Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-08-14
HARD TIMES AHEAD.
Extract from Nez Perez News Thursday NJ
vembcr 20, 1856

Extract from Nee Perez News. Thursday No
vembcr 20, 1856.
1t is useless to conceal the fact
that crisis is upon us. All over
the United States, even in the new
northwest, and in our own county
of Nee Perez, hundreds of men,
men of broad emerald acres will be
forced to borrow money to pay
their taxes, and the enquiry arises
"Why is it thus?" The advocates
OF paper money assert that it is
owing to the national banks and
the retirement of greenbacks.
The manufacturer lays it on over
production. The western man SAYS
it is occasioned by the feverish-
ness engendered on account of the
efforts made to demonetize silver.
To our thinking the cause is that
the money kings of the east, af-
fiicted by a financial ague, will not
unlock their vaults and let their
wealth flow until President Cleve-
land and his advisers let them
know what the financial policy of
the administration will be. In the
meantime hard times prevail
throughout the land, tramps haunt
the highways and byways, winter
is upon us and nothing is done.
This is a republic. The govern
ment cannot and should not be
run any longer in the interest of
capital at the expense and injury
of the great laboring masses, who
have rights as sacred and as bind
ing as those of the men who have
accumulated wealth. 1t is mutual.
We, of the west, demand that sill
yer shall not be demonetized. Our
mountains are veined with the
royal metal. Let silver be coined
at the mints equally with gold.
And again let congress do its
duty by appropriations sufficient
to improve our rivers. Let it I'M
lock the millions lying idle in the
treasury, and by SO doing employ
the surplus labor now idle on
works that would be of vast bene-
fit to us all and thus put in circu-
lation money now useless and
valueless, money that can and
must be utilized for the welfare of
the people and the governmental
golden stream that would cause
business to flourish and prosperity |
to again unfold her beneficent pin
ions over all the broad continent
that now feels the pinching effect
Of penury and want, while the bins
are stopping over with golden
grain and the cattle on our prair-
les remain unsold. 1t is patent to
all that something must be done.
When the republic was in the
thrOes of dissolution the money
sharks of the cast, the manipulators
OF finance, the sweet-scented money
lenders took Mr.. Lincoln by the
throat and told him if he did not
allow them to put their greenbacks
into interest bearing bonds they
would not loan him a dollar to
crush the rebellion, and now these
same men, or their descendants,
are endeavoring by species of fl
nancial chicanery to make a dol
lar have q greater purchasing
power than in the past, thus cut
ting down the price of everything
but money, of which they are
masters.
This is not democratic, nor will
the people longer endure it. 1t
took centuries of misrule in France
to bring a king to the guillotine,
but America is cyclonic country.
A change is inevitable and it will
be inaugurated with cyclonic
effect. The people will at the
proper time find leaders who will
overthrow the cabal that clamor
for further reduction of the cur
rency and the decentralization of
silver. Be it SO. The ides of De-
cember when congress meets, are
near at hand, and we feel that the
future is pregnant with evil if
is not done to relieve
those now staggering ON to abso-
lutte want and suffering. A fur
Their continuation of the policy that
has prevailed in Washington for
the past twenty years will break
down all party lines, and on their
ruins will spring up a powerful
organization, led by able leaders
and sustained by a tidal wave of
popularity that will well up from
all sections, for alike upon all has
the blight of mammon fallen. This