The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-05-03


and administration at Washington, d.
c., are the servants of the people
that they were sent there by the voice
Of the people to act and to work for
the best interest of all the people;
that the money they receive for their
services IS paid by the people, and
that they were favored in the extreme
when they were intrusted with this
government by this people, and that
when the employed fail to perform
the duty assigned to them, it is the
duty and right of the employers to
look after their work and either direct
and order the proper course to be
pursued or dismiss the SERVANTS and
as congress has been in session, extra
and regular, nearly nine months and
have accomplished nothing except to
destroy one-half the money of the
country and draw their pay, now we,
the people of Mineral, Idaho, after
careful and mature deliberation of the
situation as whole, trusting our
fate, our fortunes and our all in the
same God our fathers did in l776, do
now determine, in accordance with a
provision of the first amendment to
the constitution of the United States,
to march in body to Washington
and there, in manly and determined
tones, petition for redress of our
grievances as follows: First, we want
free and unlimited coinage of silver
at a ratio of 16 to /, and no silver
must be coined at the mints of the
United States but the product of the
mines of the United States and terri
tories. All silver now on hand and
held for speculative purposes must
await the further development of
financial legislation. We want pro-
lection for American labor and Amer
lean industry. We want no change
in the tariff laws until it is more
thoroughly developed; that with the
growth of the country and increase of
population some slight changes might
prove beneficial 1--WE will accept this
much of the republican doctrine). We
want an income tax, as already pro-
posed in congress, that the rich shall
pay their portion of the government
expenses 1--WE will accept this much of
the democratic doctrine) We want
no more issue of interest bearing
bonds. We want no more trusts,
combines, or monopolizing institu-
tions and that q law be shaped for
the punishment of the members of
such institutions as fellons. And in
conclusion of our demands, we want
all that will benefit the poor and con-
duce to the happiness of mankind
not taking anything from the rich, but
to open the way for the poor, that all
may live free and happy in free
and happy land We will make our
petition in person, by our presence,
peacably and in accordance with the
laws of our country; then, if our Pc
tition is unheard and an honorable
supplication unnoticed, we will be
forced to the same course our fathers
were, and we now pledge ourselves,
each and every member, and all those
who may hereafter join our ranks,
with true and pure loyalty to the flag
our fathers bore, to the constitution
our fathers wrote, and to the union
| our fathers made and maintained for
ever, and that we will use every means
within the power of men and science
to annihilate or destroy this Olympiad
Ohgarchy that has caused all this
cruel suffering, want and sorrow
through the land, and may God pros
per the work "
The abuve was greeted with three
, hearty cheers and then adopted. The
r president recommended that the doc
ument be framed into preamble ano
t proper resolutions and he would ther
sign it. A Buckeye was then recog
nized on the floor;
'Nlr. President, as one of thi.
f army wish to enter protest agains
all newspapers and originators o
those dispatches calling the leaders
of the industrials crazy fools, un
+ principled persons, etc. | wish t
+ say that this move of the industrial,
is as old as the hills it has beef
+ practiced in Venice and in Rom,
} many centuries before our continen
: was discovered; tyrants have beer
t decapitated and usurpers executed
I since governments were first insti