The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-09-17
Dsa.s Dollar Int ! Nsw One.

/ Those Who deride silver - money
metal are ftee to indulge in feeble A.
tempts 1t sarcasm BY inquiring why we
do not advocate the use Of tin and brass
money. They pretend thst the idea Of
using silver a. money is a new invention
Of people engaged in silver mining. They
ignore the fact that tho standard silver
dollar Of the United States which, with
much satisfaction they stigmatize as 81
cent dollar, requires gold dollar to, oh
tain. They try to ignore the fact that we
are advocating the ''dollar of our daddies''
and that the opposers Of silver are only
advocating scarce money, no matter
what it be made of. They want few dol
lars, cheap products, cheap wages, cheap
men, while the Peoples Party is advocat-
ing an abundant supply of money, higher
products, higher wages and a higher
standard of manhood. We propose to con-
tinue the system of money regarding gold
and silver, the same as adopted and ad-
vocated by our forefathers, while the old
parties want to strike down silver and
adopt the systems Of finance that are de
sired by Wall street and London. The
great injustice done. our people by the
act which demonetized silver will prob
ably. never be known, but enough is
known to bury any antl-silver party out
of sight so deep that it will never rise
again.
The farmers of the Northwest, who, in
1878, owed 81 900, could have paid it
with 87S bushels of wheat; to-day it
would require 1906 bushels of wheat to
liquidate the debt. The laborer of the
Northwest who in 1878 owed $500 on his
home could have paid it with 200 days
labor, while at the present low wages
brought about by a scarcity of money and
railroad robbery, it would require 1913
days labor, and added to that he cannot
be sure of more than three or four daye
work each week, while previous to the
demonstration of silver such thing as
idle men was not known in America.
The property of this country is fast
passing into the hands of the creditor
class, and if the iniquitious system OF
finance, the dsmnable system of corrup-
ton by railroad owners, the alien system
of landlords. is not rcmedied, the condi-
ton of the American people will soon be
as low as that of European peasants
Farmers will be peasants, wage workers
will be tenants and will be begging for
work, our children cannot be educated,
our children's children will be born
slaves, our condition will be reduced at
the point of bayonets, backed by the gi-
gantic money power OF the world, whose
force is so tremendous that it cannot be
successfully resisted by any Nation on
the globe unless by the American people.
The brigandage of the the middle ages
was criminal and in defiance of law. The
brigand took his life in his hands. He
knew that his calling was unlawful and
although ruthless in his work, the method
by which he exacted ransom Of his occa-
slonal victim was less destructive to the
prosperity of the community than the
legalized brigandage of to day, by which,
through vicious system of government,
the great mass of the people are despoiled
and robbed of their property. The de-
mands of the brigand were enforced with
guns and pistols; those of the creditor ale
enforced with bonds and mortgages
both exactions cruel and unjust-one by
violence the other by law. These wrongs
are wrong whether in the name Of unjust
laws or not, and they must be righted-
Omaha Public.