Thomas DiLorenzo – The Last Liberty President lewrockwell.com

After the War to Prevent Southern Independence and the assassination of Lincoln, the federal government was said to possess a “treasury of virtue.” The Republican Party, which was the federal government, with a decades-long monopoly of power rivaled only by the Bolsheviks in Russia, made sure that the government-run schools would preach this Virtuous State Philosophy to generations of schoolchildren.
Grover Cleveland was also a crusader for the Gold Standard and sound money.