The advocate., 1895-02-27
THE FRAUD FULLY EXPOSED.

AA1M EMAuU NUhlI GAfOSEUs
Colonel Van Horn, in his letter
from Washington, published in the
Kansas City Journal Of February 20,
makes some very strong points
against the treasury department
and White.house gold conspirstOrs,
We clip the following from thab
letter:
There is one feature Of this gold borrow
ing that have not touched upon ss yet, for
10 has only been officially known for twenty
four hours. 10 puts the confidence game Of
Mr.. Cleveland in much Olearsr light, and
were 10 not that the king can tell no false
hood, the argument Of Mr.. OlevelGnd's
message would be based upon false state
ment. It will be remembered shat he urged
the fact chat Che borrowed gold was with
drawn for greenbaOks and exported and
boarded, while she treasury notes being
paid out again we're presented time after
time without limit. To cure this Oiroumlo-
Cution drain Of gold he asked for 500 mill
lion dollar gold loan 10 redeem aud retire
these notes, and thus protect the gold re-
serve. AS the gold reserUe Uds a mere fCttOn TO
Keep these notes at ."pdritv" Nth com, iohCFO
lOOOld be the use Of protecting ''rsserUe" for
their redemption iOheB thep had been redeemed
and cancelled? This plain statement would
convict anyone but q president Of moon
sistenCy and special pleading, 20 use no
harsher seFm.
Now, let us see the confidence game
played by this argument ia tho message.
Yesterday Secretary Carlisle sent 10 thO
senate in answer TO Mr.. Gormsn's Eesolu-
tion the Rstoundingl statement that Che
gold supply had been diminished since he
took oflUe $l72,674,3l5. And Of thiS
amount "S105, ,0O2, ,143 was directly or In
directly devoted TO current expenses
Mr.. Cleveland in his message told congress
the shortage in gold was from the Esdemp.
tion Of treasury notes and was used fox eE-
port and boarding. Secretary Carlisle says
that more than half Of IL was paid out for
the running expenses of the government,
The fact stands out that Cleveland himself
was the greatest gold raider, and while try
ing TO stampede congress into free coal and
free iron from his Nova Scotia and oihoE
Canadian friends, he was paying out The
gold reserve and borrowing gold TO make
good the deficits he was creating In che
revenues. Aud when this job was through
he tried TO stampede congress into q 500
million dollar 6fsy year gold loan TO remedy
the gold famine he had himself created by
taking 106 million dollars of 10 TO pay cur
rent expenses. l confess do not like 10
use the language toward a president that
this plain statement Of facts from his own
mouth and that Of his secretary suggests %
meEited-T only leave il TO the reader 10
say what the language would be were this
conduct that Of private individual.
Possibly the country may have TO take
back some Of the charges made against the
foreign and domestic gold trust-for IL is
very clear that Cleveland took out more
gold than they did-and that no actually
depleted his reserve and then blamed il on
them. So after oil IL seems their contract
TO keep the raiders of the treasury was NOS
so great q job as Of first blush IL seemed 10
be. Il now remains for congress 10 pro-
teot the reserve from Mr.. Cleveland and
Mr.. CaFlisle.