Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1896 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1S96.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURYAL. Can be found at the following plates: ; NEW YORK Windsor Hotel and Astor Hofise. CHICAGO Palmer House and P. O. News Co.. 217 Dearborn tret '- CINCINNATI J H. Hawley & Co., ,154 ine street. . LOl.MHVILLE C T. -Deerlnir, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book CO., 356 Fourth avenue. ST. LOl'IS Union News Company, Union Depot. 1VASH tNCTON, D. C. Riggs House, Ebbltt House, Willard's Hotel and the Washington News Exchange, Krurteenth street, between Penn. avenue and F street. - Panic follows Bryanism, for he hath eaid It. ., . ' If Congress can double the price of silver bullion by its "be it enacted," it can double the price of labor. V, - After all, the quiet work in neighborhoods y men who cannot address audiences can he made as effective as speech making from this time on. He may not know it, but the man who wears a silver, button declares to those who meet him that a fifty-cent dollar is good enough for him. Out in Dakota Mr. Bryan met with a frosty reception. Is it, possible that the traveling agent of the silver trust has ceased to be a novelty? .i . i Major McKinley's twenty speeches, delivered on Saturday, were read by ten times as many people as were the weary demagogic repetitions of Mr. Bryan, Do not waste time in listening to rumors of what is said to be the situation miles away, but go in and do what you can to increase the sound-money vote in your vicinity. What name will Governor Matthews give the ticket of the National Democracy, now that he has assumed that responsibility? He ought to call it the anti-silver trust ticket. . Having the best dollar in the- world, the wage earner "who votes for the silver "combine" practically declares that he prefers one which everywhere in the world Is the poorest in purchase power. Let Mr. Bryan run through Indiana again if the silver-mine owners imagine that he can help their cause. Every sensible man in this Slate, even if he does not admit it, knows that his train would stop if the silver-mine trust did not pay his bills. This will be a great week for sound money and good government in Indianapolis in the way of public meetings, but it will be a greater one if every wage earner and business man who believes in the importance of crushing the silver conspiracy does what he can, as an individual, to help the cause. . ' There was no portion of Mr. Beveridge's address which caused more hearty laughter than his. allusion to Charley Cooper as a candidate lor Congress, There is nothing more grotesque in a very grotesque campaign than Cooper's candidacy. It is equal to the ridiculousness of Governor Matthews posing as a presidential aspirant. Local committeemen should see that Voters are properly Instructed in the manner of voting under the Australian ballot law. .At every presidential election there are a considerable number of first voters and some newcomers In the State who have never used the stamp and who need 4 A 1.A J ........... , .1 l . rrt i LU . Ll 11I3L1 ULLfll 111 LJ 1 K UIIK PSS. 1 riH Voters should be looked after. . ' , " The Hon. John WV Kern, who declared last May that the free coinage of silver would cheat 6,500,000 owners of savingsbank deposits and building and loan stock of half their' money, has become such an imitator of Bryan that he talks of the rich oppressing the poor. An abler man than Bryan, the self-debasement of Mr. Kern in repeating Bryan's miserable demagogy is a ead spectacle. Populist Senator Allen spoke to a small and thinning audience hero Saturday night, under the auspices of the Popocratic "combine." He will speak to other audiences in Indiana. 'He voted for the present tariff law, which has been so damaging to most Industries In Indiana, and he stands with the silver clique in declaring that no revenue measure shall be passed to put money in the treasury or rescue industrial interests until the silver bullion, of three or four aeore rich men shall be stamped, double its valuo as legal-tender money. He assails corporations, but is the tool of the richest and most grasping trust in the world. The daily reiorts in the Journal show that there is a great deal of political activity throughout the State, but. being necessarily brief, they convey no adequate idea of the magnitude and enthusiasm of the Republican meetings that are being held in all parts of Indiana. Only the reports in local Reputtlcan papers can do this, and they do it In a very remarkable degree. There is no mistaking the meaning of these reports. They indicate a popular uprising in defense of the cause of sound money and good government such as has not been equaled since war times. They show that the Republican party has not appealed in vain to the patriotism and the conscience of the people, and that it is still strongest when if has a moral Jsy to fight for. The meetings which are now being held in Indiana show that the people are moving in their migiU for the maintenance of national honor, the restoration of national prosperity and securing the safety of the Republic. The Journal. I informed that Popocrats who., have access to the meetings of railroad men organizations in Illinois are as;rjji them that if Bryan and Ajtgeld ax

elected there will be no more "interference" by the national government to enforce law or suppress strikes in Illinois. "President" Bryan, say these propagandists of treason, will not raise a finger unless Governor Altgeld asks him to, and that the Governor will never do. The Constitution requires the President to enforce the laws of the United States in every part of the country, whether the Governor of a State asks him to or not. No President would think of interfering with the enforcement of State laws, but if he failed to enforce United States law he would violate his oath and deserve impeachment. Governor Altgeld hates President Cleveland because the latter performed his duty and used the power of the United States gove;Timent to enforce United States law and protect United States property in II!ir. ' without asking permission of the Govirror. And, by the same token, Altgeki fa ; : election of Bryan because he has eV- n -"ason to believe that Bryan agrt "'' i. that the national governnet:' a;. on!v by sufferance of the States. ? t remains to be seen if railroad men will i e influenced by these insidious appeals ... eir disloyalty. AX IMPORTANT QUESTION.

