New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-10-11
RESPECTS TO CLEVELAND
A Farmer Gives the Review his Opinion Of
the Presidents "Uncondition-
al Surrender"
Every Capitalistic Investment is Mort
gage Upon the Wealth of the
Country.

Country.
The following caustic and characteris-
tic article has been handed to us this
week by one of the best representatives
of the farming interests that Brown coun-
ty counts among her citizens:
The daily papers contained recently
letter from President Cleveland to Gov.
Northern of Georgia in which, among
other things, he says: II will not know
ingly be implicated in condition that
will make me in the least degree answer
able to any laborer or farmer in the Uni
ted States for the shrinkage in the pur-
chasing power of the dollar he has re-
ceived for full dollars worth of work
or for a good dollars worth of the pro-
duct of his toll"
According to this, the President seems
to have discovered that the farmers and
laborers are the 'gold bugs of the land
the money! so that any increase in the
value of the money benefits the farmers
and laborers We farmers and laborers
know it now, if we never understood it
before, that it is to save US and our in
terests that the extra session of congress
was called, and that it is in the name of
the American farmers and laborers that
the President and his ''repealers'' demand
the unconditional surrender. It is for
our benefit that silver must be demon
tiZed, treasury notes withdrawn and new
interest bearing bonds issued, and the
national debt increased and perpetuated.
It is for the farmers and laborers that
the United States government turns it's
prerogative of issuing money over to
private corporations, SO that not dol
lar can go into circulation among the
people unless loaned out at interest by
the national banks. All this is made
plain to us by the presidents letter.
It strikes me, however, and other far
mcrs too, have no doubt, that the Pre-
sident is trifle mistaken as to our in
terest in this matter. If he was far
mer or laborer himself, he would per-
haps see things in an entirely different
light. Farmers do not raise gold, silver
or bank notes on their farms to sell.
They raise nothing but common farm
products with which they purchase mo-
ney. That is what we have always been
and are still doing in the west, and we
will never be able to comprehend our
benefits from making money dear and
farm products cheap. And the laborer
is more or less in the same fix. He sells
his labor for money, and the dearer mo-
ney is the less he will get of it.
But the Wall Street farmers farm along g
a different line and on different princi-
pie. They farm gold, silver, bonds and
bank notes, the same as we in the west
raise wheat, oats and potatoes. And
= when the western farmers and laborers
and business men get good returns for
their products and labor and are pros
porous and dong well, the Wall Street
farmer is raising poor crops; but when
other people have hard times when bank
ruptcies, ,lockouts and mortgage foreclos-
ures are the order of the day, then the
Wall Street farmers seed yields, a rich
harvest.
Now the only think that the Presi-
dent recommends is "uncondltional re-
peal" But unconditional surrender
means the laying of the country at the
feet of the "gold bugs" and putting them
in position to dictate terms. 1t would
create an additional mardet for the pro-
: duct of the Wall Street farmers and at
the same time compel the other farmers
to give SO much more of their wheat, bar
ley, hogs and the like in exchange for
given amount of money with which to
pay their debts and taxes.
Cleveland cannot benefit the farmers
and laborers and at the same time assist
e: the usurers and shylocks IN starving and
destroying them. If he believes that the
money sharks of New England and Old
England are the ones who feed and clothe
and shelter our sixty millions of people
then, for not single moment should he
take the interests of the farmers and Ia
borers into consideration.
Farmers and laborers are beginning to
be hard to satisfy. They are beginning
to feel that they are entitled Ito something
more substantial than cheap talk. Sc