The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1892-10-15

who being stung upon the nose by a bee
became angry and backed up to the bee
hive and began to kick. 1t is the peo-
the mechanic, the merchant, the bust
ness man of all sorts and character in
the East, except the money lender, who
should be on our side, and who will be
on our side when we have convinced
them that we are right.
General Weaver, and his party of
greenbackers and fiat money men are
not unknown to the country. lie has
been u figure in a Kaleidoscope manner
in politics for good many years. He
has occupied one position, rs near as |
have been able to estimate and calcu-
late, at the longest two years, and some
times he has changed once every year,
but he changed his party politics at least
once every two years since the close of
the rebellion, always seeking office, al
ways hoping, so far as we can judge of
the evolutions of his own mind, that he
was making change for the better,
but on and ever on seeking every new
eccentricity of the human mind and up
lifting its banner and sustaining it by
his voice and pen until it became a fiat
failure or until his followers become
tired of him, and then seeking new
party. Now this is not an eXaggera-
ton, it is not abuse, it is history, absO-
lutte history. First Democrat, then a
Republican, then n Greenbacker, then
a Prohibitlonists, then a Republican
and finally Peoples Party man.
Figure those propositions up, giving
each one of them about two years and
u year or two extra thrown in to
harmonize the whole and YOU can tell
about how long lie has been in public
life. All over this land, this man has
been known as the exponent of the
craziest system of finance that has been
known in this or in any other country,
yet my friends of the Peoples party are
asking the people of the State of Colo
RADIO who have never been touched by
this craze, who have always been in IA
vor of honest money, whose most sacred
cause is the cause of silver, to follow in
behind the leadership of this man and
pin on TO his cOat-tails the cause of free
and unlimited coinage of silver. What
would be the result? Just as sure as
you DO this thing, just as sure as YOU
carry one or more of the mining States
for General Weaver and the Peoples
party in this campain, you have dis
graced and debased the cause of free
silver more than its most Mrant enemies
could accomplish i'll any way, and You
have set that cause back upon the
diuls of history more than twenty
years, because you have tangled it
up with theories and propositions that
carry with them The ridiculous III money
matters.
"Now, is not this worth thinking of !?
Is it not worth while that we who are
earnest and sincere, who are not for
personal ambitions forming a new
party, who have gone into a new party
to advance cause that we believe to
be sacred-is it not worth while to con
slider whether or not we are iujuring it
or benetiting 1t by putting man who
has represented so many outrageous
positions on financial matters in the
highest office in the country?
at is proposed in the sub-treasurY
bill now pending in congress that any
one possessing corn or wheat or any
cereal can deposit it in public ware
houses and receive "A receipt therefor
which by endorsement becomes negoti-
able. These things alone, these loans
and this addition to the circulation in
the way of certificates representing
grain, and the amount of money neces-
sary to purchase the railroads of the
United States, would cause a circula-
ton in this country of over 500 per
capita, and would absolutely ruin the
country and destroy the credit of the
United States and make gold and silver
as circulating medium thing UNI
known, and not to be known of again,
and yet you are asking us to place the
sacred cause of silver in the lap of this
sort of propositions and leave it there
for safe keeping | will tell you that
when the people of this State and
when the people of every single mining
propositions due consideration are they
going to vote the way that seems most
likely to advance rather than destroy
and put out of existence the very cause
hot fnr A !