The Journal of Saturday gave the main facts in regard to a suit which has been instituted in DeKalb county to test ihc legality of the Democratic-Populist fusion made by leaders of the two parties in that county. The Angola Magnet publishes the complaint in full. The suit involves important principles, and if it reaches the Supreme Court It may become a leading case. Briefly, the facts are as follows: After the Democratic and Populist parties had both held their county conventions and nominated full county tickets, a committee of three Democrats, appointed by the chairman of the county committee, and a committee of three Populists, appointed by the township committeemen, met and constructed a new ticket, composed in part of the candidates of both parties previously nominated. As a part of the deal the chairman and secretary of the Populist convention refused to certify to the county clerk the names of the candidates nominated by it, and the election commissioners are preparing to ignore the tickets nominated by both conventions and place on the ballot the one concocted by the two committees. After setting forth the facts,, the complaint says: And your petitioner further says that all of said traae, sate and transaction, and each part thereof, was and is illegal and void. That the same was calculated to, and if carried out will make, election to office depend upon the corrupt trade and dicker of a few individuals, instead of the good judgment and. free choice of the whOie people. Thai the purpose and result of the same, if carried out, will be to make election to office depend upon motives of private gain and expediency on the part of private combinations and rings, instead of the merit of ihe candidate and the judgment of the voter. That the said trade, sale or transaction was and is against puolic policy. That it contravenes and is contrary to the spirit and purpose of the statute of Indiana, as it tends to give an unfair advantage to some candidates over others, and maKes th? suffrages of the citizens, anxi the nomination ana election to office, a imng or Darter and a subject of merchandise. ... The fact that this sort of thing has been going on all over the State, and that the State and national tickets are involved in the dirty business, ought to disgust all decent Democrats and Populists alike. In this case the suit is brought by one of the Populist nominees, who, after being nominated by the convention, was displaced by the committee, and he asks for an order of the court to compel the chairman and secretary, of the convention to certify the ticket as nominated and to restrain the election commissioners from printing the fusion ticket on the official ballot. The real question is whether any ticket can be printed on the official ballot unless it be nominated in one of the three ways provided by the law, viz.; First, by a nominating convention and certified to by the chairman and secretary thereof; second, by a primary election; third, by petition of a specified number of voters. Under the Australian ballot law every step in an election is regulated by law, and If the manner of nominating candidates can be changed, so can the manner of printing, distributing and stamping the ballots. In short, the whole law can be set aside by committees and subcommittees. The nominating of candidates for office is one of the fundamental features of popular government, and involves a question of the highest privilege. Fusion committees have no more right to revise or set aside the action of a nominating convention than they have to change the result of an election. A right decision of the DeKalb county case may invalidate all the mongrel post-convention tickets which have been fixed up in the State during the last few weeks by bargain-and-sale committees. The case should be pushed and a decision of the Supreme Court obtained as soon as p'ossible. FROM SILVER TO TIIXMAX. It appears from, an Atlanta dispatch that Chairman Jones has sent for Senator Tillman to come to Chicago, and that he is on his way thither. Inasmuch as the South Carolinian was regarded, early in the campaign, as one whose speaking would be more advantageous to the Republicans than to the so-called Democracy, the calling of Tillman is significant. He was In this State some time before the Chicago convention and made several speeches which were regarded by silverites as damaging to their cause. His speech in the Chicago convention was regarded as so wild and damaging that another speaker felt called upon to disclaim it as the sentiment of the party. Since the convention Mr. Tillman has been permitted to make speeches in Pennsylvania and where he could do no particular injury by his wild and anarchistic ravings. In view of these facts, if Mr. Tillman has been called by Chairman Jones to speak in such States as Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, it is fair to assume that, in the judgment of the managers, the Democratic campaign has drifted so much toward Altgeldism and Tillmanism that the speakers who can hereafter be of the greatest benefit to the Bryan campaign are those who array one section, against another and those who seek to array one calling against all others that the orators who utter the most violent language and most vehemently assail and threaten the institutions of the country which were established by the fathers are thpse who will win the most votes to Mr. Bryan. Time and again, since the Chicago convention, Mr. Tillman has declared that the Supreme Court would be overthrown or "pitched out." During his political career in South Carolina he has devoted himself to arraying one element against another and to stirring up strife, lie has played the tyrant as no man has dared in any State. He has ruled courts and Legislatures, employed the militia to suppress local government, and his attempt to control the, liquor traffic in the interest of the State has forced upon the people a vast system of corruption. That th colored voter shall not assert his rights, he led in the adoption of the new constitution.

without submission to the people, which practically deprived more than one hundred thousand colored freemen of the right of suffrage. His growing arrogance has at last offended a portion of his followers so that his candidate for United States Senator was defeated hi. the recent preliminary election required by the Constitution of South Carolina. One will search his utterances in vain to find one broadly patriotic sentiment. Even now he proclaims that the solid South, the Southwest and extreme West must : be arrayed against the older States. In short, he is so vicious a man that leaders in the Democratic party in other Southern States dislike to have him speak in them. Mr. Bryan has been giving primary instruction in Tillmanism. Possibly Chairman Jones, judging from the acclaim with which Mr. Bryan has been received in his efforts to create jealousies between employers and employes, imagines that he has prepared the people for the strong meat of the anarchism of Tillman. This is the man whom Chairman Jones has called for some service during the last weeks of the campaign. Last July Senator Jones would have been delighted if Tillman could have been sent out of the country. Have the Democratic managers come to the conclusion that Tillmanism, the essence of sectionalism, class hate, lawlessness and violence, is their best card during the last three weeks of the canvass? THE BIGGEST OF TRUSTS.

