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WANTED-A MAN.
ONE WHO WILL NOT BETRAY
THE PEOPLE.
Interview with Gen. Sherwood—He Com¬
pares the Financial Policy of Other
Nations to the Present Policy of the
Culled States.
Gen. Sherwood has Just returned
from a business trip to Indiana. lie has
had facilities for becoming acquainted
with the condition of business, and last
evening, when asked for the result of
his observations, he said:
"Business ought to be a great deal
better, but we have the consolation that
it could not be much worse, I saw a
gcod business man in Toledo this morn¬
ing. who has been in active business for
twenty-five years, and he told me that
this Is tho worst February for business
he had ever experienced.”
“Do you find business men generally
talking that way?”
"Business men generally are not as
hopeful as one year ago, especially mer¬
chants, and manufacturers. Congress,
of which so much was promised by tho
republican long-distance prophets a
year ago, is doing nothing to help busi¬
ness or to ease the money market, and
from present indications will adjourn
without doing a thing. Last week I
was down In central Ohio Ip one of
the large manufacturing cities, and
both the president and cashier of a
leading bank thero told me money was
tighter than a yenr ago. I asked If the
new bond issue would not help, and
they both said It was only a temporary
expedient that woulS not help anybody
outside the bond buyers. The cashier
said tho fact that so many bankers
were anxious to put their money into
bonds at a low rate of Interest was a
sure Indication that they had no con¬
fidence In tho future of business enter¬
prises. Both tiie president and cash
lei said a majority of tho business
men In that, town were not making any
profit, hardly keeping even, and most of
the merchants were afraid of a further
decline in values of textile fabrics.
“1 went Into the bank to get a small
check cashed; you know I never huvo
a large one, uiul when I was leaving
the cashier asked ran If I had read Till¬
man's speech In tho senate. I told him
I had not; only tho press summary.
He then said that It was a powerful
speech, and Tillman only said what a
groat many people are now thinking.
Ho said ho had subscribed for a number
of Tillman’s speeches for free distri¬
bution among IiIh goldbug friends, and
agreed to send me a copy. After thnnk
lng him I expressed surprise, us 1
knew he wan a John Rherinau, Grover
*» *x • corners t Inn. gold
then said his convictions were now for
free silver, as lie had been fully edu¬
cated by the disasters and business
wrecks we have had under the gold
standard and that he belonged to
clasB of men who had the courage to
admit when he was wrong.”
The reporter asked Gen. Sherwood
he had seen the statement of Chairman
Anderson of tho Ohio democratic com¬
mittee that Cleveland could not lmvo
the democratic nomination again. If ho
desired it.
“Yes; I read that and was very much
surprised. Col. Anderson doubtless
judged by tho last Ohio democratic
state convention at Springfield, when
the oil!co holders proved more potent
than the delegates representing the
democratic masses; but tho result of the
election ought to have admonished Col.
Anderson not to try any more experi¬
ments on that line. It is true that
Cleveland is a rank favorite with the
republicans; and from a party stand¬
point he ought to be, as ho has bo
trayod tho democratic party on every
vital issue, and has carried out without
a quiver, either of remorse or shame,
all the financial schemes of the party
he was elected to repudiate and over¬
throw.
“When I camo up from Indianapolis
n few days ago, a couple of farmers got
on the train at tho first station this
side of Muncle, Ind., and took a seat
in front of mine. Ono was from Darke
county, Ohio. From conversation on
tho deplorable condition of farming,
they drifted into politics and to con
dense the animus of their talk, one said
he had always been u democrat, but if
he had known Grover Cleveland* would
have done what he has done, he would
sooner have voted for the devil for
president In reply to a taunt from
his coin pan ion that Cleveland might
run again, he said he would sooner
vote to hang him than vote for him for
president again, or any other man like
him, ‘and,’ ho addl'd, ‘1 know lots of
democrats in my section that feel the
same way.’ His companion, who was
evidently a Harrison republican, said:
'Well, 1 guess it don’t make much dif
ference to us who is elected. Congress
and the president are just alike.’ ”
The general continued; “There is a
deep and all pervading discontent
among the masses of both parties over
prevailing conditions, and all the peo
pie need now is for the leaders of the
democratic party to cut loose from Gro
\ei Cleveland, repudiate entirely his
financial policy, absolve the party from
all responsibility . for his . deplorable ad
ministration and put the party back
on Jeffersonlan lines. Them there
V.ould seem to be a chance, and it is
the only chance, to elect a democratic
president this year. It is criminal folly
for democrats to longer attempt to sus
tain a man who has betrayed every
democratic principle worth anything.
