The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-02-06

from 'all alluring and temporary ex
pediepts," but you cannot resist the
allurements of the gold combination
to aid them to concentrate wealth in
Lombard and Wall streets. Do you
regard the gold standard and bonds as
a temporary expedient or a permanent
policy3 If the former, what did you
mean by advising against aIluring ex
pedients of hat character4 If the lat
ter, why did you ask the people to sur
vey your object lesson to find q path
leading to a permanently sound and
comprehensive system of financed
Why did you ask your fellow citizens
to look away from the permanent sys-
tenn you had advised and established
Did you ever fear that the people would
be disgusted and enraged if they saw
and knew what you had really done
and what you proposed to dot
The suffering victims of enforced
idleness and starvation with which
your administration has filled the land
present a condition which you must
consider unless no amount of suffering
Of your fellow citizens car diminish
the pleasure you enjoy in the honors
and emoluments of your high Office.
The people who have trusted you are
slow to believe that you have arrived
at the conclusion that the gold COM
bination is less able to wait for spoils
than they are for bread and clothing.
1t is hard for them to suppose that you
think the owners of great fortunes,
who deal in money futures will suffer
more from delay in acquiring other
peoples property than the millions of
the unemployed do for want of the
necessaries of life. The gloom and
despair caused by your statement, that
nothing should be attempted to relieve
financial distress, is aggravated by
your ~sugges5ion thst our only hope is
in foreign aid. You say:
ut seems to me that it would be
wise to give general authority to the
President to invite other nations to a
conference at any time when there
should be a fair prospect of acComp-
fishing ar international agreement On
the subject eff coinage"
This is not a new expedient, but the
old invention of inviting England to
assist the administration to deceive the
people of the United States by a sham
bimetallic conference, while plans are
executed in this country to maintain
the honest men under republican rule,
but it is now obsolete.
Your predecessors used this conf
dence game of the cutie fish to darken
the waters and escape observation
under very different conditions from
those which now exist. The game
served its purpose in binding the pub
lie. while the poison of demonstration
was slowly and secretly doing it's deadly
work. The ruse cannot again be sue
cessful. The deadly dose of contrac
ton which you have administered has
thrown the country into commissions, |
and the death struggle at home will
engage the attention OF the people. No
notice will be taken of the ways that
are dark and tricks hat are vain" on
the other side of the Atlantic.
You mistake the aspirations of the
American people if you suppose they
will be satisfied to remain a financial
colony Of Great Britain, and that they
do not desire an independent financial
policy of their own The experience
of the past does not encourage them to
continue longer to submit their fnan.
cial legislation to the control of a
packed caucus in a foreign land in
an English syndicate is para
{
Referring to your confession of as
constituent. in the Northern letter, bv
the opposition of the Senate to such
prompt action as would relieve the
present unfortunate situation, l beg to {
to what unfortunate situation :
you alludei Was it the unfortunate 7
situation" of the bondholders who s
we're baf1ed in their scheme of plumber. '
of the people whose property was |
being sacrificed on ccoun of the {
scarcity of money! If the former, YOU
them the desired relief; if the l
at er, you deprived them of the money {
which they had and gave them
40 other. Why should you be aston I
by the opposition in the Senate I
10 the gold standards Did you not &
know that the great mass of the party
which elected you was opposed to the
;old standard and believed in the free c
md unlimited coinage of silver at the q
alton of 16 to 1, and that the Demo- s