The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-10-20
A PLUTOCRAT'S VIEWS.
Pie Not Good for Workingmen-
!. Bankers to Make the
Laws.

JOuTHdI, dDu IdtcT III thO ~. AOu''
Post. The Post commenting on it
says. g4Nf
cit is 40 remarkable in it's utter alb
sence of real Americanism and even of
humanity that it would he considered
q forgery were 1t not for the character
of the man 10 whom it is addressed
aud who authorizes its publication.
Judge Bell is one of the oldest law
yers oi he State, and was at one time
partner of ex-United States Attor-
ney General Miller The Post has
not come across anything quite so
brutallv frank since the campaign
opened"
We knew that the single standard
powers were resorting to extreme
methods, but never did we think thew
had in mind any legislation that
would limit the powers of the people,.
gs"No. III Wall street, New York,
Aug. 10 1S96-To Hon. r. G. Bell,
Fort Wayne, Ind.
"Dear Sir The Committee of Po-
litical Education, this city, to which
the undersigned has the honor to be-
long, having determined that each
member should write personally to at
least one or more of the 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. |
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
and mechanics and agriculturists of
your State into step that will cause
them great distress.
eve whose business IL is to study
finances and are therefore capable of
determining such questions, know
there is too much money. Millions
are now ready in this city TO be loaned
on call, with good collateral, such as
60 eminent gold bonds, where it is
really needed, at remunerative rates
Your methods are such as to frighten
all money lenders (or nothing is so
easily scared as money!. No one can
tell what laws your candidate Of
elected) may suggest; while even
now the laws are all against our peo-
Pile. We are forced to loan money at
such rates az we can get. LII we can
not get 10 per cent. we take 9; if we
cannot get per cent. we take 8, and
in peaceful times even lower, and it is
difficult even then to keep our money
at work. But what do your working
men say?
"If they cannot get ST. per day they
refuse to work, while they ought to
take rs cents or even so cents so that
we may keep them at work. You
ought to teach them that ST. 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 work
ing people and does them no good.
Rice is one of the most healthy and
nourishing of foods, 1t 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 this cleo
ton (and all intelligent men of the
East hope and believe he willy will
C ,rtainly inaugurate a 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 finances can be safely left
with the national banks, insurance
and railway corporations, whc
through standing committee with
some well known and honorable finsn
cier, such as Mr.. j. p Morgan and
Mr.. August Belmont as Chairman
who could formulate and have passed
directly such laws as would be safe
, and useful for the whole people All