Show CLEV ELANDS LETTER fall text of ex president CLEV ELANDS now famous letter bo fore the new york beform club is as follows no MADISON A VENUE feb 10 E ellery anderson esq MY DEAR sin I 1 have ibis afternoon received your note inviting me attend tomorrow to morrow evening a meeting called for the purpose of voicing the opposition of the business men of our city to the free coinage of in the united states I 1 shall not be able to attend and address the meeting as you request but I 1 am glad eliat the business interests inte of new york are at last to be heard on the subject it surely cannot be necessary for me to make a formal expression of my agreement with those who believe that the greatest perils would be invited by the adoption of the scheme embraced in the measure now pending in congress for an unlimited coinage of silver at our mints if we have developed an unexpected capacity for the assimilation of a alie currency and even if we have demonstrated rated the usefulness of auch an increase these conditions fall far short of in aurim us against disaster if in alie present 1 situation we enter upon the and reckless experiment of free unlimited and independent coinage yours very truly GROVEE CLEVELAND MK CLEVELAND staad is correct enough regarding the unlimited free coinage of silver that would undoubtedly prove disaster ous to the country at largo wo should limit the free coinage of silver to the metal mined in this country then we have the question nicely solved that is all the west would aarfor aak for and it is no more than the east could well afford to concede |