The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-08-20

land has done, but she selected
gold, probably at the behest of the
gold conspiracy, who were jealous
of our immense mineral wealth and
saw chance to bear silver. There
fore England adopted gold and
allowed silver to fuctuate, which
was we'll enough, but she did even
worse; she quit coming it in order
to do everything possible against
it. She did not even wish to give
it fair play-she quit coming it at
all as money and used only very
limited quantity, in token" coins.
They did everything possible for
government to do in the market to
bear silver and treated it in a most
shameful and arbitrary manner,
using their divine right of kings
and great influence of every kind
for the benefit of the gold trade and
greatly to our injury, to the injury
of their labor and to the robbery
of their Indian colonies and Eng
lish laborers, all for the benefit of
the gold pool" They discouraged
its use in England and did every
thing to depreciate its price. They
only continued to coin it for their
Indian possessions in the form of
rupees, in order to enslave and rob
Indian labor; not for any benefit to
English labor, but to favor the
great gold conspiracy and to give
it an absolute monopoly of the
money and thereby of the labor of
the world. 1t was the most con.
temptible piece of conspiracy of
which great people were ever
guilty, and here we have its coad-
tutors laboring in congress for it's
adoption here in this country.
Now then, what should we do?
Why, adopt single silver stand
ard like Mexico; coin a new dollar,
which it would be we'll were a
coin of 400 grains of pure silver
1O-11 fine, that is, that weighed
alloy and all, 40 grains. (The
size of the new dollar is not abso-
lutely essential; it may be the same
dear old dollar of our dads).
Recognize it as the dollar of the
country, destroy the ratio and let
gold fluctuate, or do the dancing
in price; extend the right hand of
fellowship to struggling liberty to
the south of us; collect our revenue
in gold, or buy gold with our silver;
pay all salaries of the government
in silver, and use gold to pay our
debts with; retire our bills every
where and get silver into circula-
ton; abolish the humbug of BIZ
metallism and get on to a cash
basis everywhere; pass laws that
did not favor the pernicious credit
system, and go on rejoicing. There
is no trouble in it, and the quicker
we get at it the better. We would
retire the greenbacks and the old
quadroon silver dollars.
This plan has never been proposed
and is the true remedy. The plan pro-
posed 10y John Sherman was to get on
the gold basis, which is one way and
as he probably is a bond holder and
represents that class, he is in favor of
whatever would depreciate silver In
any case the bi-metallic system will
never do. The next way is the plan
proposed here. This has never been
discussed in congress.
The fight of the "free silver" men so
called in congress was for this one TO
sixteen or parity" arrangement. 1t
could do no good except swindle the
people by making them pay more for
silver than it was worth in the markets
of the world without really doing the
cause of silver any good. 1t was alto
gether indefensible and in the desperate
congressional running fight with John