The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-13
HOW WILL THIS DO2

talnS at the abandonment OF the silver is
sue this year, and plentiful condemnation
for The Tribune because it maintains
that there are no arguments for silver
this year. And yet these carpers them
selves vindicate The Tribune in his. for
though they have been repeatedly asked
to frame n silver argument that would
fit the present conditions, not one of
them has attempted to comply. Even
Bryan can t do it, aud gives it up as "a
bad job. Lake Tribune
1t is difficult to understand just
what the Tribune means by the fore
going. If it were required to supply
plans and specifications or even a
blue print of the idea that prompt
ed it to put forth that paragraph,
other than as a sickly apology for its
treachery to the northwest we sus-
pect thatit would be forced to admit
that 1T did not know what it meant.
If the Tribune thinks there are no
arguments this year for silver it is
easy~to give it few pointers. VIII
it say that we have a world wide
and abiding prosperity that the re-
moyal of chain of accidents will
not kill?
Outside of organized trusts, is
capital moving very much? The
men who live on the interest of their
money, after the scare of 1890 was
over bIded their. time until 1898.
Then by a concentrated movement
they caused all the money in the
United States to be locked up There
was no western hank that did not
receive notice of what was intended,
and it was not because they were
afraid money was going on a silver
basis, but because they were afraid
that silver would be remonetzed and
the worlds money doubled They
determined to kill that. They elect
ed Mr.. Cleveland for that purpose.
He was IN full sympathy with them,
because 1t was that class of men that
made his fortune for him, and. his
fortune once made, his solicitude
for the poor ofs the country grew
very small The crash came, as
per programme In the spring of
SO, about the time that Mr.. Cleve-
land sent his ambassadors to Great
Britain, as if a strange coincidence,
the minis of India closed That sup
piled Mr. Cleveland with the excuse
to call Congress In extra session and
to demand the repeal of the purchas-
ing clause of the Sherman act In
his message he stated several things
about the cause of the trouble in the
country which were not true In
charity we will believe that he believ-
ed what he said, but the moneyea
men of New York knew better. They
did not mean to absolutely PROSTATE
business, but simply to give the
country big scarce so that the pro-
gramme which they had marked out
for Mr.. Cleveland would work. But
they carried the thing so far that
the depositors became alarmed and
then it was with the utmost difficulty
that even the strongest banks in
the East could keep their doors open.
They only did it through the instru-
mentality of clearing house certificat-
es, which really were little else ex-
cept that Jones certified that Brown
was all right; Brown certified Rogers
was all right; Rogers certified that
Jones was all right, and it had to 90,
because there was no other process
by which business could be done at
all. 1t was altogether useless, alto
gether as cruel as war, for it ruin
ed infinitely more than war would.
Mr.. Cleveland promised if the clause
could be striker from the Sherman
law that the great thing needed, con
fidence, would at once come back.
1t did not come during his term of
office.
Then followed Mckinley and
Gage. Did Mr.. Gage use govern
ment funds to bolster up the financial
strength of any bank or banks? And,
later on, what was held out to the
people in the last gold banking mea-
sure of the republicans turning over
the control of ali paper money to the
national banks? Does that, in the