Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-09-25
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THE EARS OF THE ASS EXPOSE
THE BEAST.

Ills blood.
The following letter, SAYS the Den
Yer fUenjnq Post is so remarkable in
its utter absence OF real Americanism,
and even OF humanity, that it would
be considered forgery were it not for
the character OF the man to whom it
Is addressed and who authorized its
publication. Judge Bell is one of the
ahie>t lawyers OF Indiana, and was at
one time partner OF exUnited States
Attorney General Miller We have
not come across anything quite so bru-
tally frank since the campaign
opened
No ii Wall Street. New York, Au-
gust 10, 1896 To Hon. r. G. Bell, Fl.
Wayne, Iud-Dear Sir: The commit
tee of political education OF Wall
street, this city, to which the under
signed has the honor to belong, having
determined 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. l therefore address you in
the hope that you may be persuaded
from your present course, for you are
leading the lower classes, the laborers,
artisans, mechanics and argiculturists
of your State into step which will
cause them great distress.
We whose business il 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 gold bonds, where
it Is really needed, at remunerative
rates. Your methods are such as to
brighten all money lenders Qor nothing
is SO easily scared as money! No one
can tell what laws your candidate (if
elected) may suggest; while now, even
now, the laws are all against our peo-
We are forced to loan money at such
rates as we can get. If we Can not
get 10 per cent. we take 9; if we can
not get 9 we take and in peaceful
times even lower, and it difficult even
then to keep our money At work.
But what do you working men say?
III they cannot get dollar day they
refuse to work, while they ought to
take IS cents or even so cents so that
we may keep them at work. You
ought to teach them that 81 per day
on gold basis is enormous pay in
this country; no gold country pays
more than SO cents for labor, while
here living is the cheapest OF all
countries, providing the lower classes
will live as they should live. They
are really extravagant; they buy
meat four or five days in the week
they even indulge often in pie, which
is no kind Of food to be enjoyed by
working people and does them no
good. Rice is one OF the most healthy
and nourishing of foods; it is cheap
and can be raised in endless quanti-
ties, but workmen avoid it as q gen.
eral food. They eat wheat bread
when rye il much more suitable.
These ideas grow out of wrong educa-
ton, which you. my dear sir, are as
sisting, only to their future disaster.
= Mr.. Hanna, if he wins the election
(and all intelligent men of the East
hope and believe he willy will certainly
inaugurate much better system for
the lower classes. He will try to take
the money question and tariff out of
politics, which should have been done
long since. The law governing fin.
ances can be safely left with the ma.
tionsl banks, insurance and railroad
corporations, who, through a standing
committee with some well-known and
honorable financier such as j. p. Nor
gan or Mr.. August Belmont as Chair
man, who could formulate and have
passed directly such laws on money as
would be safe and useful for the whole
people. All laws governing the tariff
could be handled in the same way by
a committee appointed by the great
manufacturing and industrial enter
prises, and with such charitable men
az Mr.. Rockefeller or Mr.. Carnegie as
Chairman of such committee, the
most wise and useful tariff laws could
be speedily put in force, not bother
ing those engaged in agriculture or
other rural work or exciting them by
frequent elections, as is now the case.
We have talked with Mr.. Hanna as
to many things which are now wrong
ing the lower classes and diverting
them from their labor. He thinks
there are too many holidays, aud es-
pecially excursions to somewhat long
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