The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-08-03
Hark Ye, Dubois, Shoup
and Sweet,
No Compromise With the
Money DesPOts.

adopted the 1OllOwlng ADDRESS:
SENATORS GEO. l.. SHoUP, FRED L.
DUBOIS AND Hon. WILLIS SWEET,
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS-:
Gentlemen:-By call of the presi-
dent of the United States, and at
time when we are at peace with all
nations, you are to meet ON the 7th of
August in special session. This fact
in itself is evidence that domestic af
fairs of more than ordinary moment
confront the nation and call for the
assembling of congress to remedy ex-
isting evils and, if possible, enact
such laws as will restore our de-
pressed business interests and impart
new life to our languishing industries.
Now, in perfect accord with the spirit
OF our government, it is not only the
privilege but the duty of the people
to speak and in positive manner de-
note what the popular sentiment is,
and therefore to you, as the chosen
servants of the people to give voice
in the legislative halls of the nation
to the sentiments expressed in our
home deliberations, we, the people of
Washington county, Idaho, submit
what follows as the unanimous senti-
ment expressed in mass meeting as
sembled in the city of Weiser, and we
ask that they be fully promulgated and
50 recorded that no doubt can exist IN
the minds of the coming congress as
to our humble position in this impend-
ing crisis in our national life:
From all sections of our county
and state comes the cry of distress,
and no legitimate industry is exempt
from the general suffering; products
of the farm do not return prices that
cover the cost of production; for want
of money, needed improvements can
not be made, work in our forests is
totally abandoned, and lack of conf
dence in the present and distrust for
the future causes stagnation in COM
mercial circles, and this prolonged
ends in business death. And added
L to these and many other ills comes
the crowning act of injustice to oui
county and state, the destruction oi
y our mining interests and the annihila
q ton of the most benefcent wealth
d producing industry on the earth; al
e industry that does not impoverish ont
l. class to amass unjust wealth for an
y other; that does not degrade labor b.
D. undue competition and low prices, bu
u rather an industry that pays the high
l. est wage for labor, and that labor il
Is turn pays the most lavish prices 70
every comodity 1t requires, incident
O ally furnishing a home demand TO
70 all products of the soil and demand
# ing from all sections something for ii
ps daily maintenance; an industry tha
as continually requires from the invento
II and skilled mechanic their best an
n continued efforts, and offering to til
re civil engineer and chemist, and othC
he scientif professions, the most varie
at and lucrative employment. Of a
irl men the gold and silver miner is IL
If most dependent, yet no man pay
to more literally for all benefits receive
no than he; and it is to this industl
m that we look for present and futul
he prosperity. We solemnly believe tn
ut the attempt now being made to d
on monetlze silver and adopt the sing
IN gold standard, if successful, will
+er the death blow to all western inte
he ests, mineral, timber, farm and stoc
,te and reduce property values all ov
Ir the land below present conjecture, al
are followed to logical conclusion wou
no reduce the laboring and debtor class
to condition utterly helpless al
hopeless. To this much might
o" added, and the gloomy outlook }
'aS but family pictured. We ask for
ar new or special legislation. We a
ave only for the repeal of such laws
T" are now, through fraud, in force
our statute books, and the enfor'
Use ment of those that from some
rist known cause are now inoperati
lies We want no compromise with an
Just money despotism, that not o.