Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1893-12-28
PENNOYER TO CLEVELAND.

The extraordinary circumstances
which & eet the return of this boil
day must be my excuse for writing
you. Today is the first Christmas in
the history of Oregon when more
than two-thirds of its people are out
OF employment. and more than one
third without sufficient means of
support, Business is almost com
pletely stagnated; money is not to be
Obtain ed, and debtors are powerless
to avoid the seizure of their property
and their homes to satisfy small
percentage of their value to meet the
claims of creditors. Repeated APP
peals have been made to me, as Gov
ernor Of Oregon, to assemble the
Legislature in order to alleviate this
condition of affairs and avert an i'm
pending calamity. Redress is, how
ever, not in our hands, but In yours,
and hence this appeal to you.
The laws of Congress, which
have Disseminated against silver and
made gold alone full legal tender
money, giving to the money lender
the privilege Of refusing both the sill
yer dollar and the silver certificate,
thus rendering unavailable more than
one-half of the National currency as
absolute debt paying money are sole
causes of the decline of values, the
paralyz!ng # business and the conse-
quent impoverishment of the great
army of wage earners and of the i'm
pending starvation of their wives and
children"
IF, when you stood on the east
ern portico of the Capitol on the 4th
of last March, you had speedily CON
vened Congress and announced to
the people that you would endeavor
in the extra session to carry out the
pledges of the platform to which you
gave your assent and upon which you
were elected, which declared for the
use of both gold and silver as stand
ard money without discrimination
against either metal, the widespread
depression of business, which has
diminished the value of property of |
the nation by fully one-half, would |
never have occurred, and if now you |
would give such advice to Congress
the further downward tendency |
would be checked and with favorable |
congressional legislation business
would again revive and prosperity |
would again visit our land. 1t is |
honorable to carry out the pledges of |
the party to the people and to net |
most d1shonorable not to do so. The |
responsibility lies entirely with |
you.
The complete obedience of the
lower house Of Congress to your
wishes has been observed through
out the world. 1t would be your
behest and in this the Senate would
give you support, You are father
and you no doubt feel grateful to
God when you, upon retiring to rest
look upon your sleeping babies in
their couches, pictures of health,
consequent upon their having a suf-
ticiency of food and clothing, |
pray you, however, to enlarge your
vision and behold, as you can, in
many and many cots, Children loved
as4nuch by their parents IS yours
al oy you, weak anu silly from
insufficient food and clothing, the
innocent victims of vicious financial
whose sleeping forms are
bathed by the scalding tears of moth
ers bending over them in sorrow and
despair and there resolve, as you
should, to faithfully carry out the
pledges which your party gave to a
coniding people Ii you viii do so
God will bless you and a grateful
nation will applaud you