Dear Sir:
Please answer the following questions in the Jeffersonian or Magazine or both: Has the Democratic party, at any one time since the Civil War, been in full control of the National Government? If so please give proof, not that I wouldn’t believe you in every particular, but I want to prove it to some “hot headed democrats” who don’t want to believe you; also please give the time in which they were in control.
Hoping for an immediate reply, I am,
Yours for the cause,
W. G. STANLEY.
Answer:—In 1892, Cleveland was elected President as a Democrat, and the Democrats had a majority both in the Senate and in the House during Cleveland’s term of four years, 1892 to 1896.
The official records prove this, and no truthful Democrat who is posted will dispute the fact. Suppose you refer the skeptics to Senators A. O. Bacon and A. S. Clay.—T. E. W.
QUESTION: Why is it that the whole world presents the same general picture of unrest, hard times, business depression, and unemployed labor?
Answer: The Kings of High Finance have chained the whole world with the gold standard, the effect of which is to contract the currency. A contraction of the currency is invariably followed by the same results, to wit—the ruin of the debtor class, the curtailment of business, the suspension of work, and the creation of an army of the unemployed.
For three thousand years prior to the discovery of gold in California (1856) both gold and silver had been in use, over the world, as money metals. Now, however, gold alone is the standard of value, and the money of final payment.