Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-10-13

side by side with the humblest;
have spoken and discussed with tn
business men, and the ruling class o
my State. | see their wants and
feel their needs, and every fiber o
my body vibrates in sympathy will
the people-the common people.
They call to us to-day for help
call from the mines that close then
out and deny them bread, call from
the factories that have hushed theil
busy hum, but have not stilled the
cry Of the child for bread.
SILVER AND COMMODITIES.
The system OF finance that produces
a small crop OF millionaires and an
abundant harvest of paupers, is an
tagcDistic to every principle Of God,
and to every form of republican gov
eminent, and should, and ultimately
will, be wiped from the face OF this
beautiful earth, in which the creator
decreed every individual the enjoy.
ment Of freedom and the full fruition
of his labor.
As the price OF everything that we
own or produce, except gold, is so
much in sympathy with that Of silver,
that its ratio OF increase or decrease
is in almost exact proportion with
the ratio of increase or decrease in
the price of silver, fall in the price
of the latter commodity should be of
alarming concern to all but owners of
bonds and bank stock. III the ratio
in the price of everything else keeps
pace with the ratio in the fall Of the
price of silver when compared with
gold, as has been the case for the
past twenty years, and this Congress
joins with England and Germany in
the complete demonstration Of sill
yer, which must inevitably drop to
some 30 or 40 cents per ounce, cot
will go at cents per pound, and
wheat at SO cents per bushel.
Some one asks, who wants silver?
The South needs 100000, 900 each
year to move her cotton crop alone,
and billions more to build its much
needed manufactures, dilapidated cit
les and towns, and to bring into &C.
'ivity the inexhaustible resources of
its soil, forests and waters.
AN APPEAL 70 THR PARTIES.
l adjnre you who are in favor of
doing something to help the masses
sometimes, instead of the classes al |
ways, not to be coerced or flattered
INTO submission, but trust in the
righteousness of God and the patriot
SIN of the American people, and the
lay will come when you will be as
proud as Abraham Lincoln was when
he stars and stripes again foated
rom the parapet OF Fort Sumter.
call upon the Democratic party,
which claims to be OF and for the
masses, to show its colors now, while
aborlng under the greatest re-
possibility that it has carried in 80 |
i'd years, before i. is eternally too
ate.
call upon the Republican party,
ounded upon the bedrock of human
reedom, which had inscribed in let
ers OF living light in its initial ban
Ter unrestricted human rights and
quality before the law" every devi.
ton from which principle marks its
allure, to remember the pristine value
Its heroes and martyrs, and assume
he cause of the masses in this
lruggle, and the white angel of hope
nd victory will hover over our camp.
the pillar of cloud by day
nd fire by night that will inevitably
ad us from one victory to another
ntll our victorious camp fires shall
aep burning in every State from the
kes to the gulf, from the Atlantic to
q Pacific.