Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-04-23
MONTHS. NOT YEARS.
The Washington Press says:

When the remaining Territories
come in and Texas is subdivided, the
center of political power will fall
west of the Mississippi, and this vast
accession of political power will have
resources necessitating the adoption
of blmetallic standard. This con-
summation will be reached before ten
years expire; and no true forecast can
determine otherwise than that silver
must be just as untrammeled i'll its
use as gold. Our resources demand
it, and our politics and policy must
be shaped accordingly; and none but
the best results can flow from the
liberation of silver from the thralldom
of the goldbugs and bondholders.
Make it ten months, neighbor, in
stead of ten years. Make it about
the Goth day of next February and
you will come close to the fact. Why
should it not be so? The men who
work in the United States have, be-
cause of that law which demonetizcd
silver, paid more for that stupidity
than the national debt amounts to.
Is it not quite time that it should
stop? The rule of demand and sup
ply was slapped directly in the face
when silver was demonetized, for
when silver stood at premium over
gold Congress, in effect, said: "There
is too much money in the world; we
will destroy half of it, convert it into
merchandise" and they selected the
metal which was above par to begin
their work upon. Ever since they
have been taking advantage of their
own wrong, and when the men who
work protest against the outrage and
demand that the old rule shall again
be established, the harpies that have
been preying upon the labor of work
ingmen for these sixteen years shrug
their shoulders, put on an injured look
and insolently ask: SIS it honest, in
your judgment, to try and force a
deprecated coin upon ns?" When
we tell them why it is deprecated,
and that with it every other thing
which labor can produce with which
to buy money, has been reduced in
the same proportion, they reply with
look which seems to say: "Who
can sound the depths of the rascality
of this man?" When the country
was brought to the verge of bank
ruptcy by the accursed legislation of
1873, when in five years from uni
versal prosperity the people were
brought to the verge of ruin, Con-
gress grudgingly consented to par
TALLY restore silver; that is, to buy
and coin from 100000 to $4,000
600 per month. The men in control
of the Treasury accepted the mini
mum amount only. Had they crowd
ed the coinage up to the maximum,
the question would have long ago
been settled. AS it is, the people,
against the demand of the National
bankers for the wiping out of the
Bland law, took of the silver over
$50, 100000 in 1887; they took still
more, all they could get, last year.
This proves merely that the people
would like to see the vicious legisla-
ton wiped out, and silver restored
to its natural position. Against them
there it nothing but the robber cry of
the fixed capital brigade, which is as
but one in thousand to the men who
work. Congress has been ripe for a
law that would restore justice for
three years past, but has been held
back by the influence of the admins
istration. Mr.. Cleveland became
President, committed to fixed capt
talistic ideas. There are no such
claims on the present Administration
moreover, in a sneaking way, the
platform on which the President was
nominated and elected, demands the
change. Hence, we say, make the
time for restoration ten months in.
stead of ten years, for when Con-
gress meets next December, there
will something decisive be heard from
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