The real facts are, Grover Cleveland
is a stench in all right smelling dem
ocratic nostrils. At the end of his term
he will have less real friends among
the democratic masses than Benedict
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It is believed that another issue of bonds will be necessary, if the export«_of gold to England continue for any
length of time. New York Post (English Syndicate Organ).
Arnold had in tho continental army
when Lord Cornwallis surrendered.
"Witness the absolute brutality of the
last proposition of the gold standard
papers, that borrowing gold by issuing
orn hundred millions of interest bear¬
ing bonds would strengthen the public
credit and help business. Carry this
idea into your own business. Could a
corporation or business firm strengthen
their credit by making a large loan of
money and issuing interest bearing
m/m -> ihof here no in¬
oughly Idiotic when examined in the
light of ordinary common sense? We
have now had over $260,000,000 useless
bonded debt created In the past two
years, and the end Is not yet. When
the Sherman silver act was repealed
all the gold bugs in the land, big and
little, from John Sherman down,
claimed that we would have prosperity
in sixty days. Head Senator Sher¬
man’s last speech in the senate, just
before the silver repeal bill passed.
Sherman was the chief bugler among
the loud singing cuckoos in both houses
of congress. He then said that all we
needed to bring gold from Europe by
tho ship load and give us a substantial
business boom was to destroy silver as
a unit of value and a money metal.
And It was done by men who were
elected to congress sacredly pledged to
bi-metalllsnv Look at the terrible
business wrecks in the immediate trail
of this infamous enactment. Look at
the record of bond sales since then.
See from the records how every prom¬
ise for better times has been proved
criminally false and delusive. And
again we see Senator Sherman, as the
real mouthpiece of his platitudinous
obesity of the White House, arise in
the senate and commend the present
house of representatives because they
have just voted to kill any silver legis¬
lation whatever.
"And did you notice that Sherman
savagely criticised leading statesmen
an( j senators of his own party for vot
j U g a g a in S t another tariff bill, and
commended the republicans of tho
house for defeating any legal rccogui
t jon whatever of the white metal; that
Sherman, In a speech made at Zanes
V ille last year, before the Ohio repub
Ucan convention, claimed to be a
stanch and trusty friend? And he had
the marvelous audacity to claim, in his
speech, not vet five days old, that these
house republicans, ‘fresh from the peo
pi t> ’ as ho said, represented the people.
it was almost 1,900 years ago, if 1 re
nu mber aright, that Christ, talking by
inspiration from on high, of just such
beings, said:
“ ’They bind heavy burdens and
grievous to be borne, and lay them on
men's shoulders; but they themselves
will not move them with one of their
fingers, Woe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour
widow’s houses and for a pretense
make long prayers.’
“And all these modern Pharisees
from Sherman down claim to be chain
pio.ns of the only honest money, . and
that all are dishonest or ignorant who
oppose their schemes of confiscation of
the pi f the common people by
law. I would like the I'kiin Dealer to
look up the campaign records of the ;
members of the present congress who f
voted a few days ago to murder the
honest silver dollar of the constitution
a: every stage of the voting, and see
how many preached the gold dollar of
chi vampires on the stump when out !
vote beg I venture the opinion j
there are not tea congressmen iu the
whole array, from the entire country
west of tho Allegheny mountains, that
dared talk to their constituents in their
electioneering campaigns as they voted
in the house. Everybody knows, who
knows anything, that nine-tenths of
all the Intelligent citizens of Ohio are
heart bi-metallists. And we have the
scoundrellsm of modern politics well
represented in the vote referred to,
showing that fidelity to a public trust
is no loger the rule of conduct with a
majority of our public men. In fact,
representative government has ceased^
f ’
in tho primaries expects his servant,
whom Ills corruption money elects, to
become the tool of the Shylocks when
elected, and the record of this house of
representatives to date proves that
whom the boodler buys the Shylock
holds securely in his grip.
“When we witness the humiliating
cowardice of the present house of rep¬
resentatives in refusing to even make
one move to relieve the financial stress;
of the people, it is no wonder so many
business men are giving up in despair.
Let us suppose that the silver men had
had their way in 1893, as the gold men
had theirs, and suppose we should;
have had the result we witness today
—of the increase of the bonded debt of
over $260,000,000; with falling prices of
all products of labor, and of the farm
and mine, and with the appalling list
of business failures, suicides, want and
woe, and crime, that has followed as
the inevitable result of the gold stand¬
ard. Why, it would not be safe for one
of the silver loaders to venture out up¬
on the streets of any city, or hamlet in
the country on account of mob violence.
Surely, there would be no newspapers
in the land with enough of the gall of
brutality to have advocated a contim
uance of the policy.