The New York World in a series of articles has placed -before the public many interesting details concerning the silver mining properties of the silver producing States and of their connection with the Bryan campaign. The names of the silver mines in each State are given, the capital stock of the companies working them, the amount of all the dividends paid and the per cent, of the last dividend. The totals for each State are as follows: No. of Capital States. mines. stock. Colorado 34 $89, 766.250 Calicrnia 3 21,000,000 Idaho 5 13.0;0,000 Montana ... 11 63,100,000 South Dakota .... 2 37.500.COO Dividends. 522.678.320 5,468,732 3.092.500 26.766.737 7.552,500 85,155,300 25,440,000 Nevada 71.300.000 4S.5im.0W Utah Totals 73 $324,166,250 $170,994,239 Forty-three of the above-named seventythree mines paid 10 per cent, dividends and over at the last declaration. Twenty-six of the forty-three paid 23 per cent, dividends and over and some paid 50 per cent, or over. Seven of the nine mines In the Nevada group paid from 25 to 50 per cent, dividends the last dividend day. The entire dividend of the Nevaua group of mines has been 120 per cent, on the capital stock. The Ontario mine, in Utah, in which the owner of the silver organ in New York is one of the largest stockholders, is capitalized at $13,000,000 and has paid $13,130,000 in dividends. The last dividend being but 10 per cent., several stockholders protested because the dividends were not being paid as fast as earned. These stockholders were sent copies of the Inter-Ocean Mining Review last February, with the following paragraph, marked: While the output of the Ontario mine might be increased the wisdom of such a policy in view of the possibility of a better price for silver is very questionable. This means that silver was being held back in the hope that Congress will adopt free coinage of silver, when the ounce now worth 65 cents could be stamped as legal tender money for $1.29. . A month or more ago the silver mine owners in Utah were asked to contribute $500,000 to the Bryan campaign and a committee was appointed td make the collection. Secretary Merrill, of the Silver Mine Owners' League, called for this amount on the ground that it was one-twelfth of the additional profits which the Utah mine owners would receive if a free coinage law could be passed. That is, the annual profits of one small batch of mine owners, all millionaires or multi-miliioiiaiies, would be $6,000,000 if the Bryan programme' should succeed. The names of the leading mine owners in this conspiracy to force this country to a silver basis are all known. They are not over one hundred, and the most active ones do not. number 6ver a score. They alone would be the beneficiaries by the free coinage of silver, wnlch nine-tenths of the business men of the country are convinced would canse such a panic as would paralyze business and close a large part of the factories in the country for an indefinite period. There Is not a man in Indiana who works for salary or wages who would not be a most serious loser by the success of this scheme of the greedy silver miners' trust. A MOST IMPORTANT REPORT. About two months ago the Trades and Labor Assembly of Chicago, which is made up of representatives of all the labor organizations in that city, selected two of its members to go to Mexico and investigate the conditions of labor in that country. The men selected are those who have been toilers in factories all their lives, and, being members of labor organizations, are in full sympathy with the workers of other countries. These representatives, P. J. Maas and Patrick Enright, having spent some time in Mexico, have returned and made a report the main portions of which are printed In this t issue. It is a report which every wage earner in the land should read. They tell of the condition of the people who labor in Mexico, not as coming from others, but as they saw It, and they tell It In a manner which shows that they have been close observers. These representatives of labor more than confirm all that has been written of Mexico and its life. The wages which are quoted are in Mexican silver. The railway engineer who receives $210 a month really gets $103. The man who works in a broom factory for 30 cents a day gets an equivalent of 25 cents in the money of the United States. The man who makes shoes, or what answers for shoes, receives $1 per dozen, and receives half that amount when reduced to our money. This Is because Mexico is on a silver basis. Since Mexico became a silver-standard country the intrinsic value of the Mexican silver dollar has fallen from 90 cents to almost 50 cents in gold. Wages, it is eaid, have been materially advanced, but the depreciation of the silver money in which labor is paid has reduced the purchase power of wages in all the necessaries of life, except such as are produced in that country, not less than one-third. Thus, with the wages now paid in Mexico, If the country were upon a gold standard, laborers could purchase almost double the quantity they can for the money they are forced to take. The dollars are called dollars when they are not. The very fact that the people are paid In a depreciated money prevents their progress toward better things, even If they desired them. Cheap money and cheap labor go together, and labor is made so cheap by the money, which has lost half Its purchase power In twenty

years, that human effort is cheaper than dumb animals for bearing the burdens which, in better countries, are borne by

