The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-09-27
WHO SAVED IDAHO
And Who Saved its Silver and
Lead Interests?

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song that the Boise Statesman
twangs, it is silly enough in its mu-
sic to ask two questions like the
following:
| Would Idaho occupy the proud posi-
ton she does to day had democratic
Congress had the power to keep her out
of the Union7 Would our mining inter-
ests look as prosperous as they do to-day
if democratic Congress had had the
power to allow the free importation of
lead CREST
| A democratic Congress keep her
out of the Union Who was it that
sent Singhiser, first of republican
Congressman from Idaho to Wash
ington under Instructions from a
republican state convention, in ef-
feet, to divide Idaho territory,
attach the Panhandle to Washing
ton, and make present of the bal
ance to Nevada? What party was
it that labored for years to destroy
Idaho utterly from the face of the
earth where no school-boy could
find it on his little map? No navi-
gator discover it with compass on
land or sea? Why, the republican
party! When Ben. Harrison, now
President of the United States, then
chairman Of the Senate committee
on acknowledgement to President
Cleveland, and in the name of that
Senate committee demanded that
the President should sign the re-
publican bill they had passed,
that disrupted Idaho, and scattered
her limbs to Washington, Wvom-
ing, Nevada-and to every carrion
crow that could smell corpse from
afar, from any republican fence
then, a democratic President, Mr..
Cleveland, said "No!" "Let Idaho
territory live and grow" 81 put
my foot upon this division scheme"
A democratic governor telegraphed
to the President from Idaho to
await the mails. The two demo-
Gratis saved even the name of Idaho
from oblivion. Had there been no
democratic President, there would
have been now no Idaho, either as
a state or territory. Itwould have
taken geologist to have dug her
up from the republican graveyard,
and put her bones together and
wonder what she had been. No
Senators or Governors to fight over
not even a constable to be elected
in the name Of Idaho either as state
or territory. She would have been
counted among the things that were
and are not; among those unfor-
Inmates whose lives were too short
to be christened, and never even
reached halfway up the aisle of
statehood.
AS FOR SILVER AND LEAD:
Every ounce of gold, silver, cop
per and lead within the boundaries
of this State of Idaho were bought
and paid for by democratic ad-
ministration, purchased from
foreign government, and made
American, and opened freely for
location and exploration to the
people of the whole world. That
was the work of Thomas Jefferson,
first democratic President of the
United States. The opposing party,
always in the rear. fought against
its acquisition; but he got it and
these are our mines.
REFERRING TO MINING INTERESTS:
Who made lead free of dutv?
Was it not republican Congress
that passed the bill regulating the
tariff on all things? Was it not
John Sherman, Secretary of the
Treasury, who first made the official
ruling and precedent of the depart
ment that lead, under that repub-
lican tariff, must be admitted free?
a ruling followed by all his sue
cessors in that Office to this day?
a ruling sanctioned by the republi-
can Judiciary Committee of the U
S. Senate two years ago, after an
elaborate investigation of this re-
publican law and rulings? Facts
are facts, and they are very stub.
born.
No bowling of braw-mouthed
demagogues can stifle these records.
They may be forgotten for the day
but the historical record lives for
ever. They tell the true story of
silver and lead and copper disaster
and long suffering. They note the
author of all this long-continued
mining depression-of the want
and the woe of the silver and lead
miner for seventeen years; until
that day when the democracy arose
in their might, assisted by a few re-
publican Senators from this coast,
and demanded a restoration of the
Did law which made gold and silver
equal in the United States minis.
The people-some of them at
least-know what Wall street is,
md what power it has had over the
D. S. treasury and it's secretaries
during the past thirty years. From
he time Salmon P. Chase took his
'eat at the secretary's desk down to
he present hour, where Secretary
holds control, silver has
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