The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-09-03

Iam1Gy QO"I0Es
Who has been the greatest calamity
nowler of the republics
Grover Cleveland.
In every one of his state papers he
has pre- dicted me direst disaster from
the prophesied evils of the Bland act to
his last age to Congress.
And why?
To understand this it will be neces-
sary to go back to the panic Inaugural
ted by the New York bankers against
industry and prosperity.
THE TYRANNICAL USE OF PATRONAGE BY
THE PRESIDENT.
Grover Cleveland resolved early after.
his IRE election in 1892, to make the
unconditional repeal of the silver law,
and fidelity to his policy Of repeal, the
test of fidelity to himself and to his
coming administration; and, IN pursu-
ance of this resolve, intimated that
those Democratic members of Con-
gress who did not conform to his wishes
must stand aside
MUST EXPECT NO FAvORs FROM Hum
OF n kind. His newspaper organs in
New York city-the Herald and the
Times, which were also organs of the
banks-in elaborate editorial articles
printed in both journals on the same
day. declared that those Democratic
Congressman who oppose the repeal
must go into retirement. Wall street
was rearing its ugly, brutal, infamous
head very high in those approaching
golden days, when the Federal admin
istration was to be, as it believed, an
administration Of Wall street, by Wall
street, for Wall street"
The patronage scheme had not proved
u success to the extent Of obtaining the
repeal OF the Sherman law, and extra
ordinary measures were now resolved
upon, tO-wit, a national bank war upon
the prosperity and industry of the
country. There is full proof Of the
communication between the
NEW YORK BANKERS AND THE PRESIDENT,
by trusted agents from time to time
eliminating in the meeting of Cleve-
land, Carlisle and the New York bank
ers at the Victoria Hotel, New York,
on April 27Gh, 1898
CLEVELAND y BIS NATIONAL BANK
WAR UPON THE PROSPERITY OF
THE PEOPLE
At the meeting John G Carlisle, S C
rotary of the Treasury, untolded the
plan of M. Cleveland, in substance as
follows:
The IVES: aud the South, acc )rdirg
to the Secretary, aid as was the fact,
were against the peal Of the Silver
Law. They were so welded to the use
of silver that they would not consent
to the repeal except in exchange for
free coinage.
Grover Cleveland had como to the
conclusion hat if the object lesson Of
a panic, and the distress that monetary
striDgeucy would cause, were necessary
to secure the repeal, the administration
would do nothing TO prevent it or to
alisy alarm.
Said the New York Sun, April 295h,
1898:
The conference yesterday between
Secretary Carlisle and d number of the
bankers OF this city was of great value
In that it resulted in a definite under
standing of the policy Of the admins
tratIOn, as Indicated in this column
last Tuesday.
The statement Of Mr.. Carlisle to the
New York bankers makes 1t clear that,
while Mr.. Cleveland worksin Congress,
the bankers will be expected to work,
not in New York only, but throughout
the cLuntry, dong their utmost to
pinch business everywhere in the ex
peCtatiQn of causing a money crisis
that will affect Congress powerfully
from every quarter. There is an ex
plicitness IN these declarations and a
boldness in making them that would
be astounding were noG the country too
familiar with Mr.. Clevelend and his
methods to be asCOnished by anything
from him."
Now followed the horrors of the panic
inaugurated by the New York bankers
and a Democratic President to
COERCE THE PEOPLE OF TAE SOUTH
and West to perpetuate their financial
chains and grinding poverty, by the
adoption Of the gold standard.
I do not wish to be understood as
saying that every MN who is for the
gold standard is dishonest distinctly
assert the contrary. NJr do | mean to
say that every banker and capitalist is
a r0bber Ev n in Wall street the bet
ter class Of bankers were outraged to
La0lgnant protest against the plot of
O'eVelend ami his cyrerie of con