Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-26
PENNOYER WRITES AGAIN.
He Blamed it all on the silver Legislation
of the Extra Session OF Congress and
Asks the President to Undoit.

He Blamed it all on the silver Legislation
of the Extra Session OF Congress, and
Asks the President TO Undo 1t.
SALEM, OREGON, December 25.-Gov-
ernor Pennoyer to-day addressed the
following letter to President Cleveland:
The extraordinary circumstances
which greet the return Of this holiday
must be my excuse for writing you.
To-day is the first Christmas in the his
tory Of Oregon when more than
two-thirds of its people are
without employment and more than
one third are without sufficient means
OF support. Business is almost COM
petely stagnated. Money is not to be
obtained and debtors are powerless TO
avoid seizure of their property and
their homes to satisfy at small per
centage Of their value the claims OF
creditors. Repeated appeals have
been made to me as Gov
ernor OF Oregon to assemble the
legislature In order to alleviate this con-
dition OF affairs and avert the impend-
ing calamity. The redress is, however,
not in our hands, but in yours, and
hence this appeal to you. The laws
of Congress which have Disseminated
against silver aud made gold alone full
legal tender money, giving TO the
money lender the privilege of refusing
both the silver doller and silver certit-
cate, thus rendering unavailable more
than one-half of the national currency
as absolute deot paying money, are
the sole causes of the decline OF values,
pan ialYsis of business and consequent
impovershment OF the great army
OF wage workers and OF the
impending starvation OF their
wives and children. II when you
stood upon the eastern porticO OF the
Capitol on the 4th day Of last March
you had announced TO the people that
you would speedily convene Congress
of the platform TO which you gave
your assent and upon which you
were elected and which declared
for the use Of both gold aud sill
yer as standard money without dis
elimination against either metal, the
widespread revision OF business which
has diminished the value Of the prop
erty of the nation by fully one-half
would never have occurred, aud II now
you would give such advice TO congress,
the further downward tendency
would be checked and with favorable
Congressional legislation, business
would again revive and prosperity
would again visit our land. Is IL hon
orable to carry out the pledges OF the
party to the 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 sup
port. You are a 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, consequent
upon their having a sufliciency Of food
and clothing. 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 insult
icient food and clothing; the
innocent victims OF vicious financial
legislation, whose sleeping forms are
bathed by the scalding tears OF mothers
bending over them in sorrow and de-
spair, and then resolve, as you should,
to faithfully carry out the pledges
which your party gave to a confiding
people. If you will do so, God will
bless you aud a grateful nation will ap-
plaud YOU"