The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-22
TERRIBLE STATISTICS
Ex.Gov. Fishback's Famous Indict-
ment of Grover Cleveland and
the Gold Bugs.
From 1880 to 1890 Massachusetts, Increased in
Wealth More Than Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois,
Indiana. N. Carolina, S. Carolina. Geor-
gia. Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana Combined.
WHILE FoUR-FlFrHs OF THE PEOPLE OF
BOSTON HAVE NO HOMES, BUT
ARE TENANTS.

Special correspondence Chicago Record.
st. Louis Mo-, April 5.-The Post-Dis-
patch Of this city has printed an open let
ter, written by ex-Gov Fishback of Ft
Smith, Ark, and addressed to President
Cleveland. He writes:
FULL TEXT OF LETTER
Dear Sir-Your evident determination
to force upon the Democratic party the
alternative OF adoption of your financial
schemes Il use the word advisediy) or a
disruption of our great organization, i'm
poses upon every patriotic Democrat in
the United States the duty of speaking
out in indignant protest.
II feel 1t especially incumbent upon
myself since having been invited by the
national democratic committee to can
vass Indiana and New York in your be-
half during the presidential campaign,
and having, l regret TO say, cheerfully
complied with its request under the be-
lief that you were an honorable man who
would carry out the pledges of the party
to the people, I am not willing by my
silence to become particeps criminis
to the inexcusable deception through
which you attained second term in the
presidency.
There is abroad in the land, Mr.
Cleveland, not unfounded suspicion
that you are not aware of the existence
Except upon the map of any other por-
ton of the great country over which you
preside than New York and the states
east Of the Alleghanies and north of the
Potomac.
IF you were aware of the existence of
this great outlying empire, including the
4 rest OF the union, it would be difficult to
aeeida whether you we're recklessly ig-
norant or criminally reckless of it's in
~terests.
The founders of our government wise
ly ordained that a national census should
be taken every ten years. For what
purpose do you suppose, Mr.. Cleveland?
Was it for fun? Was it not that every
intelligent voter and especially every gov
ernment official might learn what effect
upon national prosperity national poll
cies were producing.
REFERENCE TO CENSUS REPORTS.
"Our constitution makes it by impli-
cation one of the most important duties
of the chief executive to study these CEN
sus reports and to make such recommen-
dations to congress as his information
derived from this and other sources may
suggest.
eff you have not studied these census
reports in regard to the effect Of national
policies upon national prosperity, you are
rvcklessly ignorant and are unworthy of
the exalted position to which a confding
people have exalted you.
IF you have studied these reports and
have seen how startling the prediction
of Mr. Carlisle has been verified, so far
as the West and South are concerned, as
we'll as certain classes of other sections,
when he said Feb. 81, 1S7S-''The con-
spiracy which seems to have been form
ed here and in Europe to destroy by leg
jslation and otherwise from three-sev-
enths to one-half of the metallic money
of the world is the most gigantic crime
Gf this or any other age. The consum-
Ration of such scheme would ultimate
ly entail more misery upon the human
race than all wars, pestilence and famines
that ever occurred in the histroy of the
world-then your reckless disregard of
the rights and interests of upward of ten
elevenths of our union is a crime-a
crime against justice, crime against
humanity, and treason to your country
Il am unwilling to believe that you are
criminal, but shall assume that you must
be ignorant of the disclosures of the CEN
sus reports, and have therefore imposed
upon myself the task Of calling your at
tention to a few statistical facts which
might we'll startle every thoughtful, pat
riotic man in the United States.
II shall assume that you are sufficient
ly informed to know that it is an exiomat-
ic truth of political economy that not the
accumulation of wealth, but it's proper
distribution, is the true measure of the
prosperity of the people.
CONGESTION OF THE COUNTRY's
WEALTH.
For an illustration, a few corr,lpi
government officials, together with a
syndicate of money-lenders, might ac-
cumulate several millions of wealth by
issuing national bonds of a country and
mcrtgaging without their consent the en-.
tire property of the people to secure pay
ment, and this corrupt accumulation o1
wealth would be scarcely regarded as an
evidence of the prosperity of the people
who would have to pay. Quite the re-
verse
Congestion of wealth in the body poll
tic is as much an evidence of disease al
congestion Of blood in the animal body
That such a congestion has taken plac,
in the country let the following facts
from the census reports abundantly at
test.
THAT you may appreciate the full forc
Of these startling statistical disclosures
let me resort to comparison and contras
of periods.
Il select the last decade before the civi
war, from 1850 to 1860, when economic
conditions in the United States wer'
normal and our government had net We
entered into corrupt alliances with tn
law-creatsd wealth Of the world, and th
last decade since the war, from 1880 t