The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-09-12

eral. and If through the efforts of that
| party this can be accomplished, IL will
| have done a greater good to a greater
number than any party that was ever
| organized since this nation was establish
| ed, and 1t will have conferred upon man
a greater blessing than was ever con-
| ferred before in the history of the world
THE reason, and the only reason, why
silver was excluded from the minis was
| to increase the purchasing power of mon
| ey made of gold, thereby giving to the
money owner and bondholder a greater
/ command over the services of men and
tho products of the farm, mill and fac
tory.
eve are now entering upon the great
| est struggle for the emancipation of the
people from industrial bondage, indus
trial slavery, that was ever engaged in
by men. If we succeed, as succeed we
must, our country, our institutions and
our civilization will be secure. But II we
fall our country will be despoiled, our in
stitutions will be destroyed and our civil
ization will perish
The gold barons of the world have
| formed the most gigantic trust that has
ever been formed among men to control
and regulate the volume of money in cir
culation in the interests of themselves
alone. They have set about it deliberately
and premeditatedly, to enslave the Ameri-
can people, PROSTATE their Industries,
destroy their opportunities and impover-
ish the nation and the people thereof.
| This trust must be broken, it's power
must be destroyed and it will be destroy
ed by an outraged and long-suffering peo
pie when they register their will at the
| ballot box in November next.
Our Present Condition.
| 1.-THE present condition of the people is
| the result of laws relating to money and
| bonds, which have been enacted by the
republican and democratic parties under
| the direction Of M 10
gold barons OF this country and Europe.
! They have heretofore controlled both of
| these parties. They now dominate and
control the republican party.
THE national silver party proposes to
| assist in destroying the gold trust, and
we appeal to all those who are interested
in humanity, who are interested in good
| government, who believe that men are
more important than property, who be-
lieve that the interests of those who ere
ate wealth are paramount to those who
are merely consumers, to assist in this
| great struggle
THAT we snail succeed there can be no
question, because this is a fight in favor
of the many against the few; it is a fight
| by the producers of wealth and aggre-
gated capital; it is a fight between those
| who do the work of the world and those
who live without work. 1t is a fight be-
tween democracy and plutocracy. In such
| a fight, in such a struggle, can there be
! any doubt as to the issue?
Men, and men only, have rights, and il
! is in defense of those rights that this
| contest is waged That he who creates
wealth should be the servant and slave
to that which he creates, Is a doctrine
| that should not be tolerated a moment.
1t should be stamped out. The time has
arrived in the history of this country at
last when the rights of individuals shall
be paramount to all things else, and they
shall be amply and fully protected by
! law.
1.-THE republicans insist that they are
DESTROYS of protecting American indus
tries and American labor, and in order to
do so they propose to increase taxes up
| on imported goods. AS well attempt to
| raise prices in general or to stop falling
prices by increasing duties on imports, a
to stop the ebb and flow OF the tides. 1t
never has been done; it can never be done.
Such a thing is absolutely impossible.
Manufacture for the American people
plenty of money. American money, not
British money, and they will protect
themselves and their industries.
Only Means of Protection.
There is no possible way OF protecting
them except by an enormous increase in
the quantity Of money in circulation. If
the people have no money they are power
less to protect themselves, except by brute
force. The more money they have, the
| more easy ii will be for them to protect
| themselves against the aggressions Of
others. The trouble in this country is
that money is too dear. 1t is so dear that
the people are unable to buy :. except by
making great sacrifices for that purpose
The sacrifices made by the American peO-
pie for the past % years for the purpose
of sustaining the gold standard are be-
yond human comprehension.
1.-The people have resolved that they
will make no more sacrifices for the pur-
| a n the
ditions that exist in this country. They
are going to shake off the vampires who
have fastened themselves on this country,
and who for years have enriched them
selves at the expense of the Ameri-
can people. They are going to cease to
be slaves and they have resolved not
only to be free, but independent.
The question before us in this cam
paign is not a question OF taxation, but
Il question of money Money is the
regulator and controller of prices and
the motive power of commerce and trade.
If there be much money everybody pros
pers except him who refuses to work.
| If there be little money every body is in
jured except him who lives on that
| which others create.
prices in general can only be regu-
lated and controlled by regulating the
volume of money in circulation, and he
who asserts to the contrary either has
no knowledge of the science and func-
ton of money or he is dishonest. to say
the least.
The struggle among men in civilized
communities is to secure money in or
der that they may be able to swap II
for things they do not create and which
they are in need Of There is a. continuinq
, and pressing demand for it upon al
hands. The less there is of it in cir
culation. the greater the struggle for it,
and the more there is in circulation, the
less the struggle will be to secure it.
What Gold Men Assert.
1T is asserted by eminent financers