Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-08-01
FREE SILVER PROTECTION


The greatest question that Ina
moved the masses 0f our nation sine
Abraham Lincoln signed that inmOI
tai document. the Emancipation
Proclamation, is upon Us, the question
Of finances, which is today causing u
TO loose the political bonds that bin'
us as partizens Of one or the other o
the great political parties and forcing
us as American citizens to act inde
pendently Of past relations and Il
unite In one grand patriotic move
ment, for the interests Of the plain
people.
When we, who have seen prosperity
in our nation, see the misery and
want that now surround us upon
every hand, our active, patriotic and
American minds are lead to turn the
searchlight Of inyesti cation upon the
pathway OF the causes that lead down
20 the quicksands or financial and
commercial ruin.
What do we inI? We iinl that the
mlnipulatOrs of the great poli,i-
cal parties that have dominated in
the affairs Of our government for the
past twenty-thrce years, have been
rohblng and deceiylng Us, undermin-
lug our frcedum aud leading US blind.
folded % the Drecipice Of destruction
We tear aside the nuOdwink at AN
oppertune moment and the pages OF
history reveal u our gaze some Of the
deplorable causes OF our present
crisis; among them the most glarlug
fraud ever perpetrated By mortal
man upon his fellows, viz; the inyali'
datiOn and decentralization OF our con-
statutional money metal.
Further Investigation shows us
that we are the greatest silver produc-
Ing nation In the world.
There are fully 100000 idle men, who
heretofore have been receiving, on an
average, $3.50 per day, placing In the
hands OF the bread-wianers OF the far
west u daily income ofone and quar-
ter millions of dollars.
Then did we have good times, then
was the larder OF the laborer
well filled, then did the farm
er get II fair price for his
ducts the west was flush with success
and her children were prosperous and
happy.
From the silver mines uf the west
went the shining silver and It's In
separable companion, gold, 10 gladden.
the hearts OF the manufactures OF the
east. Pennsylvania sent us back
manufactured machinery for our sill
yer and Massachusetts,, New York and
the other manufacturing portions OF
the east sent US shoes and clothing
and all this while the miner was dig
ging out more silver and with IL more
gold 70 send for new consignment OF
the eastern products.
Why the sudden change? Where to-
day is the daily income to the laborers
OF the west OF the one and quarter
millions of dollars?
"Who has caused the children OF
freedom 10 be clothed In rags and their
offsprlngs TO cry for breadY"
answer; They who conspired TO rob
this nation OF her freedom, aud with a
contraction OF her currency and a
bonded Indebtedness seek TO reduce
her to a subjugation that British guns
and internal strife, ,fOstered by foreign
failed 20 accomplish.
Shall we protect our American In
terests or shall we succumb to the
powers that would beY have been
u Republican all my life and am by
nature u protectionist, yet we lind
what is sometimes called the Repub.
lIcan party, in its convention at st.
Louis, declared In its platform for the
single gold standard and for protec-
tlon. How inconslstant
Protection should be for the many |
and not for the few, the monopolists.
What does protection meanY Why II
means 10 us a shielding OF our Ameri-
IAN interests aud not multiplication
II interest on bonds.
Well, you say, what has the free I
'olnage OF silver 10 do with projections
Let us see; the object OF protective
arlff Is TO foster and build up Ameri-
,an industries is II notY Very well.
You want market for American