Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-04-18

people. or that anyone should be eX-
Guided from common and universal
interest in the safe character and
value Of the currency Of the country.
In relation to this question we are
all in business, for we all buy and sell;
so we all have TO do with financial OPP
erations, for we all earn money and
spend it. We cannot escape our inter-
dependence Merchants and dealers
are in every neighbOrhoOd, and each
has it's shops and manufactures.
Wherever the wants of man exist, bus
mess and finance III some degree are
found. related in one direction to those
whose wants they supply and in an
other to the more extensive business
and finance to which they are tribu-
tary. A fuctua ton in prices at the
Seaboard is known the same day or
hour in the remotest hamlet. The dis
credit or depreciation in financial CEN
tiers of any form Of money in the
hands Of the people is a signal of i'm
mediate loss everywhere.
If reckless discomfort and wild eX-
pertinent should sweep our currency
from it's safe support the most de-
| fenseless of all who suffer in that time
i of distress and national discredit will
be the poor, as they reckon the loss in
| their scanty support, and the labOrer
| and WOrkingman, as he sees the money
| he has received for his toll shrink and
| shrivel in his hand when he tenders it
| for the necessaries to supply his hum
bic home.
disguise it as we may, the line Of
| battle is drawn between the forces Of
safe currency and those Of silver mon
Omentalism. | will not believe that if
our people are afforded an intelligent
! opportunity for sober second thought
| they will sanction schemes that, how
! ever cloaked, mean disaster and con-
| fusion, nor that they will consent by
! undermining the foundation of a safe
currency to endanger the benefcent
| character and purposes of their gov
eminent. Yours very truly,
Grover Cleveland.
| New York, April 16.-The World
comments upon the presidents letter
to the Chicago citizens as follows:
The president has sprung TO the
! front in the cause of Il gold standard,
and, at the head Of the moneyed and
! financial interests of the country, es-
pecially of the east, will battle against
silver perhaps even to the extent of
seeking a reelection"
| Springfield, ILL.,, April Ex-Governor
Altgeld, when asked if he had read
! the presidents letter on the money
question, said:
/ If any other name than that Of the
president had been signed to it no
! body would give it attention; in fact,
| If l had signed such document it
would be ridiculed all over the country,
| for its weakness almost eXcites pity.
! But the letter is remarkable in this
| that in it's first instance in the history
! of the country and the republic in
| which the president OF the United
States, after using all the powers of
! the government that he has, in addi-
! ton has cOndescended to write for the
newspapers in order to serve his mas
| tiers. For the letter was not only
written for publication, but intended
| to start a boom and has been adver-
| tised for a week in order to give it
! audience. Other presidents have been
used as Il convenience by class inter
eStS but this is the first time in which
/ q presidents name has been dragged
! eight hundred miles outside of Wash
! ington for that purpose. After nOmi-
mating Cleveland three times and
electng him twice to the presidency.
! the Standard Oil and Wall street peo-
pie got him to use all the power of
! the government to further their
. schemes. The country has been as
! founded to see pOStOtticeS and patron
! age used to cOerce congress into doing
hiddingS of the east from the striking
down of silver to packing the SUI
preme court. Meantime the country
! has been going from bad to worse.
! The result is that the purchasing
power of the producing classes has
| been destroyed While all debts, taxes,
! and other fixed charges remain the
same They have submitted to this
! but the policy has been in long enough
i and they demand a change. Eastern
/ manipulators see this and in order to
j keep their grip on the government are
arranging to again delude the people.
For this purpose they are going to
! start a boom and as it is the western
people who are to be duped, it was de-
cided to start the boom in Chicago"