The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-04-04
His Confession.
"IncorpOratedY'

'lncOrpOrateu!
So asked a three or four times
millionaire of us at the Vendome
hotel not great while ago. We ex-
planned to the best of our ability the
situation here at present.
"That's bad," said he, ''people
who come from the more thickly
settled sections to seek q home in the
West are used to village government
and have great aversion in making
home where there are none of the
surrounding legal projections to which
they have become habituated; and,
although their fears are perhaps
groundless, they expected to be ex-
posed to ruffianism and numerous
dangers which the absence of organ
ized local government would create "
Knowing that it would be difficult
to make him understand all the diff
ferent elements bearing adversely to
an incorporation here; and the cost
of such a town government, falling
upon so few, made it burdensome to
a degree that the citizens were NOT
unanimous in submitting to it, we
changed the subject.
eyes" said he, to our inquiry,
"we people of Virginia, like the
majority of our Eastern neighbors,
have been opposed to what we term
ed silver fana;icism. But one line
of thought has been presented to us.
Since my extensive visits to tho
West, l have completely changed my
views and am now an ardent bimetal-
list. When | came to 90 over this
vast western empire, and saw the evi
dences of past activity, now hustled
and still, in idle smelters, silver
mills and mines on every hand; and
l was struck with the blighting policy
one part of the country was pursu-
ing towards the other. This, o
course, but backed the argumen
that the question was merely a sec
tional one, but the force and extern
of the effects of decentralization wer,
so evident, that began to ponder OF
the subject. What if by SOM
method the main enterprises of tn
East were stricken out of existence
Why, if it made one-half of th
country prosperous and industrious
should not the government adopt
bimetalic policy, which did not dam
age the other half to any visible ex
tent, except in theoretical monetar.
presumption. Then, when | had be
gun to think, l began to see still
deeper beneath the question. TIL
mere matter of policy to keep tn
milling plants of the West in opera
ton to give people of the sectio
employment, began to vanish as on
of the lightest phases of the ques
ton, and there opened before me tn
full realization of deeper, broader
sounder principles underlying it al
broad American government;
policy bloomed forth upon my int
lect like new light, and now | AT
silver man. l am with you fir.
and last.
"And also, on the Chinese que
ton, we had a contempt for yC
vicious, grumbling, bowling westel
fools who were whining like puppi
about the Cinnamon. The few '
saw in the east were, of course, of Il
cleaner and better class. 1t was in
possible from them to form an opiniC
q of the race. But as soon as l can
west investigated. l went throus
the Chinese part of San Francis
d from one end to the other-opiu
dens, gambling houses, leprous du
81 geous beneath the streets and t
sickening dives for unmentional
vile purposes. What revelatio
"a Ughl The Chinese portions of S
q Francisco and Portland, Oregon, q
the foulest, most repulsive ulcers ii
81 ever eat the heart of great city wi
z vile disease. | have taken water
~ the Chinese question alsoF
81 What the Bells Say.
# Sunday evening union Christi
"a Endeavor services were held in I
81 Congregational church. The ATTIC