The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-10-27
CLEvELAND'S LETTER.
Devotion to the Money Power-A Distinct.
ly Un-American Poiicy-Foreigners to be



Consulted.
'Oh that my enemy might write a
book!' was the apt expression of one
who hoped to have HE foe at disad-
vantage.
Cleveland has the unhappy faculty
of writing not only the wrong thing at
the right time. but at all times.
His friend (?) Gov. Northen, of Geor-
gia, had been so indiscreet as to write
to the president asking him ito give
his position on financial matters" and
Mr.. Cleveland has been so weak as to
reply by letter. and SO foolish as to
give that letter to the associated press
for publication.
Strange as to average Amertcsr il
may seem, Grover Cleveland apparently
believes that he is statesman, and
that Atlas-lil1e, he bears the world
sertainly the American part of it-on
his shoulders: that he has congress on
his hands, and that the fate of the
great republic depends on his will.
"Cenld we but see ourselves as others
see u.s." is d lire of thought on which
he never enters.
His egotism is marvellous, and would
be amusing did it not tend to destruc-
ton of Americas greatness and oppres-
sion of her people.
1t never seems to cross his mind that
there is a constitution of the United
States which lin1its his power to the
executive branch of the goveI'rrrent.
He drops from his pen terse express
sion-in line with his being master of
the situation, congress and the coun-
try-with such complacency as may
Have appeared in the case of the sweet
girl III the fairy tale, from whose lips,
when she spoke, dropped pearls and
rubies
He says: 'It seems to me that l am
plainly on record concerning the finan-
cial situa tion;' and he might have add
ed: ''All the world knows how devoted
l am to the money power which is
strangling the nation
81 want currency that is stable and
safe in the hands of the people" is one
Of his lovely platitudes. His record,
however, made in the half year that lie
has been president. shows no wish on
his part to have any currency IN the
hands of the people at all: but on the
contrary, it shows a fixed, mulish de-
termination to not only diminish the
volume of the currency, but to put it
absolutely in the control of usurers, SO
that none shall be ''in the hands of our
people," except as borrowers paying
tribute to English capitalists and such
tory Ameritar(?) funkies as are COM
monty called mugWumps" and ''anglo-
ina macs"
He gives-in the borrowed, hack
neyed language of bankers-expression
to sentiments in accord With their de-
sire for money deposits to loan at in
tcrest without their paying any.
He says: II want good, sound and
stable money, and condition OF conf
dence which will keep it in use;''
while, like those bankers, he forgets
that confidence is the child of esteem
and that friendship which fair treat
ment brings.
Can it be possible that he does not
see that mistrust of fiim and his Wall
street hackers prevails in the hearts OF
the American people to such an extent
as to make impossible the confidence
, of which he speaks?
To assume that he does not know
this is to think him an idiot, and no
one yet does that
!. He reiterates the charge that exist
ing hard times result from the silver
buying clause of the Sherman act, just
as though he expected people to be,
lieve him sincere in doing so, even
after the exhaustive congressional
showing and the now universally ac:
cepted fact that not only does that law
in no wise operate to make or continue
scarcity of money, but that the
financial stringency comes, as it al
ways has done in the worlds history,
from contraction of the currency,
which the Sherman act to certain
limited extent mitigates, instead OF
increasing.
He shows, as far as he dares, his wish
to force on congress the adoption of q
financial policy even more distinctively
un-American than that to which repub
lican misrule has brought our country
One of his sentences reads: 81 am
therefore, opposed to free and unlimited
coinage of silver by this country alone
and independently"
! That is to say: Our national fnan
cial policy must be such as SO far suits
foreigners that they will unite in thai
, policy with us.
Would it not be well to invite them
to unite with us in reforming sucl
parts of our governmental policy as re
late to the American navy, fortifica
tions and army?
. Mr.. Cleveland's letter giving sug
gestions that America should not re
sumo 'free and unlimited coinage o
silver alone and Independently.
would sound very odd to Englishmen
should Mr.. Gladstone reverse that sug
gestion, and give US his theory tina
England should not adopt given line
of policy without consultation with
| American bankers.
Such, however, is Mr.. Cleveland!
will in the premises that he insist!
upon and tries to force on the natior
adoption of his policy, under which
not the people of America, but for
eigners. must be consulted, placatet
and suited by the financial policy un
der which the government of thu
United States is to be conducted, ant
the monetary wants of Americans sub
served.
AS control Of this financial polio,
carries command of all resources of tn,
country, 50 yielding therein to th'
wishes of those who are not American
gives to them power over those re
sources and the wealth created b,
American labor.
That is all which, in 1855, wa
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