The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-04
Was Created by the Joint Action of
the National Bankers of New
York, and Grover Cleveland
and John G. Carlisle,
TO FORCE THE REPEAL OF THE
SHERMAN ACT FOR THE PUR-
CHASE OF SILVER,
And to Eventually Destroy the Greenbacks and
Give the banks the Monopoly of Furnish
ing all the Money of the Country,
While Drawing Interest Thereon,
READI READ! READ!

Through the courtesy Of the pub
fishers we are enabled to print col
umn, each week, from a great book
now creating national sensation, en-
titled, 1.-THE New York National Bank
Presidents Conspiracy. against Life
and Property" price % cents. 1t was
written by J. w. Schuckers, Private
Secretary Of Hon. Salmon P. Chase,
President Lincoln's Secretary of the
Treasury, during the war. Every one
should read it carefully. Its state
ments are most astounding and it's
proofs conclusive.
We are limited by the publishers, so
that we can print not to exceed one
half the whole work, but we will fur
nish it on application at the price
stated. 1t should be in the hands of
every patriot to lend around among
his friendS.-ED. REP
L.
My design in writing the follow ing
TageSloriginally in letters to my most
excellent friend. Mr.. Henry Carey
Baird of Philadelphia was to arouse
the American peOple-if such thing
were possible; of which, however, |
was not Sanguine-tO the absolutely
certain fact that a StupendOuS crime
has been committed against them,
crime so wantOn and infamous in it's
deliberation and object that all should
Join to punish it if the public Justice
is worth preserving.
The panic Of 1893 was a colossal
calamity that involved tens of thous-
ands Of men and women in CONNER
cial and industrial ruin; that involved
hundreds of thousands-even millions
treme distress.
My aim is to show that this destruc-
tive panic was the work of deliber-
ately determined conspiracy; that this
conspiracy originated in Wall street;
that it was organized in Wall street;
that it was engineered from Wall
street-and that in it's front. as the
active agents in carrying it into exc
cution, stood a score of lawless New
York National Bank presidents,
backed and supported by the entire
Associated Banks of that city. l pro-
pose to present the facts and the
proofs, and to these facts l ask the
attention Of the people. l will pre-
sent them as briefly as possible,
ii.
HO pAOOlUChOid1 Oou pa 81 VI 1CSL
was waged practically, upon single
issue-the tariff.
The silver question was discussed
incidentally only. 'The fading out of
the silver issue," said the New York
Evening Post, on the 18th Of October,
1892. ''is one of the unmis taxable
signs Of the times. Hardly anybody
talks about it now, except those en-
gagged in the production of the
metal" But this was not a true
statement. The fading out of the sill
yer issue. if it had any meaning at all,
meant simply that the party leaders
on both sides had agreed upon a pro.
gram, the outcome Of which has been
the repeal of the silver law of 1890, and
the Senate tariff act-an act properly
called National Bank bastard.
Ill.
The presidential preference of the
New York bankers and brokers in 1892
was for Grover Cleveland. They gave
a practically unanimous support to
his andidacy-many of them aban-
doning their former party aSSocia-
tionS in order to do so. Conspicuous
instances of this abandonment were
George G. Williams, president of the
Chemical National Bank, and Geo. S.
Coe, president of the American EX-
change Nationals: both old men, and
lifelong Republicans. These men did
not become Democrats. They made
no pretense of being Democrats or
that they had any sympathy whatever
with the objects the Democratic par
ty was seeking to accomplish. They
were Cleveland Republicans: politi-
cal scab peculiar to Wall street ard
like precincts. They were Cleveland
Republicans because they expected to
control Grover Cleveland to their own
uses, as they subsequently did, when
they involved him and his administra
tion in their piratical schemes for
panic and destruction of property.
The alliance Of Grover Cleveland
with these malignant and criminal
bankers was an unm: tgated national
calamity, from the disastrous effects
OF which no American Of this genera
tion will live to see final recovery.
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Immediately that the result of the
presidential erection was made known.
tie Associated National Banks and
bankers of New York set up terrific
scream fer the immediate uncOndi-
tional repeal Of the Sherman silver