The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-06-04

Cuba and Wall Street.

The attitude of Wall street and the
money power of the East towards any
expression of sympathy for liberty
loving people who are struggling to
throw off the chains of serfdom which
a cruel and tyranical nation would
forge about them, is very readily seen
by reading the weekly letter of Henry
Clews, the head of one of the oldest
and largest banking houses in Wall
street. The letter is not only cold
blooded in the extreme, but it places
the author on the same level with Cap
tain General Weyler and the other
butchers of Spain. Not one spark of
humanity or kindness can be discerned
in this letter of Mr. Clews. Not one
word to show that his heart beat could
be quickened by any matter in which
dollars and cents were not concerned.
In fact he goes so far as to denounce
the senate for disturbing the condition
of the market by yielding to the com
mon dictates of humanity and passing
a resolution recognizing the beliger-
ancy of the Cubans.
This man, who through his own vast
wealth and the wealth that he controls,
Yields such an influence over the bust
ness of the country, says of the Cuban
situation:
"Here, business is kept more or less
unsettled by the persistent agitation i'll
the senate of the recognition of the in
dependence of Cuba. 1t is to the last
degree unfortunate that the very
branch of congress designed to hold In
check wild popular vagaries and dan
gerous outbursts of popular passion,
should itself become the chief source
of such disturbances of public conf
dence; and yet to-day we witness In
that body little else than such perver-
sions of its pacific functions. The at
tempt made by the senate to force the
government to intervene in Cuba is
little short of wicked Its effects can
only be to still further unsettle conf
dence by raising an issue involving the
very delicate question of the respect
i've rights of the president and the SEN
ate, and for no better purpose than to |
revel in wild revolt against safe and |
conservative methods of government. |
The bad effect of this legislation is not
so much in any expectation that the
president will permit himself to be
forced into any abdication of his execu
tive rights, as that the highest house of
legislation should have become so ut
terly Enthusiastically and dangerous"
Thus does Wall street free its mind
on the Cuban question, but it is doubt
full if all that Mr.. Clews can do or say
will prevent the recognition of Cuban
independence. The people demand
the independence of Cuba and they are
tired of Wall street. The sentiment of
the country has changed greatly in re-
gard to Wall street in the past few
years, and instead of being respected
as a legitimate business centre, it is eX-
ecrated and despised as the greatest
dive in the world. Wall
street has fleeced and ruined more men
than ever Monte Carlo did. 1t has been
responsible for more deaths and more
disgrace than all the petty gambling
institutions in the world, and the peo-
pie know it at last, and knowing it they =,
will treat the opinion of Wall street on
the Cuban matter with rhe contempt
and Indifference it Spokane
Chronicle.
That little characteristic anecdote
lbout the attempted suicide of real
liece of Uncle Russell Sage because her
husband owed the old gentleman few
dollars which he could not repay will
erve to keep the family in the public
mind in the usual pleasant manner.
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