The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-09-24
HANNA.s PURPOSES.
4 Significant Letter to Hon. Robert
c. Ben-wsn Streets Densnds
From the Common People.

The following letter, which ex- 1
plains itself, was received by the
Hon. p. G. Bell Of Fort Wayne, and
was by him given to the Journal, of
that city, to publish:
No. III WALL STREET,
NEW YORK. Aug. 10, 1896.
The Hon. r. c. Bel, Fort Wayne,
Ind.
DEAR SIR-The-committee of politi-
cal education Of Wall street, this city,
to which the undersigned has the
honor to belong, having determined
that each member should write per-
sonally to at least one or more
prominent party leaders of the silver
cause, your name has Deen handed
to me. You are described as of a
fair mind and a large influence in
your state, therefore address you
in the hope that you may be per
suaded from your present course,
for you are leading the 10 -er classes,
the laborers, artisans, Mechanics
and agriculturists of you- state into
step which will cause item great
/ distress.
We whose business it is to study
finances, and are therefore capable
of determining such questions, know
there is at his time too much money.
| Millions are now ready in tnis citv to
be loaned on call, with grod eollat-
eral, such as government gold bonds,
where it is really needed, at remun-
erative rates. Your methods are
such as to frighten all money lend
ers flor nothing is so easily scared
as money! No one can tell what
laws your candidate (if elected)
may suggest; while even now the
laws are all against our people. We
are forced to loan money at such
rates as we can get. II we can not
get 10 per cent we take o; II we can
not get we take and in peaceful
times even lower, and it is difrcult
even then to keep onT money at
work. But what do your working
men say? If they can not get a
dollar a 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 a 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 viii I've as they
should live. They are really extrava-
CANT; they buy meat four or five
days a week; they even indulge
often in pie, which is no kind OF
food to be enjoyed by working peo-
pie and does them no good. Rice is
; one of the most healthy and nourish-
{ ing of foods, it is cheap and can be
raised in endless quantities, but
workingmen avoid it as a general
food. They eat wheat bread, when
rye is much more suitable. These
ideas grow out of wrong education,
which you, my dear sir, are assisting,
, only to their future disaster.
> Mr.. Hanna, if he wins the election
land all Intelligent men of the east
hope and believe he will), win GER
: tainly inaugurate a much better sys-
tenn 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 finances can be safely left
with the national banka, insurance
and railroad interpretations - who
, through p standing committee with
some well known and honorable
f1nanc'ers such as J. P. Morgan or
Mr.. August Belmont as chairman,
could formulate and have passed
directly such laws on monsy as
would be safe and useful for the
whole people. All laws governing
the tariff could be handled in the
came way by a committee appointed
by the great manufacturing ana
industrial enterprises, and with such
honorable and charitable men as Mr..
Rockefeller or Mr.. Carnegie as
chairman of such committee, the
most wise and useful tariff laws
could be speedily put in fo-ee, not
bothering those engaged in agricul-
ture or other rural work, or exciting
them by frequent elections, as is
now the case.
We have talked with NJ. Hanna as
to many things which are now wrong
ing the lower classes and divert ng
them from their labor. He thinks
there ere too many holidays. and
especially excursions to somewhat
long distances, where these people