The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-19
HE WANTS TO KNOW
BRYAN WRITES 4 LETTER CHUCK
FULL OF PUNCTU TON,
It is an Open Letter Addressed to President
Cleveland and Most Every Sentence
Runs Under Lot of Apostrophes aud
Inverted Commas to Get to an Interro-
cation Point--Presidens's Gold Letter
Analy zed and shown TO Have Awakened
an Amazing Thirst for knowledge
Definitions in Demand.

Omaha, Neb., April 1S.-Ex-Congress-
man Bryan. through the Omaha paper
Of which he is the editor. today made
public an open letter 10 the president,
in reply TO Mr. Cleveland's recent
financial epistle. After praising Coins
Financial School, the letter says:
What do you mean BY the phrase
sound money! In your letter you
frequently make use of that ard kin
dred phrases. In fact, in the course of
your letter you speak three times OF
sound money twice OF a safe cur
rency,' and once OF safe and prudent
financial ideas. and once of whole
some financial doctrine You also
speak once of a 'debased currency
once of 'degenerated currency and
once OF cheap money In one place
you describe your opponents as the
forces OF silver monometallism,' but
you nowhere explain what you mean
by Sound money or what you con-
slider cheap money Now, everybody
favors sound money and safe cur
rency' and a plain and simple state
ment Of what you mean by these
euphonious and universally admired
phrases might dispel the war clouds
and make line of battle unnece ssary.
If by sound money you mean a gold
standard, why did you avoid the use
of the word gold in your letter? If
by safe currency you mean BIZ
metallism, why did you avoid the use
of the word 'bimetallism' in your let
ter?
Your oppnents favor the free and
unlimited coinage of gold bullion into
dollars, each containing 25.s grains of
standard gold; are you in favor of
this? Your opponents are in favor of
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
bullion into dollars, each containing
412.5 grains Of standard silver; are you
in favor of this? Ii not, are you in
favor of the coinage Of silver bullion
into dollars of ANY size? If not in
favor of free coinage of silver. what
change. if any, would you make for
coinage?
rs the failure of gold standard adj
vocateS to define their purposes and de-
fend their financial system due TO lack
of knowledge of the subject, or to an
to let the people know
what they intend? If the prophecies
of your official place oblige' you to
forego the enjoyment which you would
derive from the writing Of another let
ter explaining your last letter and de-
Tending your position on the financial
question, please designate some one
who has authority to speak for you so
that the people may be afforded an in
telligent opportunity as you suggest,
to study and decide this now para
mount public question"
One OF the n.Oao .1teresting mechanical
processes as now practiced is that resortCG
to for the drawing of wire. The rod is -
ceived by the wire drawer in the form Off
coil, the rod being of varying section ano
the coil of weight depending upon the
purpose for which it is intended One end
Of the rod is pointed and somewhat re
iuced by machinery, and the coil receives
q bath in mild acid to remove all oxida
ton, then is washed in lime water to give
D drawing surface, and finally dried in q
suitable oven. When ready for drawing
The pointed rod is inserted In one Of The /
holes of drawing plate, the latter being |
of steel, though cast iron Is in \
some cases used; the drawing holes are /
,onical and the rod is inserted from the ]
arger end, while on the other side of the
plate the pointed end is seized by power
oinchers and pulled until enough has been I
lrawn through TO allow of its being passed /
around and fastened to drum or reel |
which is driven 10y power. OF course the !.
.od is reduced in area and much elongat 1
ID, and this without any perceptible loss /
If metal
While passing through the plate it is
Kept fabricated with what is called wire
drawers soap or grease, and after being
lrawn through this first hole il is put
through series Of smaller holes until IT
las been brought down to the requisite
ize. But the compression and disturbance
# the structure OF the rod consequent
Upon these reductions have hardened IL so
much that at certain stages il is necessary
o stop the process anu soften the metal by
InneaIing. It is then again washed in
Icid, etc, and the drawing resumed
Jew York sun.