Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 14 August 1896 — Page 2

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AIk. Bubkis should make his Mexican speech in every township in Putnam county. The local democrats continued their campaign of misrepresentation today, and were to be seen early and late working among populists with their falsehoods. They put the same stories into the mouth of their chosen orator in the convention which were to the effect that republican politicians had said they would control the populist convention. Those statements were pure fabrications made purposely to deceive. Members of the court house ring were flying about and were the onl}’ politicians doing any work. This was done to such an extent that one delegate openly charged that men were voting in the convention who were not populists These misrepresentations by the democrats will react. Murk our prediction. Take the children to see the Brownieat the Christian church tonight. It

POPULIST CONVENTIONS Several of Them Meet in Greencastle. No County Ticket. The populist convention to nomi nate a county ticket was called to order at ten o’clock today by Lin coin Snider and Dr. H. H. Morrison was made chairman ; M. B. T. Allen, secretary. Mr Morrison re quested all populists to take the front chairs of the room and the democrats and republicans the back seats. A committee on resolutions were appointed by the chairman. Dr. Keightley, L A. Stockwell, A. J. Farrow, W A Robinson, Ivan Hulfman. The committee retired to the jury room to get up a set of resolutions. M. A. Hanna of Montgomery county candidate for lieu tenant governor on populist state ticket was called on for a speech. Capt. Jason Allen, of Terre Haute, formerly of Putnam county addressed the convention. He scored the democratic party for maligning populists, cheating populists at the polls and murdering their voters in the south, but said that they now would forgive them for taking up and endorsing the populists, standard this year. A committee of five were appointed to select delegates to the congressional convention. The committee on resolution re ported as follows: KKSOLUTIONS. 1st, Resolved by the peoples’ party of Putnam county, Ind., assembled Aug. 14, 1801?, that we unanimously endorse the action of the national convention of the peoples’ jiarty at .St. Louis, July 22, 180*1, and the slate convention held in Indianapolis July 28, 1806. 2nd, Resolved that we await further developments before nominating a county ticket. Should such a contingency arise as to make necessary the nomination of a county ticket, then the chairman is hereby instructed to call tin* delegates together for that purpose. .1rd, Resolved that we present the name of our distinguished fellow citizen Prof. John Clark Ridpath as our choice for candidate for congress from the Fifth district. There was a struggle over the second resolution but it was finally carried out by a small majority. The committee of Putnam and Hendricks counties met and selected L. A. Stockwell, of Cloverdale as a candidate for joint senator of i’utnam and Hendricks and his nomination was endorsed. JUDICIAL CONVENTION. The populist judicial convention met immediately following the county convention and nominated John Clark Ridpath for congress. This was done unanimously and the convention adjourned at once JOINT REPRESENTATIVE. The joint representative convention of Putnam, Montgomery and Clay county met at 2 :30 o’clock and Mr. George J. Kiser of Clay e niuty, was nominated by acclamation. Mr. Kiser is the democratic nominee also in this district and pledged himself not to be bound by a democratic caucus should he be elected. This a jab at Senator Voorhees. John James was called out but would make no pledges. James got no applause. Just three years ago the Greencastle Democrat said on August 12, 1893: ••The financial depression is wearing away, and tilings have begun to brighten, henceforth we predict an era ot wonderful prosperity.” Great scott! Predicting as to the future, without having discovered “the great crime of 1873” then twenty years of age: then advocating international bimcntallism and now howling for independent free coinage. Then engaged in the worship of Cleveland, Carlisle and Cooper, now worshiping Aitgeld, Tillman and Teller. Then relying on the “three C’s” for “an era of wonderful prosperity”, now sup porting the Chicago convention that refused to indorse the Cleveland administration. The Demo crat now predicts that with a free and unlimited silver coinage law (which will never be passed) we would have an “era of wonuerful prosperity.” The voters of Put nam allowed themselves to be hoodwinked in 1892, but they don’t propose to take chances with experiments in 189(5. Our present money system is entirely satisfactory; we will have no change in it, whatever.

RELIGIOUS INTERESTS THREATENED-

BURRIS’ BLUNDERS.

