The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-11-03
WHICH ARE THE PATRIOTS?

amendment, said: eyes, we have
had to yield. We did not yield I'M
til we found that the country must be
lost or the banks be grati6ed and we
have sought to save the country in
spite of the cupidity of its wealthiest
citizens
Again in 1898 these highminded
patriots (?) precipitated panic and
the greatest distress on the people Of
the west and sonth with the usual
lofty and exemplary object of innu
encing legislation; they illegally is
sued and circulated among them
selves, money in the form of clear
ing house certificates and refused to
make any loans to the people of the
south and west, the legislators of
which sections were generally opposed
to their wishes in Congress That
the deficiency of gold in the country
was caused arlifcially is beyond ques-
ton Mr.. Leech, director of the
mint, kept and published an accurate
table showing the outflow of gold
from New York for the period Feb
ruary 18th to July Oath 1891, from
which Mr.. Leech draws the following
facts, that almost the entire amour,
was shipped when the rate of sterling
exchange was below the point al
which gold shipments can be made
without loss. "The movement" he
says Hmust have been artilicially stim
ulated by banks and bankers in Eu
rope paying premium on gold OF
making discounts to bill drawers fo'
cash remittances. Out of 169 banks
failing between March Sth and Aug
ust the 4lh, 1898, five only were il
eastern cities, forty eight in southern
and one hundred and lifty-one il
| western states. In view of thes
facts how true are the words wrttel
f by Jefferson in 1913, ave are un
| done" he writes ''if legislation
still permitted which makes onr mon
ey much. or little, real or imaginar
< as the moneved interests shall choos
q to make it." The readers of this wlll,rt
: member, for it was ouly yesterday
! how these same people and interest
f opposed our avenging our honor, {
a nation, when outraged by Spail
(,Nhey will remember what a sigh
= lrelief WAS echoed in the eastern pres
= when these harpies, fattened on Il
II blood of the people, found that IL
II war, far from hurting them fnanc
l. tally rather gave them further o
e portunities to rob and plunder Il
e treasury. These and such are &
d people who, as said above, are nc
: directing the fortunes of the rcpub
n can party.
W Oh Liberty, how Thy altar is d
If filed when such as these clam c
1f trance TO its sanctuary. Oh PatriC
ism, how ignoble are thy pretenses
Is virtue, when such acts are commit
~ in thy name.
OF But the torch burning over
Mt shrine of Liberty, tho it burns di
a lv, is not quenched; patriotism,
he true national virtue, may yet
Mt found glowing in the hearts Of
0. productive and toiling masses of
ly people. As in the time of Jacks
to the people insisted, endured and
d, umphed, so will they again insist,
e. dure and triumph. In truth the ella
s6 to patriotism is best made by tn
mi who are demanding an honest doll
IS, dollar whose value does not chan
ire the same yesterday, today and
to morrow. The man who lends d
ci. lar, yorth bushel of wheat or
ed lbs. of cotton and insists on be
'9 paid back a dollar worth bushels
,eeE wheat or 20 lbs. of cotton, is NJ
his patriot, lie is a thief.
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