The morning call., 1893-12-26
PLEDGES THAT ARE BROKEN.
The Innocent and Helpless Are
Made to Suffer.
PENNOYER TO THE PRESIDENT.
The Condition of the Business
World Charged to CleveIand's
Action About Silver.

SALEM. Or. Dec. Ex-Governor PEN
meyer to-day addressed the following
letter to President Cleveland:
1.-THE extraordinary circumstances which
greet the return Of this holiday must be
my excuse for writing to you. To-day is
the first Christmas in the history of Ore
gon when more than two-thirds of its peo-
pie are without employment and more
than one-third are without sufficient means
of support.
Business is almost completely stagnated,
money is not to be obtained and debtors
are pOwerless to avoid the seizure of their
property and their homes, at small per-
centage of their value, to satisfy the claims
of creditors.
Repeated appeals have been made to
me, as Governor of Oregon, to assem- BILE
the Legislature in order to alleviate this
condition OF affairs, and avert the impend-
ing calamity. Redress Is. however. not in
our hands, but in yours, and hence this
appeal to you.
Laws Of Congress which have dis
eliminated against silver and made gold
alone full legal-tender money, giving to
The money-lender the privilege of refusing
both the silver dollar and the silver certi-
fcate, thus rendering unavailable more
than one-half of the national currency as
an absolute debt-paying money, are the
sole causes of the decline of values, the
paralysis of business and the consequent
impoverishment OF the great army of
wage-earners and of the impending starva-
ton OF their wives and children.
Ii, when you stood upon the eastern
M init 81
March. you had announced to tie people
that you would speedily convene Congress
In extra session TO carry out the pledges of
the platform to which you gave your as
sent, and upon which you were elected,
which declared for the use of both gold
and silver as standard money, without
discrimination against either metal the
widespread revulsion Of business which has
diminished the value of the property of
the nation by fully one. half, would never
have occurred.
And If now you would give such ad-
vice to Congress, the further downward
tendency would be checked, and with
favorable congressional legislation bust
ness would again revive and prosperity
would again visit our land. 1t is honor
able to carry out pledges of party made
to people. and is it not most dishonorable
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 throughout the world.
1t would do your behest. and in this the
Senate would give you its support.
~ GU are father and you no doubt feel
grateful to God when you, upon retiring to
rest look upon your sleeping babies in
their couches. the pictures of health, con-
sequent upon their having sufficiency of
food and clothing.
Il pray you. however. to enlarge the scope
OF your vision ana behold as you can, in
many and many cot, children loved as
much by their parents as yours are by YOU.
weak and sickly from insufficient food and
CT othing, the innocent victims of vicious
financial legislation, whose sleeping forms
are bathed by the !scalding tears OF mothers
bending over them in sorrow and DESPAIR.
and then resolve. as you should, to faith
fully carry out the pledges which your
party gave to con6ding people.
If you will do so, God will bless Won
and grateful nation will applaud you"