The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1896-10-15
The letter follows
No. II Wall St., New York, J
August 10, 1896. (

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August 19, 1896.
To Hon. R. G. Bell, Fort Wayne, Ind:
Dear Sir-The committee of political
education of Wall street, this city, to
which the undersigned has the honor
to belong, having determined that each
member should write personally to at
least one or more prominent party lead
ers of the silver cause, your name has
been handed to me. You are described
as of fair mind and large influence in
your state. l therefore address you in
the hope that you may be persuaded
from your present course, for you are
leading the lower classes, the laborers,
artisans, mechanics and agriculturists
of your state into a step which will
cause them great distress.
We whose business it is to study fin
ances, and are therefore capable of de-
termining such questions, know there
is at this time too much money. Mil
lions are now ready in this city to be
loaned on call, with good collateral,
such as government gold bonds, where
it is really needed, at remunerative
rates, Your methods are such as to
frighten all money lenders (for nothing
is so easily scared as money!. No one
can tell what laws your candidate (if
elected) may suggest while now, even
now, the laws are all against our peo-
pie We are forced to loan money at
such rates as we can get. If we can
not get 10 per cent. we take 8; il
we can not get 8 we take and in
peaceful times even lower, and it is
difficult even then to keep our money
at work. But what do your working
men say? If they can not get dollar
day they refuse to work, while they
ought to work for rs cents or even so
cents so that we may keep them at
work. You ought to teach them that 81
per day on a gold basis is enormous
pay in this country no gold country
pays more than so cents for labor,
while here living is the cheapest of all
countries, providing the lower classes
will live as they should live. They are
really extravagant. They buy meat
four or five days in the week they even
indulge often in pie, which is no kind
of food to be enjoyed by working peo-
pie and does them no good. Rice is
one of the most healthy and nourishing
of foods; it is cheap and can be raised
in endless quantities, but workmen
avoid it as a general food. They eat
wheat bread when rye is much more
suitable.
These ideas grow out of wrong edu-
cation which you, my dear sir, are as
sisting, only to their future disaster.
Mr., Hanna, if he wins the election,
(and all intelligent men of the east hope
and believe he wilD, will certainly in.
augurate much better system for the
lower classes. He will try to take the
money question and tariff out of poll
tics, which should have been done long
since. The laws governing finances can
be safely left with the national banks,
insurance companies and railroad cor.
porations-who, through standing
committe, with some we'll known and
honorable fnancier, such as J. Pierpont
Morgan or August Belmont, as chair.
main-could formulate and have passed
directly such laws on money as would
be safe and equal for the whole people
All laws governing the tariff could bt
handled in the same way by a commit
tee appointed by the great manufactur
ing and industrial enterprises and will
such honorable and charitable men al
Mr.. Rockefeller or Mr.. Carnegie ai
chairman of such committee, the mos
wise and useful tariff laws could b,
speedily put in force, not botherin!
those engaged in agriculture or othe
rural work or exciting them by frequen
elections, as is now the case.
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