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c.v; VOL. VIII THE DALLES, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1895 NO 91 AN APOSTLE OF SILVER Nevada's Senator Replies to Cleveland's Letter. THE SILVERITES ARGUMENTS Financial Policy Declared - to Be the Boot of AH Evil the Country Recently Suffered. Washington, April 12. Senator Stewart has addressed the following let ter to President Cleveland, commenting on the latter's letter to the Chicago com mittee : "Your letter of the 11th, addressed to W. C. Baker, George M. Smith and others of the Chicago committee is timely. The country looks to you as the champion of the present financial condition of the country. The policy for which you have labored so long and per sistently has been established, and the money of the United States is reduced to the shrinking volume of gold. You say : 'What is now more needed than any thing else is a plain and simple presen tation of the argument in favor of sound money.' The policy which, you have adopted and forced upon the country in all your public utterances for the past 10 years is the necessity for sound money. Yon have excited the curiosity of the people by your frequent use of such phrases as 'sound money' and 'safe currency,' but you have never condes cended to satisfy hat curiosity by stat ing what those terms meant, or what is 'sound money' or 'safe currency.' "The people would like a definite an swer, as they do not understand what 'you mean. Your recent sale of $62,000, 000 of bonds to the Rothschilds' syndi cate for $9,000,000 less than their market value to obtain gold and maintain gold monometalism is tome evidence of your - familiarity with 'the 'forces of safe car rency.' "Your assertion that the opposing forces are those of silver monometalism, shows that you do not understand the position of the bimetalists, or that you knowingly misrepresent the position. Assuming, as I must, that it was want of information on your part, without the least desire to deceive the people, you will pardon me for informing you for what the advocates of unrestricted coin age of both gold and silver contend. Why do you urge that a return to the coinage of both metals upon terms of ex act equality, as established by Jefferson and Hamilton and maintained by all patriotic statesmen of every party pre vious to the clandestine demonetization of silver in 1873, would debase the cur rency and destroy the credit of the gov ernment? Have you ever compared the prosperity of the country under your illustrious predecessors wno maintained unrestricted coinage of both metals with the misfortune and depression which afflict the country under your adminis tration? Did it never occur to you that Jefferson and Jacks in might be right and you might be wrong? Did you ever consider the ultimate possibility of the radical change that Senator Sherman and your associates in co-operating with what you term the forces of safe currency -' have made? "You have disregarded not only the teachings of the fathers of the republic ' .but vou have reversed the usages and customs of the civilized world which have existed for thousands of years pre vious to 1873. Yon have destroyed one half of the world's metallic money, and enciianced the value of the other half fully 100 per cent. You have compelled the debtor to surrender more than double the amount of property to liquid ate his debts that the . money he bor rtfwed would have purchased at the time he incurred the obligation. "You have increased the value of gold by refusing the use of both metals as money and have created a constant de cline of prices, and you have" ruined en terprise, deprived labor of employment and produced universal distress. You now call upon the democrats of Illinois to present a plain and simple argument which will satisfy the people that the financial policy which makes them mis erable is 'sound money' and' safe money.' If you know any argument that will con vince the people that it is right for them to suffer . depression and hard , times while all the ' wealth they produce is in money, it is your duty to present that argument without delay. Such an argument would be a new discovery and one never before used by an advocate of your 'sound money' forces. If you can show that a contraction of the volume of money, of ultimate payment of gold alone, has made times prosperous, no body else can show that a contraction of the volume of money, of ultimate pay ment of gold alone, has made times prosperous, nobody else can. It all de pends upon your superior wisdom. "The country is looking to you and you alone to explain why times are hard. Under your sound currency policy yon have delayed the explanation too long The country is getting impatient. It is encouraging that you appreciate the necessity for prompt action." In closing his epistie to the president, the Nevada silverite adds : "Whatever may happen, you are en titled to the gratitude of the American people for your bold and open advocacy of the combination of gold monometalists and the refusal of your secretary of the treasury to put the coinage of both gold and silver upon terms of exact equality. 'You are doing what no other presi dent has bad the courage to do since the crime of 1873. Your confidence in your - wisdom and ability is sub' lime, when under present conditions you are willing to challenge comparisons between your policy and that of the founders of the party . which placed you in power. If you could point to any benefit you have been to the country your task would be much easier, but in view of the universal distress, your cour age far exceeds your discretion, unless you present your reasons for gold mono metallism without delay. Are you aware that every professor and student of political economy, except those In the employ of the gold monopoly in Europe and America, is in favor of the coinage of both gold and silver npon terms of exact equality? That advocates of the gold monopoly have nothing to print in favor of their cause except such vague generalities as you yourself employ, and that if you have no reason for maintain ing a gold standard which will benefit your cause, then nobody else has?" . A Storm of Great Severity. - Kansas Citt, April 16. A storm of great severity passed over eastern Colo rado, Kansas, Oklahoma and the south west generally yesterday and last night. In Colorado and Kansas it is believed considerable damage was done, but it is impossible to learn anything from these sections because all telegraphic com munication has been cut off since ! o'clock yesterday afternoon. For a short time last evening Denver was reached on a very shaky wire, but after 30 minutes the wire failed, and since that time no word has been re ceived or sent into Denver direct over the telegraph wires. The storm covered a wide era to the northwest, Denver wires via Omaha also being down. In south Kansas and Ok' lahoma much damage was done to crops, A peculiar feature of the storm - was the intense darkness and extraordinary electrical display. The atmosphere was surcharged with electricity, and several persons were stunned and shocked. 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