Show CLEV ELANDS washington DC BC april 14 the following Is the text in part of preel gent cleveland Clevela nula reply to the chicago co committee inviting toe the proficient president to a banquet in that city executive mansion washington DC april 13 1895 Gent gentlemen lemon I 1 am much it gratified ratified by the exceedingly kind and tary invitation you have tendered me on bobala of many citizens citizen of chicago to be their guest at a gathering la in the interest of sound money and wholesome financial doctrine if the sound money sentiment in the land to to save us ua from mise mina hiet blet and disaster it must be and combined and made immediately active it L to is to overlook the fact that a vast number of our people with scant opportunity thus far to examine the question in all its aspects have nevertheless been ingeniously pressed with suggestions which in this thie time of misfortune and depression find willing listeners prepared to give credence to any scheme which Is i plaus ibay presented as an a remedy for their unfortunate condition what to ll now needed more than any thing else la Is a plain and simple pro sensation aen sen tation of the argument in tavor favor ot aund sound money in other words it la Is a time for the american people to reason together as aa the members of a great na tion which ORD can promise them a continuance ti tiou nuance ance of protection and safety only so BO long As aa its FOl solvency Venoy la Is unsuspected its ito honor unskilled and the duese of its money unquestioned it if our people were isolated from all others othera ati aud d it if the question lon of our currency could be treated without regard to our relations to other countries its character would be a matter of comparatively ively little importance it if the american people were only concerned in the maintenance of their precious life among themselves they might return to the old days of barter and in this thin primitive manner acquire from each lozher the materials to supply the wants of their existence but if american civilization were satisfied oatis fied with this it would abject edly fall in its ita high and noble mission in these restless days the farmer in ia tempted by the assurance that though our currency may be debased redundant and uncertain such a situation will improve the price of his products let us remind him that be must buy at ae well as sell that his bis dreams of plenty are shaded by the certainty that if the price of things he has to sell is ia nominally enhanced the cost coat of the things he be must buy will not remain stationary that the best beat prices which cheap money proclaims are unsubstantial and elusive and that even if they hey were real and palpable he mut must necessarily be it ft fkr far behind in the race of their enjoyment it ought not to be difficult to con vince the wage earner that it would reach him least of all and last cfall of all in an unhealthy stimulation of prices an increased cost coat of all the needs need of hi home must most belong to his portions portion while he be in ia at the same game time vexed with van ashing visions of increased wages and an easier lot the pages of history and experience are full of this lesson lemon an insidious attempt is in made to create a prejudice against the advocates ofa saffa safe and currency by the insinuation a more or lees lain directly made that they belong to financial and bustness bull classes classee and are therefore not only out of sympathy with the common people of the Jand landl but for selfish and ana wicked purposes are willing to sacrifice the interests of those outside their circle I 1 believe that capital and wealth through combination and other means sometimes gain an undue advantage and it must be conceded that the he maintenance of a sound currency may in a nonce be invested with a greater or lose leas imo importance ortance to individuals accord ing to their condition and circumstances stan ceiL it is however only a difference in degree since mince it is utterly impossible wat that any one in our broad land rich or poor whatever may be his bis occupation or whether dwelling in a center of finance and commerce or in a remote corner of out our domain ORD can be really benefited by a financial scheme not alike beneficial to all our people or that any one should be excluded from a common and universal interest in the safe character and stable value of the currency of the country in our relation to this question we are all in business for we all buy and sell so we all have to do with financial oper operations atlow for we all earn money and spend tt we cannot escape our interdependence merchants and dealers are in each neighborhood and each has its shops and matulac wherever the wants of man exist business and finance in some degree are found related in one direction to those whose wants they supply and in another to the more extensive business and finance to watch they are tribu barles A fluctuation in price at the seaboard is known the same day or hour in the remotest hamlet the dis discredit creditor or depreciation in financial centers of any form of money in the bands of the peddle is 18 a signal of immediate loss lose everywhere it if rookie reckless discontent and wilu experiments experiment should sweep our currency from its ita safe support the most defenseless of all who suffer in the time of listren and national discredit would be the pour poor as they reckon their low lose in their scanty support aupp orf and the laborer and workingman as be sees the money he has revolved for me his toll shrink and shrivel in his bla hand when he tenders it for the necess ralea rales td supply his hie humble home disguise it BB as we way may the line of battle to is drawn between the forces ot of sate safe currency curre ocy and those of silver I 1 will not believe that it if our people are afforded an intelligent tell igent opt op olty city for sober second thought they will sanction schemes that however cloa cloaked koci mean d faster disaster and confusion nor that they will consent by undermining the foundation of a safe currency to endanger tile be beneficent benefice fit a facter and purposes ot of their government yours very truly CLEVEL CLEVELAND ANID |