beasts or by steam. If, after reading this report by accredited representatives of labor organizations, a wage earner can vote for the silver standard, he must prefer to sacrifice his interests to the millionaires of the silver mine trust. Additional weight is given the report by the fact that it was read and discussed yesterday at a meeting of the Trades and Labor Assembly, and adopted by an almost unanimous vote, only two members dissenting. FIRST, GET YOUR BILLION. Almost everybody has heard of the recipe for cooking1 a hare, which begins, "First, catch your hare." The injunction commends itself at once by its reasonableness and aptitude. It does not take much reasoning power to conclude that the capturing of the hare must be preliminary to any process of cooking, and the fact that the animal is fleet and fugacious, and therefore somewhat difficult to capture, makes the direction particularly apt. The recipe for obtaining silver money under the Bryan free-coinage plan is as simple as that for cooking a hare, and should begin In a similar way "First, get your bullion." The Popocrat candidate has told his audiences over and over again that tho free coinage of silver will make money so plenty that it will be easy to get. He also tells them that as the government controls coinage and the people control the government, it rests with tho people to have as much money as they want. It is undoubtedly true that under free-silver coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1 the government would be obliged to coin all tho sliver bullion, -sent to the mints, stamp every fifty or fifty-two cents' worth of it as "one dollar" and return it so stamped to the owner. Thus everybody who had or who could obtain silver bullion could have it converted into silver dollars at that rate, and the more bullion he had the more money he could get. The "coining process would be simple enough and the profit to the bullion owner would be enormous. The first step in the proceedings is to get the bullion. This done, the rest is easy. Mr. Bryan does not tell rthls audiences how to obtain silver bullion but probably he would if he had time. He makes it plain, however, that every person who has bullion can have it coined into fifty-cent dollars, and therefore it will be a man's own fault If he does not profit by the arrangement. All he has to do is to get the bullion. This he can do by buying a silver mine and working it on his own account, or he can purchase bullion of one of the present mine owners. Although they are asking the government to stamp every sixteen ounces of their bullion as Avorth an ounce of gold, they will be very glad to sell any amOun,t of it at about half .' that price. In other words, every person who has sxn ounce or a pound of gold can buy with it about thirty-two ounces or .thirty-two pounds of silver bullion, whieh he can have coined into fifty-cent dollars. ' So, " if a man does not care to buy a silver mine all he has to do is to' get a quantity of gold and buy bullion. If he has' not gold in bank or hoarded in his house he can sell a piece of real estate, convert the, proceeds into gold and then buy bullion. Or, if he has no real estate, he can sell sorae,of his government bonds or other persoiiul, property, cr he can hypothecate scrafloMs securities, .or get two or three good indorscrs on his note and borrow the money in bank. No doubt every Bryanite in Indiana, every calamity shrieker, every street-corner loafer who is yelling for "more money to do the business of the country" could easily raise gold in some of these ways. There will be no difficulty in raising money tp buy silver bullion, and tho mine owners will have "dead loads" of it to sell. , There is enough silver in the mines to supply-every person in the United States with a great many fifty-cent dollars, and If every One does not get his or her share it will be owing to sheer neglect or shiftlessness in not getting the bullion and having it coined. EVILS OF A FLUCTUATING CURRENCY. Nearly all argument of the silver question thus far has been devoted to demonstrating the. evils., and. . dangers of a debased currency. The advocates of sound money have taken the ground justified by experience and by the-laws of finance and commercial logic, that the free coinage of silver would cause the silver dollar to sink to its bullion value and bring our paper currency down to the same level. Thus at the beginning of the campaign they had a great deal to say about 53-cent dollars and later about 50-cent dollars, those figures representing the actual value of the metal in the dollar, "it is impossible to overestimate the evils and dangers of free silver coinage from this point of view, but there is another point of view equally as important, viz., the certainty that the silver standard would be a constantly fluctuating one. The evils of a debased currency would be immeasurably increased if it were also a fluctuating currency. There are not many men now in business who are old enough to recall the conditions during the war when merchants had to sell goods day by day at prices fluctuating with the currency, but there are some. In fact, these conditions existed from the suspension of specie payments, in January 1SG2, until the resumption, in 1879.; Taking the average of each year greenbacks were worth eightyeight cents in gold in 1S62; in 1S63 they were worth 69 cents; in 1864, 49 cents; in 1S63, C3 cents; in 1S66, 71 cents; " in 1S67, 72 cents; in 1868, 71 cents. From this time they rose gradually to S9 cents in 1876; 95 cents in iS77, and finally, when resumption was assured, to par. These figures represent the average value of greenbacks during each of the years named, but they fluctuated from month to month, from week to week, and from day to day.' This continual fluctuation of the currency kept merchants marking their goods up or down all the time and made it very difficult to do business. The first effect of free silver coinage would be to bring all our silver and paper currency down to tho silver bullion standard. This, of courses would cause widespread panic and revolution in trade, but. that would not be all. ; If the currency, after being thus debased, would remain stationary, business would in time adjust itself to the 53-cent standard, the 50-cent standard or whatever it might be. But it would not remain stationary. It would fluctuate with the ' price of silver bullion, and that varies constantly. The market valfte of silver has not been exactly the same during three consecutive years for two hundred years. The fluctuations have not been great from year to year, but always enough to disturb 'the established ratios between gold and. silver. In 1SS6 it was worth 99 cents an ounce, and now it is worth only 65 cents. To be par with gold it should be worth $1.23 aa ounce.

