The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-08-24

business was transacted. Among
other things they passed the follow
ing important silver resolutions:
The Idaho Press Association, in regular
the weight of their united and unanimous
belief TO the expressed view. now rapidly |
becoming a fixed certainty within the
United States. that the silver metal of the
world is entitled to a permanent home
throughout the length and breadth of
Great America, regardless of the wish or
fiat Of the gold-holding creditor nations
beyond the sea; and we believe that this
can, and should be, safely brought about,
because:
First-The two royal metals possess ex-
actly equal and identical properties of
indestructibility and other attributes nee
essary to perfect mediums of exchange,
and
Second-Because the two are found, Of
ten in conjunction, widely and judiciously
distributed, and always wisely proper
toned. Notwithstanding the hue and cry
which occasionally attempts to disturb
their relative proportions with each other
and to the world at large; and
Third-Because while silver represents
the productive power of average human
beings and is therefore more certainly
traceable and more safely obtainable. gold,
like its prototype, human genius, is less
certainly bestowed and more subject TO
uncertainties of production; and
Fourth-While both gold and silver are
proper measures of the success Of human
endeavor, possession Of either certifying to
and making immortal the product of
labor, the latter is the better measure of
value, because it is more prompt and GER
tain in responding to unusual demands
upon it; and we call attention TO the fact
that in late days the issuance of proper
checks, certificates and paper vouchers, it
is unnecessary to transport the weight of
metal until it is actually needed for use;
and endeavoring to look at the subject
from broad cosmopolitan point of view,
we believe that the decentralization of our
silver coin was a base surrender of the
rights of the American people to the in
terests of those who, during the dark and
: trying period of our national history, did
e secure our national promises to pay in
V coin.
, We insist that all nations who have
ever arrived at IA successful financial life,
did so invariably on basis of bimetal-
= lism ere they felt able to try TO destroy the
L legal tender quality of the best part of the
/, money metals of the earth, and insist Oh
# payment being made to them on incoming
> obligations in the unreliable other portion
left to appreciate; and
" We believe that what Spain alone
IL France alone and the Latin Union alon
d has done successfully for many years Cal
J. be safely undertaken by all America; an'
n We believe that India, China and four
fifths of the population of the earth mus
- have silver on which to do business a
IL they are not sufficiently enlightened t
)f successfully use any other obtainabe forr
w of money.
,e 1T is our belief that this country stand
in its own light by allowing anotht
~ country to fix "a medium of currency fc
er us with the best and most profitable elias
ey of producers of raw material and col
V. sumers of manufactured product; that
,o is the duty of American statesmen. aft,
providing for the creation of u silver Gu
- in t,laPa Of tho ,rnl1 fA al1oxp nj
foreign creditors full payment in our pr
1d ducts or in coin whenever desired
he them, even though it should mean u
Withdrawal of all the gold we may no
l., have or that we may obtain for gener
tions, rather than that our products
~ continually deprecated, our produce
M handicapped and our relations virtual
forbidden with the best class of outsi
-os consumers for the same period of tim
II; In other words, we believe that the que
tion before the United States is a par
=" phrase on the ancient maxim-"Wheth
he it is better to reign in an American mon
ed tary heaven or serve in an English fna
ars cial hell" and
O., We therefore believe that it is the pri
ilege and duty of the United states,
'o- gether with such other American suppo
we that can be obtained upon the weste
di- continent, TO al once remonetize silver a
,ur place the same where it stood before {
of underhanded legislation of 20 years a
a. destroyed its prospect of furtheri
'"o American industries.
Ign And we believe finally: That il Is OF
by this means-the dealing with a
vel being friendly TO nations who are prodl
on. ers of raw materials and consumers
ne. manufactured products, and not by
to lowing the lead of nations who h;
nti- heretofore been chief competitors for
worlds business that our country
I, of fulfill its destiny and become the pate
for other nations on this continent.
sity Therefore we, the editors of Idaho
the the state convention assembled. call w
our legislative officers in the Natio
tion Congress, upon those of other states a
vel communities where their chief indus
Disc is the production of something valuat
and not the boarding Of gains (oft-tir
ong illtgotten), that others has produced
the days past, TO see justice be done to sill
by giving back TO it the full ability VIII
bers it possessed up TO few years ago-unl