The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-08-10

tural and labor homes to be read by
the father, son and grandchild and
work an influence on the sentiment
and vote of its section. And in any
eastern county it will he found that
the local sheet reaches more hearths
than any half dozen big dailies, and
the article published in the country
journal carries more influence all
around than the great weighty edto-
rails in the daily. We have seen
quite number of eastern papers of
late and they are all full of the same
stuff, which can only be characterized
as simply wild howl-trying to scare
off silver by bowling at it without
pretending to answer western argu-
ments. The big city dogs howl and
the country dogs take it up, but it is
the bowling of the latter that reaches
the ears in the humber homes of the
east. We clip the following from an
eastern paper us sample:
They only ask that their silver shall be
put back on the same footing and cOndi-
lions that existed prior to the resumption
act. when silver commanded Sl2Y per
ounce all over the world before the Rock
les had opened up their rich treasures, aud
before diamond drills and dynamite cart
ridges hau been invented for getting it out,
ana railroads brought in tons oil coke from
the east To smell 1t. AS well might The
wheat raisers of Dakota ask the people To
restore The value OF wheat To the old rate
that existed in the days OF reap hooks,
cradles and fails, before The Irvine binder
and The steam thresher made it sale for
the farmer to quadruple the acreage, and
nave no anxiety about the problem of help
IN harvest. AS well might the old man in
his dotage ask to be placed back in his
childhood and his childhood home, and
have father and mother, brothers, sisters,
playmates and surroundings of fifty years
ago restored The Colorado silver men
ought to know that they cannot grind
with the water that has passed, and they
ought To know that they cannot enjoy the
benefits OF rich leads OF. ore and the mod
ern devices and improvement for mining.
and enjoy the prices when it took 81. 20
worth OF work To produce an ounce"
Isn't that stunning rant? 1t is the
most sensible we found in column
and II half. This erudite editor is like
all other eastern editors, and will not
for Il moment speak of silver as any
thing but Il commodity subject to mar
ket variations. They make no pre-
tention of giving any reason why it
shall not continue performing its
money function on an equality with
gold, AS provided by the constitution,
or why we would be benefited by
gold standard, or how we are to do
the business of the nation, of the
world, with an utterly inadequate sup
ply of money, the metal of which
does not exist in sufficient quantity to
make the supply ample. They ex-
plain none of these things, but try to
drown them by gibberish about i'm
proved methods of mining and the
folly of trying to keep up the value
of the product of mines. Silver is
not a commodity, properly, but
money metal, and who would say that
improved facilities for making or OBJ,
tanning it should make it less valua-
BILE? We presume this erudite editor
would claim that gold eagle is worth
less now than it was twenty years ago
because of improved machinery and
better facilities for turning them out
of the mint; or that improvement in
printing presses, advanced methods
of engraving and lithographing would
make twenty dollar bill of less val