South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1892-05-20

"s 70 the rorce OIL. You 20 to
such an extreme as to say that an
your opinion Mr.. Cleveland swould
have preferred the adoption of the
Force bill rather than the enact.
ment Of q law fayoring free COIN
age. Can you point to any act OF
Mr. Cleveland by which he has
ever shown that he regarded pocu-
mary benefits or financial matters
as OF greater Importance than hu-
man liberty and human rights? On
the contrary, has not every official
act OF his shown that he regarded
tho latter az of paramount impor-
lance? Surely to Justify your
charge you should have offered am
pie and reliable evidence.
On the contrary, you seem 10.
base your charge upon the allera-.
ton made by you that whom the
Force bill was upon its passage
Mr.. Cleveland took occasion to an
nounce his views upon the silver
question. | res pectfully submit
that you should have first made
certain of your facts and dates.
Surely your basis should first be-.
correct before you deduce your pro-.
sumption. The Force bill was not
under discussion when MI. Cleye-
land wrote in letter that he was
opposed to free and unlimited
coinage OF silver. The Senate Sill
yer bill had been passed nearly q,
month before Mr.. Cleveland wrote
that letter to Mr. 4. K. Anderson. 3
That bill was lying in q committee
OF the House, smothered by the
will of Speaker Reed. The Force
bill was defeated on January 26.
1891, by a motion of Senator VOL
colt to take up a bill for determin-
ing the representation each State
should have in the House of Rem.
resentatiyes. 1t was never taken
up again in the Senate. Mr.. Cleye-
land wrote his letter on February.
10, 1891, about month after the
Senate Silver bill had been passed.
Hence it was impossible for nthe
Democratic members of the United
States Senate" to have adopted
those views" And as the Force.
bill had been dead for about two
weeks. | submit that you are MT
justified In intimating that in writ
ing that letter Mr.. Cleveland
showed that he was Indifferent
whether the Force bill was passed
or not.
Can It be possible that one go:
conversant with public events as
You are, did not remember when
you were thus writing about Mr..
Cleveland that in speech deliver
ed onlJanuary s, 1891, in Phila-
delphi a, long before the Force bill
was defeated, he SAID: "We will
stubbornly resist such dangerous
and revolutionary scheme in obedi-
ence to our pledge for the support
OF the State governments in ali
their rights"
May | not suggest that hereafter
1T would be well to at least have the
dates involved in your charges cor
rect?
THE SILVER QUESTION.
You next insist that Mr.. CIeve-
land should not be nominated be-
cause of his views upon the oliver
question. notice that you did
not state whether you favor or are.
opposed to the unlimited. coinage
OF silver. While you were giving
advice, would it not have been well
to have given your views fully on
that question? With your learning
and ability you might have tighten
ed the path which to some is now
80 dark and uncertain. You might
have prevented some from insist
ing upon All issue which you your-
self denounce as "simple folly and
madness" Might you not have
warned them against a measure 70
which ia attached, If not the GER
tainty, at least the risk of financial
disaster? -
You and /, Judge, might be able
to take the risk which would at
tend the adoption Of such a meaf-
ure, but there are millions in tLia
country to whom such a courae
would mean bankruptcy il such =
step should prove unwise. You
and j, do not 1--we upon salaries and
wages. You and ], in the evant
of deprecated currency. wouId
merely enlarge our fees in order
TO make up for the smaller pur-
chasing power of the money we
would receive. But, how about tbe
farmers, the mechanics and the
clerks? 1t would be folly for tbo
last two to dream Of an increase IN
salaries or wages. In times OF 81
nancial danger or depression en-
ployers do not increase salaries or
wages. Hence the clerks and mo-
chanics would receive the same
wages, il not less; but the dollars
which they would receive would NOT
buy as much as they would there
tofore have been buying. The FAR
mers, alec, would suffer il The meaa-
ure should not prove q sucooaa
The prices given for his crops are
fixed, not by home market, but nv
the markets Of the world which
take the surplus Of his crOpe not