“And now that we have had the
teirible experience of the last two
years and a half, with a policy that
every democrat of intelligence and
patriotism predicted at the outset
would result only in disaster, it seems
incomprehensible how any well mean
ing citizen who loves his country and
his kind should exhibit a disposition
to further exploit the field of disaster,
Certainly no true democrat is in favor
of it. My observation is, and I am
looking at the situation only from a
business standpoint, that business men
of both parties are thoroughly con
vinced that the present fiscal policy
must bo changed before we can have
any substantial prosperity, and I be
Hove that a majority of sagacious busi
ness men understand that the present
effort of the republican leaders to try
and avoid the only live issue (the mon
ey question) by switching off on the
tariff is a scheme of humbug and fraud,
as transparent as it is insincere and
dishonest,
“The people are about ripe for a lead
er who is sound on the money question
for the people’s honest dollars and not
the scarce gold of the Shylocks that
has never been seen by the common
people, has never been the money of
circulation and never will be. There
is no civilized country anywhere that
has ever adopted or ever will adopt
our present fli • of flat mon
ey for the people and gold for the Shy
locks. There is no civilized country
in the world that would discard silver
as a money metal if that country was
as rich in silver mines as the Fnited
States. The world's record today is
that all the silver using countries are
prosperous and all the exclusive gold
countries are not. This ought to dissi
pate the miserable rot of the gold stand
ard organs that a silver standard tor
the United States would mean bank
ruptcy. It is a bare assertion with no
vitality to sustain it, but lie. Even
England, the credit nation of the world,
would not tolerate for a month our
fiscal policy, We recovered
soon after the war from the Geneva
award some $15,500,000 of England.
When this claim matured the banking
J commercial classes of Great Brit
ain, fearing a disturbance of the mon
ey market should gold be withdrawn
for export, induced the Bank of Eng
*° United S tates
treasury was induced to exchange
curities, so as to prevent any with
drawal of gold.
“Here Is McKinley, who claims to be
for protection (and no one is able to
tell just what that means now), not In
favor of the protection of our richest
and most favored American product,
silver. The fact that whole communi¬
ties have been wrecked in the west by
legislation which he commends, and
populations wrecked by hostile legisla¬
tion, in direct conflict with his whole
theory of protection, does not movo
him to utter a word of condemnation.
He has been going up and down the
land with Napoleonic beak and Ches
terfieldian pose and talking the barren
paucity of unmeaning platitudes about
protection, utterly oblivious to the well
known fact that a bill embodying all
bis ideas, framed according to his own
sweet will, not only created revolution
in Ills own party in almost every state
in the union, reduced wages in ten
thousand manufacturing establish¬
ments in less than three months, but so
disturbed economic conditions that the
most sagacious students of history at¬
tribute the panic of 1893 almost solely
to his work. Surely It is a desperate
case of desperation to look for a savior
from present disaster in a party and
country wrecker whose work is only
five years old.
“But where is the people’s savior now,
do you ask? I do not seem to see him,
but Gov. Matthews of Indiana looks
fairly well. This time the people will
serutinize the man more than the plat
form. Cleveland's base betrayal has
taught us that Sibley of Pennsylva
nia is both the man and the platform.
I remember during the war, when dis
aster after disaster overtook the army
of the Potomac, that it was the poet of
the camps, Edmund C. Stedman, who
wrote the ringing battle cry that elec
trifled the country. It was the well
remembered poem, ‘Give us a Man.’
“ ‘Give us a man of God’s own mold,
Fit to rally his fellow man;
Give us a rallying cry and then,
Abraham Lincoln, give us a man!’
“Then a man on horseback was
wanted to command the army of the
Potomac. Today we want no man on
horseback. We want no man who
looks to an increased standing army
and formidable battleships and forts
and fortifications along our frontiers
for continued protection and glory; but
we want a man anxious to do justice
to the great, brave, patient people, and
whose humane rule will cause the peo
p i e to love the country and its free in
stitutions; and then neither armies, nor
navies, nor forts, nor bastiles will be
needed. A happy, contented and pros
perous poulace is the best shield of the
state,”
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The designs for six of the fifteen
main buildings of the forthcoming Ten
nessee Centennial exposition have been
accepted and the construction put under
contract, to be completed by June next,
The lakes and terraces have already
been finished, and the Administration
building has been completed.
LAZY CONGRESSMEN.
NOT ONLY LAZY BUT BEASTLY
INCOMPETENT.
Members Themselves Admit This Fact—
What Senator Smith of New Jersey
and Congressman Jenkins of Wiscon¬
sin Have to Say of Their Colleagues.
