The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1896-05-29

Auiidu, Mlcu.'
/ A few days since We received letter
from the sound currency annex of the
Reform Club" of New York, a sort oil
, 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: / 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 will
furnish me free, every four weeks a
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 n 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 a bank
a currency so sound that it will pay /:
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 raid on the treasury and embar-
rass 1t in its 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 a hun
dred million dollars in any one kind of
money just to accommodate a 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
punishable with death here,
and damnation hereafter.
The only sound currency recall, was
the old red dog" that was in existence
before the war, and which as I under
stand 1t, your Reform" club is anxious
to restore, and that you voiced this by |
getting such scoundrelly proposition
into the last democratic na-
.ional platform and it is favored by the |
reform president, the Hon. Grover
Cleveland, an ardent Sound currency"
who links arms with Sher-
nan. Mckinley, Fairchild, Hoar, Reed,
Brice, Carlisle, and the two Mortons.
,ne the seed secretary in the cabinet
and the other a political seed In New
York. --t
Believing In sound currency and in
he honesty of our forefathers who CON
lucted the government before you
we're formed or reformed. feeling that
hey made no mistake when they estab-
ished silver and gold for unlimited
coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1. and
moving that up to 1873 both metals
we're sound currency" Except during
he war, when gold and lot of "re-
ormers" slipped out of the country,
md watched the soldiers and green
'acks put down the rebellion), I unhesi-
atingly declare for sound currency and
lonest money.
l believe the United States in the days
I 81 to '65, made no mistake when gold
nd its friends were not "at home" in
rganizing the greenbacks, and declar-
ng them money and they have been
yer since. the only really Sound
money" Of this country, and that the
IAN who demands their redemption In
old, just to get the gold for money to
- at home or abroad, is a thief, and
as less patriotism than Jeff Davis,
hose efforts were devoted to destroy
,g the country the greenbacks saved.
The men who ask for greenbacks to
e redeemed In gold, will, II given the
pportunity. demand that the Savior