The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1893-09-28
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ship? "...*
Suppose your present programme shall
be carried out. You must see the ex-
will get no more for his wheat; the plan
ter no more for his cotton; the unjust,
unnatural and senseless direct competi-
tion between the naked slave of India
and the American wheat raiser, and the
American cotton raiser and spinner will
not be taken away. The evil is much
deeper. What you will cure is not even
symptom of the original disease. You
may say, "The people and the press de
mand it,"
Send for the members of congress, Mr..
President, who voted repeal in the house,
and ask them what response the real
people are making, judging by their let
ters. Let me predict the answer Outside
OF the extreme east, it will be: All save
a few bankers deplore our work For
the press-when untrammeled, its power
is as benign as it is illimitable. When
its policy is dictated from the business
office, it loses it's prerogative of an impair
tlal judge, and descends to the plane of
the paid advocate. The management
deals with the banks, and just now the
editor is degraded, and merely echoes
the cupidity of the counting room.
Mr. President, you are fighting ris-
ing tide. On present lines, if continued
six months hence, you will have no par
ty, and the love which the country wants
to give you will be frozed to death.
When battle goes against a great gen
eral he orders a halt and reforms his
lines I am not in the confidence, do not
personally know your close advisers, but
judging by their words spoken in the
past, neither the secretary of the treas
ury nor your leader in the senate be-
Heves IN your present policy. They
cling to you, hoping eventually to save
you, your party and the country from
going oyer the precipice before them,
but their hearts are filled with fe II
Call them to you, Mr.. President, and
advise with them, the true men in adver-
sity who have carried the banners full
high advanced of democracy so long,
and, if they so advise, substitute the
Sherman law by law which shall be
just to the producing hosts of this coun-
try who now stand in the shadow Of des-
pair. Make the workers prosperous and
our foreign credit will take care of itself,
The mistakes of ordinary men are soon
buried in oblivion. If you make such
mistakes no such cloak will be merc1-
fully drawn over your memory. Because
Of your place your acts, for all time to
come, will be the concern Of posterlty.
Do not make any mistakes. Go and
look upon your newborn babe and re-
fleet that just as warm love as is given
your child encompasses million other
babes, but that the love is darkened by a
fear of evils to come, the evils which at
toad upon unmerited poverty, and re-
member that sorrow and want are the
direct enemies Of both civilization and
patriotism; then rise to the full majesty
OF the holiness Of the trust that is yours
and be president of the entire country.
l write in all respect and with only
kind wishes for you, and am prompted
solely by love for native land and by the
wish to see it in the splendor which
would encompass it were the people as
as they deserve to be and
would be were the laws framed for the
masses instead of the classes I have
the honor to remain, most respectfully,
G. ~ Gt,onUrN