The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-08-25
Intentionally Dishonest.

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Under the caption, '1gnorantly Dis
honest" the Portland Oregonian makes
one OF Its periodical attacks upon the
policy OF the party which is handicap
ped by It's pretended support. Its text
II a speech Of Senator Hanna, contrast
ing the hard times OF the Cleveland ad-
ministration with the prosperity of the
last four years. The appearance in any
public capacity OF any OF the men who
have been compelled to snub the editor
OF the oregonian politically acts upon
him like a red rag on a bull. So he
improves the occasion to utter fierce
diatribe against Senator Hanna and
President Mckinley. and to deny that
the hard times were due to Democratic
policies He ascribes them instead to
the operation of the so-cailed Sherman
act OF 1890: and In his attempt to dem
onstrate this by statistics he is guilty
Of dishonesty which one would scarcely
have expected from the orcgonian even
In It's present fallen estate
The oregonian notes that gold ex-
ports began soon after the passage OF
that ill-advised law and continued until
its repeal 1t shows that the amount of
treasury notes issued under the law
was si47.iso. 227. and that in the same
time the net export of gold was si5s.
i32.42s. II draws the inference that
this was the sole canse OF financial and
Industrial trouble; that as soon as the
Sherman law was repealed. largely
through the efforts OF President Cieve-
land. NIL danger and difficulty vanished:
and that the remainder of his admins
tration was hampered only by an effort
to repair the ravases IL had wrought.
There IL no reference to treasury re-
ccipts and expenditures. no word OF
new tarir act and the decline OF bust
ness under II. no figures Of enormous
treasury deficits. no admission OF the
fact that gold continued 20 be exported
IN enormous quantities FOR three years
after the sherman act had been wiped
on the books All this Is deliberately
and dishonesty ignored.
Let u be understood that We are do.
Ing no special pleading or seeking less
than exact Justice The so-called sher-
man act. Ter the purchase OF silver bull.
Hon and the issue against /, OF treas.
ury notes was tremendous blunder
and Tia effect was eva For his share
IN securing its repeal as Tor every other
merstorious act. Mr. Cleveland should
have aue credit. hut the country fair
~ and rlshtmly attributes 20 hts adj
ministration, not 70 him-fer We 90 not
follow the oroxonian by obscurlnE par
tses and policies With personalities
greatest disasters that II has ever
kaown. And the facts and statistics
bear out the assertion.
The oFegonias quotes xola exports
ieNn 20 Jane. 1888 when the silver par~
chase law was repealed. and lcavos It's
readers 20 suppose that they ceased
sharsaftcr. By is togic they must have
ceased For Il tha, law was the pro-
duelng cause e. them. as & maintains.
then the two muss have departed to-
sethoE As a matter % fact rold con-
slnaed 10 he exported 20 the end q
clevelana's administration IA fnmense
amounts Here are the official nSurss
far the three years following the repeal
u the law which the orvSonian SAYS
was responsible for ALI gold exports:
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