Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-11-02
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Inc chairman, seeing that a.
was eager to hear what She w,.'
say, gave her that privilege w.
remarkable speech was as fo,-
TO begin with, gentlemen 4,
lost all faith In the Popullst n.,,.
has ceased to be n party Of r.s.s
1t ever was one. | do not wish !.
icise the gentlemen Of this conv.
but mean the Populst pa,,r
whole. 1t is almost entirely c,,'
OF fault-finders, men who az.
satisfied with anything. You k,.
well as ! do that we are bayn,
times, yet how many men In IN.
list party are willing to acknor,
It! II you find one, ten cham,
one he will say 1t is because n
ply and demand or the late W..
something else; the Goverpm.r
nothing to do with it. Now ,n,
this Is true. Just trace that SAN.
back to a few short years ago
our last presidential election
would then have told you that y,
and demand had nothing to da
the regulation Of prices. and tia,
Ing could bring good times with
FOR our standard money. You ku
well as I do how they told us n.
rich would get richer and III.
poorer; that we would all be ala,
Mckinley was elected. Now We
that was not the truth. for no !.
more independent to-day than
farmer.
"The labOring man has no exon
being idle now. There Is nlp.'
work and good pay. Factories 4
hundred have opened. giving mn,
ployment. They earn plenty Of n
and can now afford to buy the
ers' beef and pork. All yes II, h
ply and demand, hut there would
such A demand were it not for Oh
protection law enacted by our n
lican Congress. Those men wl
eled over this country. persuadis
to join their so-called reform
were false prophets. Would w
time TO believe them? You bal
ter trust the sure captain. who
lost a ship. When this People,
pendent party, started as par,Jl
form we were all anxious to
We were honest. enough to wish
on the side of reform. but. ah
men. time has proven that We
need free silver.
Free silver will soon cease tokI
hobby, for we all now know III
don't need that. They can't u
us that way any more. | hope ta
tlemen here assembled will ra,
your minds that the man who do
you once may deceive you
Many of those who voted for I'd
Yer didn't know what free
meant. and. believing that thes
list speakers and papers told
thought 1t was their only SAID
They have been very pleasantly
without it, and ought to know
now.
Suppose foreigner came .
country and he didn't undersii
English language. and some peop
him that he was slave: tht
never get rich until a cyclone
him.
"Why, II he believed what ths
him, he'd probably pray night
for cyclone to come. If he W.
he'd first find out what
meant, then he might come 70
ferent conclusions: but if he u
study Of the subject. no insesta
OF course he would never una
until cyclone did strike him.
would learn to his sorrow
meant. and he would curse .
who deceived him.
"Now, these men who decelVh
saying we couldn't have gcd
without free silver. We're falls
cts. Let's not believe them an!
hut change our politics. Len
those gentlemen right wne
brought good times to our ~
who have saved our COUNT!
in time of war.
You, gentlemen. who are
with the power to vote, bee
vote sensibly. There is no =
contemplate than the hyps
You believe one way and ,oN
you are committing a sin per-
beg of you to reason for y!
and then vote ms you eons'
believe to he right. no ms
others may think. Some peep
find they are wrong. won
edge it. but a truly honest
Christian man Is glad 10 os
mistake.
We should not he foolish y,
woman. that owned Il loose
a golden egg every DIS. =
hors told her tn XIII thu soos
would find il full of golden g
this old woman was nrospeF'
wasn't satisfied. So she no :
vised her. She Killed { re ~
her sorrow there Were no
to be found. So she d:dn +, eye
goose left. because of her 200