John U.
Williams, I'. II. McCormick, Win, Mooney, Hon. Heorge W. Cooper, Lieutenant Governor Nye, Ex-Congressman Ford, Hx-Congressman Conn, Joseph C. Orr, Judge Charles G. Offutt, Wm. LangstaiV and thousands of the rank and file in every county in the State. And the, revolt grows stronger day by
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MONOJIETALLISM, XOT lilMli'l'AI.l.is.n. Mr. Bryan promises that his election will give us the benefits of bimetallism. In his speech accepting the nomination, he said: "If, in November, the people by their ballots, declare themselves in favor of the immediate restoration of bimetallism, the system can be inaugurated within a few months What is bimetallism if not two metals in use in the currency of a country, apart from debased subsidiary coin? If a country has gold alone in its currency clearly that would not be bimetallism, but gold monometallism. So, if a country had silver alone, and no gold in use in its currency, clearly it would not have bimetallism, but silver monometallism. If on the other hand a country had silver and gold both iu use in its curreney that country would certainly have practical bimetallism. This is what Mr. Bryan premises us,—gold and silver both in use in our currency. But if the mints are opened to the free coinage of silver, it being the cheaper metal, would drive out the gold, and we should be left with only silver for currency. This, would not be bimetallism, but silver monometallism. Tderefore although Mr. Bryan promises bimetallism, that is not what he would give us, but monometallism,— and silver monometallism at that. One must not. allow oneself to become confused by names or phrases, or even by beliefs or promises. One must go by the true inwardness of things. It will not do to believe that something is bimetallism because somebody says it is, when in reality it is silver monometallism. Calling silver monometallism bimetallism does not make it so. On the other hand what have we in this country to-day'."' The United States Treasury statement of October 1, lsOli, shows that we have in circulation. exclusive of treasury holdings, •i?3I7,000,000 of gold and gold coin certificates, about S'-l 11,000,003 of silver dollars and silver certificates, quite apart from SW),000,000 of subsidiary silver coin. Is not this practical bimetallism? Dow much more bimetallic would we be after we had driven out all the gold anil left only silver? In point of fact then it is apparent that we ulnudy Jmrc jmicticul hiinctiillisn, though not free silver coinage, and that if we have free silver coinage we shall only get silver monometallism. Although we already have bimetallism our measure of value is the gold dollar that is to say, no matter which kinu of currency is used in paying a debt, whether a gold dollar, or a silver dollar, or a greenback, or a treasury note, or a silver certificate, they are all measured by the gold dollar, which is our unit or standard of value, and at the present time all these five different kinds of currency are equal in purchasing power to the gold dollar. And so when any exchanges take place in this country in which no money is paid, as where payment is made by note, or by the exchange of other property, the amounts are reckoned in dollars, and the dollar in mind is, at the present time, always equivalent in value to the gold dollar. Thus the gold dollar is the measure—or standard—of value to which all values of property and money are referred in this country at the present time, and by which they are measured. This property of being the measure—or standard—zi value, it will be observed, is quite distinct from the property of being a medium of exchange. Thus where one or more gold dollars are given in exchange for property, they not only serve as a measure—or standard—of value but also as a medium of exchange for that value whereas had silver certilicates been used, the gold dollar would still have been the measure—or standard— of value of the article purchased, while the silver certificates would have been the medium of exchange usea.
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C. G. Oi'FT-T, of Greenfield,
and William Langstaff, of Indianapolis, two prominent Democrats, came out yesterday in letters against Bryan. Judge Offut was a member of the Legislature in lS7."j, Presidential elector in l'iro, delegate to the St. Louis convention which nominated Cleveland in ISstS, and has always been a Democrat. Mr. Langstaff is an ex-member of the Legislature from Miami county and for along time has been an active
Democratic politician. Next.
EI.SK\VIIEI:K in to day's JOURNAI. will be found a sample Republican ballot with complete and reliable instructions to voters. It deserves to be carefully scrutinized. Cut it out, paste it iu your hat and familiarize yourself with all the details. The ticket this year is unusually complicated, and great care will be necessary to insure accuracy. Unless the ballot is stamped in strict compliance with the law it will be out.
declared invalid and thrown
Tnrc Republican county ticket mus not be lost sight of by the overshad owing of national issues. It is com posed of men who are known all over the county—men who have the confi dence of their neighbors, and who will receive the votes of all who want wise administration of the county business.
I SIVAMPCOLLKGE. Mrs. Rachel Hester is on the sick list.
There will be a wedding soon over the way. George E. Grimes was able to go to church Sunday.
Robert Straughan was in Crawfordsville Saturday. Born, to Bill McCain and wife, a ten pound baby boy.
Richard Fendley is still hauling gravel on the road. Eli Grimes and wife were the guests of James Hester Sunday.
Henry Evans and wife wentto Crawfordsville Saturday and purchased a new base burner heating stove.
Your correspondent was the guest of Henry Evans Sunday. John Hester and family attended church at Russellville Sunday.
Samuel Galey and wife entertained several of their friends Thursday. Robert Williams and wife were the guests of lv. K. Straughan, of Waveland, Sunday.
Morton Shrader and wife spent Sunday with M. C. Somers, of Ladoga, and report a nice visit there.
Burt Forgey was fatally injured Saturday while helping to raise a Hag pole dt Russellville, the pole falling on him and cracking his skull. Lie died Sunday morning.
The majority of the people said it was a disgrace that a mockery of the crucifixion of Christ should be paraded through the streets as was done at Crawfordsville Saturday.
Hezikiah Evans was badly hurt Friday morning while propping up a shed by the structure falling on him. Some of his ribs were broken and his thigh dislocated. He is 70 years old but is getting along nicely.
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Cribbing corn is in order. Mrs. Emma Marts is a victim of rheumatism.
Miss Agnes Maguire spent Sunday at home. Quarterly meeting at Potato Creek Saturday and Sunday.
C. N. Marts and J. A. Dodd transacted business at Crawfordsville Monday.
Maggie Morrison is staying at C. N. Mart's place for an indefinite length of time.
Frank Cook and family, of near Mart's School house, attended services at Potato Creek Sunday.
Billy Brice and family, of south of Darlington, were the guests of Grant Cook and family Sunday.
Rev. Rayel preached an eloquent sermon from first chapter of IlutU, 10 erse to an attentive audience.
Mrs. T. A. Weir and Miss Sallie Ball, ousin of Mrs. Dodd, of Portsmouth, hio, are visiting J. A. Dodd and wife
IIK III.AM.
ake Dooley boughl a buggy last week. Fred Cunningham bought a pony o." iusta Monroe last week.
School is progressing nicely with an enrollment of fifty-three. Several from here attended preaching at Rlt. Tabor Sunday night.
Miss Gerard commenced as assistant teacher of the primary Tuesday.
James Elliott went to Louisville Saturday, returning Sunday night. Misses Hattie Wilkinson, Maud Weller and Master Steve Wilkinson left school Friday and are now enrolled at Mt. Tabor.
The Democratic rally was attended by all from this place. A wagon containing an elephant and one voter, a trap wagon and an other voter
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