The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-22


same sort of raid by threatening to obey the
law and pay out silver instead of gold to
these raiders of New York and London. It
could be done in ten minutes again. But
now that you have no longer hope for future
office, and have possibly, il not probably,
become part owner in these same mort
cages with which you so ruthless.y burden
the people who have honored and trusted
you, you turn upon your party, to whom
you are so much indebted, and threaten to
break 1t up, as IN Kentucky and Nebraska,
unless the people tamely submit to your un-
hailowed schemes.
CLEVELAND AND HIS EXPERTS"
MAY not, Mr.. Cleveland, suggest that
you pause and ponder results, lest your
harm, together with that Of John Sherman
and of that other Sherman who resigned a
federal judgeship to escape impeachment
for corruption in Office. all go down in ORR
common grave of infamy?
1T is favorable part of the schemes of
yourself and allies to avoid discussion OF
financial questions, as usual among .ntelli4
gent men, upon history and experience, but
boldly to predict all sorts Of calamities the
better to hide the calamities that already
exist and to denornce those who are guided
in their reasoning by the expediency of the
l..
superc:lious self-importance, too, born Of
the independence of unholy wealth. the ad-
vocates of your schemes, In the face of all
experience, in the face of the most cher
:shed doctrines of Democratic institutions,
calmly tell the people that they are unfit to
discuss their finances, but should leave all
such questions to experts
1T would be affectat!on in me, Mr.. Cleve-
Wand. to suppose you have not read his
tory. Assuming that you have, will you
point out single despotism that ever reared
itself upon the necks of an enSlaved people,
which had not for its foundation stone this
very same doctrine-that government af-
fairs should be left to 'experts?' And is
there anything in all history to lead us q
suppose that the characteristics of the breed
are not the same everywhere, whether IN
Europe, the Orient or in the United States?
True they are called in monarchioal coun-
tries king, clergy and nobility, while here
they are called fnanc:ers. True, too you
have not yet reached the stage which at
taches to our experts divine right, but #
this country could be cursed with another,
four years Of your administration the ra-
pid:ty with which your evolution has al
ready progressed justifies the belief that
you would reach even this elimination.
COOK COUNTY'S FARMING" RE-
SOURCES.
Fortunately for the American people, we
have alredy had ample proof that our 'ex-
perts' are true to the instincts of the breed.
LIE me cite few
There was not long since published in
Chicago the following certificate of the au-
d:tor of the state of Illinois,.
t. David Gore, auditor of public &C
counts Of the state of. Illinons, do hereby
certify that the statement of property as
sessed in Cook county for the year 1894,
filed in this Office in pursuance OF law,
shows among other personal property as
sessed In said Cook county for the year A.
D. 1894 the following agricultural
tools, implements and machinery, $S4 1892;
money of bankers, brokers, etc., s43,925;
credits Of bankers, brokers, etc., $4,000
The above items show all the property as
sessed under headings herein set forth
''Will you not admit, Mr.. Cleveland, that
these Chicago experts have shown the ex-
pert shrewdness natural to their class in
their forcing the farmers of Cook county to
pay not only their own share of taxes, but
about nineteen-twentieths of that of these
'experts?'
"And does it not make you blush, Mr.
Cleveland, to learn that these experts, upon
whose testimony you would have the peo-
pie to so implicitly rely, have said pre-
sumab.y under oath, too) that IN all the
hundreds of banks and other financial insti-
tutions of the great city of Chicago, with its
2,000,000 of people and its hundreds of mill
ions of wealth, there is only little over
$4,000 in money?
POOR PAYING THE TAXES.
| man, in company with an Englishman, Wis
tied on business large legal firm on Wall
street, New York One of the firm land he
would pass as an expert Of the first water)
| tw:tted the Englishman upon his country
| having an income tax, while our Supreme
| Court had just decided that our country
could not have one. The Eng,ishman re-
piled: Yes, we make the wealth of our
| country pay its taxes, while you make the
poor pay them Abiding to the tariff
, taxes as well as the Supreme Court dec:s-
ion. The lawyer quickly retorted: They
ought to pay them. They have their chill
dren educated by the wealth of the country;
they have high taxes paid them by the
wealth. ETC. O.
''It would open up an interesting psyche
logical inquiry to ascertain whether this
particular expert has not already reached
the stage when he is ready to assert the
divine right of law created wealth to plum
der the poor,
| when you were about to put upon the
property Of the people 100000 900 mort
gage last winter, acting upon your advice to
! the people, you called into your councils
certain 'experts'-Messrs. Morgan, Bel
mont, Rothchilds & Co.-to advise you
You accepted this advice 1--WE are bound
in the absence Of proof to the contrary. to
admit honestly even If we are forced to
| dc so at the expense of your sanity and
| they pocketed about $11 100000 Of the
peoples money as the price of their expert
advice
when about to put upon the people
another mortgage few weeks since you
called to your councils one of these same
'experts'-Mr. j. Pierpont Morgan-and
the newspapers of New York say that he
has on file in your office two letters, one
advising you to sell bonds at 104, and an
other offering himself to buy those same
bonds, in competition, at about 100000
more than he advised you to take.
PLUNDERING OF THE "EXPERTS."
"It was under the advice of experts thai
our government issued her first bonds,
sold them to the same experts for green.
backs deprecated to 40 cents on the dollar
snd afterward, instead, OF paying them in
the same kind Of currency with which they
were bought, they were made by expert
adv.ced law payable in coin in violation o.
their contract with the taxpayers and al
fho;r ovnonQo Nv fhic ono act thoao spy