Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-05-26

your Office two letters, one ad-
vising you to sell bonds at 104,
and another Offering himself to
buy those same bonds, in COM
petition, at about s., 100000 10 ore
than he adviced you to take.
: 1T was under the advice of
experts" that our government
issued her first bonds, sold them
to the same experts for green
backs deprecated to 40 cents on
the dollar, and afterward, instead
OF paying them in the same kind
OF currency with which they
were bought, they were made by
"expert"- adviced law payable in
coin in violation of their contract
with the taxpayers and at their
expense. By this one act these
experts" plundered the people
of about $600,000,OOO and when
people complain they are denoun-
ced as thieves and dishonest
knaves who would rob their
creditors.
''Not satisfied with the amount
of plumber, these same "experts"
procured the establishment of
the national banking system,
under which one of these EEK
perts" with $4,000 in gold could
purchase 100000 worth of bonds
receive 6 per cent interest in
gold on them and have donated
to him 800, 900 of currency by the
government to be loaned out on
his own private account, thus in
creasing his wealth 375 per cent,
not by honest toll but by lex,
pert" legislation.
lit was under the advice OF
these same experts" and by
means Of the same kind of cor.
rupt law that they afterward
again doubled their wealth by
curtailing the supply of metallic
money by onehalf in 1873, thus
increasing their wealth $50 pei
cent by sheer legislation from
1864 to 1873.
| :'"Experts'' who are so fruit
full of excuses, calmly tell tn,
people that the existing condition
Of low prices and approaching
money and debts are the resul
of overproduction.'
''Of course, we must admi
that experts" really believ
this, for they are accustomed t
believe anything, however falls
or foolish, which is to their in
terests to believe. But tn
census reports brand this is an
other falsehood. In the state Q
Illinois alone the farmers an,
laborers have suffered a los
during the last decade of a.
amount equal 70 the growth @
her plus $50, 100000, and durin;
the last year, from 1898 to 1894
Of $24, 900, 900, a total loss of 1888
, 100000.
"And I tell you that this mean
that they are unable to purchas
or consume goods by this larg
amount in one single state. I
you curtail demand you neces
sarily curtail supply, for nobod,
will produce if he cannot sell
If you curtail supply you nee
essarily curtail labor and MACH
merry engaged in making thi
supply. So your Coxey armie
of tramps and your smokeles
factories are the logical, nee
essary, inevitable result of tn
'*expert' Legislation of the pas
twenty-five years.
Have ever king, clergy ant
nobility in Europe or the orien
plundered a people more ruth
lessly however much more ex
tensively) under the guise of law
than our own experts" to who's,
tender care you so CONSIDERABLY
commend the American people
Mr.. Cleveland, you and YOU
expert" associates labor under
the mistake that you can ''foo
the people all the time" YOU
mistake would be lndicrous if il
were not pregnant with such evi
portent-a portent I. forbear t<
discuss because I shudder tt
contemplate. # - :