When the present campaign opened the metal in a silver dollar was worth 53 cents; now it is worth only 50 cents. On the 8th of October, 1S93, as appears in the regular market report of the Journal of that date, bar silver was worth 61 cents an ounce. Day before yesterday it was quoted at 65 cents an ounce. With free silver coinage and the country on a silver basis, our silver and paper money would share in these fluctuations of bar silver. The Mexican dollar does now. Making the greenbacks legal tender did not prevent them from greatly depreciating during the war, and legislation was ineffectual to stop it. So it would be with a currency based on silver. It would fluctuate with everf change in the market price of silver bullion and no human power could prevent it. Therefore, it is misleading to talk about a 53-cent dollar or a 50-cent dollar as a result of the free coinage of silver. It might be a 50-cent dollar this week, a 49cent dollar next week, a 52-cent dollar a week later, and so on. During 1894 the bullion value of a silver dollar was as low as 45 cents, and the average value during the year was 49 cents. These are facts for business men to think of.

The Civil Service Chronicle, whose editor is doing good work for the cause of sound money and national honor, announces in its current issue that with the defeat of Bryan the publication of the paper will cease. It has been in existence nearly eight years, and while it has been devoted mainly to civil-service reform, it has been a consistent advocate of honest politics and good government. In further reference to the prospective result of the election it says: We take Bryan's defeat as a matter beyond question. His beginning was demagogic enough, but he has dropped now to even a cheaper grade. His proposal to destroy the merit system was proof of how little knowledge he had of the American people. This people by a vast majority are favorable to that system, and his declaration lost him instantly the votes of all civil service reformers and of all but a fraction of the federal employes. Bryan proved further that his knowledge of the true principles of civil administration is of the same half-baked, wild-eyed nature as his rolling declarations upon finance show his knowledge of that subject to be. It is all of the sand-lot order, and whenever tho American people have had a chance to get at such a man thev have never failed to put him down, and they will not fail now. The fact that he proposes to destroy the greatest work which has been Hone for this Nation since the abolition of slavery and that he proposes to reach the position of a destroyer by stirring up hatred between classes and sections will but serve to unite the great body of the people the more firmly against him. His defeat will clear the atmosphere as it has not been cleared in many years. In declaring his defeat beforehand, it is assumed tbut t'iprp w:ll nn.t Via. tha l.u. relaxation of the effort against him. There can not be, or the ruin will fall upon us. Mr. Bryan seems to have been more reckless than usual in his recent speech at Tipton, in this State. The Tipton Advocate says that the notes' of several stenographers show that in his abuse of' the gold standard he used the following language: If we are going to have a gold standard, if we are going to have a dollar which goes on buying more and more year after year. 1 insist that the dies be ehansrpil and this dollar shall be so fixed that it will declare its character as it eroes from hand to hand, and instead of the picture of the Goddess of Liberty, instead of the American eagle, 1 insist that if we are going to have a gold standard we shall stamp on one side of that dollar the picture of a horse leech, and under the center the proverbial words. "Give, give, give," and on the other side put the picture of an open grave, and above it write, "It saith not, it is enough." The press reporter who accompanies Bryan prunes his speeches a great deal, r A full shorthand report of all he says would doubtless show that his worst utterances have not got info print. RUBBLES IN "THE AIR. Getting? Too Vumerona. "You seem sad," remarked' the sympathetic goat. "I have reason," replied the poster girl. "Some one passed just now and called me conventional." Another Triek. "I see that they have ben findin gold out on the Newbrasky farms," taid the man with a cast in his eye. "I'll bet," said the man with the long, brindle whiskers, "that it ain't nothin" bu a trick of Mark Hanna's." AveraKinjur. "My brother." said the minister, "do you not know that the use of liquor shortens your days?" "Zass ze rearon I stay up so late at night to get even," replied Mr. Lushforth, cheerfully, and the geed mm moved on. An Excuse. "I shall fine you for assault and battery," Eaid the police judge. "B-but, Judge," stammered Rastus, "I I didn't go fer to run ober de mail 'deed I didn't." "No, but you were riding your wheel on the left side of the street. Don't you know that the law requires you to keep to the right?" "Yes, Judge, but I I's left-handed." INDIANA NEWSPAPER OPINION. Want of labor and not lack of money is the real secret of the present extremely hard times. Clay City Reporter. Bryan is thought to have made more speeches out of a single speech than any man now before the public. Goshen Times. The treasury deficit continues to grow. And yet one of the presidential candidates says he has no time to devote to the tariff. Fairmount Times. Free coinage of silver will not open a factory or mill or raise the wages of a single workingman employed in those now open. Muncie Times. W'th free coinage of silver the rich silver mine owner will pay the day laborer one dollar's worth of silver for two dollars' worth of labor. Knightstown Sun. If Bryan does not make a more favorable impression in other places than lie did in Hammond his"' tour of the country will not yield a very good crop of converts. Hammond Tribune. The preservation of national honor by the maintenance of a sound-money standard will have the Immediate effect of restoring confidence and heralding prosperity. South Bend Tribune. Bryan is "opposed to any politics in the pulpit." Just the same, the pulpit is opposed to Bryan politics. The pulpits are tew and far between that advocate repudiation and national dishonesty. Knightstown