The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-10-22

over the 'anarchstic" Chicago platform.
He denied that Abraham Lincoln ever
stood on n platform that attacked the STU
prcme court. That portion of Abe Lin
coins platform which criticised the court
has recently been published IN The SIGNAL
and it is known what il was. In his in
augural address Lincoln said:
I do not forget the position assumed by some
that constitutional questions are to be decided
by the supreme court nor do deny that such
decisions must be binding in any case upon the
parties to the suit as TO the object OF that suit
while they also entitled to a very high respect
and consideration in all parallel cases by all
other departments Of the government. At the
same tim9, the candid citizen must confess that
Il the policy Of the government upon vital ques-
tons affecting the whole people is to be irrevoca-
bly, liked by the decisions OF the supreme court
the instant they are made in ordinary litigation
between parties in personal action, the people
VIII have ceased to be their own rulers. having
to that extent practically resigned their govern
ment into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Where. oh, where is Paddock! He said
the present price of wheat WAS due
greatly to improved agricultural m lchin-
cry in the last 25 years There has been
far more Inventions and improvements in
gold machinery in the last % years than
in farm machinery, yet gold has not
fallen. it has gone up 100 per cent. Mr..
Paddock had some astounding figures ON
prices OF common necessities in Mexico
showing that they were four or five times
higher there than in this country (but
said nothing of white mems wages) The
figures he gave were red hot. but they did
not sound much like the figures that have
recently been published in the reports Of
commissions sent into Mexico by the
Chicago Herald and other parties to IN
vestigate. We don't remember positively
the exact figures Mr. p. gave but they
were fcarlully high and did not sound
like what we have been reading, though
they may be Canned goods in Mexico
to-day sell for % cents IL can. Coffee
shippers can 60 to Mexico and buy coffee
NJ wholesale. gold prices, AT % cents The
poorest coffee in Weser retals AT % cents
II pound. If wheat, corn and oats are Il
great deal higher there than here. white
wages are higher in proportion. Mr.. A.
V. Temple is manager of the Mexican
Bureau Of Information, and has been in
that country for 26 years he says:
l would say that n Mexican dollar will today
buy as much In this city us il did when / came
here. and at that time Mexican dollar was
Sl.lO in gold In Sanlrancioco The price OF corn
beans. Hour, wearing apparel, etc. is almost eX-
actly the same rs in former years. OF course
ia mr. had
but the average cost of all the various articles
which go to make up the expenses OF family
are almost exactly the same as when gold was at
par.
Board in Mexico is S25 month. We
do not think.it could be furnished for
that at Paddock's figures. He was
shocked at the charge that demonetiza-
ton was done sureptliously. Such men
as James a. Garfield, James G. Blaine,
Senator Black. VIM. d. Kelley. Senator
Allison. Roscoe Conkling, Allen G. Thur
man, President Grant and others have
said that they had no possible idea that
what was being done was really to de-
stroy half the money OF the world. He
said that twenty countries had already
demonetized silver when the United States
did and gave the impression that we were
forced to it, Only England was ahead
of us, in 1916. The United States was
the second great nation to do so, in 1873.
Germany and the Latin Union fol-
lowed the United States They will
follow us back Mr.. Paddock is intensely
republican and believes implicitly in that
party. He will accept its words without
question. If ii gives him monetary
policy he will accept it without study. II
il sends HIM gold leaflet, he imbibes it S
hollow preachings without analysis. He
feels for the poor, poor pensioner! (who
most likely has some little ranch or bust
ness which will receive greater benefit
than his pension is injured,) but we
doubt not that he places his salary in the
same category and would dislike to sec
its value pulled down by rise of the
farmers salary. II would take the whole
paper to fully treat the incongruites OF
his talk and but Il few are touched
very slightly, not at length.
Mr.. Paddock's church members mostly
remained away They urged him not to
speak. The result showed they knew
better than he did that he would expose
that he knew nothing OF what he talked
on His stubbornness in pers listing
against reason is indicative of a stubborn
ness which causes him to accept or study
no doctrine but the doctrine of his party.
In the whole evening he only szirted on
the outposts and never once touched the
body OF the whole money contention -
that gold furnishes AN insufficient basis
upon which to do the business of the
world.