Our SchoolA, College* and Churrhe* and their CiiHtodian* lut^rettted. The New York Sun contains an article on church and college interests which we believe to be of great local interest in Greencastle. The democratic local press has as sailed preachers in a vicious style, and we think the Sun article right to the point. Here it is: The census of 1890 enumerated 111,036 regular ministers in the United States, not including lay preachers. The salaries paid to them are, on the average, small, amounting to less than the wages of mechanics. With the proposed free coinage of silver their stipends would be reduced in purchasing capacity by nearly one-half. All the great and considerable churches maintain religious ami charitable and educational institutions and enterprises, upon which the aggregate expenditure is many million dollars annually, and much of the income so employed is denied from mortgages and other investments, against which the Bryanite policy of repudiation is especially directed. Monasteries, convents, asylums, protectories, colleges, schools, and missionary organizations, would all suffer from the blow which the populist combination proposes to strike a property. The cost of the maintenance of them all would be nearly doubled under Bryanism, and hence they would have to curtail their activities greatly or induce the pious and the charitable to double their contributions. Which is the more probable? Are they likelj’ to get in silver money twice the amount of the gifts they receive now? It appears, therefore, that religion has a new and a peculiar interest in polities this year. The dishonesty, the repudiation, of which Bryan is the representative, threat ens every church and every min-

ister.

A DEMOCRATIC OPPORTUNITY. For the full text of the J. B Burris speech (to be used for campaign purposes in this campaign of education) the Banner Times makes the following offers, choice

of any of them :

$5,00 in A merican gnld $5.«i $. r ).0Jln ** silver, containing rOtKH grs. $5.(0 $(0,00 In Mexican dollars '• 4170 gra, $5.i;3 5 French franc pieces “ 19(10 grs. $5.00 The reason we can’t offer the same number of grains in French silver that we propose to pay on Mexican silver is that France is on a gold basis, Mexico on a silyer basis. See the point/ The Mexican dollars come to a trifle over $5 and five five-franc pieces a trifle less. We make them

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The Mexican Dollar Explained. The Public Now Edified. The speech of Mr. J. B. Burris last night on Mexican money was, in the language of the democratic county chairman, “edifying” in the extreme. A whole lot of people learned some things and democrats were “edified” in a way that democratic managers no doubt today wish had never been brought to light. Mr. Burris was brought here ostensibly to tell what he knew about Mexico and it turned out that what he knew took a precious little of his time as he read for an hour what other people thought. As to his talk and reading: His first statement was a fair and square republican argument and he deserted the money for the tariff temporarily. He said: “The rate of exchange between Mexico and the gold standard nations is about 90 per cent (w liich is virtually a 90 per cent, tariff.) that the Mexicans could not pay that high rate of exchange and therefore they were buying their machinerv abroad, shipping it into Mexico and were growing prosperous'.' In other words, the speaker shows that the people of Mexico pay a premi urn of 90 percent for gold exchange in their transactions with the commercial nations of the world, which proves conclusively that the value of the Mexican dollar in Mexico is governed by the bullion value of silver. He admitted in plain words that Mexicans were growing prosperous under a 90 per cent, tariff of the rank est kind, one that imposed an ex change upon everything they could produce and everything that they had to buy abroad. We would simply ask the speaker if such a graded tariff such as we have wouldn’t prove decidedly more ad vantageous. Yet his 90 per cent, tariff fostered industry. Mr. Burris by his own statement has spent 13 months in Mexico at different times. He spoke of especially inspecting the mines. This would indicate that he was a mine stock owner and probably t he only one

in Putnam county.

He said that the land was largely owned and operated in tracts us large as four counties in this country. That the sale and transfer of these large tracts of land includes and carry with them the native Mexican Indians. >

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plutocrats anti millionaires ant furnishes a splendid illustration o the difference between the rich am the poor man in Mexico. Hov many four county tracts are w fostering under a gold standard ii Indiana? He thus admits am proves that a free silver countr produces millionaires. About th people he said there was as mucl distinction between the upper am lower classes, the Mexican and th Indian, as between the whites am negroes in the south, and statei that a debt of the poor Indian lol lowed him after death and went a an inheritance to his relative! That is a splendid condition to the poorer classes who can’t mak a living under free silver but di with debts and pass those debts ot

as a legacy.

