The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-09-03


Boise to misrepresent and did mis-
represent his people. He excuses
himself on the around that he wished
chance to vote for Mckinley, and
the Dubois forces would attempt to
choke him of. He knows better.
He was assured by leaders here of
the Dubois side that they would con-
tend shoulder to shoulder for his
right to Mckinley electors. This is
but an excuse, bliud. The truth
is, John Cuddy is an enemy to Du-
bois and is goldite. He is an
enemy to Dubois because Dubois was
not here in '63. He thinks late
arrivals in this state have few rights.
1t is the old Know Nothing spirit
over again, only upheld here not by
New Englanders, but by Scotch,
Irish, Southerners and others, the ink
on some of whose naturalization pa
pers was not dry when they struck
Idaho territory. This spirit was
found in both parties. Mr. Cuddy
has asked what Dubois did for Idaho
He might be answered, He made it a
state, having previosuly prevented its
disintegration. He made it possible
for such men as Bill Mcconnell and
Geo. L. Shoup to occupy elective
official possession on the republican
ticket. He made it possible for such
man rs John Cuddy to swell with
his political Importance. We have
nothing to commend in that but that
we respect manly fghter-friend or
foe-and despise a sneak in any
camp.
John Cuddy is goldite. Why2
Because his business makes him one,
as he secs it, While the country is
becoming mortgaged, while everyone
else is becoming impoverished, while
hogs, cattle, sheep and other species
of property sell for less than cost of
production, MIR. John Cuddy has
been making money, and Mr.. John
Cuddy wishes things to remain as
they are, and Mr. John Cuddy knows
that with continued poverty of the
people in Salubria and Indian valley
and vicinity he has what is called a
lead pipe cinch. He knows that the
people must give him half the weight
OF their crops for grinding it, and
hogs must fall lower yet before he is
driven out of the business. He also
knows that d change will jeopardize
his monopoly and therefore he is
goldite. But Ambrose Bierce has
remarked that those who lack cour-
age generally have rough substitute
called fierceness and those who are
not wise have also rough substitute
called cunning. John Cuddy is not
wise but he is cunning Were he
wise he would see that this present
policy is making paupers day after
day, and John Cuddy has family of
his own for whom he is credited with
having great affection land to his
credit be it said) Well, he cannot
expect each and every one to be
placed as he is, and some of them
sure must take their chances with the
common herd, and so sure as he or
his ancestors, like the ancestors of
nearly all Of us, were driven out of
the country OF their or his birth by
monopoly Of the land, of the means
OF earning livelihood. so sure will
his descendants be enslaved first and
afterwards driven from this land by
this great monied monopoly. Mr.
Cuddy is not wise; he may be cum
ming.
A remark made by man on the
street the other day suggested-or
rather we will give his words: al
am an American of but one genera
ton old, and when l see the immedi-
ate descendant of an Irishman or
Scotchman taking the side of the
powerful against the lowly, no words
OF mine can express the contempt
which | entertain for him. This is
given, not because an Irishman or
Scotchman, or their descendants, are
or should be any less or more bright
or deep than others, but that in most
cases the marks of tyranny have
been burned into their very souls, and
II any should have sympathy with
poverty and should be the last to be
fOund IN the sica IF tho oooroaax-.