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Show Ex-Governou Seymoue, in a recent interview with a New York Herald reporter, expressed himself very plainly on the curreuey question. He is strongly opposed to inflation. Ho said: "I do not think the west can afford to have an inflation of our currency. cur-rency. It would be more harmed by this than any other portion of our Union." Concerning the "bloated capitalists," Mr. Seymour says there ia no such class in tha country. The men who are rich are rich in kiuds of property other than money. The government bonds, he asserts, ownsd in the United States, are held by savings sav-ings banks and insurance companies, which represent tho work ing classes, and persons of email fortunes, not the rich. The banker?, brokers and speculators, be thinks, suffer most of all from tbo financial crash of 1S73. He believes, also, that the went '.a giowing rich, and "will recover from the financial shock much sooner than the east." He ia particularly severe on communism, but thin La it can never do much harm. r-. |