Show 1 I 1 BOWEN TO CLEWS 0 REPORT AN S it Is sow now Belle yoi that tbt the mony money power intends intend to seize the arm ny ou on some S pretext and thereby precipitate WT war it Is now conceded on all sides that a president and congress favorable to silver will be the of chosen in Noveme br wall street admits it and is preparing tor a desperate per coup this coup has hals been outlined in issued f from rom a recent report the office of henry clews the wall street banker the truth is gradually 1 leaking out the most appalling forms of treason to the republic are today being hatched out in event of the I 1 success ss of the party of free silver wall street intends to seize the presidency under some pretext or other and at the proper moment En glands inacy navy will be on hand to sustain the cause of british creditors that the ipland plans are all laid to this end there la Is every reason to believe it is the reserve power in which wall street is i now reposing as stated in mr clews letter in the meantime the cause of the people continues to repose se ain in a higher power the hand of almighty god Is plainly discernible in I 1 the struggles of the people for free silver coinage scoffed at railed at ridiculed from every seat of the money power the slogan of 16 to 1 has refused to down and today four fifths of the people of the united states are ready to vote for it and when once they do f I 1 woe voe betide the hand that attempts to defeat tapir will henry clews letter has brought forth a tornado of protests we quote 1 the following from george S bowen of of I 1 elgin ill as expressive of the very best american sentiment mr bowen la Is known all through the united states as a man of great integrity a sch scholar 0 lar and a christian the letter is as follows I 1 henry clews new york I 1 in replying to your aud audacious adous threats and autocratic references refer encee as to the effects 1 ts of an ignorant free suffrage me to remind you that the producers of the west and south are not unmindful of the tender expressions of regard entertained for them by the honest exponent of the power of will wall a treet street we beg to assure you that the conditions of politics will continue disturbed until the great issue now before the country is ie justly settled we understand that we are now on a gold basia and that it requires at present three bushels of wheat to buy a dollar of gold instead of one bushel in 1880 1880 that two pounds of cotton are required to buy as much gold as one pound would buy five years ago that wool iron cattle land and labor are at the lowest point in our history while gold hu has doubled in purchasing power and i shrinkage of values has haa been going on and must continue to progress I 1 an fn I 1 n still greater eater ratio until we broaden the base orf of our money structure by restoring j silver to its proper place in our I 1 money system tem the ignorant voters of the west and south agree with thomas jeffer jefferson son and are in favor of I 1 sound round metallic money the money of 1 the constitution and they understand I 1 perfectly that a contracted contract ed vol volume ume of I 1 I 1 money lowers prices and they have I 1 concluded that we must change the basis and that the load ot of debt carried on each gold dollar we have in this I 1 country Is too great that we must increase the metallic base by the addition of the silver dollar your co laborers R G dun co a I 1 weekly report under date of may th tell us that trade still waits exports of gold continue there is general conviction that destructive schemes will not succeed they say further wheat has fallen 3 cents that low prices bring larger atlantic exports that Is to say aay more bushels of wheat are required to buy a dollar in gold cotton has fallen an eighth in spite of continued reports that famine Is near decrease in manufactures 30 per cent print cloths claths weak I 1 nobody can tell what quant ites of goods have been accumulating wool sales 40 per cent less than a fair weeks consumption I 1 iron and steel eel markets are weak with lower prices pig iron has fallen over 5 per cent since april stoppage of two thirds of the furnaces in west virginia failures increasing A E becker co wool merchants chicago say the price of wool has reached a climax the markets are glutted with wool etc etc it cost the farmers of illinois to raise bushels of wheat during the past three years or ce cents n ts per bushel and they received for it or cents per bushel causing a net loss of cents per bushel they rece received I 1 ved 6 cents le less sa pe per r bushel tor for of oats than it cost to raise them they lost 42 cents on their crop of bushels of corn in 1893 our secretary of agriculture J sterling morton reports report that in 1893 the farmers of the united states received less per a acre cre for their wheat crop and less per acre tor for their corn than it cost to produce these cereals the state comptroller af f new york reports a decline in the value of farm lands of 33 13 1 3 per mat cent w within thin a few ye years am the responsible property owning citizens farmers of our country are rapidly becoming 9 the tenants of new york and boston money owners 70 per cent of them now being their tenants and conditions are being made that no congress later on will dure digre gard the new york sun in a review of the ahe conditions exist existing ft concedes th that our farl farmers ner could purchase abre manufactured foods it had Teea Tved the prices price Pr bretall Valli its J lor for Is a IM 11 elsam El SrM za I 1 1 0 anh 1 Y 4 or could pay out at enuch ath alo non ot of mow data d bt these ignorant ign pro producer dubers aa ad voters raised bu buher chels of wheat irl in 1880 a and nd sold it tor for ont bushel in 1895 they raised railed W per bus bushels hels ot of wheat and for it cents per bushel thirty of wheat bushels less mil million lion million more consumers and yet aws compelled to sell at halt half price in aw 1360 producers of the united the cotton states sold pounds of cotton for cents per pound while in 1894 they received 46 cents pw pound for or pounds official reports note a decline of per cent animals in the th in the value of farm united states from 1893 to 18 1896 96 and ft decrease of 53 per cent in numbers the london price for wheat d declined from in 1891 to 76 cents in cotton sold in london in 1891 1991 for DAS 1895 1995 wib ov oaf cents per pound and in a hundred and thirty nil million ilion low I 1 pounds of cotton to sell it brought but 67 cents per pound the overproduction theory cant explain this great grat and continued decline in prices the Ig ignorant morant tree free suffrage citi beas 0 of f the west conclude that our present financial system the destruction of one half of our metallic money and th mhd contraction of our paper money is the th main cause of the tearful fearful condition now eid existing sting and it is proposed to restore more equitable and just conditions throughout the country wt ot and west north and south we propose an american system industrial and financial we believe a larger volume of sound money metallic mousy money will raise prices will give employment to labor will increase the purchasing power and consuming power ot 0 sixty million american citizens many of whom comprehend and understand and complex money questions quite as well as the representative ot of wall street we also believe in an american tariff that recognizes the interests of the producers of wool wheat cotton and all productions of the farm and mine as well as the products of our mills and furnaces we recognize perfectly the potency and practice of wall street to overcome popular ignorance we have a perfect appreciation of its reserved power we agree with you that startling results may corn COMS out of either of the party conventi conventions onIL we understand your presumed ability to coerce and convert reckless legislators there are men however yo you u cannot buy with your reserve power there are greater forces than wall street commands and they will appear in due season the issue is clear let there be no straddle or dece deception eption we concede that wall street understands understand the situation and you may rest assured that we also understand the situation and the spirit of the contention tbt ignorant tree free suffrage citizens of the united states will send wall sart their answer to your ungracious taunts your autocratic threats greater potencies poten cies and the reserved power on which you are now reposing next november the sll silver veritAs lt have no desire to block sound money legislation in the next congress con gres they will insist and see to it that we have real sound money legislation and shall elect a president who will approve such legislation why not point us u the way to national prosperity no threats are needed for that tell th the farmers how they can get prices that will sustain life tell the manufacturers of new england new york and pennsylvania the south and west how they can operate their machinery pay for labor and not grow poorer every year tell us how to put the idle wheels and unemployed men at work tell el us how humanity may be elevated in the scale of a higher civilization tell us how the ignorant tree free suffrage citizen may be b lifted out of his ignorance into a better citizenship save your taunts taunt and threats mr clews tor for some other purpose than to try to frighten american citizens who value this great republic dearer than life itself and intend to leave it unimpaired as a heritage to their children and a beacon light to all the world respectfully GEO S BOWEN |