The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-04-25

ne We. ". fiia. a.H 3. entitled
Coins Financial school" 1t is said
to be d very strong argument on the
side OF silver and fairly bristles with |
points and facts. IL Is making great
and IL giving the gold |
standard men trouble III the West
Bill Arp (Maj. Chas. SMITH says;
IL can't answer position IN IL and
| am All average man. The truth II,
am afraid to believe all that H. IN II Tor
fear somebody Will call ire fool. ]
asked joel Chandler Harris of the
Atlanta Constitution about III ye0ier-
day and " hat he knew about W. Ii.
Harvey. who wrote il. He smiled anc
said: Harvey IL a silver crank JUS
like am. They call me crank. bn'
nobody can answer the argument on
the silver side, and hence their Only
reply j. that the book II humbug-a
acceitful snare and all that, but the
book j. taking the Western and south
ern country"
He saws the railroads alone owe So
10000 900 To Europe and the annual
interest il <2iO,po,O 900, payable III Soid.
He says that every kind OF property
has been shrinking in value since the
crime Of 1873 that old John sherman
was I he author Of. The crime OF dc-
munrtiZing silver by an act passed De
tween midnight and day, when every
body was drunk or asleep ana even
General Grant said he didn't know that
/ hr had signed any such an act. III
/ takes twice a. much property now to
/ pay debt a il did five years ago, ana
a. We all owe nearly a. much a. ""
| don't owe, the country l. about bank
rupt, and few Thousand miliionalres
will soon own the whole concern. 1hi-
is the picture he draws, and to read IL
and believe il makes IA man feel like
taking his doublc-barrel shotgun and
/ Joining the army of bread winners.
But here's the best of all. Ii
shows how this wonderful little
book is shaking up the old Shylocks
and bandits and goldbugs and the
like. A big railroad magnate wrote
a letter to that strange, wonderfully
nondescript Secretary OF Agricu!
ture-J. Sterling Morton, who is &
great goldbug. Just read and notice
his letter. 1t tells lots. 1t nOmi
mates Mr.. Cleveland for the Presi
dency again, and says that both ole
parties are likely to unite to re-elec
him. Here is that letter:
OMAHA, Neb.
Hon. J. Sterling Morton, Washington
ID. c.:
Dear Sir Il am in receipt of, ant
thank you for, your letter. In IN.
limited knowledge of this subject, al
able only to see, and to ali extern
appreciate, the very evil effects bein;
exerted by the sO-called free silver in
, terests in this country, and | hardl
think this is appreciated in the grea
centres.
As you are reasonably aware, | al
travelling good deal, and meet an
see people from all classes and places
, and the wave of this baneful idea Ia
almost reached an epidemjc eondiio,
and unless fully answered i'll Kline
both great political parties will b
obliged, in response to popular demand
to either incorporate substantial
free silver plank in their platform, o
else djSqI.ucefW stradde. No doub
, you have seen a little book, publishe
in Chicago, called "COin's School o
Finance" The first book has reache,
! an edition of over 100000, and recent
another book of the same kind, isSde
from the same mill, has issued. The
/. are attraCtively written, and to tn
rOricc IL finance are a convincing argu
ment. They pretend to quote eminen
tinanciers of Chicago and elsewhere
as, for instance, Lyman j. Gage, Jo7ep
Medill, and others, as injecting objec
tiOns, embodying their most formida
bic arguments, and then proceed t
answer them effectively, and to com
plete silence. Now, this little book,
find from newsdealerS, is sold ten t
one of any other. 1t is sold and rea,
on trains 10 Il disgusting extent. 1t is
most entertaining little volume, and
see it being read on trains, in depots
. discussed in local lyceums, etc, every
where.
1t is sweeping over this country, an,
in my opinion, should be answered b.
some one who fully understands tn
subject. That answer should be writ
ten with an equally facile pen. | un
derstand this little book has been pur
chased in large numbers by silver PEG
pie, and distributed gratuItously.
1t seems to me the bdHkipg i,,teresi
should take the requisite steps to pub
lish a reply, in equally attractive form
, Eand put it on the market at the loves
price, as, perhaps, an antidote reply t
"Coin's School of Finance" etc.
TO show the effect of this little book
a rather intelligent country bauke
called on me recently with the book
, and asked me if | could answer it, say
ing he was nearly convinced there wa
hope in the policy suggested, ard TIL
J against his WW; said it was read an,
then talked in his country, and wa
making votes more rapidly than any
? thing he had ever known. | referre,
. him to our bankers here. He said late
he had talked with some, who passed
, orer lightly, md did not rcply.
My judgment, from the present out
look, is that the Eastern conservative
) of both parties are likely to unite, an,
possibly reH0miHdte N. Cfreldnd, VIII
will carry the East and South. no doubt
the East on his able, honest cOnserya
, tism, and the South, because they cOuI
never vote other than the Democrat
: LlChtt, tliS lHSuTlDS NOle WHO
D would elect: and the West will un
doubleday support the Populists o
2 free silverites, unless there is grea
= change. If this is not done, feel tn
election will be thrown in the House
$ as the result of three tickets being i
: the field, in which ease the balance O
power would be with the free silver in
2 terest. l believe if vote were take
to-day on the naked question of 1G
toll silver platform, Nebraska woul
give it a majority of $4,000, or near il
These suggestions are for what in
formation you may be able to glea
from them. l believe the situation
J, critical and of Importance.
Yours truly,
3 j. X. BUCHANAN.
: Did you note this letter CAREFUL
J, as you read it? Did you notice i
y one place Mr.. Buchanan said ''to til