The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-04-16
SEATTLE. TUESDAY, APRIL Ia.


The letter OF President Cleveland II
clever only In It's literary raciness. IL Is
catchy, superficial and trite. AS a stump
speech against greenbackism IL would be
equally effective and pertinent. Grover
Cleveland has once more stood up before
the people and. by his own standard
measured. he elbows how vapid and
insubstant.ai he is. how hollow his sound
ing words and how fiimsy his glittering
convictions.
He declares that his attachment Is so
great TO the cause OF sound money and
wholesome financial doetrinef' OF course,
II a. There IL not greenbacksr or
goldhug, a fres-silwerite or a bi-meta:iist
who is not In favor OF sound money
and wholesome financial doctrine" There
* not a man In the United States who
In hankering after unsound money or I'M
wholesome doctrine of any kind.
III every man knew absolutely and
undoubtedly what was sound money and
the most wholesome financial doctrine.
the whole country would he unit. What
we are all agitated about, writing. talk
ing. arguing about. Ii the question: what
does constitute sound money and what
Is wholesome financial doesrIse7'
But the country will look In vain I'm
the letter for one single uggestion of
remedy for the evils we are smarting
under. In the only attempt at an argu-
fsnsnt In the demagogie part of his letter
he rvninds workingn1en that II their
wages Increase so will the price of COM
modities they must buy. If man earns
dollar IA day when IL costs him dol
lar day TO live. and If when his pay
Is increased 10 two dollars a day he has
10 pay out two dollars, II Is true he Is
no better of. but there Is no great evil
In this.
But snppose-whioh isn't So sophomore
cal. bat Is nearer the truth-ihat mans
living costs him two bits day and he
Isn't earning a nickel: how then, Mr..
Cieveiand7
This Is the vital question. Not how
high VIII provisions rise with an tn
creased currency. but how can this great
nation re-estahiish credit and ex-
pand currency that all may find employ
ment. that business may revive. that mills
may be set moving, wheels whrrinE.
spindies darting that the ring Of the
anvil and tho huxz OF sha whlriins saw
may be heard again. and the hum OF
aroused Industry cheer hearts now be-
nnnhed with despair We talk about
new activity on Wall street. OF demand
for stocks and bonds Bu, so long as
mechanics ana lsborcrs are compelled 70
dawdie Idly at the street corners. with
their resti-Ss hands nervousiy twitchins
at empty pockets, and scanty las,ler
staring them Ia the face az homo. there
h no prosperity In the land. money Is
uusound and unwholesome financial doe
trine Il rutsing our lives away
I'VE all" says Mr. Cleveland. earn
money and speaa it, Not all Mr. Clevs.
land. for the past two years tens OF
thousands have not earned money. They
have seen business dwindle away under
scasr administration. while Germany re-
solees over ''the improved commercial
conditions" and oar imports are inercas-
Ing while our exports decrease. They
have seen one factory after another closed.
ard one possession after another
sold or pawaed Many Of them. Ike the
nation of which you are the outciai head.
have aaon their revenues fan OF until
they had rSeoarse t. borrowing In orser
90 meet current expenses
Is that borrowed money sound money.
or the deserted shops and desolatei mines
proof OF wholesome financial docsrlnes
disguise 81 as We may" concludes
Mr.. Cleveland. "sAa line or barie IL
drawn between tae forces % safe cur
reney and thoSe CT silver noao-rnetal-
lssm.'
This Is net 60 The line OF battle Is
drawn between the rspaciaus gold mono
nesaiiist on the one hand and TIE
awakened Intelligence os the world on
the other. A few men aud millions OF
cellars - TIRE ieft: millions OF men AMI a
few dollars 20 the r1sht and ia she rssht
whksh viii SON prevail TAe hattie Vnl
BE wen and permanent Victory assured
when the great natioas, Or a. least thcse
Of the Latin racn. sail have conquered
By combining thesr forces la a arrn ana
sge&sty sSsten 90 International ei--netAl-
Ism.