Show SECRETARY CARLISLES MAIL washington aug 30 1893 every one ona is now thinking of the treasury department it is the financial pulse of the united states put your fingers on it and you can tell just how smoothly the silver and gold blood is flowing through the body of our country just now this pulse is lumping jumping at fever heat and the treasury department is the central object ol of the eye of every business man it is visited daily by men from all parts of the united states and bankers and wage earners come here singly and in delegations to see the secretary of the treasury there are women as well as men and a long haired old lady from kentucky haunts the corridors the press is in tact fact so great crept that secretary carlisle will not see any one who has a new scheme to propose the schemer is met by one of the watch dogs of the treasury and is told that the secretary is busy he is is requested to PUE his suggestions in writing and it is only a man of national reputation or with first class introductions who can get at the secretary at the present time even at the home on K street the pressure of office seekers cranks and theorists is so great that secretary carlisles butler has ever to give the stereotyped answer the secretary is not in sah and it is as harato get a newspaper interview out of mr carlisle now as it was to get one out of secretary blaine during the last days of his life soon after mr carlisle took the portfolio of the treasury he found the absolute necessity of protecting his time he at first admitted everyone every one and he did nothing but talk to callers had he not changed his rules he would have been unable to do any business whatever and as it is his every hour is occupied he comes to the department as soon a as he has finished his breakfast and is usually at his desk a short time after afier nine dine his mail has already been gone through with by his secretaries and the greater reater part disposed of during the erst first few months he answered many of h his s P private private letters but the work pressed him so that he has given these almost altogether over to his son logan the chiet chief clerk of the department and his private secretary he attends to only the most im important imports porta of his official mail and has the greater part of his letters referred to the chiefs of the departments to which the subjects practically practical I 1 Y belong A vast number ot of the let letters which are addressed to the secretary of the treasury never meet his eye and when you remember that it takes several clerks to merely open the mail that comes to the department every day you wallsee will see how necessary this is SECRETARY CARLISLES HEALTH it is this power of making other pe people 0 do work for him which keeps the secretary in good health today I 1 called upon him in his office this morning me he is looking as well as he has at any time for years he has had some trouble with his right arm it is true and this has kept him from signing his mail and papers for the past month but his eye is bright his complexion is good and he feels very well I 1 sat for a while and watched him at work he disposes of matters very rapidly he would pick up a paper look it over and hand it to his private secretary telling him what to do with it he dictated but few answers himself and I 1 am told he deals almost entirely on the broad principle of letting his subordinates attend to the details of the department it was the lack of this power that killed secretary folger and it is said that danniel manning manding might have been alive today had he possessed it from about ten the members of congress and senators began to come in the most of them wanted offices for their constituents and only a few talked of finance they were all received and some were gratified though the most were put off with the statement that there vere no vacancies senator joe blackburn came in and stood a while talking he smiled as he left and I 1 judge he got what he wanted at 1130 the room was about empty secretary carlisle receives callers during only two days of the week and this morning there were none received after twelve at this time the secretary went to the consideration of his official duties and he works right along I 1 am told until after four taking a half hour at one for luncheon he is one of the hardest workers i in public life and one of the most ra rapid id workers he works sunday as delfas week days but he usually drops his work after he leaves the office and spends his evenings with his family THE SECRE FINANCIAL MAIL since the beginning of the financial troubles the mail of the secreta secretary ry of the treasury has steadily increased every morning there are a large number of letters from all parts of the country describing the tro troubles les of the different sections asto as to the money markets and urging him to do some something thing tor for their relief A large part of the mail is made up of suggestions as to how the hard times could be bettered and of schemes raes and theories which mr carlisle is asked to carry out many of the letters te tell him how to deal with the gold and silv silver questions some advise as to the ratio er and nd others advocate the establish est establishment ablis ament of banks and banking systems beany