The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1893-08-05
| Bankers Reply to a Letter From
Congressman Harter, of Ohio.

ter of Ohio, who is rank monomet-
alist, sent out circular letter to
all the bankers in the United
States, urging them to keep
up their efforts until silver was
thoroughly demonetized. Among
the replys he received, was one from
the president Of the Lafayette bank
at Lexington, Mo. 1t is interesting
reading, and Coin herewith repro
duces it:
Hon. NJ. y. HARTEE:-A printed
circular sent by you over the coun-
try asking for the expression of an
opinion on the present law for the
purchasing Of silver bullion by the
government reached me too.
Though doubling you want this
answer, ] send it. Thomas Jefferson
said the art of government was the
art Of being honest. | worked with
the party founded by Jefferson un7
ii! absolutely sure that you and
other leaders Of it are just $50 de-
grees of the circle away from JEFF
ferson. You know as well as do
everybody knows that the consti
tuition never gave congress the
power to demonetize silver. You
know that it was fraudulently car
ried through congress; that Earnest
Ceyd was sent over to this country
by a London and Frankfort firm of
bankers to aid in the raid on our
constitution.
You know their allies, puppets
and hired men in this country carried
out their wishes, and | believe you
to be one of the dastards now work
ing against his own country, carry
ing out the work begun by John
Sherman, greater traitor than
Benedict Arnold, for the benefit of
the Frankfort London bank ring
Nobody ought to blame the bankers
of Frankfort and London for keep
ing gentiles forever in bond, fol-
they have been prosecuted for TWEEN
ty centuries. But for an American
to become their hired servant OF
make himself member of their ring
and he p to plunder his own country
men in order to share the spols, nc
word in twenty languages can fur.
nish for him "a true and expressive
name. That some demonetizers are
honest in their opinions we'll know
But your opportunities for knowing
the question thoroughly, are sucl
that ! give you no such credit.
| look on you as working agains
constitutional coinage for what ther,
is in it for you. I voted for Mr.
Cleveland once, but he had not thel
: shown himself what he has since, tht
Launcelto Gobbo of Rothschilds
Though my great-grandfather was
friend and neighbor of Jefferson, m,
grandfather IA friend of Jackson, o.
rather, l may say, because of tha
and because being pedigreec
democrat, l believe in principles
not men, l voted a straight people.
party ticket last fall. | have kin II
half the southern states and am sure
that the dread of force bill KEEP
more than one state in the soutl
from refusing to follow where sucI
political nondescripts like you lead
When the country aroused itself
after the assassin-like attack on con,
stitutional coinage was made, the
democratic party denounced demone-
tlzatlon for twenty years as crime
then it nominated Launcelto Gobbo
Cleveland. If Thomas A. Hendrics
whose friendship | had the honor to
have, was democrat, then you and
Gobbo Cleveland are not democrats
AS an American business man. as
a banker who has studied the finan-
cial problem for twenty years from
a broader standpoint than personal
greed, l think that the present law
should stand until return to the