The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-06-30

Such sights have been common enough
in the worlds history, but against it
we all rebel, rich and poor alike, repu5-
leans and democrats, populists, labor
and capital, railways, churches and
colleges, all alike and all in solid good
faith, regret such a future as that.
This agreement is the least part of the
situation, at least we can be sure that
no one is deliberately conspiring against
our safety. Even on the burning ground
of gold and silver we agree in princi-
pie. No party and no party leader has
ever approved of the single gold stan
dard. Not one American in one hun
bred believes in it, The vast majority
in all parties agree that the single gold
standard has been, is and must be
material disaster of the worst kind.
Nine-tenths of mankind are hostile TO
a single gold stan4rd. Our 10000, 900
people are unanimously against it.
Most of the great European countries
are against it. South America rejects
it. The whole of Asia knows only
silver, and India, which contains five
sixths of the subjects of the British
crown, is as hostile to it as ourselves.
Yet London bankers say we must sub
nit, and we have submitted. So strange
a spectacle has never been seen in our
history, and arguments and even COM
pulsive proof brought by the wide
world ruin seems to be helpless against
such astonishing power What is the
use of argument when we are con-
WINGED! England holds US by the single
gold standard by force of capital alone.
The most instructive point of all is
that our great majority consists of
those who have been from time i'm
mortal reckoned as the safest and most
conservative. The whole agricultural
class, or classes of small proprietors
and farmers, that make the bone and
sinue of our race, the artisan, whose
interests are bound up in the success
of our manufacturers; all these go hand
in hand with what is left of our old
enemies, the landed aristocracy of
Europe, to protest against the revolu
ton made for the benefit of money
lenders alone. Had all the despotic
governments that have existed in
thousands of years united their intel
ligence to set class against class, and
to shelter foundations of society, they
could have invented no device more
effective than this decree which at one
stroke doubled the value of gold and
swept the small proprietor into bank
ruptcy.
We have reason to know the popular
feeling and do not believe single gold
standard can be long maintained. We
want real money in the country, carry
ing intrinsic value, yet If England sue
ceeds in her effort to destroy the value
of silver for coinage, nothing can save
us from paper. The republican party
ought to fix double standard or reject
the single standard. We can no longer
escape the issue. The republican party
held power for whole generation, and
during that time made only one fatal
mistake. Under the influence of the
banking interests, acting in what was
then believed to be true interest of the
country, the party fell into the for
eign conspiracy of making a single gold
standard, and, what was worse, did it
with a foreign air of conspiracy.
Neither the banking interests nor any
other has at any time the right to
claim superior knowledge or wisdom.
In view to the ruin they have wrought
and the vaster ruin which they threaten
70 risk that, in their opinion, you seem
to run can cause a moment of fear
Even those who oppose the return of
the republican party to its principles
would give it power for another gen
Grafton. We need only to maintain
our own convictions and no other
party, born or unborn, can take the
field from US as long as we care to
hold it, You have only to adopt a
platform of few words and to take
your stand on it firmly, courageously
and with honest determination to be
true to it. The party has always main
tanned the national principle of high
tariff. You, whose deepest and best
interests depend upon its success, have
alone the power to add: "Free silver"
j. D. CAMERON.