of these letters are from bankers of ac reputation and I 1 saw some today from henry clews of ne new w york york wharton barton of philadelphia and others the majority of the letters aria however were from cranks aud some of these were so curious that I 1 was permitted to make extracts from them upon my promising not to give the actual names of the signers if you will imagine a barrel packed full of letters you will get some idea of the quantity 2 of these financial suggestions which have come into the secretary I 1 looked ovey over perhaps a bushel of them this morning mornin ir they were from all sorts of people and on all sorts of paper some were written in pencil upon newspaper copy other on old blanks as large as a sh sheet of wrapping paper and some were in typewriter under the business letter heads of the writers CRANKY introductions A number of these letters came from cranks there are in nearly every community in the united states one or more men who think they can advise the P president and his cabinet on all sorts sort ares of questions and they dont fail to do so A look at the introductions of some ot of these letters gives an idea of the people here is one from the west HON JAMES G CARLISLE secretary of the treasury washington D C 1 I want to say a little about the silver although great t financial minds are giving careful attention still a this question humbly may advance an idea humble e person worthy of consideration I 1 think it is is a great mistake that the present dollar coined etc etc was ever the letter goes on to the extent of two feet fee t of foolscap paper the sheets of which are pasted together in one continuous strip to say that the writer does not believe in free coinage and to pro the silver dollar should be pose ose that limited limited to grains you note that the writer speaks of himself as a humble person I 1 the most of these writers are humble here is one from missouri SECRETARY CARLISLE washington D C we though a humble bumble farmer would ask honor a few questions like ke to your the financial situation of our conce concerning aning country what has caused the democratic party to depart from jeffersonian principles caples on the silver question ft we have the utmost confidence in in financier but we fail to see any you as a thinie but discrimination against silver under Clev elands administration lettera LETTER FROM BANKERS many of these letters are from business men not a few of them are well written and contain good suggestions A big ohio business man introduces introduce himself as follows cincinnati ohio august 1893 hon john G carlisle Washing tonI C my dear sir drops from heaven make oceans drops from ctorn individuals have been known to change governments A drop from one as obscure as in nyele might I 1 wo work wonders the man then goes on to discuss the financial situation and went on to say that the trouble lies in in the national banks he states that the people have lost confidence in them and he would have them amended no one connected with the bank from the president down should have the right to borrow of A letter from 0 one tie of the best known ne new vim york ork bankers in speaking of the stringency of the money market says why I 1 had a man in my office today who owes only and who has pro property perty which at an extremely low valuation vallon is worth more than a million and a 4 half of dollars he cannot get he will have to fail this blanker urges that something be doner done at once and says that congress will have a corpse to deal with if it does not act very soon A letter from a baltimore banker reads as follows won hon john G carlisle secretary of the treasury dear sit sir As a sound democrat a Cleve cleveland landman anan and a believer in ari arithmetic t h I 1 protest against any refusal to redeem redee the treasury notes of 1890 in goldal the letter then goeson to say why ite he protests an aej J to predict a panic some of 0 the letters come from foreign countries A famous bimetallist of england writes fifteen pages of typewriting showing how his scheme will solve the currency question and there is a letter from one of the most famous ex senators of the south advising secretary carlisle to adopt his views and thereby become the next president of the united states DOWN ON WALL STREET A large part of the correspondence is filled with denunciations of wall street here is a letter from new york which is a fair sample of this class hon secretary carlisle buzzards bay mass 1 I thank youl you I 1 honor you pay no attention to the banks or bankers except to be sure the proper officer watches them they will bear that wall street reflects the fires of hell raging in the speculative bosom now the best of the bankers cannot refrain from bias the country is all right cholly pursue the even tenor of your wah way the country is rich crops good health balth good od c and the pod good lorg lord over us all we we lave have confidence that the fe fearless arless and unpartisan cabinet now in control is levelheaded and neither fears friend nor foe country first party afterward signed YOUR ADMIRER another letter from a pennsylvania lawyer reads hon john G my dear sir for gods sake keep our country out of the hands of the financial kings the bullion brokers the railroad wreckers the stock