People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — What It Cost Us. [ARTICLE]

What It Cost Us.

We have now had two years of Cleveland, and while he enjoys vacation at Buzzard’s Roost, surrounded by the Benedicts and miscellaneous flunkeyism, we may as well count up what his administration has cost us. He has mortgaged us to the English capitalists for $162,000,000 in principal and $123,000,000 interest. He has spent all the enormous income of the government and seventy odd millions besides. He has demonitized about half of the currency of the people as money of final redemption, and created a shrinking of values which ruined millions. He has brought the republic to where it has to beg Wall street for the liberty of living. * Clothed in its sovereign power, the government is master of all, and should rule; but this pompous fraud, whose idea of finance is to secretly sell government bonds at 104 when the market ratio is 120, has made the republic a prodigal—a spendthrift who squanders more than his income—and thus has degraded a great nation to the position of constant asker of loans from those who usurp its authority and take advantage of the pitiable traits to which Cleveland’s mismanagement has reduced it. When he first took office he was poor —and boasted of it. He is now a millionaire —and boasts of it. When he first took office the republic was rich, with many millions in its treasury. It is now poor—living from hand to mouth on borrowed money, and is plastered with mortgages,, like a southern mule, from ears to tail. Mr. Cleveland is at Buzzartf’s Roost enjoying his millions. Uncle Sam is in Washington weeping over an empty cash box, and putting new salve on the place where the last Rothschild mortgage rubs—People’s Party Paper.