The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-10-04
HEYBURNs SPEECH REVIEWED.

1hlS year III Welser. lie seemed 10
be carrying out the generally adopted
plan of the gold bugs this trip in
making an argument OF assertions
and utterly disregarding proofs. 1t
was said of Ben Butler that his plan
In trying lawsuit was ssto admit
nothing, deny everything, and to
call for proof The republicans
this year seem to be still more arbi-
trary and unreasonable. They not
only admit nothing and deny every
thing in history and philosophy that
doesn't support their vageres, but
they 90 further and refuse to discuss
the issues except to make general
defense upon the grounds of the pre-
sent prosperity in this country and
assert that 1t is the result of repub-
lican policy This is the burden of
their argument, so it was with Judge.
He said this country was prosper
GUS in 1892, but disaster came with
the democratic administration and it
was compelled to issue two hun
bred and sixty millions in bonds
However, he did not state that the
plates from which those bonds were
printed were engraved during the
last year of Harrison's administra
ton
He said that the remedy for those
evils was by more money being
placed in circulation, but there had
been plenty of money stored away and
re- establishment of confidence had
sent it circulating, but he neglected to
state that millions of dollars of new
gold and silver coins have since been
poured into our money supply from
. metal since mined.
He said the advance OF general
prices took place two years before
the famine in India and the Spanish
American war, when casual inspec-
ton of the tables of export prices up
e to 1898 will show the year Of 1897
ending with lower prices for the prln-
cipal products of this country than
in 1898.
He said, by way of apology "a
rare concession for republican,,
that the million of excess of products
sold out of this country in the las
three and one half years ''don'
mean that everyone has sold some
thing and got the money for it, bu
it means that some of you have"
He seemed to forget to tell his aud
II fence that the steel trust, and tn
sugar trust, the oil trust, the Goa
trust, the beef trust, the lead trust
etc. were the ones that sold some
: thing and got the money for it. ii
: forgot to tell that since 1880 tn
se growth of the national wealth wa
re at the rate of only about Al per eel
y year while the railroads, aftt
ou squeezing the water out of the
0e stocks, made about 20 per cent, tt
. banks Is per cent and the sugar I
to fneries 39 per cent per annum du
a u, ing that time, making millionair
by the thousands. Of course we
. nation are prosperous. The
on never was a nation that earned
much wealth in the same length
= time as this nation in the last TWEEN
nod years. What Bryanites complain
nal is the distribution of that wealt
They want The people that produ
nal it to have an equitable share of
They want more than full dim
Is pail, for the slave generally gets th
much, or he becomes valueless as
a., slave. They want the remunerati
md of freemen.
at
He said that last month we pa
- off $19, 600, 600 of the national de
but he said nothing of the COVE
ment collecting $50, 600, 600 MOI
on war stamps, alone for the l
two years, in addition to a bond iss
of 5000, 600, 900 for war fund.
takes more produce to pay what
left after paying the s19, 900, {
than it would have taken to |
the whole nineteen years ago.
He said the policy of the rep