Show OVERWORKING AN OLD PROVERB In an extravagant eulogy of the thc late Grover Cleveland the New York Evening Post includes these these words c In In Iii the wild storm of financial upheaval up up- he lie kept his head That the silver madness ha had l swept away awaya a majority of his own party did not S make it in ill his mind less ess a madness His Ills course in that matter alone ilone was as sufficient to keep his memory g green een among American statesmen His letter to Mr La Lamar shortly after his second election showed with what rare sagacity he saw the thc coming of that free silver tempest which was to make his last term in office one long agony but he lie went on Il to do his duty I without complaint or thought of flinching lunching S De Dc nil nisi bonum is a good tion and it should be clung to at all times save when the praise spoken amounts to a slander upon tire the living living liying liv liy- ing and to the indorsing of crime Mr h. h Cleveland was the second time elected on a platform demanding the f full Ill rehabilitation of silver hence lence when he lie had determined to destroy it as money mono mon ey the sagacity which foresaw that his work would S. S a avak ak awaken u n a storm was not after all so very profound Mr fr Cleveland knew nothing of the significance of the silver quest question on lie had obtained some ideas S. S fr from m Don DOll Manning fanning who was a national banker and he lie accepted them and with characteristic stubbornness stubborn stubborn- i 0 ness hess for forced ed them upon congress He carried his point pointS S because behind him was every bondholder and naL national na- na L b banker in the east To help him out and nd give giveS S him an excuse for calling an extraordinary session of congress the they precipitated on an utterly false falset I t cry the thc panic of 93 which left more than half the themen themen themen men of the country who through their money and their labor were trying to get along utterly strand strand- ed The expressions the silver craze and sound money coming from the hired advocates of those bondholders and national bankers are no more potential po te now than they were then It was altogether a false alse cry as wicked as it was false and the thc proof was that even then little France held silver up t to tc its old place and prospered exceedingly when only despair de 4 ruled on this thus side of the A Atlantic That the volume of money moner was restored t through rough agencies which no noman man at that time could predict or 4 anticipate does not alter the he truth of history and 5 5 S when that provincial press lauds lands Mr Cleveland for fort forI t I what was done in that summer of shame and dis dis- ti cs it reads read more like an attempt at self tio thou tion 1 than a sincere culo eulogy y of the man who has lIar died |