The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-08-04
No uistake.

There 10 no 0ccaSlOn for any mistake
concerning the issue which confronts the
people of Idaho this year. 1t il the sim
pie question whether tho state shall be
ruled by the Republican party or given
over to the Populists No intelligent
man can fail to recognize that wherever
Popullst rule hes been tried, it has been
misunderstanding Tribune.
No, there is no mistake! There
is no mistake concerning the issue
in Idaho! tits the simple question
whether the Union shall be ruled
by the people or ruined by the
plutes 1t is the simple question
whether the people of this state
shall be governed by the jugglery
of mammon or the justice Of God
It is the simple question whether
they shall now surrender the hertz
age of freedom bequeathed to them
by the patriots of '76 and pass I'M
der the yoke of eternal oppression
or stand up like men for their con-
stitutional rights. 1t is the simple
question whether the people Of
Idaho shall endorse thirty years of
corruption and misrule, of class
legislation and Especial privilege"
Of currency contraction, OF bonds,
taxes and extortion, of self-con-
fessed destruction of one-half the
money of the constitution, or assert
their sovereign right of self-govern-
ment and demand at the polls purer
politics, equal JUSTICE" and a
reasonable reward for their, toll.
No, there is no mistaking the
issue! 1t is the simple question
whether we shall endorse a system
of reckless and most infamous rob-
berry, by which our debts have been
doubled and our means cut in
twain; by which the favored few
have reveled in luxury, while the
many have toiled in ever increasing
poverty and restitution, or whether
we shall support that party which
alone has the courage to demand
that our debts shall be paid in the
kind of money we borrowed and
our labors justly compensated by
the restoration of values through
The coinage of our constitution at
The ratio of Is to 1.
1t is the simple question whether
The mines and mills of Idaho shall
be forever abandoned to bats and
owls, her farms deserted and sur
rendered to alien lords and her
homes made desolate, or whether
the inspiring hum of industry shall
again be heard over the hills and
IN the valleys while the laborer is
again contented with remunerative
oil and the farmer reclaims his
neglected fields.
That is the issue in Idaho. All
parties acknowledge it, but there is
,nly one that is consistent. When
We see great leaders Of the old par
les laboring for the everlasting de-
truction of the white metal; when
We see eminent republicans, in
whose language is the keynote of
,arty action, facing the American
,eople and referring with pride to
he faithful and unyielding exertion
# that party to destroy one half
he metallic money of the nation
nd with it one half the value of
very product of its soil, the futile
ndeavors of an Insignificant mi
lority fall to earth like the ineffect-
al mission of divided christianity |
Ipon the soil of skepticism and
oubt.
There is no installing the issue
t is the simple question whether
he honest people of Idaho shall
e bulldozed and plundered by the
rrogant hand of monopoly and
'arty greed whether the substance
f their magnificent state shall be
quandered by designing politi-
ians; whether we shall be bonded
0 the constitutional limit to build
oat trails among the SUBMITS of a
wilderness and boom men
Or office under the guise of worlds
air commissions; whether our
nine inspectors shall be puny ia
orites who leave men to die in the
it-falls of neglected mines and
ur governors men who 60 around
lacklisting half thousand honest
niners at time; whether the
lights and liberties of one fifth our
population shall be tritled with un-
er the pretenses of friendship, or
whether we shall have state gov
honestly and economically
in the interests of all
he people and every section with
ut distinction, and the full recog-
'ition of the constitutional rights
nd an unselfish respect for the
'ersonal manhood and integrity of
very citizen!
These are the simple questions
which confront the people of Idaho
'hese are the principles which the
oters of Idaho must contend for,
nd which, if truth, honor and JUS
ice are not dead, must triumph in
he coming state election.
The editor of the Pocatello Trib-
ne talks about misrule /! There is
n old proverb he has forgotten.
POPULIsT.