The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-10
A POWERFUL LETTER.
A Voice From Near the Grave of
Thomas Jefferson Mt Monticello,
Virginia.
THE OLD PATRIOT SPEAKS THROUGH
HIS SUCCESSOR-JOHN SHEER
MAN ExCORIATED.
The SOuth's AstOnishment Mt the Ac-
ton of Minnesota in 1904
Read! Read!
The Lesson of Money Must be Learned
or the American People Are
Lost.

Lost.
To the Editor:
A farmer and fruit grower, owning a
part of Jeffersons old estate, including
part of Monticello, / have become imbued
somewhat with his hatred of tyranny and
resistance to it. A life long Republican,
and protectionist before that party was or
ganized to resist the tyranny of the slave
power, l have, after laboring for years to
try to prevent that party.-under the leader
ship of John Sherman C1ho stands respon-
sible for more injury to his country and to
the human race than any man who ever
lived), becoming sponsor for the greatest
act of oppression ever perpetrated upon
humanity, cut clear from party ties, with
thousands of others, to resist the worst
form of tyranny ever concoted-the tyranny
of money. They the Republicans) struck
the shackles from millions of black slaves,
who at least had enough to do and enough
to eat; and, in blindness, have condoned,
aided and abetted policy which has en-
shaved the millions of their own race in a
servitude more calling and more hopeless
for these slaves to the gold standard than
African slavery, for they have not enough
to do and not enough to eat.
That arch enemy of his country and of
his race, once, before he was touched by
the wand of Midas was honored with the
proud cognomen of Honest John Sher
man." who has stood in the senate of his
country the sole defender of that giant
wrong of 1873, which brother senators have
denounced as 'the crime of 1872 appears
to have exerted such malign influence
over Republican politicians, and placed
them, too under the hand of Midas, until
that proud party is threatened with dis
ruotion.
AS chief hand strengthened" of the now
hated chief executive, an action which has
destroyed his own party and dishonored
his country while both have become pos
SCISSORS of vast wealth, he has so far been
able, under the hypocritical pretense of
upholding "honest money" "sound money"
with a great reputation as a fnancier, to
influence most of the great journals of the
party into a defense of the very policy of
the present administration, which has ru-
ined the party which placed it in power
and we'll nigh ruined his country.
On those lines they dare not appeal to
the country in 1896. The fate of Senator
Dolph and of other traitors to the people
awaits the whole gang who are attempting
to place dollars above humanity, and in
the name of honesty, too. Why, Satan
himself could not devise a more dishonest
money than that which, buried in the
ground or boarded, will earn a good inter-
est
Yet such is the fact with this so-called
''honest money" it has appreciated fully
Is per cent since the repeal of the Sherman
act, giving this unearned increment to this
dishonest money, while industry and
terprise stand paralyzed throughout the
land for want of the life giving tide-the
very life blood of conmerce-money. Pro-
Tossing to be the friends of labor, they
have degraded it all over the world.
Opposing the British dogma of free trade
they stand the defenders and advocates of
that more internal British dogma, "gold
recommendation" AS if blinded by greed
and avarice, they fail utterly to see the
incongruity Of trying to maintain the price
of American labor, while seeking to en-
graft policy upon the country which is
constantly lowering prices for the appre-
citation of money, the pricing instrument, is
the downfall of prices for all the products
of labor, and therefore the degradation of
labor itself, which is the source of all
wealth.
John Sherman, when he was called Hon
rights in maintaining the honesty and the
right of paying the bonds in lawful money
treasury notes; but after entering the
charmed circle of the worlds financiers
later on, in Europe-that circle which can
today change the map of Europe as readily
as they can the management of American
railways, for they hold the destinies of
dynasties in their hands-he penned that
infamous Ruggles letter, in which he led
them to believe that his country favored
the single gold Standard
Last year, with brazen effrontery. he
told the people of Ohio-this great finan-
cier" did-that silver money was good be-
cause it was redeemable in gold! A party
led, or swayed, by such man, cannot
nope to endure, for his memory will
stand accused as the blighting effects of
his evil work become better known
God help our country If it's destinies are
TO be shaped by knaves or fools.
The immortal Declaration Of Independ-
ence, the great author Of which sleeps near
where L write published to the world the
reasons which impelled the colonies to
sever their relations with the British
crown.
Taken altogether, they do not equal in
enormity this one great act of robbery un-
der form of law, by which the standard for
the payment of the vast debts of the world
has been so deftly changed as to more than
double it's burden. How long will Ameri
can manhood submit to the wrong? Are
the proud lords of Lombard street and
Wall street to reduce to complete vassalage
the American people? To us of the South.
where this question is better understood
1t seems marvellous that such great wheat
states as Minnesota should elect to its
chief office gold-standard man, and North
Dakota representative to congress who
boosted of his heving canvassed his dis
trict as a gold advocate.
They who would be free themselves
must strike the blow" j. PORTER
Charlottesville. Va. April l. 1895.