Senator Smith of New Jersey made
the statement that the best thing con¬
gress can do is to adjourn and go home,
and our own Wisconsin Jenkins now
seconds the motion. “I am willing to go
on record.” he told D. B. Starkey, the
Washington correspondent of the Mil¬
waukee Evening Wisconsin, “as de¬
claring that we would be doing the
country a service by adjourning. What
is the use of remaining in session? It
is impossible to do any financial legis¬
lation; we can’t amend the tariff laws—
we can’t do anything. The members
will not work; they don’t know how to
work. A committee meeting is called
for 10 o’clock and nobody gets around
until 11 o’clock. There is an old mem¬
ber who prides himself on getting to the
capitol every morning at 10 o’clock as
though that was a great feat. I came
down here to work and I am ready to
work, but I can’t do anything because
nobody else will. I am In favor of
passing all the appropriation bills im¬
mediately and adjourning.”
That’s the stuff. .
Go home and attend to your private
business, ye ignorant and vicious poli¬
ticians. It would be the best thing all
around for a lot of lazy louts that
openly admit their inability to do any¬
thing while the people of the whole
country are suffering the agonies of de¬
spair and crying for relief from the
horrible pressure of hard times.
NOTES AND COMMENT.
What the Feople Are Thinking, Saying,
and Doing.
"Mr. J. Plerpont Morgan and his syn¬
dicate constitute a gold ring in no es¬
sential respect different from the Fisk
Gould ring under Grant. Why should
President Cleveland give such specula¬
tors the confidence and support of his
administration?”—New York World.
That’s easy: because he’s a bird of the
same feather. A great many hard
things have been said against Gen.
Grant—we’ve said some of them but
W ith h j g ) nc ii na tion to Nepotism,
an( j j^g propensity to accept presents
ranging all the way from bull pups to
cottages on the sea shore, Grant was a
sa }nt when compared with Cleveland,
He possessed the merit of patriotism
and downed the Fisk and Gould con
spiracy without, ceremony,
Republican record in congress Febru
ary 14< i 896; For silver, 24; against
s u V er, 184. A majority of republicans (
voted to
chasing law. It was a republican con
gress that demonetized silver in 1873.
it was a republican administration that
first gave to the bankers and brokers
the option to demand gold for obliga
tions that were by law payable in coin,
The republican party is a gold stand
ard party without the courage to say
so. Its platforms mean anything and
nothing. The democratic party is a
mere Imitator of the republican party
and Its financial policy.
* * *
The first telegraph line ever con
structed in this country was owned and
operated by the government (from 1844
to 1847) and when it was turned over to
a private corporation the great Whig
statesman, Henry Clay, and the demo¬
cratic postmaster general, entered a
vigorous protest against it. A major¬
ity of the nations of the world own their
telegraph lines and the cost of sending
a message is usually less than half of
what it is in the United States. Goy
ernment ownership of the telegraph
lines is one of the demands of the
Omaha platform which “we can recall”
with a great deal of pleasure. It is one
on which the people should instruct
their delegates to the St. Louis con¬
vention.
• * *
"The French are said to have in¬
vested $300,000,000 in the South African
gold mines and a much larger amount
in Russian stocks and Spanish bonds,
The payment of the German war indem
nity and the Panama canal losses ap
pear to have made very little impres
slon on French wealth.”—Globe-Demo
crat.
Yes, in France they do things quite
different from what they do in the
United States. In France they have a
money circulation of over $50 per cap
ita, and most of it is in circulation. In
France they don't permit a lot of gold
thieves to raid the treasury to get gold
to export to other countries. In
France, when a president and his cabi
inet or ministry get out of line with the
people they have enough patriotism
and good sense to resign at once, But
this government is run, evidently, for
the sole benefit of the gold thieves and
the politicians,
• • *
“A New York court has just given
John Coughlin six cents damages for
the killing of his two-year-old daugh
ter by a street car. Six cents for two
year-old white children! Black babies
forty years ago would bring $100. Six
cents for two-year-old white babies!
For all the love a mother and father
could give. For all the pains and care
and cost! Six cents for white babies!
Who will furnish them for less? Cents
are cents these days, but children are
plentiful. Dollars are no longer dear.
but cents are dear. Great God, how
long will people grovel at the feet of
corrupt courts and judicial gamblers
and legislative robbers and sell their
babies at six cents per head? Kncck
ae old parties out with their old lep
rous bankers and monopolists, and
bring in the socialist state where men
are considered and property has no
place, except to give pleasure to all the
people.”—Appeal To Reason.
“Who will furnish them for less?”
Ask Miss Flagler, Brother Wayland.
