The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-08-25

There IL m all-Amsriean SILVER
League whose headquarters are 81
Warrington. The president Of the
league, Colonel A. C. Fisks, Ia b.
halt Of the organization, has sent > |
Dtatement to the special committees
IF the United States Senate which
Is investigating tho industrial de-
preston and It's causes. In this
1tate 0lput, which il worthy Of the
attention Of every thinking person
Who places tho prosperity Of the
above the success Of either
Of tho Wall street twins, Colonel
Fiske says:
Ono or two moro panics will find
this country in the condition of
Rome and other extinct Republics
when they went down. There vas
no necessity for issuing Govern
ment bond, and every ono issued,
whatever the purpose may have
been, resulted in robbing the people
to the full extent Of the issue. Why
should We be taxed from $50, 000,-
600 to $50, O00, 900 . year for thirty
years on bonds in order to main
tain q banking system which WAS
conceived in sin, born in iniquity
nurtured in conspiracy and ripened
into treason?
Why should we b compelled to
use Q d emonstised bill and > de-
monetised treasury, when tho Gov
eminent has the power to issue full
legal.tender money! With an hon.
est issue Of money the people could
not be plundered = billion or more
dollars each year, and there would
be no occasion to pay those who
conspired to have this nation the
depository of their surplus money
four or FIVE millions year for TAX
ing care of their imaginary gold re-
serve.
The bond of nations and the is
sue of demonetized currency are re-
cent inventions, but many nations
have OF late years fallen prey to this
new device. They must, in conse-
quence repudiate OF return to bar
barism. Tho creditors who are
confiscating the property Of the ma
ton, CRY ''inflation" when the debtor
asks for honest money with free
coinage of silver and the demon
etizing of tho paper moneys. In
flation, indeed | with 25-cent wheat.
scent cotton, 2-cent beef, so cents
for q days labor! Our money will
be stable when the American farm
or, planter and laborer are reduced
to the condition Of the people OF
India and tho other serfs of other
countries under the financial domi-
nation of England.
1t is sincerely to be hoped Con-
gress is in earnest in its efforts to
ascertain the cause of the present
disturbed condition and is ready
and willing to apply the proper
measures for relief, and that no
further attempts will be made to
deceive the people by distracting
their attention from their real is
sues, as has been done by discus
sions of the bloody shirt, the seal
question, the Force bill, the Chinese
question, the Canadian railways
and canals, the tariff and the pro-
scription against one religious de.
nomination, known as the A. P. A.
movement; but the laws shall be
enacted which will bring prosperity
to all the people instead of q very
few. It would seem that Congress
has already legislated in the inter
ests of the creditor GLASS far beyond
the boundaries of safety, and should
take warning lest the people, who
are fast becoming aroused to the
real cause of the difficulty, take
matters in their own hands and
elect both q Congress and Chief
Executive who will be their servant,
not their master.
Colonel Fiske submits the follow.
ing which is the briefest and yet the
most comprehensive declaration Of
principles yet published. It en-.
bodies everything Of national inter
est and is q model platform fol
political parties that favor finan'
cial and other reforms:
The monetization of silver at Isl
to |; all money issued direct By
the Government; all demonetizet
money to be called in and full lega
tender money issued in lieu thereof
one money for the bondholder
creditor, debtor, Office holder ant
banker; the adoption of postal say
ings banks; the adoption OF tn
initiative and the referendum. Thi
would prove fatal to that great pc
litical evil, the lobbyist, and rob
berry would be unsafe, when tn
people instead of . corrupt legisla
tive body are invested with the de
cisive ballot. Tho power to coli
money and to regulate the valu
thereof ought to b taken iron
Congress, . commissioner appoint
ed, free from oil influences, to drai
revenue laws, which, when fnall
adopted (by the voice Of the Pee
ple J. can only b modified, change