The Portland daily press., 1896-09-04

A Very Effective Reply to the Silver sena-
Bishop Norman has written the follow
SENATOR WILLIAM M. STEWART of
Nevada:
Dear Sir Your open letter to me Of
August cannot pass without an answer.
l am disciple of the single gold stand
ard through your teachings. We were
In the Senate together, you as Senator
and as Chaplain. In those happier days
you were magnificent Senator, an elo-
quent advocate of honest money. We
were proud of you and esteemed you the
Lion of Nevada" In your better estate
you said in the Senate:-
II want the standard gold.
There have been great many battles
fought against gold, and gold has won
every time. Gold has never compromised.
You say that you have got up oompro-
mise bill on the tquestion whether gold
shall be respected; Gold has made the
world respect 1t all the time. The Eng
lish people once thought that. they could
get along without gold for a WHILE but
they had to go back to it,
Gold is recognized as the universal
standard of value"
do not let US attempt to deceive the
American people; do not let us try to
make them believe by some hocus-po-
Gus of legislation that we can givesthem
something of real value, that We can
give them measure of value that is bet
ter than the universal standard OF man
kind"
II believe that it would be highly
injurious to this country to again initiate
the currency"
II need not enlarge upon the evils OF
depleted currency; this country has felt
should mention them. 1t matters not
what kind OF a depreliated currency you
have, 1t necessarily entails many eyils.'
Sin any country where gold has been
treated unkindly. where country has
passed deprecated lourrenoy,S gold has
left the country
! have taken these, your wise sayings,
from your speeches reported in the Con-
gressionaT Record for January, February
and June of 1854. They were brave
manly words uttered in your better en-
tate. worthy great statesman, but, 80
Lucifer, son of the morning, how art
thou fallen from the heaven How art
thou cast down to the ground which
didst weaken the nations !'5 Yeti do not
despair of your return to your Fathers
h0 use:
while the lamp ssof life holds out ] to
burn,
The .vilest sinner may return"
You took umbrage at my utterances o
our ministers as reported in the Sun to
tnduce them to stand for honest money.
Methodist ministers are the most indie
pendent and among the most intelligent
OF our citizens. They sthink for them
selves and vote as they please. No Bishop
and no Conference can control them In
their political creeds and action. 1t is
guide for me to know that they are true
patriots and honest in their relation to
the public as they are loyal to their ooun-
try. My remarks which offended you
were these: ~ shall call their attention
to what l believe is the plain duty of
the clergy, and shall urge upon them the
Importance of using all the influence
they possess, lin the pulpit and out
against the danger which threatens our
country" No coercion, no pitting the
church against the Estate, but for them
t0.arouse the nation to duty as they did
when Lincoln called upon them to save
the Union. I propose to urge them,"
just as ! would urge you to flee from
the wrath to come.
Whenever speak or write G. on politics.
do SO as an American citizen and no
professional obligations shall deprive me
of that right. You thought me indisoreet
to publish my purpose, but I never
strike in the dark, and hence my dis
cretion and courage to say to the clergy
publicly that feel 1t my duty to join
Republicans and Democrats and all good
citizens to save our country from this
silver craze.
You say that when you knew me was
friend of the people and sympathized
with the masses. Never more than now.
T ho lopv fo tho 1ab N, o.sar o,,d
shall refuse to be imposed upon by the
silver kings to take ffty-three cents for
q dollar, and shall do my utmost to save
my fellow laborers from this proposed
legislative robbery, the whole tendency
of which Is to make the rich poor and the
poor poorer. My sympathies are with
the farmers, who are mistaken when they
say: "i4et us try the silver plan we cant
be worse off. =" They will be worse off
under free silver, when the mortgage is
foreolosed and their farms are lost This
sad condition of the farmer and of the
wage Garner generally, and the present
condition of the whole country is large
~ due to the wild cry of fires trade"
and free silver"
have travelled through nearly ali the
silver countries on the globe and seen
the baneful effects of debased currency
upon the working population. In those
lands the wage Garner, whether account
ant, mechanic, or day laborer, contra cts
for SO much per day or week, during
which time silver and paper currency has
deprecated while the neoessaries of life
remain at the price they We're before the
decline, but the wage Garner is compelled
to take the depreciated dollar. You pro-
pose to change this by legislation You
cannot do it; the history tof the world
is against you. 1t has been tried, but in
vain.
My hope Is in supreme standard of
values. protected by such legislation as
will give certainty to our credit and Sta
bility to our industries.
Respectfully yours
JOHN P. NEWMAN,