Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-28
letter From 7, N. Cross.

1
To the Editor of the Ledger.
Mexico, Mo-, November 25.-it
seems that Mr.. Cleveland is again
printing himself to shoot off another
load of bonds. The admirers OF Mr..
Cleveland said in electing him the
second time that they gloried in his
courage. His courage has been beau
tifully exemplifed since his last in
a~uguration. His policy has been dis
astrous and has brought financial dis
tress to hundreds of thousands; yet
his courage never falters and he still
persists in heaping distress upon the
American people. His prophecies in
regard to the repeal of the Sherman
act and the veto of the seigniorage
bill have not been verified. He is
making haste to issue another batch
of bonds before his authority can be
restrained and to place his favorite
bankers in possession of a few more
millions of dollars to 'fprotect" our
Treasury a few months longer. See
ing that this line of wreckage must
soon be abandoned he has given it
out through his man Friday (Carlisle)
that the greenback must go. The
Treasury statements show that our
circulation is SIS, O0o, 900 less than one
year ago and our population has in
creased greatly. All authorities admit
that a contracting currency is disas-
trous to business. Now can we tamely
submit to an act that will bring ten
fold greater distress to our people
than they have experienced in the
last two years? How long will it take
the working people of this country to
e that they are supporting a system
that will bring them and their families
to ~beggary? There is some reason
why a politician or place hunter should
be found upon the side Of the gold
bug contractionists. There is hope of
remuneration in the way of position,
influence, power and financial REIN
bursement. For they are on the side
of the great railroads and other COR
porations that make presidents, con-
troll legislation and dictate appoint
ments from Justice of the Peace to a
Supreme Court Justice. But how, in
the name of Heaven, a laboring man
or a man who has his country's good
at heart can be a follower of the
pernicious gold standard theory is be-
yond the conception of the average
mind. They say the silver idea is the
result of the efforts of the silver mine
owners to enhance the value of their
properties and get rich; that silver
can be mined SO much more cheaply
than formerly that it pays larger divi-
dends. That wont do. Gold is pro-
duced in Colorado to-day at 6 cents
an ounce and 5000, 900 a month. With
the same legislation silver will stand
side by side with gold. Isn't it strange
that a great country like ours should
degrade n of her principal products
and that too in favor of a country
(England) that holds the bulk of our
securities and wants them made pay
able in the dearest money possible?
| Wiser men have risen up in England
since the time of George III. 1t is
enough to make the bones of that old
Monarch rise in his grave and dance
with delight at the sight of our Great
Grover with suppliant knee asking
English fnanciers to 'protect" the
Treasury of the United States. No
wonder the Monroe Doctrine has been
relegated to the rear. The silver men
are Populists, are they? Well, who
are the Cleveland Democrats? Listen
to John Sherman, the staunchest Re-
publican that ever graced his party,
and then answer He says: SIT was
| quite an undertaking when / agreed
to shape legislation on this line in
1873. I can forgive the Democrats
now for what they said about me and
what they were pleased to call my
great crime. / have lived to g their
leaders swallow their words, and to-
day there is not a stronger and more
outspoken defender of my cause than
you will find in President Cleveland's
State papers and the speeches of his
Cabinet officers 1t is hardly neces-
sary for me to say a word. OF course
it is gratifying to me-" The people
need not be told that Grover Cleveland
endures with patience the poverty of
the masses while he enjoys the lux
uriac of on onorpoouu oaIory onI tho
unlimited opportunities which friend
ship with the mother country affords
to those in power who will serve her.
Grover Cleveland's will-power has
been likened to that of Andrew jack
son. But this God-given power was
exerted in vastly different directions:
Jackson stood up for the masses and
defed the money barons; Cleveland
stands up for the money lords of
earth and deHes the people. The
moral of what l have to say is this:
Cleveland has led many of our best
people out of the ranks of true DEM
ocracy and off after strange gods,
even to the worship of the golden
calf; that he has forfeited the name
of leader; that the people must cast
about for new leaders who will go be-
fore the hosts in their warfare for
the restoration of silver, the perroga-
tive of the Government in issuing its
own money, the preservation of the
greenback currency, the restraint of
fostered monopolies and govern
mental patronage and the purifying
Of GU courts of justice.
Respectfully,
j. N. CROSS.
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