The Penn's Grove record., 1897-03-05
Exit Cleveland.

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"The evil that men do live alter them
The good is oft inferred with their bones"
JULIUS CEAsER.
The above will he true of Grover
Cleveland's administration which clos
ed on Thursday. Having entered oil
fee in 1884 as the first democratic Pfesl'
dent for thirty-six years, much was FIX
pected of him as a reformer. The tar
if was the main issue and his famous
message of 1887 brought that to the
front. After the defeat of 1888 and
the passage OF the Mckinley monopoly
tariff in 1890, his being the chief ex'
ponent of tariff reform made him the
logical candidate, although he was not
personally liked by the rank and file oil
the party. Nothing was said on the
money question during the campaign,
excepting by the Populists.
When inaugurated the first thing he
did was to call Congress together to re
peal the Sherman Silver law which was
passed with the Mckinley tariff law,
and authorized the making OF fifty mil
lions of new money a year instead OF
twenty -four millions as previous under
the Bland Allison act. We were told
by all the leading papers that the act
was a detriment to the country and IL
was not unreasonable for the masses to
believe it because the law was repudiat
ed by the Republican papers and most
of the Republican leaders who voted
for its passage. The people all had
faith in their party papers and as the
money question had never been before
the people for discussion in Ill the his
tory of the world, of course, we bsiiev-
ed it.
AIR. Cleveland never took the old
leaders OF his party into his cabinet moi
confidence, because many were opposed
to his financial policy which was the
same a majority of Republicans inau
gurated and maintained since the Civil
War. 1t took the whole strength and
power of mis- great office to bring a ma
jority of his party TO favor the repeal OF
the Sherman act, and to force a con-
traction of the currency by stopping
the purchase of silver. But when the
people saw 80 per cent. of the Republi
can Congressman vote for the repeal OF
their own law and 62! per cent. of the
Democrats it vas natural for the mass
es to think the nation would be better
off by its repeal. Millions had faith in
MI. Cleveland as he said ''public office
is a public trust" but since the people
have studied the money question dur
ing the past year they find he has be-
trayed their trust, has made the office q
private snap by becoming a millionaire.
The platform on which he was elect
ed declared for the rigid enforcement
Of the laws against trusts; to the use
Of both gold and silver as standard
money and TO the coinage of both gold
and silver without discrimination
against either metal or charge for mint
age and that paper currency should be
~redeemable in such coin.
He appointed a trust lawyer for at
tctney general who repudiated the plat
form; lie used all the patronage and
power OF his Office against the coinage
oil silver and followed President Har-
rison's example in refusing to use sill
yer as standard money aud sold S262,-
DON, 900 of bonds, when the law says he
could, and The platform says he should
redeem in standard money, which was
silver as well as gold.
The financiers would make people be.
,leye that the nation would go to des
truction II there was not a hundred
million gold reserve in the treasury,
and would make us believe there was a
law that 1t should be there, but there
is no such a law on the statute books
and the reserve is a fake to deceive the
people, allow foreign bankers TO get
gold without expense for export and
sell bonds for gold. 1t was their Ell
deavor to get the people to believe ii
was law, then make it law and TO put
the word gold in the bonds, and thu;
nail the masses down to a condition Of
slavery. The people are finding out
they have been hoodwinked, deceived,
and Nost internally lied to OIL the
money question.
When we look back and see what was
done on the money question We can
better understand why all Wall Street,
and the corporations and money inter.
est supported him. Because the com.
mon people have not been benefited, he.
cause of a betrayal of the trust put in
Cleveland they can not be blamed.
The tariff on which the election was
carried in 1892 was revised, after much
controversy, yet a general reduction Of
only Z per cent. of tariff tax could moi
have caused such depression as a con-
traction of the volume of money to a
gold basis and the export of half the
amount of gold coin in the country il
the past four years.
America has become the laborine
mans paradise lost, because of the wor
ship of the golden calf, and when tht
people study and understand the money
question Mr.. Cleveland will fall like
Lucifer from the public esteem he ha'
been formerly held, and the evil lie die
will live after him. Those whose faitl
he betrayed have more reason TO con
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