The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-20
SCORES CLEVELAND.
AItgeld Writes for the
Press.
Clcveland's Sound Money Letter
Sharply CriIicised-Charged with
Being Manipulated by Wall

Being Manipulated by Wall
street.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL, April l5.-GOv.
[ Altgeld to-day gave out the following
statement as his opinion of President
Cleveland 5 letter:
Iii it had any other name than that
of the President 5 signed 10 ii nobody
would give it any attention. In fact,
if / had signed such document it
would be ridiculedalloV thecOuntry,
| for its weakness almost eXcites pity.
But the letter is remarkable in this.
J that it is the first instance in the
history of the republic in which a
President OF the United States. after
! using all the powers of the Govern
ment. has. in addition. condescended
| to write for the newspapers in order
10 serve his masters For this letter
was not only written expressly for
! publication. but was intended to start
Il boom, and has been advertised for Il
week in order to give ii an audience.
Other Presidents have been used as
convenience by class interests. out
this is the first time in which Presi-
dents name has been dragged 500
miles outside Of Washington City for
that purpose. After nominating Clcve-
land three times and clecting him twice
to the presidency. the Standard Oil
Company and Wall street people get
him to use all the powers of Govern
ment to further their schemes. The
country has been astounded to see
post offices and patronage used to
coerce Congress into doing the bid
ding OF the East. from the striking
down of silver 10 the packing of
Supreme Court. In the meantime the
country has been going from bad to
worse. With abundant crops, and
with the most industrious, intelligent
and enterpriSing peopleto he found on
earth. We are in Il paralyzad con-
dition, brought on by no natural
cause. but by the arbitrary acts OF a
number of Governments of the world
controlled by the influence of the Of
fetal salaried classes and of the bond
holdingclassesO of Eurap land America.
These wanted to make all property and
commodities cheap and money dear,
and they have succeeded. The result |
is that the purchasing power of the
producing classes has been destroyed. |
while all the debts. taxes and other
fixed charges remain the same. 1t |
takes all that the people can get to-
gether to meet the fixed charges: con- |
sequently labor is idle and the great !
producing classes are in distress, and |
they are finding out the cause. They |
have learned that the so-called honest /
dollar is the most dishonest dollar
ever given to man, for it cOmpels the /
debtor to give twice as much property |
to pay his debt as would have been
necessary at the time that the debt was !
created.
Now, does the Presidents letter
offer remedy to these people? None. |
They have been bled until they can t /
stand up and he simply tells them TO
be content. They know that until they /
get more blood they can not 90 busi-
ness. They have submitted to this /
ruinous policy long enough and de- /
mand a change. The Eastern mani |
pulators SEE this. and in order to keep
their grip on the Government were ar
TO again deludc the people.
For this purpose they We're going 70
start boom. and as it was the
Western people who We're TO be duped
it was decided to start the boom in
Chicago. and in order to draw the
crowd they concluded to take the Prasi-
dent out. but before they 20, him there
the atmosphere became chilly and they
had TO give this up. Then they did
the next best thing: they gor him to
write ii letter for publication. IT. mas
come. and the booIulc, tha VIII be
born of this viii be such little one
hat it viii not reflect on the vir:lr gt
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