The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-07-03
SENATOR CAMERON AND WALL
STREET.

from Senator Cameron, of Penneyl-
vania. There is a little dry rot in it
about the Republican party, tO-ards
it's close, but the letter is a powerful
presentation of the financial status of
the world which everybody ought to
read twice and put away for future
reference. It looks now as If the Re-
publican leaders, after aiding Cleve-
land in destroying the finances of this
country, will now turn reformers and
steal the thunder of the Populists.
Senator Cameron however, protested
against the unconditional repeal Of the
Sherman Act at the time that stupen-
dous fraud was accomplished, so he
may be heard with consistency now.
But what a fatal commentary this let
ter is upon Ransom, Bum and Settle,
who we're so easily deceived by Cleve-
land and Wall street. Poor honest,
simple hearted men! Even the great
experience of these gentlemen was no
protection against the sophistries of
the gold monopoly. Cameron's letter
was received with great enthusiasm
by the meeting of the Republican clubs
to whom it was addressed:
SENATOR CAMERON's PLATFORM
The feature of the days session was
the reading of the following letter from
Senator Cameron:
UNITED STATES SENATE.
Washington, D. @ June II, 1894.
NV Dear Sir: Your invitation comes
at a moment when Congress requires
the attendance of it's members. | should
be glad to accept it, for we have en-
tered a troubled time, and we need
mutual counsel and support; but what
ever / am to say can be said only in
writing.
This is not a moment for stimulating
bitterness or infaming passions. We
need all our powers of fOrbearance and
self control. Let us give credit to our
opponents at least for good intentions,
even though they give no credit to US
All Europe and all America are in
trouble. Every one admits that the
world stands on the edge of revolution
social and political; but every one
shrinks from it. Neither North nor
South, neither East nor West, neither
capitalist nor laborer, wishes to create
caste or classes. or to spread misery,
oppression, or violence. We all see
danger before us. We all desire to
avoid it. Our only dispute is about the
path.
To those Of us who have had chiefly
in mind the struggle between silver
and gold that is the question which,
for the moment presses hardest. The
single gold standard seems to us to be
working ruin with violence that moth
ing car stand. If it's influence is to
continue for the future at the rate of
it's action during the 90 years since the
gold standard took possession of the
world, some generation not very re-
mote will see in the broad continent of
America only a half dozen overgrown
cities, keeping guard over a mass of
capital, and lending it out to a popula-
ton Of dependent laborers on the mort
gage of their growing crops and I'M
finished handiwCrk. Such sights have
been common enough in the worlds
history; but against it we all rebel.
Rich and poor alike; Republicans,
Democrats, POpulists; labor and CAPT.
tai; railways, churches, and colleges
all alike, and all in solid good faith,
shrink from such a future as that.
This agret ment is the best part of
the situation. At least we can be sure
that no one is deliberately conspiring
against our safety. Even on the burn,
ing ground of silver and gold we agree
in principle. No party and no party
leader has over approved of the single
gold standard. Not one American in a
hundred believes in it. We are more
unanimouse in hostility to it than we
are on any question in politics. \ A
vast majority in all parties agree that
the single gold standard has been, is,
and will be, a national disaster of the
worst kind. What is still more strange,
almost the whole world sympathizes
with us. Nine-t9nths of mankind are
hostile to the single gold standard.
Our 10000, 600 people are unanimous
against 1T. Most of the great European
nations and the governments dislike
it: South America rejects it. The
whole of Asia know only silver. and
India, which contains five sixths of all
the subjects of the British crown, is as
hostile to it as ourselves. Yet the
bankers of London have said that we
must submit, and we have submitted.
so strange a spectacle has eve been
seen IN III history. Argument and
even the compulsive proof brought by
worldwide ruin seems to be helpless
against this astonishing power. What
IS a use of argument when we are
all convinced, and when at least nine
tenths of the civilized and uncivilized
world agree7 England holds US to the
single gold standard by the force of
capital alone, more despotically than
she could hold US to her empire in 1776.
The mere threat of her displeasure
paralyzes mankind.
The most Instructive point of all is