She will likely furnish them just for
the fun of killing them, even if the
old man does have to put up $500 to
satisfy the outraged “peace and dig¬
nity” of the District of Columbia.
* * *
The Globe-Democrat makes the fol¬
lowing explanation of the reason why
Senators Jones and Teller were allowed
to write the financial plank of the re¬
publican party. The explanation also
develops the old party methods of
catching suckers with platform taffy.
The editorial referred to says: "It is
a fact that the financial plank in the
last republican platform was con¬
structed by Senators Jones and Teller,
and the democratic papers have a right
to get as much comfort and amusement
out of it as possible. But it is proper
at the same time to recall the condi¬
tions under which those two free silver
leaders were permitted to frame that
declaration. The silver question was
not then of surpassing importance, and
was not expected to become so in tho
future. There were other issues and in¬
terests that bore a controlling relation
to the situation. The free silver sen¬
timent in the party was not arbitrary
and threatening, but it insisted that it
was worthy at least of courteous con¬
sideration, since it was expected to sup¬
port the republican ticket. According¬
ly, Jones and Teller were given leave to
prepare an utterance on the subject to
satisfy their followers and yet not com¬
mit the party to their view of the mat¬
ter. This was considered good politics,
inasmuch as it was acceptable to both
sides, and served to promote harmony
In the convention; but it was in fact a
mistake, and did not prevent the states
of Messrs. Jones and Teller from going
against the republican party.
The mistake thus made In 1892 will
not be repeated in 1896. The free sil
verites will not be conciliated with a
resolution that can be interpretated
both ways. They have forfeited the
right to ask or expect anything of that
kind, and the conduct of their leaders
in the senate is calculated to put all
compromise out of the question so far
as free coinage Is concerned.”
«s*
When other nations begin to poke
fun at us it is time for the people to
rise up and snatch the so-called finan¬
ciers at the head of their government
bald headed, figuratively speaking.
The London Financial News, which
may be regarded as pretty good author¬
ity, has this to say about the way wa
treat silver:
“There can be no doubt about it, that
If the United States were to adopt a
silver basis to-morrow British trada
would be ruined before the year was
out. Every American industry would ba
protected, not only at home but in every;
.in the world. Of c ourse
the United States ,ould suffer to
extent, through having to pay her ob¬
ligations abroad in gold (but not mora
so than now), but the loss of exchange
under this head would be but a mere
drop in the bucket compared with tha
profits to be repayed from the markets
of South America, Asia and even
Europe. The marvel is that the United
States has not long ago seized the op
portunlty, and but for the belief that
the way of England Is necessarily the
way to commercial success and pros¬
perity, undoubtedly it would have been
done long ago.
“Now, Americans are awakening to
the fact that so long as they narrow
their ambition to become a larger En¬
gland, they cannot beat us.
"It has been a piece of luck for us
that it has never occurred to the Amer¬
icans to scoop us out of the world’s
market by going on a silver basis; and
it might serve us right if, irritated by
the contemptuous apathy of our gov¬
ernment, to the gravity of the silver
problem, the Americans retaliate by
freezing out gold. It could be easily
done, and we propose shortly to show
by evidence collected from perfectly
unprejudiced sources, that even now
the process has begun and is proceed¬
ing at a rate that will astonish many
people, and probably make this country
regret that it did not at an earlier stage
fashion its monetary policy on princi¬
ples of friendliness to other nations in¬
stead of on a basis of short-sighted sel¬
fishness.”
The chief interest which the country
has in the doings of the Ohio conven¬
tion centers on the Ohio platform ex
pression on silver. This follows tho
lines of the uterance of the National
convention of 1892, and part of it is a
repetition of the language of that deliv¬
erance. “We contend," it says, “for
honest money, for a currency of gold,
silver and paper with which to measure
our exchanges, that shall be as sound
as the government and as untarnished
as its honor, and to that end we favor
bimetallism, and demand the use of
both gold and silver as standard money,
either in accordance with a ratio to bo
fixed by an international agreement, if
that can be obtained, or under such re
strictions and such provisions, to be de
termined by legislation, as will secure
the maintenance of the parity of the
values of the two metals, so that the
purchasing and debt-paying power of
the dollar, whether of silver, gold or
paper, shall be at all times equal.”
just get onto that plank, will you
and if you can make head or tail out of
it beore you go crazy, card.’ send us the solu
*j 0 n on a postal And this is from
the great state of McKinley. Here is
one of those peculiarly "constructed
declarations that is manifestly intended
to make the words conceal the idea,
The two old parties can fix their plat
forms to suit themselves, but their ree
erds can’t be changed,
—
Congress is talki- ~