Banner. How to get the dollars is what is agitating the. people. Major McKlnley refers them to a plan that worked successfully for nearly thirty years. Mr. Bryan tells them to vote for free silver and have faith. Auburn Dispatch. If the McKinley tariff law had not been repealed there would be no occasion to discuss the silver question to-day. The discontentment that gave birth to the Bryan movement is largely chargeable to' the Wilson tariff law. Richmond Palladium. If the defeat of Bryan is as overwhelming as it promises to be the Senate will be in such a position as will allow the passage of laws to give the government sufficient revenue and American industries proper protection. Columbus Republican. There is no way to judge the future but by the past. The p.st teaches that the only way to float go;d and silver side by side is to coin money of these metals at a ratio corresponding exactly with the commercial ratio existing between them. Middletown News. The Democratic plan for making times better is to cut the dollar down to fifty cents. The Republican plans is to enact a tariff law that will supply sufficient rev

enue for the government and open the mills for the employment of American labor. Seymour Republican. . Mr. Bryan has come and gone, and In

his coming and going injured his cause. His speeches In cold type more than offset any possible gain his magnetism mayhave secured. There is nothing to them. They are empty and devoid of fact or argument. Logansport Journal. Bryan did himself no good opening his mouth at North Vernon, and Republicans were much encouraged by the meeting, as it caused a show of colors among Republicans somewhat surprising. Two-thirds of the crowd of 1,500 people wore the golden rod as an emblem of Republicanism. North Vernon Republican. Mr. Bryan's appearance gives an Impression of great physical strength and a will of iron rather than any idea of deep intelligence. Wrhen compared with the late leaders of the Democratic party, men who. nave Deen recognized as great statesmen in the Nation's affairs, he suffers In comparison. Mr.. Bryan may become a statesman in the next twenty years, but he does not look like one now nor did not talk like one. Winamac Republican. The spirit of "coercion" is shown in Governor Matthews's words condemning the business men of Indianapolis for failure to decorate their places of business in honor of Mr. Bryan on his recent visit to the capital. The Governor reminds the business men that they have "Democratic customers who should be consldercd."Muncle Times. The same quack statesmen who succeeded in fooling the people four years ago are on deck again with a new panacea, the virtues of which they parade in nolsy harangue. much after the manner or the street fakir who persuades people, even against their better judgment, to buy his worthless nostrums. A great majority of the people can be fooled only once by the same Imposters. Angola Magnet. Every man is entitled to the fullest enjoyment of political and religious liberty, and it is just as tyrannical for the majoritv of a labor organization to dictate a policy to be pursued by fellow-working-men, regardless of their natural inclinations, as it is for an employer to undertake to say what an employe shall do or leave undone In matters pertaining to public affairs. Lafayette Courier. Wheat would now be worth $1 per bushel in the United States if the wage earners had full employment at American wages during the past three years or if they were fullv employed now at their 1S92 wages. We now have about all the surplus grain of the world and all that we need to obtain its full value is to restore the confidence, labor and business of the American people by overwhelmingly defeating free silver and free trade in the November election. Richmond Telegram. CURRENT MAGAZINES. The Decorator and Furnisher is full of suggestions to the householder who is about to fit up a new residence and wishes to know the latest fads and fancies in the way of artistic furnishings. The Strand Musical Magazine is a musical monthly issued as a companion to the Strand Magazine. Each number contains several literary contributions, but its space is mostly given up to musical compositions songs and instrumental pieces. The Inland Educator (Terre Haute) for October contains an excellent full-page portrait of President James H. Smart, of Purdue University. Contributors to this magazine are leading educators of the State, and their papers are of a practical character which must make them of value to less experienced teachers and students. Gunton's Magazine is a campaign number, devoted exclusively to topics connected with the issues involved in the election. Prof. Gunton discusses the silver question from the attiude it has to labor, and always in a sound and practical manner. It is published by the Political Science Publishing Company, Union square, New York. The magazine Romance, which was first planned to contain nothing but short sto ries, has enlarged its pages and its scope, and has joined the ranks of the 10-cent periodicals. Its contents are made up of both original and selected matter and include a Variety of miscellany as well as fiction. It is published by the Current Literature Company, New Yorn. "The Crown Prince of Rexania" is the title of the complete novel written by Edward S. Van Zile, for the October Lippincott. Isabel F. Hapgood writes of "Russian Girls and Boys at School," D. O. llacdonaid of "England's Indian Army," H. B. Bashore of "Humanity's Missing Link," A. V. Sanborn of the "Quays of Paris" and Ellen Olney Kirk of "The Last Resort in Art." There are also a number of light sketches and poems. The Review of Reviews' for October is mainly given up to discussion of current politics. The characteristics of the "strategic chiefs" of the campaign, Mark Ilanna, J. K. Jones and Marlon Butler, are set forth by Mui-at Halstead. W. J. Abbot and Carl Snyder, respectively. K. O. Dunnell describes the rise of the National Democ racy and the Indianapolis convention. An illustrated paper on Princeton In her sesquicentennial year, is contributed by W. M. Daniels. Mr. George Watkins, of Indianapolis, announces a new quarterly which is to be entitled the Magazine of Americana. It is to be devoted to a registering of all new books of Americana and to the