Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1895-04-19
SOUND MONEY" FoRsooTHI

Invitation 10 go TO Chicago to be pres
ent at q meeting OF bankers aud people
pie Of kindred kidney, who desire "a
crusade for what they are pleased Ia
term "sound money! With them,
"sound money" means that peculiar
system Of financial legislation, by the
aid Of which the spectators In the cur
rency Of a nation are enabled to make
all the profit accruing from criminal
depreciation OF one class Of its legal
tender, and a correspoudingly criminal
initiation Of another class.
10 stating that he cannot accept their
invitation TO be present, Grover Cleve.
land writes 10 these bankers and phil
anthroplc finanoiers:
What Is now needed more than any.
thing else Is plain and simple presen-
tatlon Of the argument in favor of
sound money. In other words, II Is
time for the American people to reason
together as members Of n great nation
which can promise them a continuance
OF protection and safety only so long as
its solvency Is unsupported, its honor
fulfilled and the soundness OF lts money
unquestoned. These things are Ill
exchanged for the illusions Of q de.
based currency and groundless hope Of
advantages TO be gained by disregard
Of our financial credit and commercial
standing among the nations Of the
world.
What regard for tour financial credit
and commercial standing among the
nations Of the world did Grover Cleve.
land show when, on February Sth last
he secretly sold to a syndicate ofmoucy
gamblers bonds Of the United States at .
lOil, when they turned oyer at prize
ranging from III to llsl, and even
1892 He placed this nation on tar
with bankrupt Egypt, aud lost over
s. 1000, 900 TO the government on this
little Transaction alone. The lie wSs
given 10 his assertion that these mid
night speculators had come to the res.
cue Of the nation. aud that nobody else
could be got 10 take the bonds-for on
February 2lst, when these gamblers In
the treasury OF the people, these believ.
sS in sound currency" offered q Q
bon nis-which Cleveland had really
presented them both In London and I,
NeE York, twenty times the amount
was bid in - minutes IN tue
+ lglish metropolis. AT the wonderfully
\ lyanosd prices above quoted. God |
AVE the people nom Groyer Cleveland
As q tinanoief'
This president uf the bAnksns, Coz toe
bankers aud by the bankers. ocncladss l
hts letter 10 the Chicago ''soaud
money" gang A. follows,
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