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He Presents Seme Facta tu the Pre -dent
on the) F.naDClal Qaeatlon.
TOCB ExCEf.LERCr,
Obuvcb Clktklakd,
Pkesidkst op tbk Ukitkd States,
Sis: My great respect for your high
office and my desire to contribute to tbe
extent of my power to the success of
your administration hare induced me to
present to you certain facta for jour
consideration.
You say in your message to Congress
of August 8th, 1X93, that "our unfortu
nate financial ) light Is not the result of
untoward eveLta, nor of conditions re.
lated to our natural resources, nor is it
traceable to any of the afflictions which
frequently check national growth and
prosperity."
You are right in supposing that "our
unfortunate financial plight" la not the
result of want of natural resources,
abundant crops, or an honest, Indus
trious, and enterprising people. But you
are mistaken when you say, "nor fa it
traceable to any of the afflictions which
frequently check national growth and
prosperity."
You overlooked the fact that want' of
money is a very common affliction, and
that a deficient supply of money of ulti
mate payment more frequently than any
other calamity, checks national growth
and prosperity. Coin has been the mouey
of ultimate payment and the basis of re
demption for paper m"ney and all other
credits for thousands of years. The only
limit to the volume of coin previous to
1878 waa the amount of gold and si ver
bullion which might be brought to the
mint for coinage. The Government
coined both metals without limit for the
benefit of the owners of the bullion. A
dollar was coined out of 25 8-10 grains
of standard gold, or 412ft grains of
standard silver. The owners of bonds
and other fixed Incomes, for tha purpose
of increasing tbe purchasing power of
the money which the debtor class was
bound to pay them, determined to limit
legal-tender coin to one of the precious
metals.
The mint act of 1878 stopped the coin
age of sliver and confined tha coinage of
full legal tender money to gold alone.
The Bland act of 1878, restored the
standard dollar and required the pur
chase and coinage into such dollars of
not less than two nor more than four
million dollars worh of silver bullion
each month. , The Sherman act re
quired tha issuance of sufficient legal
tender Treasury notes to buy four and
one-half million ounces of silver bullion
each month, and made it tha duty of the
Secretary of the Treasury to coin suffi
cient of auch bullion to provide for the
redemption of such notes. The latter
act, while in 'force, - furnished the
country with about 1154,000,000 of new
money at the rate of about $4,000,000
a month. The mint act of 1878 wholly
rejected silver as a money metal and re
duced the eupply of material for coinage
more tnan one-nail. That act which
you have revived doubled the purchasing
power of gold and correspondingly in
creased the amount of property or ser
vices necessary to obtain money to pay a
debt. It made a thousand dollar bond,
measured in the property required to
; pay it equal to a two thousand dollar
bond. Can you distinguish between the
moral quality of legislation which raises
'the burden of debts by increasing the
tbiuh 01 iuuney auu a cuange m van fig
ures on a check or a bond which will ac
complish the same result? Is not the
fact that the former is tho result of a
statute fraudulently or ignorant lv en
acted and the latter the crime of an
individual in violation of a statute the
only substantial difference in the moral
quality of the two transactions? If the
managers of concentrated capital may
Innocently double tbe value of all bonds
by legislation why is it criminal for the
poor man to accomplish the same result
u to a single bond by the change cf a
figure? The former robs the whole hu
man race while tbe latter only Injures
the individual debtor. The acts of 1878
and '90, known respectively as the Bland
and Sherman acts, made a limited and
arbitrary use of silver as money to the
extent above stated. The law gave the
option to the United States to pay all
obligations in either gold or silver. You
Save that option, which belonged to the
'overnment, to the public creditors
without consideration. The world was
short of gold because Europe combined
with the United States and refused to coin
silver into legal tender money, but the
great commercial nations of Europe also
retained the option to pay the Govern
ment obligations in either gold or silver.
Their rulers pursued a more patriotic
course than your administration. They
retained tne option lor their govern
ments and refused to pay out gold for
export. Your administration pursued
the policy of your predecessors and dis
charged the obligations of the United
States, which were payable In silver, in
gold alone until an alarm was raised
that there waa danger of a lack of gold
for that purpose.
If the Execative Department of the
Government of the United States had
pursued the policy of Germany and
France and refused to pay out gold for
export, the coin reserve in the Treasury
would nave been amply sufficient to meet
all emergencies. The cry of danger
raised by the banks ana the press
alarmed the depositors and excited a
fear that the banks would be nibble to
pay, Tbe reserves In the banks were
only about one-tenth of their obligations.
Many of them were unable to respond on
account of scarcity of money. Tha
panto followed.
