The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-01-18
TREAsoNABLE.

One of the unreasonable, false and
malicious charges made against the adj
vocates of the full enfranchisement of
silver is that they are inhunced by the
rich silver mine owners. The profits
or losses OF those engaged in mining
have nothing to do in creating a senti-
ment in favor of silver coinage. 1t is
but natural and reasonable that those
who made great expenditures of time
and money in search of gold and silver
and have been successful should be
anxious to enjoy the fruits of their la
bors. Honest and honorable men
would not deprive them of the rich re-
ward which is justly their due. Those
who left their homes, exposing their
health and lives in prospecting, in
delving into the bowels of the earth
to find the precious metals, had reason
to believe that the government would
stand firmly by the standards of value
which had been established by the
founders of our government. They did
not anticipate that their success would
be followed by a reputation on the
part of the government of its solemn
covenent with the people to maintain
the money standard recognized by the
constitution
The real question is not who viii be
benefited or injured by the abundance
or scarcity of the product of gold and
silver mines, but whether our law max
efs.shall foster and encourage treason. |
1t is as distinctly an act of treason to
discredit the money of the government
as to dishonor its flag.
During the late civil war it was not
safe for any man in public manner to
denounce the government credit. Men
were escorted to prisons between bayo-
nets for declaring that greenbacks were
not worth damn, and that bushel of
them would not buy a breakfast. When
this government stamps piece of pa
per and declares it of the value of ten
dollars, it is the duty of every honest
citizen to recognize its purchasing and
debt paying power to be equal to ten
dollar gold piece or ten silver dollars
Congress is clothed with the power of
coming money and regulating its value
At the beginning of our government
congress exercised that power by put
ting its stamp on pieces of gold and
silver of certain weight and fineness
and declaring their value. No loyal
citizen of the United States had a right
to question it. When lcikspittle or
parasite of the money power declares
that what the government stamps and
declares to be a dollar of one hundred
cents is only worth fifty cents, he |
accuses the government of lying and S
and that he recognizes bull I
ion gamblers as a higher authority
than the American congress. When I
congress authorized private individuals q
in making contracts to repudiate silver
and greenbacks as true measures of
value, or in other words to demonetize
silver, it winked at treason as mere
venal otfense. This money question is
something more than an issue between
the silver miners and their friends on
one side and the bondhoIders and bank q
ers on the other. 1t is not question :
Of monometalism or bimetalism or
whether silver is too abundant to re-
ceive the government stamp, but :
whether the government stamp shall !
determine the exchangeable value of
that article or thing to which it is ap- :
Piled, and whether Americans are I'M
der any obligations to recognize the =
power of the government to fix the .
standards and maintain them. To OBJ n
literate, remove or destroy ancient .
landmarks, which involved titles to =
and, has always been looked upon as a =
,rime, but offense whiten into inno-
,ence compared with that of destroy :,
ng the measures of value of all prop :,
,rty. This is an act of treason to the =
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