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CLEVELAND, Grover. Autograph letter signed ("Grover Cleveland"), as President, to Rep. William L. Wilson, Washington, 15 July 1894, enclosing a typed letter signed ("Grover Cleveland") to Wilson, Washington, 2 July 1894. Together 9 pages (2 pp. ALS and 7pp. TLS), 8vo and 4to, on Executive Mansion stationery.
"HOW CAN WE FACE THE PEOPLE AFTER INDULGING IN SUCH OUTRAGEOUS DISCRIMINATIONS AND VIOLATIONS OF PRINCIPLES?"
Dramatic letters in which President Cleveland lobbies a key Democratic colleague on the pivotal Wilson-Gorman tariff legislation. In his cover letter, President Cleveland says: "I send you with this letter, which was substantially prepared at the time it bears date and [then] laid aside. I feel so deeply upon the subjects of which it relates I cannot longer delay explaining my position to you...I am and ought to be intensely concerned in the outcome and at this stage I should be permitted to speak. I have marked the letter 'personal.' I am quite clear it is better not to have any publication of it immediately. I am willing it should be read to your House colleagues and I am prepared to confer with you as to any further use to be made of it."
The long, seven-page letter which Cleveland encloses contains two strong injunctions to Wilson: in the House-Senate conference over the tariff bill, do not compromise on the question of allowing free imports of raw materials, and do not allow sugar imports to be taxed: It would be an "inconsistent absurdity," Cleveland says, "that the wool of the farmer be put on the free list and the protection of tariff taxation be placed around the iron ore and coal of corporations and capitalists. How can we face the people after indulging in such outrageous discriminations and violations of principles?" This was a jibe at Rep. Wilson, who was a fervent anti-tariff man, except when it came to his home state's key industry: the West Virginia coal companies got all the tariff protection they wanted. Sugar on the other hand, "is a legitimate and logical article of revenue taxation," Cleveland says, and he dismisses fears about a "sugar trust" monopoly in the country. The bill that came out of Congress in 1894 lowered the tariff rate by 7-percent, but did not go far enough to suit Cleveland, who denounced the Wilson-Gorman package as "party perfidy and party dishonor," but allowed it to become law without his signature. Together 2 items. (2)
"HOW CAN WE FACE THE PEOPLE AFTER INDULGING IN SUCH OUTRAGEOUS DISCRIMINATIONS AND VIOLATIONS OF PRINCIPLES?"
Dramatic letters in which President Cleveland lobbies a key Democratic colleague on the pivotal Wilson-Gorman tariff legislation. In his cover letter, President Cleveland says: "I send you with this letter, which was substantially prepared at the time it bears date and [then] laid aside. I feel so deeply upon the subjects of which it relates I cannot longer delay explaining my position to you...I am and ought to be intensely concerned in the outcome and at this stage I should be permitted to speak. I have marked the letter 'personal.' I am quite clear it is better not to have any publication of it immediately. I am willing it should be read to your House colleagues and I am prepared to confer with you as to any further use to be made of it."
The long, seven-page letter which Cleveland encloses contains two strong injunctions to Wilson: in the House-Senate conference over the tariff bill, do not compromise on the question of allowing free imports of raw materials, and do not allow sugar imports to be taxed: It would be an "inconsistent absurdity," Cleveland says, "that the wool of the farmer be put on the free list and the protection of tariff taxation be placed around the iron ore and coal of corporations and capitalists. How can we face the people after indulging in such outrageous discriminations and violations of principles?" This was a jibe at Rep. Wilson, who was a fervent anti-tariff man, except when it came to his home state's key industry: the West Virginia coal companies got all the tariff protection they wanted. Sugar on the other hand, "is a legitimate and logical article of revenue taxation," Cleveland says, and he dismisses fears about a "sugar trust" monopoly in the country. The bill that came out of Congress in 1894 lowered the tariff rate by 7-percent, but did not go far enough to suit Cleveland, who denounced the Wilson-Gorman package as "party perfidy and party dishonor," but allowed it to become law without his signature. Together 2 items. (2)