The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-03
HE ROASTS AND SALTS DOW
JOHN GRIFFIN CARLISLE.
Open Letter to ROthschild's Hired
Man that Takes the Hide Off.
His Previous Record for Free Sill
yer Observation-Disclosures Famous
Speech of 1878 Quoted.
Is This the Same Man Now En-.
forcing a Gold Basis?-It Is, 1t Is.

George w. Pepperell in March Arena.
Sir: Your position as finance min
ister of this great nation is most
important one. You. more than any
other administrative officer of the
government, hold in your hands the
veal or the woe Of the people. l beg
of you to remember that the people
live-that they are happy or miserable
as you control the finances for or
against their best interests.
When, on March 4, 1893, heard the
words of President Cleveland's inaug-
ural address in favor of "sound
money!" knew that he meant the
single gold standard. All the world
knew that he meant death to silver.
At that moment | wondered where
he would look for his secretary of the
treasury who would carry out his pol
icy. Surely, thought |, he cannot find
a suitable finance minister in either
the South or West. Surely he must
go to Wall street, and select his secre-
tary among the money change ers-in-
to that "den of thieves whom the
Saviour Of men would ScOurge from
the temple, were he on earth again.
Surely he would be compelled,
thought l, to find his plant tool
among the gold gamb blers, whose mach
nations caused President Lincoln
in 1862, to exclaim, IL wish every one
of them had his dcvilish head shot
off" Surely he must go to the men
whom that great Democrat, Thomas
Jefferson, called "the tratorous
class He must consult the usurers
whom all the world calls "Shylocks."
Il was greatly mistaken. President
Cleveland knew something of men
and things. He looked to the West
and Southland he found his man!
Not in Wall street, not on the Rialto
among the Shylocks, not in the tenn
pies and palaces of great wealth which
have not been purified by the scourge
Of the master! No. SIR not by any
manner Of means. The president
turned his face to the sacred soil of
Kentucky!-the land where dwell the
men of honor" the men who set up
ion; where the slightest breath or tar
nish is resented with the bludgeon or
the revolver: where men have appeal
eel to the code on the merest pune
tilios of unhappy illusions. And
there the president found a finance
minister able and willing to obey his
slightest nod in the assination of the
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man who could lead the van in the
unholy enterprise Of destroying the
peace and prosperity of great ma
tion. lie found statesman who had
studied his subject, and had long ago
described the dire results of the work
in hand.
Sir, my language is weak No words
can fully paint the calamities result
ing to a people through the destruc-
tlon: the suppression or the cOntrac-
tlon of the volume of the currency
1t begets falling prices and that stops
the free circulation of all existing
money. Industry ceases, compelling
the idleness of labor. Idleness of la
beggary, then that frightful condition
known as 'organized hunger" over
flowing the land in a delirium of
starvation, beggary and deStitution.
which the plutOcratS propose to cure
by shooting the sufferers in order to
keep the peace" All this is a mere
hint at the evils which must follow
the suppression of silver, and the en-
thrOnement of that newest and least
tried of all wild-eyed money schemes
known as the "single gold standard"
"a scheme never known on earth
prior to 1916
Mr.. Secretary, let me appeal to your
own recorded testimony as to the truth
of my statements. On February 81,
1878, in the Congress of the United
States, you said:
81 know that the worlds stock of
precious metals is none too large, and
l see no reason TO apprehend that it
Will ever become so. Mankind will be
fortunate indeed if the annual pro-
ductiOn of gold and silver coin shall
keep pace with the annual increase of
population, commerce and industry.
According to my view of the subject,
the conspiracy which seems to have
been formed here and in Europe, to
destroy by legislation ant otherwise
from three -sevenths to one half of the
metallic money of the world is the
NEST gigantic crime of this or any
other age. The cOnsummation of
tail more misery upon the human race
than all the wars. pestilences and
famineS that ever occurred in the his
tory of the world. The absolute and
instantaneous. destruction Of half the
entire movable property of the world, !,
including houses, ships, railroads, and
all other appli 3nces for carrying on
commerce, while it would be felt
more sensibly at the 1rement, would
not produce anything like the pro
-longed distress and disorganizatioh of
society that must inevitably result
from the permanent annihilation of
One-half of the metallic money of the
wOrld.-COngressional Record, Second
Session, Forty-Fifth Congress, App, p.
43,n
That brief testimony of yours, sir,
does not Overstate the case. Now can
a great leader of the people, knowing
the results of his course, he found who
can, willingly, join in the hellish work
contemplated? The man has been
found. He understands the case in
full He knows all the dire calamitieS