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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. In
the western part of Oklahoma and the,
Panhandle Egyptian darkness prevailed
Such a peculiar storm has seldom been
seen, and the superstitious thought the
astronomical conditions, which it bad
been claimed by a south Carolina minis
ter were now repeating themselves for
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Rain that fell in western Oklahoma
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At 10 a. m. a slow wire was secured to
Denver, but it is not sure that it will
hold any length of time. Last night
Denver and Pacific coast could be
reached only by St. Paul and the North
west by Spokane, Seattle, Portland and
thence down to San Francisco and east
ward via Eeno and Salt Lake.
Great OaK
From little acorns grow, so also do
fatal diseases spring from small begin'
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Confirms Former Observation.
London, April 16. The Standard in
an editorial says the discovery by Pro
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confirmatory of the idea . laid down 20
years ago by Professor Trouvelot, of Har
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Symptoms of kidney troubles should
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. Earthquakes at Port Townsend. :
Port Townsend, April 16. This city
last night was visited by two distinct
earthquake shocks moving south and
north, one lasting 10 and the other eight
seconds. The quakes were distinctly
felt throughout the entire peninsula, but
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on to convene April 19 to consiber the
status of the present strike for a 69-cent
rate for mining. It is believed the con
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