The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-12-27
believe this country should Indiaize

the Philippines? In the exploit
alton of those islands by the sharp
syndicates and blood sucking com
mercial organizations, must the west,
in the mind of the Tribune, still
yield supinely to the gloating gold
ties of the east and give up all the
profits of the looting, seeing that the
looiing must come? 1t may be that
the world is so hopelessly bad, SO
viciously mercenary that even great
republic like the United States must
be dragged down, by the money
changers, from its high pedestal and
made to follow the same black track
left by England across the face of
long suffering India; it may be that
we shall make the Filipino pay us
back the $40, 900, 00C paid Spain to
take fie hit off her hands and to pro-
tect the holders of Spanish bonds !;
and, while pursuing our new ''des-
tiny, we may compel the most
trightful exactions from our brown
subjects even as did England in
Egypt when she took possession under
false pretenses, because of sixteen
million pounds loaned, not by the
government but by individuals, to
the Khedive, all the while promising
to withdraw her troops as soon as
occasion would permit. But if we
do all that, why must the western
half of this continent be deprived
of its share of the i'll gotten booty?
Even in infamy we. cannot escape
the blow of silver decentralization,
and it is just as the SIGNAL said as
much as three years ago, in speaking
of future commerce with the Orient:
iN tOollC VI Jit dIlStOCTdllC east 10
maintain control of the commerce of the
country, and its desire to keep the west
in provincial condition and tributary
TO the east. has been demonstrated 1t
is just probable that the east has realized
the possibility of this coast at some time
building up such relations with the
Orient that eventually it would take
away from the east the supremacy of
nj FOraiUn q "a nd l. a.,
board the commercial center of America
With this in mind, they may have rea-
soned that AS silver was the commercial
money of China. Japan and India. and
that out OF the mountains we could wrest
the supply to build up this commerce
with, the supremacy of the west might
be defeated by numbering silver as a
measure of values And it is plain what
gigantic implement in our own hills.
with silver rehabilitated, we would have.
without going to the east for it, in bring
ing about this, to us, gratifying condition
1T may also have slumbered in the east
ern mind that were the west to build up
this commerce on her coast, if silver could |
be kept down, the east would have the
gold. and at the worst we would have to
come to her for the yellow measure by
which the international business was
governed, and that she would not lose
all mold, but would still have her fingers
In the enticing and profitable stream.
1t seems that while it is necessary
to employ silver, a half price coinage
system is to be established to con
tlnue the command of eastern GOLD
over western silver, and the eastern
gold dollar is made equal to every
two dollars of western silver that
goes into the Philippines. If silver
were remonetized tomorrow every
ounce of western mined silver would
do just double the work in the Phil
ippines, for the west, and the clrcuit
would be directly from the western
mine to the islands; the benefits com.
mercially would all accrue to the
west, and the east would be shut out
from acting the middle man with his
200 per cent gold dollar. ~
The coinage proposition as given
above is the most suggestive hint
that we have taken up the wringine
process more determinedly than ever
We will be like our Anglo Saxon
mother and instead of giving so
blunt manifesto as that used by
Alonzo de Ojeda in subjugat-
ing the savages of Cartha-
gena, will employ the more sub
tie methods which will make the
Malay pay us $40, 600, 600 instead
Of $40, 600, 900 should we decide
upon calling upon him to make
good the price paid Spain for his
When Themistocles sought to extort
rlbute from the Andrians. he said
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