The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-07-15
Will Congress Remonstize Silver

The QUESTION as TO what Congress will
do at the extra session already called
to afford the necessary relief 10 the lnsi-
ness interests Of the country, Is q qrrs-
ton that is causing much uneasiness
among the people. For years the gov
ernment has been engaged in the pnr-
chas- of silver bullion and has stored n
/ its vaults an immense amount Of the
white metal, in ronnd numbers five or
six hundred millions of dollars.
These continued and continual pnr-
chases have been made hy authority Of
Congress. first under the Bland act,
which was substituted by what is known
~ the Sherman law, which is now
songht 10 be repealed by Wall street,
without giving any substitute in it's
stead. Acting aith the robber herd Of
England and Germany, frandulently
corruptiDg the legislation of the conn-
try in order to forward their illtgiIi-
mate schemes, the money kings have
succeeded in destroying the confidence
'fths masses, not only in the legisla-
lion of the country, hut in the men
chosen to legislare for the whole people,,
whose every art has been against their
rights and wishes.
BY the aid of English and German
gold, together with Wall slreet's potent
influence, the Congress of the United
Slater, by fraud and vicious legislation,
sncreedrd in debasing silver in 1873
since which time the finances of the
country have been going from bad TO
worse until confidence has been de-
stroyed and the concentrated wisdom of
Congress has been called into play in
order that impending danger may be
avrrted aud confidence restored TO the
masses.
On the 9TH of next month Congr SO
will meet and the first thing to be con-
siiered by that body will be the adop-
ion of some measure of relief.
Whether the obnoxinus Sherman Law
will lie repealed without substitute Of
free coinage, will be determined then.
That its repeal, without substitute.
is greatly desired by the present ad-
miuisrralion and its friends in Wall
street, is not questioned, but they do
not show, nor do they make an effort to
do so, in " hat way its repeal will aid
the canse for which Congress is to meet
to remedy ; how the withdrawal Of
that amount of the silver rchase-con-
tracting the currency to that extent
will give the relief tor which they are
called together.
The men Tho are responsible for the
condition of things To- day are our legs.
lators. By their vicious enacl menls
they have made commodity of silver;
destroyed its value on the market as a
money metal forced the government
in it's monthly purchases TO coDsum-
mate them in the suc,ion room or on
the public streets, and in order to cori-
plete its debasement,t the friends of Wall
street and it's emIssaries, now demand
its complete betrayal by the Encondi-
tional repeal of the Sherman law.
We believe that silver viii, at no dis
tant day, form part Of our currency;
hat ills place among the money metals
Of The country should be on parity
with gold, aud that its reinstatement to
the position il formerly occupied as
money metal will he fully consu ummated.
We cannot see how Congr, IS can con-
sistently, with the obligation under
" hich il labors, and their duty to their
ther depreciate and degrade the metal
that, until debssed by fraud and mslicl-
Gus legislation, constituted the most i'm
poriant part of the currency of the
country. We ar" among those who be-
lieve that v hen Congress comes to dis
cnss the situation, and behold the evils
that have resulted from the fraudulent
decentralization of silver, and the vici.
Gus class legislation that followed lis de-
basement, to the great detriment OF the
legitimate interests of he country and
people, that Congress will, so far as it is
able, right the wrong so unjnstly made;
bringing confidence to our people !;
prosperity to the country. and free and
unlimited coinage TO The currency.
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Uncle Dsul, P,o rrss, of Nampa. all