On the 80th of June you called an es
tra session of Congress to repeal the pur
chasing elaose of the Hhennan act to re
store confidence and rehabilitate tha
banks,
Tbe failure of your attempt to relieve
the stringency of tbe money market
which gold contraction had produced by
the repeal of the only law which reo
eg nlie.4 silver as money and made any
addition to the circulating medium ought
to have been anticipated It seems lw
(m.ilMe that yott ettuld have sui red
(list the vulume ut ttteaey could Vs la
t fe e l by cutting off the supply, liul
yuur faita la that plan was so tltvag that
jvn ri' la Guv, Nurthsa that u
were "ettuUe I ty the rHUUa U
tbe vuale t suih tuwpt iHrtlua (the
l,t vf the pun htuf cWiue tf the
rbfiua at t) as wiul l rvtitve the prvt
ut aattiftdaale situation. "
Vi'ursnVrt were frwwasd with se
n ... Y-ur ntaurebf fslief was pasted
but the dutteea welt ftM talrtUn
had ereatea, juur vUtary v the vle
UHie department laltatioed. The re
sult of the plU which the guld eouv
htaatlaa la-lut ed ya ta ad(t he filled
the lead with putertt aad wsat.
the fruatraet httweea the tadeceat
haste with which y ifducid the cha
tty to the gold standard and your delay
in promoting legislation looking to a
supply of money for the revival of busi
ness has attracted attention and needs
explanation.
You now ak the country to wait until
confidence is restored. Confidence rests
on an assurance of safety and the ab
sence of apprehensions of danger. What
' foundation can there be lor confidence
j when the people know that there is not
gold enough for use as money and that
f there can be no relief during your term
of officer
I In your message of December 5th,
18U3, you suggested that alter tne re
storation of confidence "a survey of the
situation will probably disclose a safe
path leading to a permanently sound
currency, abundantly sufficient to meet
every requirement, of our increasing
population and business."
How long will it require to make that
survey? llow long must the distressed
condition of tbe country be viewed be
fore the path of safety can be found?
You must bear in mini that the stand
point of observation of the millions who
suffer is very different from that of
yourself and your London and Xew
York friends whose counsels you follow
and who gather fortunes from the
wrecks of bankrupt estates and from
coupons cut from gilt-edged securities.
Both you and they may survey the dis
asters of tbe country which follow In the
wake of gold contraction with delibera
tion and composure, but the people are
becoming impatient of further delay to
find a path of safety and are clamorous
for relief. Besides, their confidence in
you as a path-finder has been shaken by
the ease with which you are diverted by
the gold combination into ways leading
to new dangers while you are unable to
follow the broad bimetallic road which
your predecessors traveled with safety
until tbe serpent beguilded the Chairman
of the Committee on Finance of the
Senate of tbe United States, some
twenty years ago, Into the monometallic
by-way leading to contraction and ruin.
When the people elected you they
believed that you were sufficiently versed
in monetary science to have a policy in
harmony with the needs of a great coun
try and that you would be uninfluenced
by concentrated capital. Thev did not
suppose that you could be deluded or
entrapped into any radical or revolu
tionary financial scheme. They are sur
prised to find you experimenting in pur
suit of financial wisdom, and they are
alarmed at the expensive methods you
have adopted to obtain Information
leading to a aoucd system of finance.
They fear your costly experiments will
be useless, and that you will continue to
grope in "by and forbidden" paths lead
ing to greater disaster.
When the people auk for relief yon
tell them they must wait until tha
wrongs they have suffered lead tha way
to a sound financial policy; but when
the gold combination asks for spoils
you call an extra session of Congress
and increase the value of their gold by
excluding from the basis of circulation
and credit tbe silver coin they have, and
decree that no more silver bullion shall
be converted into coin. You deny the
demand of the people for more money,
but offer speculators in "money futures"
a new issue of United States bonds. You
say in pursuit of this object (a sound
financial plan) we should resolutely turn
away from "all alluring and temporary
expedients," but you cannot resist the
allurements of the gold combination to
aid them to concentrate wealth in Lom
bard and Wall streets. Do you regard
the gold standard and bonds aa a tempo
rary expedient or a permanent policy?
If the former, what did you mean by ad-
vising against aunring expedients 01
that character? If the latter, why did
?ou ask the people to survey your ov-ect-lesson
to find a path leading to a
Dermanentlv sound and comprehensive
system of finance? Why did you ask
your fellow-citizens to look away from
the permanent system you had advised
and established? Did you ever fear that
the people would be disgusted and en
raged If they saw and knew what you
had really done and what you proposed
to do?
