The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-09-24

face speaking that wins, and brings
men together, for the time being at
least, if the speaker has human
breadth and is sincere. What SO
winning as the manifest desire to
be reasonable?
Such speaker even in the heat
of a political campaign, will SOW
seeds of truth, if he really has such
to sow. Truth is a leaven and must
be given time to develop and grow.
If Gen. Vandervoort had truths,
and felt them himself, we may be
sure be sowed seeds that will bear
fruit in this campaign or later ones.
There are thoughtful and philo-
sophioal writer's and speakers at
work in this peoples cause against
plutocracy, sowing the seeds of
truth whereby in time the rank and
file of the American people will be
educated to put their finger on the
present economic troubles and right
them.
The writer Cited last week in these
columns is one of the thinkers who
educates on sufficiently large and
long lines to deserve a further hear
ing on a subject dear to all honest
and earnest free coinage men. I
quote:
"The history of monetary evolution
shows that as wealth begins to accumu-
late in few hands there is q strong ten
dency towards single money standard,
simply because it favors the still
greater concentration and power Of cap
ital. The double standard has been the
money system of all peoples while wealth
was fairly distributed throughout the
masses. France, which is an enormously
wealthy state, boasts that her wealth is
more equally distributed than that of
any other country on the globe. France
adheres to the double standard, practic
ally. For seventy years she threw her
mints open to the world for the free coin
age of both gold and silver, and has now
only suspended the coinage of silver to
foil the plan of Germany to substitute
French gold for German silver. She is a
good illustration of the fact that bimetal-
Iism and free coinage is favorable to the
general distribution of wealth. We are
already pledged to bi-metallism as our
money system, and An act authorizing
free and unlimited coinage of silver will
be the first etep toward those legislative
measures that shall turn the tide, check
the Plutocratic trend, facilitate the re-
distribution of wealth, and insure the
safety of the Republic.
Free coinage will certainly have the
effect of paying off the bonds and other
forms of Indebtedness with dollars of
less value than creditors prefer, but, in
view of the long course of contraction,
it will as certainly pay them with better
money than justice demands. Silver
forms the natural compromise between
imitation and contraction. The SO called
70 cent silver dollar cannot on the one |
hand become the worthless stuff that pa
per currency without metallic backing
may become, and on the other hand as
long as it is combined with some 80 cents
of national credit, and under such spur
to its production, it cannot be used dis |
astrously by the advocates of contraction.
Should silver 60 to par there would still
be an adequate stimulus to silver prOdu
GERS in the fact that they were receiving
the full value of their product, and suf-
fcient quantity to insure healthy circu
lation guaranteed.
Let us all be honest and study |
candidly these peoples party ques-
tons, not for this campaign alone,
but for the future. For, as another
philosophic writer says: There
is but one unconditional command
ment, which is that thou shalt seek
necessarily, with fear and trem-
bling, 80 to vote and to act as to
bring about the very largest total
universe of good which thou canst
see."
What avail will it be if we do not
work and vote for the universal
good? Our individual good is
bound up in the universal, and only
on 'long lines" is there any perma-
nent good.
l quote from another thoughtful
writer and speaker on the gravity
and earnestness of the people in
this campaign.
Never in the history of this country
has there been such an unloosiDg of party
shackles, such determination to reaf6rm
The declaration of our corefathers-such
. thoughtful,-aye,--prayerful consider
alton of the momentous and grave ques
lions which confront Us. The laborer in
his workshop, the farmer in his furrow,
the merchant in his counting room, the
thoughtful toiling millions of all classes
seem to have forgotten the strifes and
bitterness which have hitherto character
lied our political campaigns ADD are
earnest and patriotic in their endeavors,
under the present anomalous political
to determine which OF the |
political parties il best entitled to their
support.
And after detailed and strong
statement of the silver and none
tary question, this speaker sums up
his argument in the following SEEM
ingly reasonable way. The ques.
ton for eastern people is, is it not
reasonable, and 80 q demand for
their support?
The republicans tell MS that vote for |
Weaver Is q vote for Cleveland. The
on the other hand, claim that
q vote for Weaver is vote for Harrison.
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