People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1895 — A CHRISTMAS LETTER [ARTICLE]

A CHRISTMAS LETTER

GOV. PENNOYER OF OREGON REMEMBERED GROVER. “Always R«mcml>«r the Unemployed Multitudes All Over Our Broad Land —( Pray That God May Give You Light and Strength to Do Bight.” I ' Portland, Ore., Dee. 27.—Gov. Pennoyer remembered President Cleveland by sending him the following letter: “Christmas has again visited our stricken land, with its prostrated industries and its idle throngs, willing but unable to work and unwillingly forced to beg or suffer. Your panacea, a change in the Sherman law and the tariff, has been administered, but there is no change in the sad condition of the unfortunate country. After two years of ruinous delay and mismanagement you have, thank heaven, at last discovered the real trouble, although you have not proposed the proper remedy. As you now concede, the country needs more money, but it does not want the worthless stuff you proffer. It needs gold and silver money with which to pay debts and it* does not want bark rags wifih which it can not pay debts. Sixty years ago the democratic party had a President who defied the banks in the interest of the people. Has it now a President who defies the people in the interest of the banks? All the traditions of the party which elected you are for gold and silver money and against bank currency. Do you aspire to furnish an example of treason to the cause intrusted tci your care which will be without anj 7 parallel, except one, in the annals of American history? Y'onr party in both houses favors the restoration of silver as standard money, the people actually suffering from the existing prostration of business favor it, and will you not Stand with them in overturning the monometallic policy of the British oligarchy which is fast degrading our fair country to the condition of a subjugated province and our hitherto free people to a condition of financial serfdom? Always remember the unemployed multitudes all over our broad land. I pray that God may give you light and strength to do right.”