Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-02-10

Hhe silver Cause-the Peoples Cause
Needs Fluancial AID.


The Bimetallio League, organized
for the purpose Of pushing the fight
for free coinage Of silver, has request
ed every one interested in the cause
to forward u to Representative
Willis Sweet, who is authorized 70
receive subscriptions to the good
cause. The one dollar makes the
donor . member Of the League and
be will receive silver literature sent
out by its officers. This is : good
plan, but the World earnestly be.
lieves it ought to be supplemented
with another that would prove Of
greater success. Many, we might
say many thousands, would contrib
ute ten or twenty-five cents each, who
would not feel able to give 81. If
the President of the League would
appoint one live, responsible and en-
thusiastic silver advocate In each
State and Territory, with authority
to appoint for each county, this one
in turn TO name collectors for each
town or settlement to make the small
collections as suggested, the aggre-
gate result would be great. The
bondholders, banks, money-lenders
and others who thrive and grow fat
on the poverty of the people, have
millions upon millions with which to
fight against legislation for the relief
of the masses. The silver advocates
must have money with which to NEE,
these leeches in battle array. The
funds required to push to success a
good and just cause is not SO great as
that necessary to check the advances
of such cause. The moneyed class
spent millions in 1873, all over the
world, for the purpose of demonetiz-
ing silver, but for those millions they
have made billions, and this gives
them added financial strength to still
further decrease the currency and
thereby add to the value of their
bonds and other securities in the ex-
act proportion of this decrease, and
while increasing their wealth increas-
ing the burdens of the producers
Whenever, in this way, the non-pro-
ducing shylocks add one billion tc
their wealth they add just that much
to the debt burden of the producer
which is robbery, pure ard simple
The producers have this added tc
their debts, and without one cent ol
value received. Taking anything fol
which nothing is given in return is
robbery-nothing else. These con
tractors of the currency are still al
work, systematically and unitedly
To stop all coinage of silver is thei
latest scheme, and if this is accom-
plished the next will be, without I
doubt, to limit the coinage of gold
This thing will never stop SO long a
the people patiently submit. Blu
these sharks have eternal Justice star
ing them in the face, aud it will no
be long ere Justice cries-"Ven
geance is mine and l will have i'll!
I-if only backed by the organized ef
forts of the people, who are now be
ginning to open their eyes to the rea
causes of their oppression. The
have been blinded and led astray
this way and that way, and man
causes, or alleged causes, other tina
the true one, have been pointed ou
to them by the oppressors. But the
do not yet thoroughly comprehen
the extent of the robbery to whic
they have submitted. The results c
I this gigantic scheme of robbery hav
, not all yet come upon the producer
but the future is full OF them an
they will continue to come, heavie
, and vet heavier. The public debt
of the United States, county, Stat
, and national, amount, in the aggrt
: gate, to the enormous sum of thlrtee
, billions, the figures of which are b'
) yond mans comprehension. Thes
debts must be paid with appreciate
gold, which has almost doubled tn
debts. Besides this the sum of pr
vate debts cannot be computed, b'
3 the thirteen billions of public deb
, is not a drop in the bucket to the'
a individual debts. The great porto
q of these debts were contracted b
:. fore the demonstration of siver az
we're to be paid in coin-either go
or silver. But after the demonetlz
: ton of silver the reduction of the Gu
rency made it impossible for Il
i debtor to pay-made his debts, '
+ might say, perpetual. The who
e land is plastered with mortgages, al
d it is all the producers can do to p'
: the interest, with the scarcity
. money. This interest he must p'
u in appreciated money. This is q
all. The raisers of grain, cotto
ETC., are kept down in another wi
) through the demonstration of silv'
0 England buys the white metal for
o cents an ounce, converts it INTO
n dian money, thereby making 1t wor'
70 when coined, Sl.33 an ounce al