The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-11-01
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ClEvELANO'S LETTER.

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Devotion 70 the Money Power-A Dis>sus1.
" UNA mexican PoIiey-Forsixners e, -
Consulted. IS as4 -
''Oh that my enemy might write .
book" was the apt expression of one
who hoped to have his foe at disad.
vantage.
Cleveland has the unhappy faculty
OF writing not only the wrong thing at
the right time. but at all times.
His friend (?) Gov. Northen, of Geor-
gia, had been SO indiscreet as to write
to the president asking him ito give
his position on financial matters" and
Mr.. Cleveland has been SO weak as to
reply by letter, and SO foolish as to
give that letter to the associated press
for publication.
Strange as to average American II
may seem, Grover Cleveland apparently
believes that he is statesman, and
that Atlas-like, he bears the world
certainly the American part OF ton
his shoulders; that he has congress on
his hands, and that the fate of the
great republic depends on his will.
Gould we but see ourselves as others
see us. " is line Of thought on which
he never enters.
His egotism is marvellous, and would
be amusing did it not tend TO destruc-
ton of Americas greatness and oppres-
sion of her people.
1t never seems to cross his mind that
there is constitution of the United
States which limits his power to the
executive branch of the government
He drops from his pen terse express
sion-in line with his being master of
the situation, congress and the coun-
try-with such complacency as may
have appeared in the case of the sweet
girl in the fairy tale, from whose lips,
when she spoke, dropped pearls and
rubiea
He says: 1T seems to me that l am
plainly on record concerning the fnan-
cial situation;" and he might have add
ed: "All the world knows how devoted
l am to the money power which is
strangling the nation
Il want currency that is stable and
safe in the hands of the people," is one
OF his lovely platitudes His record,
however, made in the half year that he
has been president, shows no wish on
his part to have any currency in the
hands OF the people at all; but, on the
contrary. it shows . fixed, mulish de-
termination to not only diminish the
volume Of the currency, but to put il
absolutely in the control of usurers, so
that mono shall be Tin the hands OF our
people" except a. borrowers paying
tribute to English capitalists and such
tory American(?) funkies as are com
monty called" mugwumps" and anglo
maniacs."
He gives-in tho borrowed, hack
neyed language of bankers-expressio
to sentiments in accord with their de-
sire for money deposits to loan at in
terest without their paying any.
He says: Il want good, sound and
stable money, and q condition of conf
dence which will keep it in use;"
while, like those bankers. he forgets
that confidence is the child of esteem
and that friendship which fair treat
ment bringA
Can it be possible that he does not
see that mistrust of him and his Wall
street hackers prevails in the hearts of
the American people to such an extent
as to mako impossible the confidence
of which he speaks?
To assume that ho does not know
this is to think him an idiot, and no
one yet does that
He reiterates the charge that exist
ing hard times result from the silver
hprvx IL -
as though he expected people to be-
lieve him sincere in doing so, even
after tho exhaustive congressional
showing and the now universally &C.
cepted fact that not only does that law
in no wise operate to make or continue
scarcity OF money. but that tho
financial stringency comes, as it al
ways has done in tho worlds history,
from contraction of the currency,
which the Sherman act to certain
limited extent mitigates, instead Of
increasing
He shows as far as ho dares, his wish
to force on congress the adoption Of q
financial policy even more distinctively
un-American than that to which repub-
1ican misrule has brought our country.
One OF his sentences reads: II am,
therefore. opposed to free and unlimited
coinage of silver by this country alone,
and independently"
That is to. say: Our national fnan-
cial policy must be such as so far suits
foreigners that they will unite in that
policy with US
Would it not be we'll TO invite them
to unite with us in reforming such
parts Of our governmental policy as re-
late to the American navy, fortifioa-
lions and army?
Mr. Cleveland's letter giving sug-
gestions that America should not re-
sumo free and unlimited coinage Of
silver alone and independently"
would sound very odd to Englishmen
should Mr.. Gladstone reverse that sue.
gestion, and give US his theory that
England should not adopt given line
Of policy without consultation with
American bankers.
Such, however. il Mr.. Cleveland,
will in tho premises that he insists
upon and tries to force on the nation
adoption of his policy. under which,
not tho people Of America, but for
eigners, must DO consulted, placated
and suited BY the financial policy un-