The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-07-25


humiliation and degradation We must
feel on account of such a declaration OF
financial dependency we may well IN
quire when the consent of leading com
mercial nations will be obtained.
mo one who has read the proceedings
of the international monetary confer
ences that have already been held, or
who has examined the Impractical propo-
sitions presented at those conferences,
can for a moment believe that any in
ternational bimetallic agreement can
ever be made with the consent of all
the leading commercial nations of the
world. When will Great Britain, con-
trolled as she is and ever Will be by
the creditor class, which collects vast
sums of money for interest due her and
her citizens, who buys of us annually
many more millions than she sells to us
and whose interest is to make the pound
sterling purchase as much of our prod
ucts as possible, consent that we shall
be financially Independent as we are sup
posed to be politically Independent? When
did the creditor classes of Great Britain
ever give up or in any way yield an ad-
vantage such as they now possess
through the maintenance of the gold
standard?
There is no hope for international BIZ
metallism until the United States shall
establish bimetallism for itself, and when
that is done international bimetallism
may be secured without the consent of
Great Britain. The United States upon
all other subjects of legislation acts in
deDendently of any other nation on
earth BY what process of reasoning is
it's right authority or ability to legslate
upon this, the most important subject
| with which it has to deal, questioned or
denied? With a nation equal in wealth,
| 1t is folly to say that we must ask the
permission of Great Britain to establish
| nd fafr Hro
own. Believing as we do that return
| to the monetary system especially recog-
nized in the constitution, and completely
| provided for by law from 1892 until 1873,
| affords the only ground of hope for the
betterment of the distressed conditions
of all the classes except those who live
| by the increment that money loaned gives
| to those who loan t, we appeal to the
| classes to rally to the support of the only
| candidates whose success indicates any
! hope of any relief.
Let the merchant and business man
whose dwindling and lessened profits
| have, despite his care and economy,
| brought him face to face with prospect
i've bankruptcy and ruin, the profession
| al man, whose best efforts scarcely af-
| ford him compensation for his labor
| alone. the farmer, the continually falling
| prices of whose products have left him
| no returns for capital invested and work
performed; and last, but not least, let
| the grand army of laboring men So
called the artisan. the mechanic, and the
| miner and every one who depends upon
his daily labor for his daily bread, look
about him and observe the great number
of those who vainly seek for a chance ia
work upon the great army of enforced
oilers, and one and all resolve to try
not an experiment for bimetallism is not
| Az experiment, but rather return &C
| a policy that throughout the Vicissitutdes
| nf through
ternecine struggle of its manhood KEPT
us a great, free and prosperous nation, III
which labor was not only respected an,
employed, but was so compensated thai
want and distress, such as now weigh
upon us, was unknown.
LET the lesson Of history. too recen
| and too plain to be gainsaid or denied
| be Needed and let there be no fear tina
a system that so wonderfully protected
labor developed business ENTERPRISE anC
secured to the nation "A contented an'
= prosperous people in the past will dc
aught but bring to a return of Hk
! prosperity. the predictions of disaster o
our opponents to the contrary notwith
standing.
: I'm Mr.. Bryan, the Chicago conventio,
placed at the head of it's ticket a gentle
! man of exceptional ability and of higl
| character. No man of his age was bet
3 ter known throughout the United State
4 than he as a member of congress. 10
and respect of all his associates in tina
! body as a scholarly statesmen and
/ | profound thinker No man had ever as
= sailed mis- character OF in any wa
- questioned his integrity or moral worth
| His character is tit example for tn
T young men of this country. He ha
shown in all his public utterances tina
he loves his countrymen and sympa
I ! thizes with them in their distress. He ha
a also shown that he believed the financia
o system which makes god the standar
\ | Of value was in "a great degree the caus
:, of the depression and financial distres
q prevalent throughout the land; that tn
9 condition now EXISTING will continu
: while the present monetary system last:
: and that he would fain return to the us
/ Of both gold and silver as they were use
prior to 1873, and he has proposed such
y change of the financial system by III
a usual constitutional methods Such wa
the character and such the political opir
:, ions of the candidate known TO his cour
a trymen who by their representatives
9 convention selected from every state
!, the Union, have put him in nominatio
: for the highest office within the gift {
4 the American people.
: This is a critical period in our his5or,
9 Industrial and financial independence an
: other nations are involved in this can
q paign and we firmly believe there will J.
= no return to prosperity until we hav
n changed our financial system so as
- restore the bimetallic system establishe
. by the fathers of the republic, and {
- believing. we urge all friends of gold an
= silver standard money and the opponent
- of a single gold standard to give Brya
n and Sewall their hearty support
l. "In advising this course, we do NJ
- consider il necessary that they sha
- abandon or surrender their politic
- views on other questions.
- PROFOUNDLY impressed with the in
= portance of the issues of this campaig