The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-04-26
THE MIGHTY CRIME.

Statesman, paper which once open
ed an editorial, which we now have
before us, with the words, "No gold
tie has yet offered even a plausible
reason for the decentralization of sill
yer The London paragraph reads:
Sir William Wedderburn, known as au-
thority on India affairs, writing to the
Speaker on the subject of the famine, de-
clares the British government is RESPONSE
BILE to great degree for the awful suffer
ings, owing to the unfair taxation and the
revolutionary system of business methods
arbitrarily imposed on the natives,
While goldites offer no plausible
reason for the demonetization of sill
yer, neither can the most skillful of
the financial physicians concoct a
remedy to stay the ravages of the
disease with which the poor of the
world, the toilers, were inocculsted
when the soul of commercial stability
was cleft in twain by the destruction
OF one half the worlds money.
As murder will out, so will the
blighting effects of silver destruction
ever exist until the wrong is RENE
died, and only when new physical
laws shall be in force will the proofs
of the sublime and unconquerable
truths of the silver argument cease
to rise up to confront the govern
ments of the world. The same power
that is bringing ruin to this country
has worked the awful devastation in
India, and the cry against ''unfair
taxation and revolutionary business
methods arbitrarily imposed" is cry
against the decentralization of silver,
which has brought worlds of woe
and oceans Of sorrow and suffering
upon India, while the great gold
leech of London has grown and swell
ed with the blood sucked from it's
poor, pinched victim. The plan to
force India to the gold standard orig
mated in London, and was endorsed
in India only by officials of the Eng
lish government in military and civil
circles The results have been fright
full, and the condition of those peo-
pie is deplorable to contemplate. There
is 40 money among the common peo-
pie, and interest is 80 high and ordi-
nary securities, because of too great
a burden upon too narrow base, are
unacceptable because of their uncer-
tainty, and the pressure in business
circles has become unbearable, and
the demoralizing effect upon the peo-
pie because of the mighty stringency
is marked and emphasized by failure
to cultivate, and return to jungle
state ofonce productive lands. Farm
ers have ceased to have ambition, and
the natives present the spectacle of
llstless, inert mass contemplating low
prices, uncertain payments, and hope
less despair. Wan famine and pen
ury hovers over the field of English
financial operations in India, but the
gold ogre of Lombard feels the nutri-
tive juices sucked from India through
the single standard straw. The same
tendency of the fostering disease
among the same classes in this coun-
try is only lessened and retarded by
the magnifcence of the country it.
self; but the same truths prevail, the
same results follow the same cause and
the same disease progresses in some
degree from the same financial poison
in any part of the world, no matter
what outward breezes flush the cheek
with an apparently healthful glow
while the physical constitution is be-
ing undermi ned. The creditor class
has merciless determination to ruin
the producers Of the world. Evil
was the day when the men who deal
in money saw the nations striding
along with their burdens of debt, and
conceived an idea by which they could
bring the world full sweep within
their grasp, fix themselves upon pin
nacle of wealth which could not
be destroyed while all the producing
millions would be secured by invisible
bonds in the thralldom of perpetual
support and homage to the divinity
of money aristocracy. They conciev-
ed the idea of doubling the nations