People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1895 — Wall Street and a Third Term. [ARTICLE]

Wall Street and a Third Term.

The Tribune puts the whole question in a nutshell when it says “the business men of Wall street are not unfriendly to the idea of a third term for Mr. Cleveland.” This is all there is to the Cleveland third-term movement. Business men of Wall street would be ninth-power ingrates if they did not remain loyal to Mr. Cleveland. For them he repudiated his party’s solemn declarations of faith; for them he broke his party’s solemn pledges to the people of the United States; for them he filched the public treasury of millions of dollars. Some of the business men of Wall street, our contemporary says, “think the objection to a third term is purely a sentimental one. Others do not, but seem to have a feeling that with Mr. Cleveland in the white house there could not be any tampering with the money standard.” With the money standard of Wall street, the Tribune means, the money standard which debases the value of one-half the metal money of the country and appreciates the value of the other half. The patriotic business men of Wall street have no fear that Mr. Cleveland will tamper with their gold money standard. It is with the money standard of the constitution that Mr. Cleveland tampers. That standard is the silver dollar enjoying all the rights of gold. It recognizes the demands of all sorts and conditions of men instead of just the roundbellied greed of the business sharks of Wall street. In tampering with this standard Mr. Cleveland violates his oath of office and slaps in the face a holy tradition of the democratic party. In so doing he fosters his third-term movement on Money Shark’s street and kills it in the rest of the country.— Chicago Daily Press. If there is any other brand of prosperity, let as wuapto it, please.