gamblers and such like gangs the letter goes on in favor of free coinage and concludes with an appeal to mr carlisle to stand up for the sake of the party WANTS THE government TO ACT AS BANKER one of these anti banking letters is written on eight thin strips of pa paper e about two inches wide and twelve in inches es long it is closed with a request thet the writer be pardoned for not copying his notes as he is is veary busy his eight pages begin as follows to the hon secretary of the treasury dear sir your position of relying upon the views of others rather than the new york bankers is the correct one the banks are no more nor less than an immense money trust organized to e enrich n themselves at the expense of t the he whole country bank stocks in years in new york city have risen from par or below to irom from soo to per cent the government ought to do a general banking business it ought to send money from place to place it OU ought ht to issue of bonds at 26 per cent and form a safe and convenient method for the investment of savings all over the country let every citizen be a stockholder in the government and we will be all right the people are with you be courageous as you nave have thus far and all will come aut out well my next letter is from a newspaper editor he lives in illinois and compliments the secretary on his standing out against the banks and wall street another letter from tennessee denounces the wall street brokers as thieves and underscores the words the people say down with wall street this man is is a wholesale cigar dealer and he is anxious to have state banks bank WANT TO PAY THE PENSIONS IN SILVER A large number of these letters suggest various ways of getting our silver into circulation one is as follows wilmington WlL ILL august 2 1893 TO secretary united states I 1 treasury washington D C why not pay the pensions in in silver yours respectfully signed A new york letter on a page of legal cap advises Secret secretary arv carlisle to see that sil silver ver banks b be e cr created e abed and that the silver war be closed in this way another party advises that the silver be shipped out ot of the country in the place of one and two dollar notes and states that the women of the united states would so object to the use of the silver dollar that no man would dare to raise his voice in favor of it on the other hand a farmer telegraphs from wisconsin asking that silver be kept as the standard of value and another farmer fanner writes as follows in favor of greenbacks green backs ST JOSEPH mo hon lohn john G carlisle secretary of the treasury washington D C dear sir if you have the power for gods sake issue greenbacks green backs enough to relieve the present strain and save the people of the west from fini ancial ruin the general sentiment of the people will sustain you u doirs yours respectfully ac signed another letter advocates a bank at washington run by the government the bank ot of the american republic to be run on the reserve and credit funds of the nation with a capital of and there shall be branch banks in the various states IDEAS FROM A chicago man wants the one two and five cent pieces made of silver instead of copper and nickel A cincinnati man begins by saying he would not presume to advise the secretary avd and then goes on with ten aagep of closely written foolscap telling him lust just what he ought to do A st louis man sends a typewritten essay of fifty pages asking the secreta ry to read it an and sages telling him he has written it for him an illinois statesman wants three hundred million dollars of twenty year three per cent bonds issued at once and national banks to be formed on them as a basis an ohio man warns the secretary that it if he and mr kr cleveland think they can full the people and play into the bankers hands all the time that they will wake some fine morning and find a new set of men selected who will do something for the people he denounces the government for paying out gold on the coin certificates and he be closes with a quotation which he alleges is from lincoln it reads you yon can fool all of the people some of the time and you can fool some of the people all of the time but you cant can t fool all the people all the time THE combination DOLLAR one of the queerest of these cranky letters is one which contains a model made of lead and brass represent representing in a combination silver and gold dollar hie e silver is run around the edge in a hoop about a fourth of an inch wide and inside of this hoop there is to be soldered a little gold coin the whole making up a coin about as bi big as a fifty cent piece the man says he afas has invented the coin combination and will be glad to give it to the government for a consideration it contains two fifths silver and three fifths gold and he has a little patent measuring machine which a man will fit around a gold coin and see whether it has been rubbed or chipped on the gold coin and around it he would put the letters U S A and on the silver the words gold and silver one nation the idea is a ridiculous one but the man evidently thinks he has a fortune in it and so I 1 might go on and quote a hundred more curious schemes and ideas which are presented to the secretary of the treasury daily I 1 have given some of the wildest of those in the |