The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1896-10-01
REFORM Is NEEDED.
A Wall Street Mans Plans for
The People.
THE Ni>>t.~ ARE OVERFFD.

w,.-t,r. Il -, uE, Il -. Some Ideas.
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s,hi, hes tie pended eAtraordi
aa,y c0.nnula1cailru. Il is so re
.ta knu!e la ,:s !i:i-r abs~iIce of real
Au..scnaI-ru st.d even Of humanity
ttta, I;. ~ ,cuid ,v considered Il forg
cry wtie II uut .,r iLe character of
the man 20 Whom il .s a0d.t ssed,
aud wl,n n,3;lnr.z ia publication.
Judge g., il one f he ablest law
yers IF the state, and was at one
time partner Of ex United States
Attorney General Miller,
No. IL WALL STREET.
NLw YORK, Aug. 16, 1896.
To Hon. R. G Bell, Fort Wayne,
Ind.
DEAR S1R:-The committee of po
Iitical education of Wall street, this
city, to which the undersigned has
the honor to belong, having deter
mined that each member should
write personally to at least one or
more prominent party leaders of the
silver cause, your name has been
handed to me. You are described as
of fair mind and large influence in
your state. I therefore address you
in the hope that you may be per
suaded 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
finances, and are therefore capable
of determining such questions, know
there is at this time TOO MUCH
MONEY. Millions are now ready in
this city to be loaned on call, with
good collateral such as government
bonds, where it is really needed, al
. remunerative rates. Your method:
are such as to frighten all money
lenders (for nothing is SO easily
5 scared as money! No one can tel
, what laws your candidate (if elected
may suggest; while even now th'
. laws are all against our people. We
+ are forced to loan money at sucl
r rates as we can get. If we canno
=: get 10 per cent we take 9; if We ca,
1 not get 9 we take s and in peaceful
times even lower, and it Is difficul
q even then to keep our money a
e work. But what do your working
3 men psya If they cannot get dolla
. a day they refuse to work, while the
!. ought to take IS cents or even 5
cents so that we may keep them q
d work, You ought to teach ther
!, . that 81 per day on @ GOLD basis
enormous pay in this country; n
e gold country pays more than 5
i cents for labor, while here living
l. the cheapest of all countries, provi(
le ing the lower classes will live {
they should live. They are realI
or extrsvagant; they buy meat four {
le five days in the week; they even i
dulge often in pie. which is no kin
of food to be enjoyed by workin
people, and does them no goo
Rice is one of the most nourishlr
to of foods; it is CHEAP and can
raised in endless quantities, b
Up workingmen avoid 1t as a genel
food. They eat wheat bread whs
in rye is much more suitable. The
ie. ideas grow ost of wrong educatio
which you, my dear sir, are assistiI
he only to their future disaster.
IL MIR. Hanna. if he wins the electi
bs (and all intelligent men of the es
-, hope and believe he will), will CT
..i tainly inaugurate much better sy
". tenn for the lower classes. He "
en- try to take the money question a
1t. tariff out of politics, which shou
'"' t ave been done long since The l.
ne governing finances can safely be l.
est with the national banks. insurar
wo and railroad corporations-wl
,:o eo through standing committee W
nd some we'll known and honora
,n- financier such as Mr.. J P. Morg
:en or Mr.. August Belmont as charm
who could formulate and have pass
'en directly such laws on money
er. would be safe and useful for
ur- whole people. All laws governI
the tariff could be handled 10
e" same way by committee appoint
by the great manufacturing and
dustrial enterprises, and with 81
hsnorablA and charitable men as
lcie Rockefeller or Mr.. Carnegie,
-. chairman of such committee.
- most wise and useful tariff Ii
of could be speedily put in force.
;nts bothering those engaged in agri
tural or other rural work, or e1cit
MI them by frequent elections, a
.ade now the case.
We have talked with Mr.. Ha
oy as to many things which are ]
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