St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-26

SALEM, Or. Dec. 25.-Gov. Pennoyer
today addressed the following letter to
President Cleveland;
The extraordinary circumstances
which greet the return of this holiday
must be my excuse for writing you.
Today is the first Christmas in the his
tory OF Oregon when more than two
thirds OF its people are without employ
ment, and more than one-third are with
out sufficient means of support. Busi-
ness Is almost completely stagnated.
Money is not to be obtained, and debtors
are powerless to avoid seizure of their
property and their homes to satisfy at
small percentage of their value
the claims of creditors. Reported ap-
peais have been made to me as governor
OF Oregon, to assemble the legislature
Ill order to alleviate this condition of
affairs, and prevent the impending
calamity. The redress is. however,
not i'll our hands, but in yours, and
hence this appeal to you. The laws of
congress, which have Disseminated
against silver, ana made gold alone full
legal tender money, giving to the money
lender the privilege of refusing both
the silver dollar and silver certificate,
thus
RENDERING UNAVAILABLE
more than one-half of the national
currency as absolute debt paying
money, are the sole causes Of the de-
cline of values, paralysis of business
and consequent impoyerishment of the
great army of wage workers. and the
impending starvation of their wives aud
children. If, when you stood upon the
Eastern portic0 of the capitol on the
fourth of last March, you had an
nounced to the people that you would
speedily convene congress in extra ses-
sion to carry out the pledges of the plat
form to which you gave your assent,
and upon which you were elected, and
which declared for the use of both
gold and silver as standard money
without discrimination against either
metal, the wide spread revision of busi-
ness, 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 advice to
congress the further downward tend
ency would be checked. and with favor
able congressional legislation business
would again revive and prosperity
would again visit our land. 1t is honor
able to carry out the pledges OF the
party to the people, and issIt net most
idiShonerabe not to do so?
THE RESPONSIBILITY
lies entirely with you Complete obedi-
ence 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
douot feel grateful to God when you,
upon retiring to rest. look upon your
sleeping babes in their couches, the
pictures of health, consequent upon
their having sufficiency of food and
clothing. L pray you, however,
to enlarge the scope of
your vision and behold, as you
can in many and many a cot, children
loved as much by their parents as yours
are by you, weak and sickly from in
sufficient food and clothing; the inno-
cent victims of vicious financial legisla-
tion, whose sleeping forms are bathed
by the Scaldlng tears of mothers bend
Ing over them in sorrow and despair;
and there resolve, as you should, to
faithfully carry out the pledges which
your party We to a cOnfiding people.
If you will do so God will bless you, and
grateful nation will applaud YOU"