The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-09-03

great financial Mad. are giving
this QUESTION careful attention still q hum
bic person may advance an idea worthy OF
enns:deratsou. think Is is q great mis-
take that the present dollar Was ever
coined. etc. etc
The letter goes on 20 the extent Of two
iees o. foolscap paper, the sheets OF which
are pasted together in one continuous
strip. TO say that the writer does not be-
llese IN free coinage and 70 propose that
the silver dollar should Be limited 20 40
grains.
Note that the writer .n@.k. If h;mself
as humble person Most these writer's
are humble. Here ~ one from Missouri:
secretary Iariisle, Baskiaqtem. u. O. !:
We, though humble farmer. woaid ike
10 ask your honor few questions con-
corning the financial situation OF our
country. What has caused the Demo
cratic party 70 depart from Jeffersonian
principles on the silver question? .
nave the utmost confidence in you as
hnanclsr, but We fail 70 see anything but
discrimination against silver under Cleve-
lands administration"
Many OF these letters are from business
men. Not few of them are well written
ana contain good suggestions. big Ohio
lows:
''CrscTssarr. o., Aug. 1885
hon. John q. Carlisle, Washington
city Ny Dear SIR: Drops from heaven
make oceans. Drops from individuals
nave been known 10 change governments.
drop from one as obscure as myself
might work wonders
The man then goes on 70 discuss the
financial situation. and went on to say that
the trouble lies in the national banks He
states that the people have lost confidence
IN sneai, and he would have them amended
so tnat no one connected with bank,
from the president down. should have the
rignt 70 borrow Of the bank.
A letter from one of the best-knovn New
York bankers. in speaking of the strin-
gency OF the money market, says:
why, had a man In my Office TODAY
who owes only $50, 900 and who has prop
erty which. &C an extremely low valua-
ton, Is worth more than q million and
half of dollars. He cannot get extern
sions. and he will have to fail. /"
This banker urges that something be
done at once, and saws that congress will
have q corpse to deal with If it does not
act very soon.
A letter from Baltimore banker reads
as follows:
Hon. John g. Carlisle Secretary of the
Treasurv-DeG Sir: As a sound Demo
crat. Cleveland man and believer in
arithmetic, / protest against any refusal
70 redeem the treasury notes OF 1890 In
gold"
The letter then goes on to say why he
protests and predicts panic.
Some OF the letters come from foreign
countries. famous bi-metailist of Eng
land writes fifteen pages OF typewriting
showing how his scheme will solve the
currency, question and there Is letter
from one of the most famous ex-senators
of the South advising Secretary Carlisle to
adopt his views and thereby become the
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A large part OF the correspondence is
filed with denunciations of Wall street.
Here il a letter from New York, which 10
fair sample of this class:
Hon. Secretary Carlisle, BRzsard's Boy,
Mass: i thankyoul | honor you! Pay
no attention TO the banks or bankers. ex-
cept 70 be sure the proper officer watches
them. They will bear that Wall street
reflects the fires of hell raging in the
speculative bosom now. The best of the
bankers cannot refrain from bias. The
country is all right. Coolly pursue the
even tenor of your way. The country Is
rich. Crops good. Health good. and the
good Lord over US all. He have confidence
that the fearless and bipartisan cabinet
now in control Is ievelheaded and neither
fears friend nor toe. Country first, party
afterward.
"(Signed) YoUR ApNIRER."
Another letter from Pennsylvania law
yer reads;
Hon. John G. Carlisle, Washington,
ID. Clear Sir: For Gods sake keep our
country out of the hands of the financial
kings, the bullion brokers. the railroad
wreckers, the stock gamblers and such
ike gangs"
The letter goes on in favor of free COIN
age, and concludes with an appeal TO Mr..
Carlisle to stand up for the sake of the
party.
one Of these anti-hanking letters is writ
ten on eight thin strips OF paper about two
inches wide ana twelve inches long. Ii Is
closed with a request that the writer be
pardoned for not copying his notes. as he
is very busy. His eight pages begin as
follows.
ITO the Honorable Secretary of the
Treasury-Dear Sir: Your position of
relying upon the views of others rather
than the New York bankers is the correct
one. The banks are no more or less than
an immense money trust, organized to en-
rich themselves at the expense of the
whole country. Bank stocks in twenty
five years in New York city have risen
from par or below TO from 500 TO 5000 per
cent. The government ought to do a
general banking business. 1t ought 10
send money from place TO place Ii ought
TO issue 500. 10000 of bonds at pa
per cent and form safe and con
OF savings all over the country.
Let every citizen be stakeholder in the
government and we be all right. The
people are with you. BE courageous. as
you have thus far, and all will come out
we'll"
Nv next letter is from a new spaper edi-
tor. He lives in Illinois, and compliments
the secretary on his standing out against
the banks aud Wall street.
Another letter from Tennessee de-
nounces the Wall street brokers as thieves.
aud underscores the words "the people
say down with Wall street" This man is
a Wholesale cigar dealer and he is anxious
20 have state banks.
large number of these letters suggest
various ways of getting our silver into cir
culation. One is as follows:
"NuNISGTcN. ILL.,. Aug. p tSii
3 40 Secretary United States Treasury.
Huntingdon u G; Why not pay the
pensions in'sisver9 Yours respectfully.
ssignedl --."
A New York letter on page of legal
cap advises Secre airy Carlisle TO see that
SILVER banks be created aud that the silver
war be closed in this way. Another party
advises that the silver be shipped out OF
the country in the place of one and two
dollar notes and states that the women of
the United States woald so object 10 the
use of the sllverdoilar that no man would
dare TO raise his voice in favor of il. on
the other hand. a farmer telegraphs from
Wisconsin asking that silver he kept as
the standard of value, and another farmer
writes rs follows In favor OF greenhacks;
"ST. JosEFH. Mo.
Hon. John q. Carlisle. Secretary OF the
Treasury. Washington City-flear Scr: Ii
YOU have the power for Gods sake issue
greenbaIks enough TO relieve the present