The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02
CLEVELAND
A TRAITOR.
A Letter From England By
MOretOn Frewen,
The Celebrated British Author
ity on Financial Matters.
EXPOSES OUR GROVER
In a Most UnfavOrabIe Light,
Indeed.
Not Only Fighting Bimetallism
at Home
BUT SENT EMISSARIES
To England to Defeat Plans Of
the Friends of Silver.
Not Only Fighting BimetaIlism
at Home
UT SENT EMISSARIES
To England to Defeat Plans Of
the Friends of Silver.
Is the President In the Pay Of
of the Gold Powers

Denver, Colo, July 2.-The following
letter from Moreton Frewen, the noted
English bimetallist, has been made pub
lie:
25 Chester Place. London, June II, 's6.
Dear Mr. MerricIz: Thank you for
your letter and for your book, which I
shall read with interest. You in the
states have at last arrived at that cur
rency crisis where every intelligent
student has been so inevitably advanc-
ing. I affirm with strong conviction
that the way would have been prepared
during the past three years for an in
ternational settlement of this great diff
fculty had it not been for the attitude
of just one man-your president. Mr.
Cleveland is paying the penalty for the
obstinate determination he has evinced
throughout to thrust your country intN
not merely the gold standard, but IL
straightest gold recommendation.
Those of US who have been arde
workers here for the international
metaIlism have found ourselves at
times crossed and defeated by
Cleveland's actions and Mr.. Gle
lands emissaries. He sent Mr.. Att
son over here on a special mission
try and persuade those in the pre-
|
Mr.. Balfour-that they were "crarss
that the concurrent legal tender
| the two metals was impracticabl
| Mr.. Balfour's difficulties within Loi
Salisbury's cabinet were in any cas-
very great; they were made inhnitel
greater by the ridicule poured upon tn
whole project of currency reform bl
Mr.. Cleveland. Mr.. J. Sterling Mortong
Mr.. Hoke Smith and others. The
,Ie of
gentlemen were six months ago to be
found in many of our daily papers
So impossible had become the posi-
ton (and in this connection I know of
what 1 am writing) of those members
of our government who were pledged
to currency reform, because Of the at
tftude of the government at Washing
ton, that last year we for the time gave
up the struggle.
I rejoice then in the revolt Of the
Democratic party, and venture to -
also, that should that party be sUccS4a
full in electing free coinage president
and congress, that then, before Mr..
! Cleveland goes out of the White house,
an international arrangement will have
been secured. The Rothschilds here
the wealthiest investors in every capi-
| tai in Europe, could not afford to sit
still and see your country ''go it alone -
Europe will respond to your spirited
initiative; if the United States pledges
itself to immediate free coinage, I eH-
phatically believe that NJ. Meline on
behalf of France, will offer free mi-7t-
| age; we here are pledged to reopen the
Indian mints, while the delegates TO
| the recent conference at Brussels.
which I attended, gave US every encour-
agement to hope that Germany, AUS
| tria and Russia would in the event of
free coinage in the United States and
/ France agree to purchase a large guam
| tity of silver and equally to swell their
| legal tender money. To purchase it,
may add, if they can get hold of the
metal al all.
Believe me, with much regard, yours
very faithfully,
MORETON FREWEN.
Hon. G. G. NIerrick, Denver, Colo.