Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1896-08-19
A Letter FROM THE
CITY BY THE SEA.
People Plenty and Money
Very Scarce.
70 lucH POLITICS TO SUIT THE PEOPLE.
SOME POINTS ON THE FINANCIAL CRIS IS.
THE RAILROAD INVESTIGATION. THE
sHERIFF CONTEST. THE COUNTY BUILD
INGs. FUTURE DISCLOSURES.
Editor Pleasantyille Press:

INGS. FUTURE DISCLOSURES.
Editor Pleasantville Press:
No one could complain OF the season
last week. 1t was hot enough to boil
the milk IN can, and everybody who
could get away from the cities left them
for the seashore. The railroads especially,
for the last two Sundays, have been
taxed to nearly their full carrying capac-
lty and am told they have done more
business than in any previous year. Yet
the season has not been a profitable
| one to the business people outside the
large hotels. The truth is the people
who come here do not have the surplus
money to spend they had in former years.
We are passing through financial cri-
sis such as no other country could stand.
What will be the final outcome no man
can tell at the present time. That bust
ness will be prostrated and much suffer-
ing ensue for the coming winter seems
almost certain. Thpresent disturbed
condition of the country can be traced
TO causes as plain as the noonday sun,
and it might be summed up in these
words much politics. That can
be applied to the town, city and country
at large. Look at the two great politi-
cal parties divided worse than ever be-
lore, literally torn assunder, as it were.
The brightest and best men of ach party
are repu6iating former associations,
severing the political friendships OF a
lifetime and openly declaring their intent
to destroy what they have spent years
in building up. Such is the situation
that confronts the American people
to-day. Their trusted and idolized lead
ers have fallen out and each seems deter
mined to destroy the other. Now what
has brought about this strange and
strained situation? !: Again 1 answer
too much politics. If. !:
That our financial system is wrong
goes without saying. Both political
parties agree to that. Too much poll
tics. Both parties declare that our reve-
nue. system is wrong and SO it goes.
Each declares everything wrong and (:
the other fellows are the cause OF it all. !:
As Sidney Smith said about theology -
orthodoxy is my doxy, and hetroCoxy
is your doxy. What shall the harvest
be- g' We are told that if Bryan is elected :
president the country will be saddled
with a fifty-cent dollar. What sensible
man believes such stuff? On the other
hand we are told that Mckinley wins
he will maintain the present gold stand.
ard land then we shall be ruined sure.
Who believes such stuff? One thing is
certain. We have been brought to our
present condition under the existing
financial system. To continue it is only
to go from bad to worse. Any schoolboy
ought to know that to continue in use
the government notes-on which the
holder may demand gold-is where the
whole trouble rests. To illustrate: you
have one thousand dollars in U. s. notes. .
You go to the Treasury department
to-day and change them for gold. To-
morrow you sell the gold back to the
government and get back the notes and
SO on and on in the endless chain" After:
the whole matter has been sifted the
above fact stands out as the underlying
cause. These notes should have been
cancelled as soon as they reached the
Treasury, and they would have been
but for too much playing politics. Both
parties are equally to blame for the pres
ent condition of affairs. The only hope
is in Congress and even that may not
give us relief When the people wake
up and demand OF their congressman :
that they look more to the interests
OF their constituents, and less to the;
interests of the gigantic trusts that have
cursed the country, then we may hope
for some :. relief and not before. Elect
Mckinley and the same state of affairs
will continue unless Congress comes
to his relief by breaking the hold OF tho
money changers. Elect Bryan, and with
out some legislation by Congress we
shall remain in the same fix. These are
plain, undeniable facts, and 1 challenge
their contradiction. i am not writing
in the special interest OF either party
but rather for the interest OF the common
people OF whom am one.
You talk with Bryan democrat
is elected the whole country is sure to
go to the dogs. You meet a Mckinley
republican and he will assure you that
the same thing will happen if his candi-
date is not elected. They both lie. The
country will be safe under either OF these
gentlemen; but we need legislation from
Congress and must have it before either
of them can help US out OF the present
troubles.
President Cleveland has been begging
for help, but Congress has STOOD like
arocland refused to move. Their excuse
wasthatthey care not trust him because
he favored the Eothschilds ring" OF ,
English cormorants. !:
One thing must say for the courage
OF the democratic party. 1t took the
bull by the horns at Chicago, and unload
ed the old "Dosses" who are now making
the earth shake with their howls, and
who threaten to.defest their party that
has carried them SO long. Right here
in New Jersey, the nominee OF the party
must be defeated, else these old barnacles
will nevermore consent that the people
shall be fay ored with legislation in the
interests OF race tracks and gamblers.
OF course the wishes of these patriotic
gentlemen should be needed else what
will become OF them? They have been
cast overheard, but they hope to get
ashore somewhere and again enrich !;