Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1914-01-07
WILLIAMS ONCE
WROTE A LETTER
(Py Winfield Iones.1

sets. nominated minister TO Greece,
may not be confirmed because he
once wrote letter declaring one OF
President Wilson's books was a
Joke" and full OF "Toryism of the
worst kind
The effort made in the Senate
foreign affairs committee to prevent
Williams confirmation has brough,
forth to the pitiless eye of pub
licity some OF President Wilson 5
half-baked scholastic theories on va
rious government subjects.
Williams has been active in Mas
sachusetts Democratic politics fol
many years. and was one OF the
few Democrats OF New England
who ardently supported William J.
Bryan in 1898 when the East was
frightened over the free silver bogic.
The hesitation OF the foreign re-
lations committee to confirm vii
liamS comes from the fact that a
letter, which Williams wrote to for
mer Senator Pcttigrew, OF South
Dakota, has been dug up, and the
senators are not certain. that the
president knew OF its existence 1T
the time he selected the Massachu-
sets man for a diplomatic post.
1t is a long communication, OF
which the following are among the
most interesting excerpts;
Dear Senator-Since we visited
Governor Wilson last summer and
carried away such pleasant impress
sions OF his personality and CONVEX
saiion. have had hopes that he
might be the solution of our presi-
dental problem.
This week | have been shocked
At the reading OF his fifth volume
Of his History OF the American
People published in 1902. 1t IS
toryism OF the blacklist type; :, IS
not history OF the American peo-
pie, but history OF Woodrow vii
sons administration for everything
which the radical Democracy now
seeks to change and series of
sneers and insults to every class OF
men who have sought to alleviate
the injustice OF capitalism. /
think Senator Aldrich would ave
written with more charity and less
bitterness, The worst is that there
is no note OF sympthy for any sui
fcring and protesting class, but he
seems to search for phrases to show
MS contempt for them.
q end the quotations with ono
which discloses Mr.. Wilson's funda-
mental conception OF money. Study
this il you study no other; ii is
fearful and wondcriul:
The coincidence OF high prices
and eager markets with floods OF
paper-coupled with the indispu,-
able fact that the return to Stacker
demand, lower prices and a greater
scarcity OF money had been accom-
panied by 4 considerable contraction
OF the redundant currency and by
laws which were soon to bring about
a return to specie payments, a turn I
ing back from cheap money 10
dear" confused the thinking OF
SOME men who had long been n /!
contact with public affairs: and .
those who could not go quite the
length OF the grccnbacks turned 20
silver for relief
81 venture, in behalf Of crude
and ignorant minds, to give para
phrase Of this sentence, even though
my attempt may seem TO jump with
the humor Of hundreds Of thousands
OF workingmcn and farmers the
country over. 1t is as follows:
The coincidence OF heavy :pins
and high rivers. as well as the in
ilsputable fact that in time OF
drought the rivers were low. led
many experienced men to the con.
fused notion that the supply OF rain
had something to do with the heigh,
IF streams
81 have repeatedly defended the
OF Mr.. Wilson's recent
change Of his views. do not
loubt it at all But it is clear tia,
lie has had profound contempt for ,
he Farmers Alliance, the Populists. /
Irccnbackcrs, bimctallists, trade
lnions. small office seekers. Italians
'olcs. Hungarians. pensioners. stril:- !:
rs, armies OF unemployed: to himi, =.
hcNe classes represented no eco d,
ionic wrongs; Cleveland has been :,
rs worshlpcd idol a. president:
&c has regarded the East and the
0 ur!polsno oIos oW 50 sI9Yurq ii
financial wisdom: the vital question f
); Has year destroyed all these f,