The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-01-04

then too, would probably worship
Grover Cleveland. To them, he, and
his regime, is indeed Messiah. He
came in the nick of time. He filled,
so to speak, long felt want. The
bounty of our natural riches, the
lands and land grants, the coal fields,
the oil and timbered lands have been
pretty we'll exploited-even the rail-
roads, that fertile source of million
airs, were no longer so "remunerative."
In fact, Since the adjustment of the
Louisiana lottery and the appoint
ment of Cal Brice to the Senate Chair
manship of Pacific railroads (for they
say that he neither divides nor let's go)
the prospect had become very slim
for million making without work
with work there never was even
prospect. Things looked "blue" for
the "investmentEpublic." Something
had to be done, or Wall street would
go to the..dogs and European counts
would die bachelors. Aheroic remedy
was needed against such state of
affairs. Grover had the courage to
administer it. TWAS risky of course,
but they reckoned, and l guess rightly,
that the patient wouldn't discover the
insidious character of the pill that
Congress. has made us take. It was
nicely sugar coated. Under the guise
of an 'honest" dollar, the powers that
be have given our confding people a
dollar so honest that it takes third
more of labor or commodities to get it
than it used to. l sometimes think
that they have. overshot the mark
that while the people have overlooked
the appropriation by this class, Of the
nations vast wealth of lands and re
sources, they might wake up and re-
sent the invasion of their private pos
sessions. But you can't tell. They
are long suffering and patient. In
fact they may conclude that it is
providence, that..i is chastising us. If
the city dailies are to be believed
it will not be long until our farmers
will begin to send delegations to Con-
gress to ask the gentlemen's pardon
for raising SO much grain
and so much stock, and
their co-laborers in the factories and
in the shops asking the like forgive
ness for being too willing and too
cunning with their hands.
I don't suppose that anybody but a
silver crank has the temerity to hope
that there will ever. be "public opin-
ion" other than that disseminated by
the wires of the Western Union. If
there should be, then our people
might be able to see that by depriv
ing the people of more than one half
of the supply of the natural, self re-
deemable, ultimate money for the flu
ture, and impairing the value of our
stock of silver on hand, the growth of
our volume of money has not only de-
creased, but the worlds stock of real
money has been reduced and values
impaired wherever money is used.
They might be made to see that if the
dollars to be gotten are daily made
fewer, Loeb and Ichelheimer are still
''shipping" eagles over the pond, in
spite of Growers promise that they
wouldn't if the Sherman act was re-
pealed) it is going to take more grain,
stock and other commodities to get
them. The repeal of the Sherman
law is not responsible for the present
depressed, congested condition, but it
was the last act in the drama, COM
menced in 1873, which has caused it.
The repeal was principally important
to the gold advocates because it re-
moved the last vestlga OF Legislation
that recognized silver as money, and
to the bi-metalists because it dealt
the final blow that destroyed silver as
a money metal. 1t was great vic
tory for the Cleveland party. It
means shekels for their Golfers. They
may not get any more dollars in num-
Der, but how much more "honest"
they will be! How fortunate the fel-
lows who hold your county, and
school district bonds and the mort
cages on your farmers homes. They
need neither weave nor spin. Con-
gress has done their toiling. Their
bonds and obligations call for the
same number of dollars, and draw
the same rate of interest az before,
but the purchasing power of these
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