The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-23
TALKS BACK.
Regards the Letter as a Part of a Scheme
to Boom Cleveland

81 @ All Va - S~SS
to Boom Cleveland
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, April 16-Gover-
AItgeid says In regard to President
CleVeland's letter:
II l6 had any other name than that
Oh the President signed to it nobody
YOU give it any attention: in fact, If
l hao signed such document it would
oe Flolculed ali over the country. for
y almost excites pity but
Hn9 letter Is remarkable in this, that it
- Cne nrst instance in the history of
Ia - republic In which a President Of
Cne United States, after using all the
3oweFs OF Ghe government, has. in 40
uIIIon' condescended to write for the
In order to serve his mas
toCs; FOR this letter was not only writ
Con 0 publication, but was intended
70 a boom, and has been adver-
Gtseu a week IN order to give it an au-
olence. Other Presidents have been
useo as a convenience by class inter
esCs, but this is the first time a Presi
denGs name has been draggedS 800 miles,
OUTSIDE OF Washington City for that
purpose.
After nominating Cleveland three
ZINES and electing him twice to the
Presidency, the Standard Oil and Wall
sGreeG people got him to use all the
powers OF government to further their
schemes. The country has been as.
to see p~OstOfices and patron
age USED to coerce Congress into doing
bidding of the EasC-from striking
down silver to the packing of the Su
preme Court. In the meantime the
country has been going from bad to
worse. With abundant crops and with
tho most in671c+rj0T11 Tr%o1lS~o-A -~a
enterprislng people to be found on
earth we are IN q paraly zsd condition.
brought on by no natural cause, but
by the arbitrary acts OF a numOer of
governments of the world controlled
by the l. huences of the salarled classes
and of the bondholding classes of
Europe and America. These wanted
TO make all properties and commodities
cheap and money dear, and they have
succeeded.
THE reason is that the purchasing
power Of the producing classes has
been destroyed, while all the debts,
taxes and other fixed charges remain
the same. 1t takes all the people can get
together to meet the fixed charges
Consequently, labor is idle and the
great producing classes are in distress,
and they are finding out the cause.
They have learned that the so called
honest dollar is the most dishonest dol
lar ever in demand, for it compels the
debtor to give twice as much property
TO pay his debts as would have been
necessary at the time that the debt was
created.
Now, does the Presidents letter
offer a remedy for the peoples None.
They have been bled until they cannot
stand up, and he simply tells them to
be content. They know that until
they get more blood they cannot do
more business. They have submitted
to this ruinous policy long enough and
demand a change. The eastern manip
ulators see this, and in order to keep
their grip on the government are
arranging to again delude the people.
For this purpose they are going to
start q boom, and it was the western
people who were to be duped. 1t was
decided to start the boom in Chicago.
and in order to draw the crowd they
concluded to take the President out.
but before they got him there the at
mOephere became chilly, and they had
to give this up; then they did the next
best thing. they got him to write a let
ter for publication. 1t has come, and
the boomlet that would be burn of this
will be such a little one that it will not
reflect on the virtue of its mother"