The state herald. (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.) 1887-1921, 1893-09-22
GOODWIN TO CLEVELAND.
The Editor Of the Salt Lake '.Tribune"
Appeals to tho President for
Change OF Policy.

Mr.. U. G. Goodwin, editor Of the Salt Lake
Tribune, has written TO the president letter
that strongly urges Mr. Cleveland to change
his financial policy. The letter, us published
In the Washington Post, Is as follows:
"Mr. President: Upon your home within
the past week benediction has descended.
The anxiety and anguish have been followed
by peace and happiness which no words
can portray. The greatest OF blessings has
come to you, and the JOY is doubly sanctihed
by the knowledge that all the millions OF
your countrymen shared your anxiety and 70.
joice in your JOY. Surely If any man should
be exultant and at tho same time humble in
thankfulness, II should be you. II any man
should, in all the depths Of his nature, desiro
TO express his gratitude to his countrymen
for tho generous sympathy they have given
you and yours, Il should be your e1cellency.
"Over 1000, 900 other homes In this land tho
same anxiety 10 broodlng that brooded over
yours week ago But added to It there 10 Ia
each Of these homes fear for the future and
for the expected guest which never haunted
You. The people, the great working hosts OF
the land, arc very poor. Tho great middle
class, they who have little capital, aud BY
their capital and labor, and BY the work they
arc able to give to Others poorer than them
selves, because Of the harvests to ripeu, tho
wheat to turn to gold, and the cotton 70
snow.
s,"They have made no money for ton years,
except in the one year when the famine
across the sea gave the farmers, despite tho
methods at home, profitable foreign mar
ket for food. II they were In debt tan years
ago they arc moro In debt now, and they do
not know which way 10 turn. While the
millions Of people In the land have besn
swelling and doubling they have seen u
steady decline In the values Of their products
and lii tho lana which they ill., They think
this Is ulonstrous In great free land like
this. They ascribe 1t to but one cause, and
the instincts OF great FREQ people are never
wrong
"You, Mr.. President, would be shocked
were n proposition to DO seriously made to
take half the money Of our country and cast
II into the sea; you would cry out: Why,
this is pure lunacy; II would destroy half the
values In the land and make the paying Of
debts impossible, by taking from the debtor
the ability to day Mr.. President, that was
twenty years ago, and hence the congestion
since. You have called congress In cxtraor-
binary session and insisted upon their repeal
Ing the Sherman law, ascriblng to that law
the manifold troubles now affecting this
country. We're you sure Of your premisesi
"Hnve not subsequent events proved that
you were In error theni Does no glimmering
Of the truth come to you that for fifteen years
q storm has been brewing aud that II was In
this year that It brokei Thirty years ago
man occupied the exalted station which you
now occupy who was ever In close rapport
with the people. To his nearest advisor he
once said; God must love the poor; he
makes so many Of them.' That man was
much dcrlded In his lifetime, but his image 10
now enclrcled with golden halo In tho
thought of all who look back along the years
to call up his memory. It was because his
uttermost thought was to do that which was
beat for all his people, especially for the poor
OF the land.
.Mr President, you often In your state pa
pers speak Of the people ard their will. OF
course you feel all that; 1t Ia not merely
form of speech. But In this crisis who have
have been your chieiest counsellorsi Have
they not almost Invariably been national
bankers and their attorneysi Have they not
all been Of the creditor classi DO these men
lie awake nghts TO think what they can do TO
smooth the rough paths Of the poori Twenty
years ago the silver mines In the West began
to yield largely. II was clear that II left
alone the people would soon shake on the
mighty burden OF debt then upon them. Ma
tional banks cannot live unless . nation 10 In
debt.
"what moro natural, then than desiro on
their part to continue that debt. What more
natural than the covert movement TO destroy
half Of the real money OF the country In Or
der TO reduce values, give mightier pur-
chasing power TO interest when collected, and
at the same time take from the debtor 20 per
cent. Of bis capacity to payi II was In the In
tercst OF national banks and bondholders that
silver was dcmonetned. No other reasonable
or rational explanation OF that act can be
given. Al that time silver was more valuable
than gold.
.sThe present movement Il likewise In the
interest of national banks, the object being to
utterly destroy silver ~ money and toforce
the issue Of more bonds. DO you not see.
Mr.. President, that the prcmonition Of tho
dangerous powers which would follow tho es-
Establishment Of national banks, which filed
the soul OF President jackson by present rev.
citation establishes the supreme evidence Of
the justice OF that immortal mans claim to
the possession Of exalted siatesmanahipi Sup
pose your present programme shall be car
ried outi
"You must sce .he expected relief will not
come The farmer will get no more for his
wheat; tho planter no more for his cotton;
the unjust, unnatural and senseicss direct
competition between the naked slave Of India
and the American wheat raiser and the Amer
lean cotton raiser md spinner will not be
taken away The evil is much deeper. What
you VIII cure Il not even symptom OF the
real disease. You may say; The people and
the press demand IL
''send for the member. Of congress, Mr..
President, aho voted repeal In the House, and
AK them vhn, response the real people Arc
making, judging by their letter.. Let me
predict the answer. Outside of tho extreme
Ea.t II will be; Al, sayc few bankers, de-
plorr our work. For the pr~ss-when un-
lrammcied, iis power ia IA benign as II ia H.
llmitsblc. When It's policy Ia dictated from
the business oIllce, II loses its prcrorative Of
an impartial judge and dercends TO the plane
OF the paid advocate. The management deals
with the banks, aud Just now the editor Ia de.
graded and merely echoes the cupidity Of the
counting ROOM.
"Mr. President, you are fighting n rising
tlls I'm fhe pfrSrnt linz. ~ continued aix
months hence. you will have no party and tho
love which the country wants to give you Will
be frozen to death. When q battle goes
n:nin., great general he calls a halt and re-
forms hls lines. ! am not In the confidence,
do no, personally know your clo.. advisors.
tu, Judging by their words spoken In the
pas,, neither the secretary Of the treasury
nor your lender ~ the Senate believrs In your
present policy. They cling 10 you, hoping
eventually TO save you. their party and the
country from golng over the prcciplcc be-
fore them, but their heart, arc filled with
fear.
"Call them 10 you, Sir. President, and, with
them. the true men, who Ia prosperity aud
adycFslty have carried the banners full high
advanced" " Democracy 80 long, and II they
90 advise, substitute the Sherman law by
law which shall be Just TO the producing
hosts OF this country who nov stand In the
shadow Of despair. Make the workers pros
porous aud our foreign credit will take care
o. Itself, The mistakes of ordinary men are
soon buried IN oblivion. II you make mis-
lakes no such cloak will DO murcifuily drawn
| over your memory. Because of your place
your scia, for all time TO come, win be tho
| concern u posicrity.'
DO not mako any mistakes. Go and look
| upon your new born babe and reflect that Just
~ vssm lore as 10 given your child rncom-
| ths.~ million other babes. but that the love
!, datkrned BY fear Of evils 10 come; the
| evils which attend upon unmrriirf poverty.
| aud remember that sorrow aud want are the
| dircc, enemies Of both civilization aud pa.
lrio,i'mt then ri.r 10 the full majesty And ho-
Illness II the trust that 10 your, and be presi-
dent Of the wholr country.
| ~ write In all respect and with only kind
Wishes Tor you. and sm prompted solely by
my love for my native land and by tho wish 10
| s~e II IN the sprnior which would encompass
/ II were tho people ~ prosperous ~ they de-