The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-03-26
HUI, German. Brice.

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shown their hands, and We for on
are not surprised nor disappointed
Each realizes that the silver issue
is going to play an important par
in the coming campaign !; each is
J suppliant for popular suffrage, anc
each. therefore, is striving to place
himself in a favorable light before
the strong side of that question
Living in the East where silver hat
few friends, they naturally think
the gold bugs the stronger party
and hope by opposing silver coin.
age to place Mr.. Hill in the presi.
Dental chair, when Mr.. German
would become secretary of state
and Mr.. Brice secretary Of the
treasury, a combination that would
put monopoly as completely Tin
the swim" as it is under the present
administration. But we think they
are building on sand we think
upon a full and fair vote on the
proposition it would appear that a
good safe majority of the American
people believe silver is as good
money as gold, and should be coined
upon perfect equality with that
metal. We think another thing
would appear also, and that is that
the leaders of both political parties
are engaged in an effort-some
knowingly and others blindly-to
lead the people away from the meas
ure, and to delay what they recog-
nize as the inevitable in the matter,
in the interest of the creditor class.
Certainly the opposition to silver
coinage is not being pushed in the
interest Of the masses, for these do
not employ lobbyists nor expend
money to shape nor to influence leg
islation, and so are seldom thought
Of when q measure that will affect
their pecuniary interests is to be
passed through Congress. The
scheming rich men, those who are
present with their helots and their
coin, are mistaken by our law
makers for "the people," and the
laws enacted for their benefit and
80 it has come about that more than
three fifths Of the wealth of the
country has passed into the posses
sion of handful Of men in the
cities numbering less than one
sixtieth of the population of our
country-and all Of this by means
Of class legislation. Silver demon
citation was in this line of iegisia-
ton, and its overthrow would be a
victory for the people. The oppor-
tunity to win this victory was offered
to the democratic party by the 5lst
Congress, and if rejected by its
leaders now defeat at the polls will
follow, and that will be succeeded
by party disintregation and the for
nation of new party; for having
refused to do this act of justice, or
to compel President Harrison to
veto coinage law, when it had the
power. no explanation its leaders
can make can satisfy intelligent
democrats that they have not been
wilfully betrayed, and the party
will no longer have reason or an
excuse for living. For it must be
borne in mind that the democratic
party occupies an entirely different
position before the common people
of the country from that occupied
by the republican party. The latter
is recognized by the thinking por-
ton of our people as the represent
alive of corporations and monarchy
and is very properly supported by
such as prefer monarchism to repub-.
licanism. They would consistently
support their party in its opposition
to silver coinage and all kindred
measures. Not 80 the democratic
party. That party must stand for
rs against class rule-for
the best good of the people as a |
whole-or give way to a party which
will. SO long as the republic en-
dures, the struggle between democ-
racy and monarchy must continue.
This struggle keeps the republic
alive. monarchy being a natural and
republicanism an artificial state.