The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-04-16
PROVO CITY, APRIL 16. Is
CLEYELAND'S LETTER.

AS significant of the real advance OF
the silver sentiment within the last
few months, Mr.. Clevelsnd's letter OF
the 18th is valuable. A good general,
and Cleveland is certainly an excellent
one, never sends his heaviest guns out
on the skirmish line, nor does he call
them into action until the critical mo-
ment arrives. As the frieLd of gold
monometallism Mr.. CleYeland is GER
tainly the ableSt, the bravest and the
most determined in all the hosts who
follow the yellow banner of gold amid
the advancing and receding waves OF
financial action. When he is aroused
and is present amid the hosts struggl-
ing like a subaltern, the critical mo-
ment has arrived, Within the last few
months there has been grand battle
Waged for reconciliation and vast
gains have been made by the white
metal money of the ages. Indeed,
light is breaking and victory lie very
nearly in broad open sight. Hence
this wonderfully intrepid leader comes
gallantly to the post of danger and
does battle manfully against the
money, the men and the interests OF
the west.
Mr.. Cleyeland depicts viYidly the
evils OF a purely imaginary money.
When he sees the money of the poor
shriveling up in his hand and turning,
by the deyilish alchemy of commerce,
into worthless dross and rags he forgets
that the world has had six thousand
years experience with 1t, and has, with
that experience, pronounced it good.
No one doubted it, no one called its
staying qualities or its benefcent Of
fees in question, till John Sherman
and his wicked band of Shylockisn con
federates resolved to join Rothschilds
In his resolution to destroy one-half OF
the money of the world to increase
enormously the purchasing qualities
of the other half, the larger part of
which they themselves owned. Surely
surely, a money metal which had stood
all the tests of six thausand years use,
unquestioned and without dishonor
must have some better qualities about
1t than those ascribed to it by the
president. 1t is all very well for
an adventurer or a special pleader
to deal in such logic as the
dramatic shriveling incident, but il
Ia unworthy so great man as Grover
Cleveland. is and most of all is it un-
worthy the high Office of president of
the United States. Nor is Mr.. Cleve-
lands position on the question Of inde-
pendent action without reference to
the outside world, any more tenable.
England Independently and alone
tackled the double standard. She has
stood with it almost alone for very
nearly century, and this, too with her
and subject. to every vicissitude which a
broadly scattered commerce could ex-
pose it to. Then should 1t not follow
that the United States, fully her equal
in range and extent of commerce, be
able with the allies she already has,
the sympathy, the predictions and
the common use, long maintained, of
the money of which we are writing, be
able to do better than to shrivel up
and disappear, she and her allies, in
the vortex created by the anger of
England and of Rothschilds?
Mr.. Cleveland may be able to
frighten Germany, France, Russia and
brow-beat India, China and Japan in
this way, but the great, the busy and
the enlightened west will not take
down her silver banner at the COM
mand of any one or all of the devotees
of gold, let them wear crowns, swords
or epaulets. The bald fact stands
out that the experiment of running the
commerce Of the world on over one-half
less money than we had tWentY-one
years ago, is dead failure. Witness
the poverty and wretchedness in this
nation, in England, Europe generally
and the entire world oyer, and tnen
tell US, Mr.. Cleveland, if you please, if |
any are satisfied save the bankers, |
save Rothschilds and those who are SO
besottedly ignorant and spiritles8 that
they will stand still while being robbed |
in plain, open day. The presidents
may be swallowed in Chi
5ago. but the great west and the I'M
peYerished south will have none of it