The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-01-09
PENNoyER Is PATHETIC.
He Makes - Moving Appeal to the Amcri-
can President.

can ffesiucnts
SALEM, Or, Dec. Ex-Governor PEN
meyer to-day addressed the following
letter to President Cleveland
"The extraordinary circumstances
which greet the return of this holiday
must be my excuse for writing to you.
To-day is the first Christmas in the his
tory of Oregon when more than two
thirds of its people are without employ
ment and more than one-third are with
out sufficient means of support.
Business is almost completely stag
mated, money is not to be obtained and
debtors are powerless to avoid the seiz-
uIe of their property and their homes,
at small percentage of their value, to
satisfy the claims of creditors.
Repeated appeals have been made to
me. as Governor of Oregon, to assemble
the Legislature in order to alleviate this
condition of affairs. and avert the inn
| pending calamity Redress is, however.
/ not in our hands, but in yours, and
hence this appeal to you.
Claws OF Congress which have dis
eliminated against silver and made gold
alone full lcgal-teuder money, giving to
the monev-lender the privilege of re-
iusing both the silver dollar and the
silver certificate, thus rendering unavall-
able more than one-half the national
currency as an absolute debt-paylng
money. are the sole causes OF the decline
of values, the paralysis OF business and
the consequent impoverishment of the
great army OF wage-earners and Of the
impending starvation OF their wives and
children.
"If, when YOU stood upon the eastern
portico of the Capitol on the 4th OF last
March, YOU would speedily convene Con-
gress in extra session to carry out the
pledges OF the platform to which you
gave your assent, and upon which you
were elected, which declared for the
use OF both gold and silver as standard
money, without discrimination against
either metal the widespread revulsion
OF business which has diminished the
value of the property OF the nation by
fully one-half would never have oc.
CURED.
"And ii now you would give such adj.
vice to Congress, the further downward
tendency would be checked, and with
favorable congressional legislation bust
ness would again revive and prosperity
would again visit our land. 1t is honor.
able to carry out pledges of a party made
to a people, and is it not most dishonor-
able not to do so?
"The responsibility lies entirely with
, you. The complete obedience OF the
lower House OF Congress to your wishes
has been observed throughout the
world. 1t would do your behest, and IN
this the Senate would give you its sup.
port.
''You are father and you no doubt
feel grateful to God when you, upon re.
firing to rest, look upon your sleeping
babies in their couches, the picture OF
health, consequent upon their having q
sutlicienCy OF food and clothing.
II pray you, however, to enlarge the
: scope OF your vision and behold Is you
can, in many and many a cot, children
= loved as much by their parents as yours
are by you, weak and sickly from INSULT
D cicnt food and clothing, the innocent
e victims of vicious financial legislation
D whose sleeping forms are bathed by the
{ scalding tears OF mothers bending over
them in sorrow and despair, and then re-
g solve, as you should, to faithfully carry
: out the pledges which your party gave
to Il confiding people.
III you will do so, God will bless
you and grateful nation will applauC
U YOU.