New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-01-10
The Ex-Congressman Offers Some Severe
Structures on our Financial
Leg islation.
lie Looks Forward to the Day When the
Slumberng Conscience of the
People will be Aroused
A Reckoning for the Gold Champions May
then be Demanded that will be
both Ruthless and
Exacting.
To-day Public Opinion is Only Dissemin.
ated by the Wires of the
Western Union.

In the Worthington Advance of last
week, there appeared splendid letter
from Hon. John Lind of this city, It
was on the silver and gold questions,
and strikes such popular chord that
we give it to our readers in full:
Editor Advance: In response to your
request for "a letter on the silver ques-
tion,'' can only take time to pen few
words by way of obsequy.
By the grace of Grover Cleveland and
Wall Street politics the Sherman silver
law has been Internationally repealed
and silver as mony metal has ceased to
exist. Those who feel so disposed can
now join with Grover in congratulating
the administration and the country that
under his guidance congress has eliminat-
ed the tallacies that the founders of our
institutions permitted to creep into that
antiquated document called the constitu-
ton The words "silver" and "coin" as
they occur in it will hereafter only sug-
gest a historical reminiscence - like the
provisions in regard to slavery at least
SO long as Cleveland and the interests
that he represents continue to rule.
Gold is to-day the sole standard and
measure of value in the United States.
We can pride ourselves thai in the matter
of financial legislation we are the peers
of Italy and Germany, England and Bel
GUM.
With the repeal of the Mckinley bill,
which we are promised befor the return
of spring, we will have the qualification
of seeing every vestige of Legislation
that could be considered ''American,' -
Hmoved from our statue books, and the
I, tinction of being the first of the Ameri-
ca Republics to wholly and unequivo-
Cal : adopt that system of fiscal legisla-
ton which is today making the common
people Of the European countries SO
prosperous and contented. If matters
continue to progress in this direction, as
In the last six months, and if Grover is
spared to us, we may within twelfth
month, be able to emulate England with
strike involving a million people
such as she has just had; we may ipse
Spain in the production of anarchists
and rival Italy in universal bankruptcy
public and private.
Now, Mr.. Editor, these reflections are
not agreeable to me. I would escape
them if could, but my let was cast to
live among the common people .people
who work, the vast majority of whom
live only by their labor. They are my
neighbors- They are around and about
me on all sides and in all directions.
cannot shut my eyes to conditions that
aff1ict them. If had been reared, OF
lived, in the environments of Wall street
and had the good, or i'll fortune, Il dom
know which) to belong to the class re-
presented by the Paynes, the Whitneys
the Hornblcwers, the Van Aliens, Olneys
the Drexels, Morgans, Belmonts, thei1
lcent copy organ and satellites, then
too, would probably worship Grover
Cleveland. To them, he, and his regime
IS indeed a Messiah. He came in the
nick of time. He filled, SO to speak, a long
lelt want. The bounty of our natural
riches, the lands and land grants, the
coal fields, the oil and timbered lands
have been pretty well exploited-even
the railroads, that fertile source of millio.
naires, were no longeTs so ''remunerative.' >
In fact, since the aboliskment of the
Louisiana lottery and the appointment
of Cal Brice to the Senate Chairmanship
on railroads, for they say that he neither
divides nor lets go) the prospect has be-
come very slim for million making with
out work-with work there never was
even prospect. Things looked "blue'
for the ''lnvestment public" Something
had to be done, or Wall street would go
to the dogs and European counts would
die bachelors. A heroic remedy was
needed against such state of affairs.
Grover had the courage to administer it.
1t was risky of course, but he reckoned,
and I guess rightly, that the patient
wouldn't discover the insidious character
of the pill that Congress has made US