The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-01-09
SILVER CHATTER.

A great point is being made by
western republican papers just now
TO point to the silver com
plexion OF that party in the present
congress Stress is laid on the fact
that there are forty silver republicans
In the house. That house democrats
voted almost solidly against Growers
bond innovation is not dwet on
The idea intended to be surreptitious.
ly conveyed is that silver hope must
now switch over to the republicans
they are our only friends. The fact
rs the recognition Of the slaughtered
half Of our money looks rs hopeless
and as far away as ever. While the
senate may pass a silver measure,
what will be its reception in the hos
tile house? What of the president?
The hope of the republican party
benefitting us is somewhat cloudy.
There is a convention coming which
rs as sure to nominate a follower of
the gold power as the sun is to shine,
Then what will silver measure he
In his hands, If elected any more
than in Cleveland's2 The truth is
the future looks bad. Men in Idaho
protesting to be firm as the rocks for
silver will vote for that metals enc
mics in their own party next fall
rather than step out of the lines.
The Caldwell Tribune recently
published a very acute article, but it
hard to tell how far to accept its ex
pressions, considering its frequently
varying utterances.
Possibly II is heterodoxial. perhaps
right down blasphemy, nevertheless we
venture few questions: According to
the advocates OF free coinuge of silver at
10 TO l. be they democrats or republicans.
fearful crime was committed by The
congress OF the United States in 1873 A
crime which has been fruitful of untold
hardship aud suffering; crime which
has entailed more loss ON the people of
the world than all the wars since the fall
OF The Roman empire. There is no mis-
take about this terrible crime or its disas-
trous effects There is no misunderstand-
ine purposes and designs of the commits
sioners OF that crime, 1t was nothing
Out premcditated and carefully devised
plot TO rob the people of the world of half
their properly and reduce the bulk of hui
mainly TO serfdom These dread.
fui facts, surrounded by all their dismal
consequences are itersued aud reiterated
countless thousands of times by the advo
Gates of free coinage They are accented
as truths by millions of people who rem
resent themselves as substantial yeritiss.
yet with what remarkable calmness and
indifference is viewed the impending
DOOM Indeed when we come m
consider the silver question as il is pre-
scented today, having regard to the apathy
oil the people ON the subject we are driv-
en- 10 the conclusion that all the wars.
reoeilions and Instructions OF all past
PERIODS were shamefully devoid of ex
cuse FINALLY the question we ask is
now, IN view OF those facts, the advocate
OF free coinage can cling 10 one of the old
particsf This is probably blasphe-
nous question but we desire our friends
OF the old parties to answer it.
The whole thing is sarcasm on
the difference between tue loud pro-
fesslons Of the silver men and their
actual practices; this would indicate
heretical sentiment on the part of
the editor against practising the
opposite to what is preached from
ibs silver pulpit, yet we recently
rlked With its writer, and one can