The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-09-21
GROVER CLEVELAND, SIR!
Can You Listen to a Little
Good Talk?
A Brilliant Letter to The
President.

Judge &C. Goodwin, editor Of the
Salt Lake Tribune, who is in Wash
ington, publishes the following open
letter to the president, in the Wash
ington Post;
Mr.. PRESIDENT - Upon your home
within the past week benediction
has decended. The anxiety and an
guish has beer followed by peace
and happiness which no words can
portray. The greatest of blessings
has come to you, and the Joy is doubly
sanctified by the knowledge that I'll
the millions of your countrymen shared
your anxiety and rejoice in your joy.
Surely, if any man should be exultant
and at the same time humble in thank
fulness, it should be you. If any
man should, in all the depth Of his
nature, desire to express his gratitude
to his countrymen for their generous
sympathy they have given you and
yours, it should be your Excellency.
Over million other homes in this
land the same anxiety is brooding
that brooded over yours week ago,
but added to it there is in each of
these fear for the future and for the
expected guest which never haunted
you. The poor people, the great
working hosts Of the land, are very
poor The great middle class, they
who have little capital, and by their
capital and labor, and by the work
they are able to give to others poorer
than themselves, because of the har-
vests to ripen, the wheat to turn to
gold and the cotton to snow
They have made no money for ter
years, except in one year when fam
inc across the sea gave the farmers
despite the methods at home, profit
able foreign market for food. l
they were in debt ten years ago, the,
ne are more in debt now, and they d.
he not know which way to turn. Will
all the millions of people in the lan'
cd have been swelling and doubling
of they have seen steady decline in th
10. value of their products, and in tn
80 land which they till. They think thi
ia is monstrous in great free land lik
~ this. They ascribe it to but one cause
,or and the instincts of great free peopl
10 are never wrong
in You, Mr. President, would |
m. shocked were proposition to be ST
,se riously made to take half the none
tho of our country and cast it into the SCI
NE you would cry out: "Why. this
in pure lunacy; it would destroy half Il
lso values in the land and make the pa
his ing of debts impossible by takiI
4tb from the debtor the ability to pay
IN Mr. President, that was precisely wh
,es- was done by our lawmakers TWEEN
out years ago, and hence the congesti
tho since. You have called Congress
anv extraordinary session and insisted u
six on their repeating the Sherman la
of ascriblng to that law the manifC
in troubles now affecting this count
600 Were you sure of your promises?
the Have not subsequent events prov
t of that your were in error then? d.
t of no glimmering of the truth come
yays you that for fifteen years storm
lists been gathering and it was in this y
way that it broke? Thirty years ago
i'm man occupied the exalted situat
is which you now occupy who was e
,ter- in close rapport with the people.
ness his nearest advisor ne once 81
Irted ''God must love the poor; he ma
few so many Of them" That man
back much derided in his lifetime, but
but image is now encircled with a gol
halo in the thought of all who
back along the years to call up
there memory. 1t was because his Ut
res a most thought was to do that W
liant was best for all his people, especi
: if for the poor of the land.
s out Mr. President, you often in
stake state papers speak of the people
paper their will Of course, you fee
every that /; is it not merely form of spe
who But in this crisis who have been
n be- chief counselers? Have they no
for most invariably been national ban
about and their attorneys? Have they
d." all been of the creditor eIsss2