The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-12-07

Mi. EpIToa:--I suppose you and your
muny readers have beeD inspecting the
message OF Grover the fret, which we
were informed by his cuckoos was to
astonlsh the natives and to cause all
America to tramDle Well. how tho lofty
| have fallen; u tame aifnir tho message
Isl 1t appears to me with slight excep.
| tons 10 DO only an apology for the blum.
dors aud shortcumtngs OF his un-Amerl-
can administration.
1he exceptions are his attack on our
navigation laws. VIII ,eh lie brands as reli,s
| OF bnrDifl5m." and our linAnolat sy5te IN
which he proposes to 5uporceds by sys
TENS advantageous to European com-
metce. AMI to the money gamblers of
| wall street. His physical life In ollica
may last two years more but his political
life, II the physical life lasts tn ore 10 ouly
oil t,iree months duration, as after that
| time his power for uvli TO the prosperity
uf Lhs people Of tho United States will be
oartailed This administration has already
cost the people or this country ten BILL
| Lions of dollars: far more than the war OF
the hebeiiton. Lot rs look ut his Free
! ship biil
| We have navigation laws That give the
cohstwlse truds uf tlils country to Anarl.
cans only rs American reslstsrsd ships
| only causnyuga In IL, and vessel to
| have an Americnn registry must be an
| American bottom, that 10 an American
built shp. Now, II we have a m4rchant
|
foreign traue should full oil, they eau
retuIu and engage In our coasting trnde,
which Ia valuable. ami trade SUPPORTS our
ship buiiding At present. aud has done 30
for many years. Onr navigation laws
ure as old NJ Our government, AMI were
III extstence when we had savonty-t five
per cent. OF the comm of tbs world.
\ so there Ia nothing wrong with them, a1d
| no citizen before CLEVELAND und his cuck.
oos, ever thought of repeating them. not
J only destroying our hope OF u merchant
murine. and commerce, but destroying
| our ship buiiding uiso.
Repeal our navigation laws aud as the
oceaGs ire iuli OF old ships OF England,
| Getinauy aud France, The money power
OF Wall street would. by having an inter.
est In many of them, bring them here and
gster them, lace them In our eoastlug
| trade. amt ln very short time our ship
| yards would be as silent as a graveyard.
and In live years the shipylris oil The
| Cramps. kulch. Harlan a. Holiingsworth
| and all others would have u iuxurlant
growth of grass In them,
| 10 repeal our navigation laws would he
| little short of treason. and the voters OF
thte country will hold any one TO a strict
account who aids In their repeal AS
for Cleveland he can do nothing 10 bring
any more condemnation upon him than
ho has doue already. So much for his free
ship fallaey. Now for his iinar rcial scDun-
dreilstn. Have we not had enough or h,I
financial failures and jugglery2 Is there
no one In this country to be benefited by
| financial legislation except the gamblers
oil Ills heaven, Wall streetf
| Certainly no man Or set OF men who
| are not interested in money gambling
desire to see this country retrograde back
to the Old Wild cat state bank system oil
| finance We have already seen enough OF
CieysIands and Carisle's financial lug
lery, as 1t ID creating bonded deUt year.
ly, Of iifty millions OF dollars. 1t s the
constitutional duty OF the government to
coin money und regulate tho value there
oi and to limit bills OF credit. Now whore
IL the authority Tor Congress- to confer
the lower on corpuratlous to coin money.
or to make anything else a legal tender IN
payment OF debt, except gold AMI silver.
after Congress has cotEed them and reg u,
lated the value thereon
What We want aud the people demand
is constitutional money issued by tine
government and made II full legal tender
aud Gebt.payer and kept Stable, 50 that u
dollar in the now England States will
raadily pass current in any part of the
Union, But the time of Cleveland aud
his cuckoos is short to mismauage this
government. What chungss uru male In
our financial system Will 10 made after
the fourth OF next March by those more
lcumpeteat. and Wa hope more patriotic
many OF US rsmetnber Wild cat money.
No. Cleveland aud cuckoos. the American
people do not want your free trade. or
free chips or your wild cat iinunclal sys
tenn Tor The benefit of the money gam.
blers OF Wall street. You and your cuck'
oos. with your bigotei, laundering nd.
ministration has been most empnaticaily
lrepudiated, at tho highest tribunal, OF tho
people, at the ballot bux, In eecting you,
and recent events has proven the saying
of JelIersou to be true. He once said tho
American people may go wrong, but they
1 W III soon fini IL out and right The wEong."
Cuckoo Gray. what u pity tnat the people
OF Delaware, did not nayo All opportunity
to pass upon you this time.
/ A JEFFERs IN DEMeoRAr.