The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1895-04-18

rency, they would reach him least of
all. In an unhealthy stimulation of
prices an increased cost of all the
needs of his home must long be his
portion, while he is at the same time
vexed with vanishing visions of in
creased wages and an easier lot. The
pages IF history and experience are
full of this lesson.
UNWORTHY ISLANDERS.
can insidious attempt is made to
create prejudice against the advo-
Gates Of safe and sound currency by
the insinuation, more or less directly
made, that they belong to financial
and business classes, and are there
fore not only one of sympathy with
the common people of the land, but
for selfish and wicked purposes are
wiling to sacrifice the interests Of
those outside their circle. I believe
that capital and wealth, through COM
bination and other means, sometimes
gain an undue advantage; and it
must be conceded that the maintain
ance of a sound currency may, in
sense, be invested with a greater or
less importance to individuals, accord
ing to their condition and circumstan-
ces. 1t is, however, only difference
in degree, since it is utterly impossi-
BILE that anyone in our bread land,
rich or poor, whatever may be his oc-
cupation, and whether dwelling in
center of finance and commerce, or in
a remote corner Of our domain, can be
really benefited by financial scheme
not alike beneficial 10 all our people,
or that any one should lie excluded
from a common and universal interest
in the safe character and stable value
of the currency ofthe country.
NATIONS DEPEND On EACH OTHER.
SIN our relations to this question
we are all in business, for we all buy
and sell; so we all have to be with
financial operations, for we all earn
money and spend it. We cannot es-
cape our independence. Merchants
and dealers are in every neighbor-
hood, and each has its shops and man
ufactorics. Wherever the wants of
man exist, bnisness and finance in
some degree are found related in one
direction to those whose wants they
supply, and in another to the most ex-
tensive business and finance to which
they are tributary. A fuctuation in
the prices at the seaboard is known
the same day or hour in the remotest
hamlet. The discredit or deprecia-
ton in the financial centers Of any
form of money i'll the hands Of the
people is a signal of immediate loss
everyw here. If reckless discomfort
and wild experiment should sweep
our currency from its safe support,
the most defenseless of all who suffer
in that time of distress and national
discredit will be the poor, as they
reckon the loss in their scanty sup
port, and the laborer or working man
as he sees the money he has received
for his toil shrink and shrivel in his
hand when he tenders it for the neces
iaries to supply his humble home.
s'Disguise it as we may. the line
of battle is drawn between the forces
of safe currency and those of silver
monometallism. l will not believe
that if our people are afforded an in
telligent opportunity for sober second
thought they will sanction schemes
that, however cloaked, mean disaster
and confusion. nor that they will con-
sent by undermining the foundation
of a safe currency to endanger the
benehcient character and purposes
of their Government.
Yours very truly,
sGRovER CLEVELAND"