The suffering victims of enforced idle
ness and starvation with which your ad
ministration has filled the land present a
condition which you must consider un
less no amount of suffering of your fellow-citizens
can diminish the pleasure
you enjoy in the honors and emoluments
of your high office. The people who
have trusted you are slow to believe that
you have arrived at the conclusion that
the gold combination is less able to
wait for spoils than they are for
bread and clothing. It is hard for
them to suppose that you think the own
ers of great fortunes, who deal in money
futures will suffer more from delay in ac
quiring other people's property than the
millions of the unemployed do for want
of the necessaries of life. The gloom
and despair caused by your statement,
that nothing should be attempted to re
lieve financial distress, Is aggravated by
your suggestion that our only hope Is In
foreign aid. You say:
"It seems to me that it would be wise
to give general authority to the Presi
dent to invite other nations to a confer
ence at any time when there should be a
fair prospect of accomplishing an inter
national agreement on tbe subject of
ooluago."
This Is not a new expedient, but the
old invention of inviting England to as
sist the administration to deceive tbe
people of the United Stales by a sham
bimetallic oonfereuce, while plans are
executed In this country to maintain the
gold standard. This device misled maay
Honest men under Republican rule, but
it is now obsolete.
Your predecessors used this confidence
game of the cuttle thl to darken the
waters and tscajMi observation under
verv different conditions from those
which now exist. Tbe game served
its purpose la blinding the public, while
the poison of demonetisation was
slowly and lerrrily doing Its deadly
woik. The trie. c at again
be sutH'aaful. Tha deadly dose ol
cobtrat lloa hli h you hate administered
has thrown tha euuoUv lata contul
sions, and lh death struggle at houte
will savage the attention vf the people,
h'a (tutke will be Utm of ' the wa;s
that are drh aad trukt that are vata4
va the ulber side f the Allauito,
You mUtake the e;tratioue of the
AirUB people If yott euppo the
will be salutU I to temala a fiaaatial
colosy uf Grvat HrlUiu, aad that they da
gi t dea're an Independent 8iam U) tl
try of their oa The tiperleace oiue
test does aut eieuurege them coatUue
agr lo ttt'iuil tktir Bueaclal tegUie
tku ta the eoatrui ut a packed eaacaa
ia a fuielia laud la whuh an Lagiuh
ya.tr ate t paramount
Heferttag agUa ti m eoafelo at
MioaUbiaeftt, lis the notthea letter, by
the iipotH.te ef the feaele U Such
pioutpt action m would rellets the pt
at aafvrtueeie situation, beg fa ia
quire to what unfortunate situation you
alluded? Waa it the "unfortunate situ
ation" of the bondholders who were
baffied in their scheme of plunder, or of
tbe people whose property waa being
sacrificed on account of the scarcity of
money? If the former, you gave them
the desired relief; if the latter, you de
prived them of the money supply which
they had and gave them no other. Why
should yon be astonished by the opposi
tion in the Senate to the gold standard?
Did you not know that the great mass pf
the party which elected you was op
posed to the gold standard and believed
In the free and unlimited coinage of
silver at the ratio of 10 to 1, and that
the Democratic members of both Houses
(as well as yourself t were elected on a
platform which said: "We hold to the
use of both gold and silver aa the stand
ard money of the country and to tha
coinage of both gold and silver without
discrimination against either metal or
charge for mintage?"
Did yon suppose that the Democratic
members of the Senate, who opposed
tbe legislation which revived the Infam
ous Sherman act of 1873, would willing
ly betray their constituents and violate
tne pledges of the Democratic party?
What right have you to assume that tne
consciences of Senators were as pliable
as the morals of the gold kings? Why
did you suppose that Senators would be
guided by the Gold syndicate of London
and New York rather than by their own
convictions and the pledges to their
constituents which secured their elec
tion? They realised, If yon did not,
that in doing tbe bidding of the money
power they violated tbe traditions and
cardinal principles of the Democratic
Sarty and that it would humiliate and
egrade them to allow the influence of
money or the power of patronage to
subject them to tha will of concentrated
capital.
The people are surprised at your
astonishment to find American Senator!
with sufficient honesty, manhood and
self-respect to maintain their convictions
and observe their pledge. You seem to
have forgotten that the Democratic party
has never been victorious in a national
contest since the war in the absence of
a pledge to the American people to re
store silver to the place aa a money
metal which It occupied previous to 1873.