publication of notes on and extracts from old books and pamphlets relating to America, the West indies and tne soutn seas. Just now much original matter will appear in the magazine is not announced, but the impression left by the prospectus is that the publisher will wisely give most of his space to bibliographical information, reinforcing this constantly, as has been fraid, with copious extracts. Discussion of American politics finds place in English magazines and the Eclectic for October includes in its cullings from those periodicals two papers from the Nineteenth Century on "The Battle of the Standards." Both are written by Americans, but neither presents the facts accurately or effectively. An article on "The Making of a President " adds to the American coloring of the number. "The Ethical Impulse ot Mrs. Browning's Poetry," "Children's Theology," "Literary Ladles," "The Autonomy of Labor," "The Cuban Question " and "Recent Science" are among the other topics considered. The space which tho North American Review devotes to articles on the political situation as affected by the money question shows how deeply concerned all men are in that subject. The notable article is that of Speaker Reed, which one must read to appreciate. As the issue has been sharply defined. It can but be noticed that nearly all of the able men write upon the fame side. Tiie North American contains a number of articles of, unusual merit on different topics, among which are that of Secretary Herbert and that of Louis Wlndmuller on "The Shrinkage of Wages if Silver Wrins." The North American is published at No. 3 East Fourteenth street, New York. E. H. and E. W. Blashfield contribute to the October Scribner an illustrated article on "Siena, the City of the Virgin." The frontispiece of the magazine is a "color translation" by E. H. Blashfield of a decorative panel entitled "Military Music." and is a fine bit of- work. "The Government of Greater New York" is the subject of a paper by Francis V.. Oreene. Kirk Munroe writes of the cruise of the supply ship among the lighthouses of the Atlantic coast. E. L. Godkin discusses the expenditures of rich men, and Mary Gay Humphreys contributes an interesting and wellwritten paper on the New York working girl. There are several poems and sketches, among the latter one by the late H. C, Runner. . -- So much has been. written about Dr. John Watson, better known as "Ian Maclaren,, since his novels found such sudden favor that the public may be a little weary of him. but the story as told by Rev. D. M. Ross in McCIure's Magazine of his career as a minister and the cause of his drifting into authorship is interesting. Will H. Low has in the same number a review of "A Century of Painting." Ida M. Tarbeli tells the story of the Lincoln-Doufflas debates. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps contributes ' another interesting chapter of her literarv recollections. Anthony Hope's "Phroso" reaches a satisfactory conclusion, leaving the hero of many adventures in command of the situation. Three or four short stories and a fcrim barrack room ballad by Rudyard Kipling make up a very readable number. Tho current Cosmopolitan contains several articles of more than usual Interest. Ex-Postmaster-general James writes of a summer tour in the Scottish highlands and treats the somewhat hackneyed theme in a pleading way. "The Story of a Child Trainer told by Mary B. Powell, Is an account of the methods and experience of Mr. Tomlint, of Chicago, in teaching children to nine. "The l'erils and Wonders of a True

Desert" Is a paper by Capt. D, D. Oallfaifl, of the army corps of engineers, and sets forth some scientific ftfets concerning the Arizona desert not commonly known. A chapter of personal recollections of the TaiPing rebellion is contributed by Gen. Ed-

tertainingly of the out-of-door sport and occupations of modern women. Several short stories and poems make up the number. The October Bookman contains a portrait and biographical sketch of Johanna Ambrosius, the peasant poet, who has aroused so much Interest in Germany. James Lane Allen, writing of the gentleman in American fiction, mentions Don Quixote, Sir Roger De Coverley and Colonel Newcome as types of high civilization, and declares that our literature shows that we have not given to the world a single American xharacter that can even rank with this company of to us imperfect though immortal gentlemen; not a single one whose name has become a byword, so that the bare mention of it in a company of scholars would be enough to make it known. Perhaps our nearest approach to one Is to be found In the Autocrat. It is a ridiculous and mortifying admission that the only two names in all the range of our fiction that haveattained anything like universality of acceptance even among ourselves, not. of course, as gentlemen, but as mere characters, are the two negroes Uncle Tom and Lncle Remus. There is a great unanimity of opinion among those who do not possess millions that those who do ought to give large portions of it away. E. L. Godkin. in nn article in Scribner on the expenditures of rich men. advises them to put their mMiey into public monuments and buildings of a kind to beautify their cities. William C Lawton. looking at the matter from another point of view, reaches the same conclusion. Taking as his theme "The Need L.C' Pi,trtlsnV ho y in Llppin,.?aa5a,ne tnat a hrahny civic pride snouid induce men of wealth to beautify ana improve their home towns, "it Is amazI'iS; . th'nks- "that any man can be con-" g!Uher millions of dollars, to wstch their accumulation ten or twentv or fifty years, and then leave the pile to be inhhnillor scattered to the winds, by tho snrt w ?,nd the spendthrifts chance .shall send .is his successive heirs, without In-fhl8-! s owil 'nllKhtened selfishness by hi cltion of i permanent memorial to riLn n." koo1 name without attending to the one ' safe and make?' vStme:U 11 ls ln his power "o fntHlv UV ri.h maU' "e fludS- ""ho VOli?ri,chs ,s,tt nactor even to the mon selfish members of his own class. He (h f,t east putting farther off the day of anarcl y they are doing their utmost to hasten onthe day when the artisan and the wage be converted to the mad doclhn ?Lhei 8c,?list militanc. and the mob mttoTeAlP'11 red hands the disTHE TALK ABOUT