There is but one modern city ii Mexicojaccording to Mr. Burris an* that is Monterey, which has f>,0<h American inhabitants. Here ii the U. S., we in a country htmdrei of years younger, have thousand of modern cities and we have a goh standard with silver on a par. I Mexico they have elected one pres idem four times, here we have bar word electing one two times, am j never have one three tunes. Why , Because in our short career we huv advanced scores of times as rapid! as old Mexico, have plenty of prei idential timber, and still we have | gold standard, and they a silve I one. In Japan, said the speakei “furniture is especially cheap, o account of cheap labor.” Japan i j a silver country. In America w i say that furniture would not be s j cheap because it is paid for i ' American labor at living prices. Mr. Burris translated from Mex 'ican journals which articles eon

tained nothing hut predictions as to the future; there were no actual facts. These Mexican journalists are as smart as Mr. Bryan : they merely predict but present no proof. On wheat the speaker said that it was worth $1.80 a bushel in Mexico. Now. if wheat was worth $1.80 in American gold or silver in Mexico why wouldn’t Americans ship wheat to Mexico instead of to Liverpool? The Indiana farmer could afford to pay a dollar per bushel in gold for transportation and still make money. There has been but one railroad in Mexico that has been in the hands of a receiver, while, says Mr. Burris, one half of our American roads have been in receiver’s hands. And yet Mr. Burris and Iris parti indorse a Chicagofied policy that makes war especially on railroads! “While wages aie still lower in Mexico thau iu the United States” said he. “they are gradually in creasing.” Yei in the face of this Mr. Burris can’t deny ttiat an American’s dollar is worth 100 cents, the money in which he is paid, and the Mexican's is worth but 53 cents and its takes $1.80 to buy a bushel of wheat. The speaker stated that skilled wages in Mexico were about as high as in the United States. He didn’t offer a figure to prove the statement, nor did he refute a table of figures on cost of living and difference in wages between the United States and Mexico as printed recently in the Banner Times. The only figures he did give were when he quoted from a letter written him by a friend in Mexico in which the frieud said that he had just sold a mine for $20,000 in gold'. (The friend didn’t want Mexican silver,) Mr. Burris at this point quit reading and got down to his own talk, and “explained” the Mexican dollar. This is how he edified us: “When the gold bugs take a Mexican dollar from their pockets as an object lesson and tell you that it is worth but o3 cents, tell them that it is not a legal tender in this country any more than is a Russian rouble, a German mark ora French franc. There is where Mr. Burris again got his foot in his mouth. A French five-franc piece (about one dollar) contains 386 grains of sil ver and is worth at our Greencastle banks 95 cents in our money. A Mexican dollar containing 417 grains of silver is worth 53 cents. The Mexican coin contains more silver. Why is the French coin which is not a legal tender worth more than the Mexican? The French coin is backed up by gold or surely our bankers wouldn’t cash them at 9b cents. Mr. Burris paid especial attention to newspaper men calling them “penny a-liners.” If any news paper man in this country would get up and make as many ridiculous statements before an intelligent audience as did Mr. Burris, the profession wouldn’t own him. But as to newspapers: Mr. Burns read much from newspapers and we now propose to read him a little. We shall not translate Mexican editorials, Japanese jargon or take an extract from the Arena, that crank wind bag magazine of Boston. We shall take a “penny-a-liner’s,” statement, and will simply go over to our old reliable friend the Greencastle Democrat and again quote from tiiose juicy columns: On October 28, 1896 the Democrat said :

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In an interview at Chicago, oer own Itaae 1’. Gray, minister to Mexico, makes some striking criticism on the Sherman law. Referring to the stand he took in the part of his public speeches, he says : “I consider it tinw ’se to buy (..SHt.iitHi ounces silver per month and simply compel the government to furnish a market for a few silver miners. It, was simply piling up silver bullion in the government vaults, "hile all the time it was becoming cheaper until finally it would be almost like piling up go much pig lead or so much cord wood. And to pursue that course very long would put this country , "i ^ ''"j'lcial situation similar to that ; '

of Mexico now. ””

I here are Mr. Gray’s words in biaek and while. Mr. Gray was the idol of Indiana democracy and has talked to our Putnam people. He was minister to Mexico and lost Ids life in serving this country in

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