In 1884 the Democratic party platform
declared that "we (the Democracy) be
lieve in honest money, the gold and sil
ver coinage of the Constitution" and the
people elected you President on that
Issue. In 1888, through your influence
as Chief Executive, the platform of the
Democratic party was ailent upon the
paramont Issue of the free coinage of
silver, and you were defeated. In 1893,
as we have already seen, the Democratic
party renewed its bimetallic pledge and
you were again elevated to power.
Your victories when your party de
clared In favor of bimetallism, and your
defeats when your party refused to take
sides in favor of the people against their
oppressors ought to have admonished
you that the people are in favor of the
free and unlimited coinage of silver.
If you had been guided by the prinoi
pies of your party, and refused to follow
the advice of the gold combination, you
would to-day rejoice in tbe affection of
a grateful people made prosperous by
your wisdom and patriotic efforts. If
you had obeyed the voice of the people
the party which discovered and honored
you without a paralled would not
be divided and distracted but would bo
united and vigilant in tbe prosecution of
the reforms which the convention at
Chicago declared were, essential for the
prosperity of the country.
I do not wish to intimate that you are
so destitute of feelings of gratitude and
sentiments of obligation to 'the party
which has made you what you are as to
willingly distract, divide and humiliate
it. But you must know that the party in
power is held responsible for hard times,
and that the object lesson you are fur
nishing of falling prices, stagnation and
want are dangerous to party supremacy.
Have you no apprehension that a suspi
cion may arise that the influence of the
gold combination is paramount with
you? The people realize that the gold
syndicate of London and New York use
without discrimination any party which
will best subserve its purposes. The
money power have reason to belive that
the Democratic masses are more dan
gerous to the rule of the gold king than
the Kepublican party, under whose ad
ministration silver was demonetized and
which has always (when In power) fur
nished an Executive and a majority in
both Houses of Congress opposed to the
free and unlimited coinage of silver.
Your gold associates may not realize
the great injury they are doing to your
reputation when thay advise you to
adopt methods of administration for
the purpose of securing a successor In
your high office, who will do their bid
ding and submit to their dictation. The
evils of tbe policy which they have pur
sued for the last twenty years has satis
fled the people that a President who
serves the gold combination must be hos
tile to the best interests of his country.
In conclusion, 1 desire to inform the
monev power through you that the com
bination between the managers of the
Democratic party and Kepublican par
ties la favor of gold monopoly will not
unite tha people for tbe gold standard.
The furnace of contraction will be too
hot In such a combination.
The union of the Whig sod Demo
cratic parlies from 18 W to 1400 on the
question of the extension of slavery de
stroyed them both and ruined the cause
which they combined to maintain.
There must be twu parties In this coun
try, The same financial policy under
all admlnlstratt ins for tbe lut twenty
years Is conclusive evidence of a com
ntun ooutroL The representatives of the
people are compelled ta betray their
trusts and abandon their conrlutlons to
beta harmony with either a Detnocratlo
or Kepttbllcea administration. Tbe ei
deuce to show that your administration
Is ta aicord with the managers ef th
Kepublu-aa party la rapidly accumul
tog. The llepublkaa and lmair.
arcane, united la panegyrics oa the hu
sly, Intelligence, and ladupendenre a
fourtelf and your opponent, both t
ore aad during the campaign of 11
The tame pre to dy, w hlle s'umlu h
divide 111 1'trtv lints agrea oa the nul.
tesue vf gold standard contractla, su
alt sg'ee ta opposing ' belittling tSv
new party of freedom aad Itf 'tin whUI
is occuplng the neutae om parties e
ebaadL'aed ta serte la the teak of eon
lra lioa and aafd tlua
TMe Utter U written ot ta eagtf hw
ta a spirit (4 kUdi!a 1 1 the hope tha
yvHir eoadutt does at I tadUate yoar lea
purpoe, aad that mu have a t
eompUcattua with bondholders aai
uobbv changer aa wtU prttvsnt fwj
from fighting the w rouge yo have a)
ready eotumiltd and from temagtat
peoide ta the future at faithfully ear
Veje h poesy pre ta the past.
n anything I may say or do can in
duce you to change your course aa
serve the people who have honored yoa
rather than tbe gold combination whid
may disgrace you, I shall be well pah
for any services I may have renders
you. Yours very respectfully,
Wn. M. Stbwabt
Senate Chamber
Washington, D. C,
December 28, 1893
Poor Marksman.
