The herald., 1893-09-22
AHYPocRIrICAL FINANCIAL MovsM EEr

While everything in the neighborbood
OF Mr.. Cleveland's residence, whether in
Gray Gables or in Washington, undoubt-
edly contains the most exquisite acces.
sories OF modern luxury, there are thou
sands, tens of Thousands and hundr eds
of thouesnds-nay. millions-of house
holds where this is not the case.
There are great many persons in the
United States who accept Grover Cleve-
land as the ne plus ultra OF human kind.
We hope they are right, although we are
constrained to say that we do not believe
they are.
Many of the most sagacious people
who inhsbit the American continent to-
day believe that Mr.. Grover Cleveland.
the president of the United States. is
head over ears in conspiracy with
Wall street to establish a worse than
medieval slavery in what was at one
time free county. and which, at it's
worst, had only at any time few mil
lion enslayed niggers.
The HERALD would certainly not like
to accept such result as the outcome
of an heroic party which had success
fully resisted an attempt to reduce to,
satrapies the commonweslths of the
south. The great American people
would have achieved poor result il all
that could be said of an epic movement
was that, alter having freed four million
niggers, they had really enslaved sew
enty million people, white and black.
The truth is that the modern move
ments of finance are so intricate that
only one man in hundred understands
their true significance. To the expert
honest to the center OF their souls-bs-
gan to below for an "honest dollar"
there was trouble ahead. These people
do not now. nor did they ever, desire an
honest dollar. What they wanted was
a system OF finance in which they could
juggle with the dollar, and do the Thin
berig act OF 'now you see it and now
you don't"
When, in pursuance of a policy that
was designed to give the white metal"
a chow, the Bland bill provided. in 1878,
for an honest silver dollar, Wall street
ignored this honest dollar. 1t was the
dollar of the constitution and OF the
fathers. In addition to its fiat, legal
tender value, it had a great intrinsic
value. In fact, this intrinsic value WAS
really at par with gold. and all that was
needed TO make it go, and to keep it so,
was patriotic acceptance of this coin.
From the moment this coin was issued
Wall street announced that it would
have nothing to do with it. The policy
of the treasury department was then.
and has been since, to decry the silver
dollar. 1t was announced that the peo-
pie would not have it-that they would
not accept it as money.
This was an uncomfortable and in
famous lie, which is understood with
special force by persons who have gone
from the Pacific coast to the east in late
years. Anyone who has undertaken to
pass gold once in the east, hsiling from
California, has noticed with what dis
trust the yellow metal was looked upon,
while silver was readily taken without a
word.
There are living in the east today myr-
lads of people who have never seen
twenty dollar gold piece. and to whom
this sight of silver dollar or silver
half dollar has been harbinger of joy.
Only the selfish rapacity of Wall street
has today prevented the United States
from being the center OF the most happy
and prosperous people on the footstool.