MORTGAGES. An Inventlmratfon That RronRlit Disappointment tO t HlHlllIt) itCH. To the Editor of the Indiana poliis Journal: About ten years ago, the slogan of the calamityltes ot the period was the great ' wrong the poor laboring man was suffering from the exactions of heartless capitalist! T who held mortgages upon the homes of th.V1 land, and how to relieve them was the paramount question of the hour. To aid them; In their crusade against these oppressors they introduced a bill in Congress to require the takers of the census of 1890 to take the number and amount of e very mortgage upon the homes of the people, which, after being amended so as to requiro the report to show what the mortgages were given for, became a law. It was a new item in our national statistics, but the properofficers give it their attention", and ' the result has been published, but profes-' r sional calamttyites never once quote Trom -the report. It is not what they hoped for . and much wanted it to be. In the first place, it shows that in the rural districts, including all towns and cities of S.OOJ inhabitants and less, 66 per cent, of the homes are owned by the oceunnnts r.dition found in no other country on earth,, and that even in such centers of-poverty as the greater cities over 37 per cent, of all householders own the houses they live in This was a revelation the calamityltes were .'"f'J01" u showed a distribution of ouu uume comrorts that was fatal to their thenrv. Rut tho io , ..' of home owners was the least item In their discomfiture. When the investigation revealed that only 28 per cent, of these homes were under mortgage they lost heart. But this was not the worst. When tho report, showed that SO per cent, of these morteaget were giver, to secure unpaid balances on , the purchase of the home, or for substantial betterments, and that 10 per cent, was for the purchasing of farm stock or implements, or for other facilities of making labor profitable, and that 4.37 per cent, were for business ventures or for personal comforts which the mortpageors wished to enjoy, they were so disanpoInWl and displeased that not a Populist in all the land has once appealed to the census report to prove their allegation that heartless capitalists have taken advantage of the misfortune of home owners and are about to reduce them to want by foreclosures. As to a class of mortgages which is known to exist, usually small, given to meet pressing necessities, the official report says: "The mortgages distinctly representing a loss of wealth, or wealth soon to be. consumed, are embraced in the description of farm and family expenses, and their number is 5.40 per cent, of that amount of mortgages now in force, while their or!g"nil amount is 1.73 per cent, of the total oriefnal amount. Probably not more than a f rac tlon of 1 per cent, ls to be added to the percentage for amount for farm and fs.milr expenses, other wealth soon to be consumed, and losses of wealth included In mortgages in association with other objects and in mortgages with miscellaneous purposes." , No wonder calamityltes nevsr appeal lo trn census report to prove that the mortgagers, of homes are numerous and oppressed people. Less than 1 per cent, of the amount secured by mortgage can be in the hands of the class they so commiserate, which means 1 per cent, of 28 per cent, of home owners, the balance belonging to that dus of enterprising and Industrious citizens who are the pride and glory of oir country, men who are buying or building or repairing homes or enlarging their facilities for producing wealth, and who scorn with honest indignation all such appeals as Mr. Bryan is making ostensibly in their behalf, but really and solely In the interest of thi mine millionaires who employ him. Having conjured up a eNss of suffering ' th?v must of necessity find a guilty party. Lik' the old-time schoolmaster, who, always found a dolt whom he e-ould flog on general principles, when the actual perpetrator of the real or imagined offense couiel not easily be detected, these men pounce upon "the crime of '73." though, whatever it w.:. had been committed ten vears or morf before the fateful mortgage had been given, and their proposed remedy is as noteworthy as the crime itself. Whereas this, ucc-on!-!ng to their own fhowlng, consisted polcV In ceasing to turn, free of charge to the owners, old spo ns and old coins atid other odd scraps of silver into dollars to be Immediately exported as million, not one of them entering permanently tnto circulation aa currency, and five years Inter beginning the coinage of the same kird of dollars at the rite of about 26.300.000 anmiallv. every dollar of which entered into ti'-e currency c.f the country to Ftay: ani where, as. according to Mr. Bryan, the condition of these unfortunates and of everybody else has been waxing worse and worse a tlese millions of sliver dollars' havi multiplied Into hundreds of million, they now propose to greatly multiply these dollar and make the annua! output hundreds of millions instead of ten.- of millions, witti onlv this difference; that th wark shnll " done free of charge by the governmetH ami the profits shall go into the coffers of the mine owners Instead of into the treasury of the United States, asj now. This i a clear case of what tiwd to be known ainonic doctors as heroic treatment. 11 tfr patient continued to grow worse and worse under calomel In broken doses they prescribed it by the spoonful, and the patient soon got well or died generally most always died and the blame win laid cn sn "Ins'-rut i bie providence." According to Mr. Bryan and in this he s right tiir ne ver we r so hard as now on ixMr people, but we never had such millions of sliver dollar. Have they caused it? He o. for thev are a part of "the crime of "73." But an we have grown worse and worre under tlu tens of millions annually, h- proposes heroic treatment, and prescriu.'S hundreds of millions annually. People have eutlt kIng calomel by the ftpoontul, an l thry wilt rardly take silver doilar by-th hundreds of million and risk the cooequenn s. Indianapolis, Oct. 10. U, L. SEE. Ilia Sentiment Are Known. Philadelphia Telegraph. President Clevc'and Is one of the fewmen who have said nothing tluring ' this campaign, and in one cf the few men Why really i-houid havo saiel romrthiiuf.