Wabhi.ngtox, Jan. ' The Indiana
enlisted in tbe army have been given
opportunities to show what they caa
do aa marksmen in competition with
white soldiers. The report on the
acorea has reached the war depart
ment It dojs not at all sustain th
general reputation of the red man aa
a bull's eye bitter. Tbe report aaya
that the sights on the rifles are still
incomprehensible to tbem, and thai
much patience has been necessary on
the part of the officers to bring them
to any understanding at all of the
prlnciplesof marktnanship. Troop Lof
the 2d Cavalry, that being an Indian
company, showed an individual aver
age figure of merit of 42.23,
while the average figure of merit
of the coinpanv waa 78. 8 S. In col lee
tire firing the Indian average waa JL
67, while the men of the other troopa
made au average of 62.7a The Indiana
in the 11th Infantry made for their
coinpany (1) the average individual
1 . in. nm L 1 1 . 1 a - . . I
wen ui ij.uu, wuuej tun ufure vi ue
other troops waa 63. 87. In tbe 16th
infantry there le one coinpany of In
diana Their fisrure of merit by indi
vidual classification was an average og
27.14, while the figure of the white
troopa waa the hgb average of 911. .
In collective firing the Indian average)
waa 29. 89, as compared with tha white)
average of 70. 47.
At pUtol firing the Indiana do bat
ter. There ia a separate report oa
this sort of firing for cavalry, being
composed exclusively ox inaiaos, maae)
a record of which white men would ba
Sroud, if they ever learn about it At
(amounted practice they mad an
average of 73.88, as compared with
the general average for tbe command
of 6o.70; at mounted practice their
average was far ahead of that of th
white troopa, and tbelr average par
cent for all firing waa 65.73, aa eoaa
pared with 69.48 for the whole conv
uiatuu. uo iuuibu tuvw urn
order of merit for revolver firing for
the department
1 her were some interesting statist
ics obtained by this practice. Th
natives of the United States stoo4
eleventh in order of merit ' among
natlonalitlos. Norway, Austria,
Switzerland, Germany, Canada and
Belgium coming in the order named
before the United States. The men
of six feet in heigh th and over wer
also hjgbest in order of merit as sharp
shooters, and the shortest men wer
the lowest The men of light ; bin
eye were the best marksmen, ' with
those of darn blue next Even th
light blue-eyed men were tbe beat
marksmen among the negroea
The report calls attention to the fact
that tbe percentage made by the In
dians at revolver practice was greater
than the percentage made bj the win
ners of tho gold medals In tbe revolver
matches at the. cavalry competition
of the department for the years 1892
and 1893. It was alio the highest reo
crd made under existing regulation
by any troop in the department
"Tobacco Datroyd HI Mervc artsl
Stomach and Injured HI Health."
Valparaiso, Ind,, Nov. 26, 1892.
Sterling Remedy Company, Xo. 45 Ru
dolph St., Chicago: ,
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you can buy it at 3. T. Clark Drug Co.
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Missouri Pacific are offerinr tbe verv
lr west rates for round trip tickets to the
world's ratr, good ilor return untu
November 15. lottl Also hav placed
on sain summer tourist ticket at th
iieua! low rates a can be verified bff
calling at office 1201 O stree, Lincoln,
Neb., J. JL K. MILLXR,UT. A. Or H.
CTOWNMMD, O. P. A T. A. St. Louie,
Mo.
PROCLAMATION.
Cheap rtatre-.roBneihln Everyoav
Mttowld Know,
That the rates to all polat wt via
the 'World notorial Una," Union
FbaiIHo T j tern, ar very low. For In
stance, Denver, Colorado Spring ansl
Pueblo, 11015; fcUlt Lake. Ogdn,
Hettfua, ttpokana and 1'orUand, Or,
J3W). fimt elaawi 114.00, sveend das.
Kound trip rto for California, mU
winter fair, i4o0, San rraaoUto, Lt
Aasreba and lortland. A a a be)
their custom for years, the Union 1'acla
still ran the famous Pullman tourist
stepurs to California and Oregon
pwlnu. Multitudes hav tried tbeta
and proaouao them just th thltg.
They ar run dally,
Three car are built o the tame gen
era) plan a S rvgular lrt e) t'ult
ta tourist sWept re, the oty dinar
brtag that thy ar But UihUkml
They ar furaUhed tompinte alia
good fttmtttrtabi hair maltrwasiw.
warta asku, now wait uuen aor
tal ua, ftWy td towels, eumhs, brush,
t. whtoh aedurw to the eccupaat f
birth a muoa privacy a 1 to bt had la
lrt elaas Ufr. Thorn ar ab
eeparat toltet rtns tor Utile aad
ga'kata, aad sruvktnf I aheoiutelf
prahlblW. IVrfuU ItJortnetk )
for INilltttaa Culoaist Hie per laftt
J T. M tartx. O. T. A., lot I O hit.
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