Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-03-01
TO THE PRESIDENT.
~ UNEMPLOYED WORKMAN WRITES
AN ,lPEN LETTER.

- We htsSusfVN III 10 kfSub~
-riss Ruined a,a LahG. Fasperizsd-Dirs
Results Mast Hollow the Adoption % :he
un-American i'arih i:.ii.
b His ExcelIrncy Grover Cleveland.
President of the United States:
SIR-As your excellency is an Amer
l. All president. invested with tho pow
e-ful influence II your high Office and
yielding that >hfluence to force legis-
i.tion antagoni$tic to the interests 1T
y1ur country. If IL is not too late, ii IL
certainly not on, Of place TO ask your
r-cellency whittier You are drifting; if
fue varied interests Of that portion Of
tke worlds inhabitants living within
fle territorial limits of the United
I :aetes and owing allegiance thereto are
I ot large enough Or your stewardship;
,-hether you a y moving within the
] uas of nation"4 democracy and for the
il erests of the nation that placed you
~ its head, or l. yon have switched
elf to the line of universal Democracy
nd taken the nations of tho world I'M
f.er your consideration to the neglect
md material inJnl.g of your own?
Whatever may lie the object of your
m ition, the ons fact is established
that your policy is destructive to the
interests of your oSvn country.
Within the first SIX months of your
administration whit is tho condition
Of business under it2 The money
that maintained BUSINESS has been
withdrawn and H. slowed away in
the banks. The Industries that pros
pered before you cai,Io have withered at
your approach. Tile labor that was
happy and coatentetl is becoming de-
mented from starvation; and yet while
your policy has been condemned By six
of the leading indus, rial states and the
people of every ~secti,ln which it is de-
signed to affect havtI protested against
II. while the voice Of starving labor has
swelitd the ominous sound Of discon-
tent. you seem indifferent to a condi-
tiu that is increasing in danger that is
a \ snace 10 public "a lquillity and may
led : TO n necessity fir measures that
weld be abnorrent TO civilization. You
yu pursue the course nat Great Britain
ha laid down as the chart of American
POI tics. tou have f, land the tools in
the Wilson committee 20 shape your bill
of destruction and seetu impatient for
its completion to att { your signature
TIN ~eto.
i3our zeal for this Foreign measure
wi 'ld be "A mvste-:. E:.:s. for the fact that
70 have the Endorsement and approval
OF turcign countries. What W. will
ia , in productive values they will gain.
II, business which your tariff reform
po. icy will sheriff out OF the country
". ] I've transferred TO your foreign al
III .. England, France and Germany
g cred. IL they did not materially aid
In your election. They are now increas-
In. their plants and oiling their spindles
In anticipation Of "A share in the pros
- tive wreck OF American Industries.
u mr. minister ,Bayard) at the Sheffield
dr. Iner gould look with a ungrudging
- , on The growing prosperity Of Shelf
y Id artisans. while he could strike
" tn a traitors hand ut the law which
= sured the prosperity Of Americas
" Tkmen. This In itself IL q trivial
- ndent and unworthy Of notice, but in
, sping with the foreign interest Of your
y un:-sstration.
This picture !. not overdrawn. II u
. facsimile from an American point Of
new. and from this point l again ask
= = excellency whittier You are drift
mgr You are pursuing a destructive
q ID dangerous course.
In view OF the condition resulting
: on your policy. the increasing distrust
I'D disturbing circumstances thu are
. re to follow and the emphatic condem-
. 'fion by those same people who
y ar ago were mislead to support it, you
9 n no longer hide your purpose under
= Chicago platform. II judged on the
{ isis Ut intelligence, that platform was
. sver tenabie. You are we'll aware of
ssfact that a large proportion of your
r Yes were cast by men who were reck-
, 80 o. consequences, indifferent to the
3 iblic welfare and incapable Of distin-
I aishing In many cases between the
7 ritf and internal revenue. They Ger.
! nniy did 9 HGWesent an intelligence
{ o which to base a justification for the
I asctment OF q ~ruinous and, to them, de-
2 ructive law. although they represent
p lore than your majority multiplied by
J. and they did yell for Cleveland and
: cheap shirt. Yet II would i'll be6t the
o,.or, the justice or the humanity of an