The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1893-09-30
AN OPEN LETTER TO GROVER.
Judge Goodxin's Brilliant Concentration to
the Gold President

MR.. PRESipENr.-tp pom your home
within the past week a benediction has
descended. The anxiety and anguish
has been followed by a peace and hap
piness which 10 words can portray. The
greatest of blessings has come to you,
and the JOY is doubly sanctiied by the
knowledge that all the millions of your
conntrymen shared your anxiety and
rejoice in your JOY. Surely, if any man
should be eXultant and AZ the same time
humble III thaaktulneSs, it should be
you. Ii any man should, in all the
depths of his nature, desire to express
his gratitude 10 his couutrymen for
the generous sympathy they have given
you and yours, it should certainly be
Your excellency.
over million other homes in this
land the same anxiety is lowering that
lowered over yours a week ago: but.
added TO il, there is in each of these
homes fear for the future and for the
expected guest which You did not feel.
The poor people the great working ar
my of the country-are very poor The
great middle class tthey who have lit
tie capital, and by their capital and la
Dor and by the work they are able to
give 10 Others poorer than themselves in
wheat field, cotton field, or factory
these, Mr.. President, have made no
money for ten years, except in one year
when famine across the sea gave the
farmers, despite the methods at home, il
profitable foreign market for food. If
these were III debt ten years ago, they
are more in debt now, and they do not
know which way to turn. While the
millions OF people in the land have been
swelling and doubling. they have seen a
steady decline in the value of their pro-
ducts and in the land which they till
They think this is monstrouS III great
free land like this. They ascribe it to
out one cause, and the instincts of Il
free people are never wrong.
You, Mr.. President. would be shock
ed were proposition TO be seriously
made to take half the money of our
land and cast it into the sea. You
would cry out, Why, this is pure luna
cy il would destroy half the values of
in the country and make the payment
Of debts impossible by taking from the
debtor the ability to pay Mr. Presi-
dent, that is precisely what was done
by our law makers ~ years ago, and
hence the congestion since. You have
called Congress in extraordinary session
and insisted upon its repeating the >her.
man law, ascribing TO that law the evils
now affecting this nation. Are you
sure Of your premises:
Have not subsequent events proved
that you were in error. Does no g!im.
mering of the truth come u you that
~ 10 years a storm has been gathering
and it was in this year that it broke (:
Thirty years ago man occupied the
exalted position which you now hold
who was ever in close touch with tie
people To his nearest advisor he once
said, God must love the poor, he makes
so many OF them That man was de
rided much in his lifetime, but his mem
Dry is now encircled with a golden halo
in the thought OF al who look back
along the years Of his life. II IS be
cause his utterTnost thought was to DO
that which was best for all the people,
especially the poor Of the land.
Mr. President, You often in your
state papers speak Of the people and
their will. OF course you feel al. that :,
1t is not merely = form Of speech But
who have been your connselors iii this
crisis: Hare they not almost inyayia-
bly, been national bankers and their at
tCrn"ys? Have they not al been Of
the creditor class. DO they not control
yOu in your present policy: They cling
70 you, hoping eventually to save you
their party, and their country from go
ing over the precipicc before them but
their hearts are tille% with fear.
Gail to You, Mr.. President, and adj
wise with them. the true men OF your
own party who, H. adversely and pros
pcrisy have carried the banners Of adj
yanced democracy 81 well, and if they
80 advise substitute the Sherman law by
a law which shall be Just to all the pro
lucing hosts Of this country, who now
stand III the shadow Of despair. Make
tie workers prosperous and our foreign
credit will take care Of itself. The er- /
-ors of ordinary men are soon buried in /
Ii you make mistakes no
such CLOAK will be mercifuily drawn ov- |
r your memory. Because Of your Of /
ice and this crisis your acts will, for all /
line to come, be the concern OF gener /
ltiOns.
DO not make any mistakes. Go look |
lpon your newborn babe and reflect |
hat just as warm love as is given your
.hild encompasses a million other babes,
,ut that the love is darkened by fears
# evil to cOme-the evils that attend .
lpon unnerited poverty; and reiIem-
yer that sorrow and want are the direct
nemics OF civilization and patriotism.
Then rise to the full majesty and holi-
Iess Of the trust and be president Of
he whole country.
Il write in all respect, and with only
ind wishes for you, and am prompted
olely by my love Of native land and by
he wish to see It in the splendor which
you'd encompass it were the people as
rus porous as they deserve to be and