The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1899-02-09
OUR POLITICAL LETTER
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terror OF the helpless masses, who
are constantly being levied upon for
greater tribute in their every pur-
chase. 1t has but one buyer and he
becomes dictator. The banks work
with him in squeezing The holders of
crops and merchandise during the
selling season, thus forcing them to
sell at the trusts figures. The rich
love and the poor hate this monster.
Queen Elizabeth, 400 years ago,
dissolved every trust and thanked
the business men, iu a digniied
speech, tor calling her attention to its
necessity.
"Free silver is the weapon which
must dissolve our trusts, as our pre-
sident, sad as it is, owes his Office to
their existence, and thus is powerless
to act
''It was tue decentralization Of sill
yer that caused our trusts to form
1t is its restoration to its former place
as the money of the people that will
serve to dissolve these monstrous
creations OF greed"
"The remedy to stay falling pri
ces?" l asked.
''Increase the volume of our ma
tons currency by remonetizing silver
until the prices of all property, com
modities and labor have risen to the
point where money accumulates in
the pockets of the masses instead of
Cutting the vaults of the banks. I'm
til the material well-being of the
wealth producing and laboring classes
of the nation Is restored. When
every workman owns his home, and
that home comfortable and conven-
lent, commodious and well furnished {;
when every workman can afford to be
the father of family and is possess
ed of sufficient means to give his
children liberal education. When
those who create the wealth of the
nation, who constitute eight-tenths
of the people in it, shall, under the
unwritten law decreeing the greatest
good to the greatest number, receive
their proper and equitable share of
that wealth, the benefit of which would
accrue to the country from such a
percentage of its people enjoying
prosperity would make it impossible
that the remaining two-tenths could
experience any great hardship, no
matter what the system that pro-
duced these results might be.
"Think Of our cotton mill treas
urers paying for low priced cotton,
when the ports Of Bremen and Havre
had cleared ON March LIST three times
what our northern mills had ever
consumed in any one year. Six mil
lion bales went through these ports
and 2, 900, 900 is all the north uses.
Our south $50, 600 bales only The
south would have received from six
to nine billion dollars instead of bare
ly two and one-half millions. Would
planters put their daughters at work
at the loom at 20 cents per week with
that money in circulation?
II think not. If your farmers
had received 81, $50, 900, 900 for their
wheat last year in the place of $500, :
600, 600, and l guarantee to prove to
you that they should have done so,
and would, if the remedy had been
applied, in the place of being Dor
rowers next year they would have be-
come lenders. Take the corn crop
and the grass crop, which hourished
in marvellous luxurance, besides be.
ing the basis of the meat and dairy
productions, the returns from the hay
would have been many billions of
dollars. "
care eastern men going to again
vote for single gold standard or will
they in 1900 vote for the democratic
party and bimetalism?"
"Ask me something easier. Men
only grasp truths as they become the
sad-eyed victims of falsehoods. The
victimized will vote, but their mas
tiers, the bondholders, will no more
yield than did the southern slave
holders in 1861, and for the same
reason, self interest. There are,
however, signs all along the line in
eastern states of an awakening from
the long sleep which has nearly re-
suited in national death. Manufac-
lures no longer want protection
preferring free raw material and,
progressing but step further, they
will want the great common people
of this country to become sufficient
ly prosperous that they may be able
to purchase the articles now manu-
featuring in the east Nothing can
effect this change but an increase in
in the volume of our legal tender.
From our present per capita circula-
ton of money of So, put us back to
$50, which we had in 1865. Re
monetize silver may become the cry
of all eastern manufacturers and
wage-e arners in 1900. Stranger
things have happened.