The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-01-31
WILL SON TO HARTER.
Plain-Spoixen Characterization of the
President-elect---An Open Letter.

Fresldent-eIeCt---An open Letter.
Hon b. D. Harte1':
A printed circular sent by you over
the country asking for an expression
OF opinion on the present law for the
purchasing of silver bullion by the
government, has reached M, too
Thomas jefferson said the art OF gov
erning was the art Cf being houes5
l worked with the party founded by
Jefferson until absolutely sure thai
you and other leaders are just $50 de
grees Of the circle away from Jeffer
son, You know as we'll as dO-every
body knOwF-that the Constitution
| never gave Congress he power to de,
monetlze silver. You know that it
was trauduiently carried through Con
greoe; Bhat Ernst Sgd W rs ent over
TO this county by London and Frank
for, firm OF Jew bankers to asg on the
raid On our Constitution. You know
that their allies, puppets and hired men
III this country carried out their
wishes. And [ believe you to be one
of the dastar1s now working against
his ON country, carrying out the work
begun by John Sherman, a greater
traitor than Benedict Arnold, for the
benefit Of the Frankfort London Jew
bank ring Nobody ought to blame
the Jew bankers of Frankfort and
London for keeping 0entjles forever IN
bona, for they have been prosecuted
for twenty centuries But for ali
American to bscOm3 their hired ser
want, ur make himself q member Of
their ring aud help to plund@r MS Own
country IN order to share the spoil, no
WORD Ill twenty Languages can furnish
for h:Tn ~ true and expressive name.
That some demOue4izars are honest In
then opinions | well know. Bat your
opportunities for knowing the question
thorough 3 are such that | give you
no such credit. [ look on yO7i as work
ing agains; constitutional coinage for
what there Is IN it for YOU / voted
for Mr Cleveland once, but he had nos
then shown himself what he has since,
the Lanc0lO6 C0bbO Of R)5hschlid,
The Jews man. as his prototype was
S Ylock's. Though y great grand
father was a friend aud neIghbOr II
Jefferson s, my grandfather friend Of
Jacksou,s, or, rather [ may say b
cause of shat, ana because. being a
padIgfeed D8mOcr+t, | believe IN prln
cipieS, nO5 men, | voted q straight PeO
piles party ticket last fall have kin
In half of the S rut:.ern States, aud am
sure that the dread Of g. Force bill
kept more than one State n the South
from refusing to follow where such po-
fEUTV,pf IIyrl <tt,<yrS FyJ- <,~l ,~lI&a4~%4----
When the country aroused itself
after the as8a reiu like attack on con
stitutiODal coinage was made the Dem
Ocratic party denounced d4m0netiZI
tiOn for twentV years as a crime, then
It nominated the Jews man. Lance
lot CobbO Cleveland. II Thomas A.
Hendricks, whose friendship have the
honor 10 have, was a Democrat, then
you and CobbO Cleveland are not Dem
OCraLS
As an American business man; as @
banker who has studied the financial
problem for twenty years from a
broader standpoint than personal
greed l think that the present law
should stand until return to the
coinage of the constitution takes its
place l 90 not see that the cOnstitu-
tiOn gives gold mine owners a mOnOp
oily Of furnishing and holding the only
thing that Will pay a debt. The county
in which live has large debt. When
it was made all the gold and all the
silver in the world could have been
coined into American money at the
desire of the owners We pay that
debt with wheat, corn, hogs, cattle
and other products of the farm. Be
cause gold and silver were thus none
tizabie money was plenty, a large
quantity of them could be had for
given quantity Of farm produce. We
paid ten per cent. on our county debt
as annual interest. Wheat was about
81 50 per bushel. Now we have re
duced the interest to six per cent, and
wheat Is 50 cents bushal and under.
The real rate of interest paid is higher
now than then, though the nominal in
terest is lower This is because money
is scarce by the raid on the constItu
tiOn.
Twas in this bank for ten years,
when it was like an arsenal, and III six
years time seven banks were ralded
and eight men killed In circle whose
radius was only seventy five miles.
The men who did that had exactly the
same principles that the members of
ring have whose mouth pieces you are
In Congress, and they had personal
courage. Your ring is plundering in a !
way in which personal courage Is not
required. GEO. WILSON,
Prest Lafayette Co. (MO.) Bank.