Show cleveland want free coinage A mass meeting under the auspices of the reform club held at the cooper union new york wednesday night to protest against the free coinage of silver drew quite a large attendance among the letter letters of regret read was one from ex president cleveland in which he takes a decided aland stand against the free coinage bill the letter is I 1 as follow follows new february 10 1891 E F ellery andorson anderson chairman dear sir J have this afternoon received your note me to attend to morrow evening the meeting called for the purpose of voicing the position of the business men of ou rocity to the coinage of silver in the united states 91 I 1 shall not be able to attend and address the meeting es you request but I 1 am glad that the business interests of new york are at last to bo heard on this subject it surely cannot bo be necessary for me to make a formal expression of my agro agreement ement with those that believe b lieve that the greatest peril would be invited by the adoption of the embraced in the measure now pending in congress for the unlimited coina cognac ri of at our mints if wo wa have developed an unexpected capacity for the assimilation of 1 largely increased volume of this currean currency and even area if we have demonstrated the usefulness of such in Int tn creise other conditions fall far short abort of insuring us against clitus serif in the present altur situation tion we enter upon the dangerous thi reckless experiment of free unlimited and independent silver coinage yours very vory truly Git OVElt |