The Yale expositor., 1896-05-08
GAME DOESN'T WORK.
REFORM CLUB OF NEW YORK
DELUCED WITH NAYS.
Country Publishers Do Not Want FREQ
Stereotype Plates - sample of the
Hundreds of Letters Being Received
by the Britishars Daily.

luged with hundreds of letters, like the
following from editor of the Press,
Adrian, Mich:
A few days since we received letter
from the sound currency annex of the
Reform Club of New York, a sort of
I mugwump combine, with more money
than principle, Offering us plate matter
and supplements free, containing gold
standard arguments. We have sent
the following reply:
Calvin Tompkins, ESQ.,,
Chairman, etc.
Dear Sir: l am in receipt of your let
ter of recent date, containing a propo-
sition for pushing the educational
work for sound currency and also
sample of the educational literature you
desire to furnish. You say you VIII
furnish me free, every four weeks
page of plates, and 1000 supplements,
being broadsides for sound currency.
This you do to "resist the efforts of the
free coinage advocates to put this coun-
try on free silver basis" l observe,
too, that you are a section of the RE
form club of New York.
heartily approve of any and every
effort in behalf of sound currency. The
great business interests of the country
demand that we not only have a sound
currency but that we have a reliable
and anti-monopoly currency, ample in
quantity and uniform in quality, with
power to pay any debt of the country
at any time, and any place, to any per-
son. for anything, currency that Is as
good in farmers wallet, as in bank;
4 currency so sound that it will pay a
bond, or pension; a mortgage or a
months wages, and one that cannot be
placed at premium in order that it
may be demanded OF the government in
exchange for any other currency. We
want an honest currency, one that will
pay the wage-earner and the interest
taker; one that will pay the gun holder
and the bond holder; one that the
United States alone issues and fathers;
one that will fight our battles, or buy
our wheat; one as much for the use and
benefit of the producers of the country
who raise the 700 millions dollars eX
ports for our foreign trade as well as for
those who buy the bonds and clip cou-
pons.
We need a currency so sound that no
combine of financial thieves can organ
ize a raid on the treasury and embar-
rass it in it's dealings, and disturb the
business interests of the country, in
order that the currency they hold, may
be turned into an interest-bearing debt
We need a sound currency, that will
admit of no juggling, nor compel the
United States to keep on hand hun
dred million dollars in any one kind of
money just to accommodate class of
men who make their living by raids on
the currency reserve, not because they
need one kind of money more than an
other, but simply to make trouble.
We need a sound currency law which
would oppose every effort to embarrass
the government, by demanding the re-
demption OF the governments paper
money, and declare such demand high
treason, punishable with death here
and damnation hereafter.
The only sound currency recall, was
the old red dog that was in existance
before the war, and which as | under
stand it, your Reform" club is anxious
to restore, and that you voiced this by
getting such a scoundrelly proposition
inserted into the last democratic ma
tional platform and it is favored by the
reform president, the Hon. Grover
Cleveland, an ardent sound currency"
statesman, who links arms with Sher-
man, Mckinley, Fairchild, Hoar, Reed,
Brice, Carlisle, and the two Mortons.
one the seed secretary in the cabinet
and the other political seed in New
York.
Believing in sound currency and in
the honesty of our forefathcrs who con-
Quoted the government before you
were formed or reformed, feeling that
they made no mistake when they estab-
lished silver and gold for unlimited
coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1. and
knowing that up to 1873 both metals
were sound currency" Except during
the war, when gold and lot of "re-
formers" slipped out of the country,
and watched the soldiers and green
backs put down the rebellion), unhesi-
tatingly declare for sound currency and
honest money.
believe the United States in the days
of 81 to IS, made no mistake when gold
and its friends were not "at home" in
organizing the greenbacks, and declar-
ing them money and they have been
ever since, the only really Sound
money" of this country, and that the
man who demands their redemption in
gold, just to get the gold for money to
use at home or abroad, is thief, and
has less patriotism than Jeff Davis,
whose efforts were devoted to destroy
ing the country the greenbacks saved.
The men who ask for greenbac to
be redeemed in gold, will, If given the
opportunity, demand that the Savior
who died to save them, may be prose-
cuted for coming to life again.
A perusal of your plate editorials
convinces me that you are masquerade
ing under false colors. You are advo-
eating the only dishonest money
known.