Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-01
STARTLING, THIS STATEMENT A Remarkable Letter From Mir.
 Moreton FreWen. LAYS IT ON THE PRESIDENT The Failure of England to Come to Interna- tional Agreement Due to Mr. CIeye-
 lands Uncompromisng Attitude.
 

Denver Col, June 3O-The following letter from Moreton Frewen, the noted English bimetallist, has been made pub lie:
 Chesham Place, London, June 17, 1896.
 Dear Mir. Merrick: Thank you for your kind letter and for your book, which I shall read with interest. You in the states have at last arrived at that cur rency crisis which every intelligent stu dent has seen so inevitably advancing.
 I affirm with strong conviction that the way would have been prepared during the past three years for an international settlement of this great difficulty had it not been for tbe fortitude of just one man your president. MT. Cleveland Is pay ing the penalty for the obstinate deter imitation he has evinced throughout to thrust your country into not merely the gold standard, but the straightest Id monometallism.
 Those of us who have been ardent workers here for international bimetal- lism have found ourselves at all points crossed and defeated by MT. Cleveland's actions and MT. CleVeland's emissaries. He has sent MT. Atkinson over here on a special mission to try to persuade those in the present cabinet-such men as MT. Chamberlain and MT. Balfour-that they were "cranks," that the concurrent legal tender of the two metals was impractical ble. Mr. Balfour's difficulties within Lord Salisburys cabinet were in any case very great. They were made infinitely greater by the ridicule poured upon the whole project of currency reform by MT. Cleveland, MT. J. Sterling Morton, MT. Hoke Smith and others. The speeches and absurd letters of these gentlemen were six months ago to be found in many of our daily papers.
 So impossible had become the position | (and in this connection 1 know of what l am wrffing) of those members of our government who were pledged to cur rency reform because of the attitude of the government at Washington that last year we for the time gave up the strug- gle.
 rejoice, then, in the revolt of the demo- cratic party, a4-T1 venture to say, also,
 that should that party be successful in electing a free silver president and con- gress before MT. Cleveland goes out of the White House an international ar rangement will have been secured
 The Rothschilds here-the wealthy in- vestors in every capital in Europe--could not afford to sit still and see your coun- try "go 1t alone" Europe will respond to your spirited initiative; if the United States pledges itself to immediate free coinage, I emphatically believe that M.
 Moline, on behalf of France, will offer free mintage; we here are pledged to re- open the Indian hints, while the dele gates Co the recent conference at Brus- sells, which I attended, gave us every en- eouragement to hope that Germany, Aus trla and Russia would. in the event of, free coinage in the United States and
 France agree to purchase large quan- tity of silver annually to swell their legal tender money. To purchase it, I may add, if they can get hold of the metal at all. Believe me, with much regard, yours very faithfully,
 NORTON FREWEN. To Hon. G. c. Merr1ck. Denver. Col.