The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-05-12

the selfish interests OF few non
producing money changers only
caused brutal contraction of
currency, infiicting untold and
uncalled for distress upon hund-
reds of thousands of the bread
winners of our land, by requir-
ing nearly double the amount of
labor or produce to purchase the
doubly inflated gold dollar that
it did under the benign laws of
bimetallism; that we view with
grave concern the persistent
tendency atour great commercial
and financial centerS to so inf1-
ence the enactment of laws after
the model of European nations
for the special up building of
highly privileged class of money
aristocracy and to the practical
enslavement of the great masses
of producers and artisans, there
by insidiously. but surely, re-
ducing the industrial classes of
this great republic to the level
of the servile Asiatic, with whom
they are being brought into rapid
competition already; therefore
be it go
Resolved, ThErsthe members
of the Saltwater Wool Growers
Association, irrespective of party
afiliation, respectfully urge our
representatives in congress to
stand firmly by the good cause
IN which they are enlisted-the
restoration of those twin princi-
pies for returning prosperity and
happiness to the stricken indus
tries of this lanp-protection and
bimetallism; not one but both;
and be it further
Resolved, That we repudiate
the financial theories of that class
of statesmen that follow the
lead of the So called civilized ma
tions of Europe, whose produc-
ing and toiling masses are re-
duced by iniquitous laws to prac-
tically abject slavery, and their
unrightous efforts to entail the
same servile conditions by simil-
ar laws on the free people of
America, we denounce as both
un-American an un patriotic.
One of the best articles on or
gauized labor is from the pen of
w. H. Winn. He says:
Study this 18th century civil
lization and you will find that
under the law of general princi
pies Gods creatures prey on
each other, and big fishes eat
little ones upon system. Every
nation, every town, every ham,
let, every occupation, has sys-
tenn by which, somehow or otn-
, er, the pond swarms with fishes,
of which a great many interiors
contribute to increase the size of
/ superior, and the world looks
on with equanimity. But when
the little fishes organize for pro-
lection, the same world throws
up its pious digits in alarm; it is
! insurrection against an establish
, ed system to keep one solitary
minnow from the jaws of the
pike.
5 But it is too late to question
2 the wisdom of this labor move
2 ment, and blind, indeed, is the
! man or combination of men who
t imagine themselves able to crush
it. Like some mighty upheaval,
it has swept the uttermost cor
c ners of the earth. Carrying hope
? to the oppressed and terror to
!, the oppressor; it is roaring and
T surging around the thrones of
e monarchy, and cankered crowns
, are today tottering at its brink;
its silent but all-powerful infiu-
Y ence is at work at the roots OF
: our own diseased social fabric,
y and it is merely a question OF
e time when all men who labor,
: from the individual employer,
4 whose interests are equally at
stake, to the poorest menial, viii
be drawn into its mighty vortex
: Brother, it becomes your duty tt
, shape the course of this armored
!. craft; cool heads must be at tht
- :. helm, for the shoals of Ignorance
= and reefs of intemperance lie
= straight on her course. She is
: machine of terrible destructive
power, and if the gunners are
- wise at the priming, the fleets OF
i, oppression mus bow to her fire
= If labor has grievance and legis
: lation can remedy them, if gov
= ernment should mirror the wish
g g of governed, then / say in the
: : name of God let's stop this buf
=" foonery and act as common sense
suggests, elect public servant.
y who come within the meaning O
% the phrase; not the so-callet
= .labor's friends" whose bellies
:, and wallets have grown round a