Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1900-10-12


Dun' up money cult and wealth wor.
snip. until gold seems to have hu,,, :,
sell an altar upon which tho c.n,.,n
,hai y. the American people and ali
.neir ioity conceptions and ideas of l,fs
rIa =. "oout 70 De sacrificed in the TEN.
- =. Hoer'y. MY friends, it is, in my
essential that the American
- p.e realize that Republican party
.io' What 1t was under Abraham Lin
mat the Republican party of to-
10Y as the Jefferson party did A years
e. mas come under the influence of
D'u ana evii men; and that again W.
are called upon as American patriots
~ come up, as Jefferson did 100 wears
aso' as Lincoln did Az years ago, to the
eue Oh this nation by bringing il
Daeh from the control of a designing
ana once more placing il in the
eiooVes IN which 1t was the design of
ouf Iathers that it should run. tAn-
piause.)
am one of those who believe thar
"hiie there is individual option Of con.
"uet' ana While we are responsinle
moral agents, yet, lii some way. God
mas so attuned the universe and all
'eialiohs OF men that when a dire
emergency OF difficulty and danger
eohifohts nation there shall always
aPPeai' ere II ne too late, some man
WIN sihsleness OF AIM with purify
VI motive, with devotion TO u nigh ana
..op1e sense of duty, VINO shall take up
ihe purpose of the innniIe ana carry
!. on To The welfare ana the glory OF
'he people. AND now, almost al the
'"reshoid oi the twentieth century, TO-
"arus winch for centuries gone the
eyes Oh philosophers and poets hav.
oeen turned as toward the dawn or
iaicyoh era i'll the world l.
progress there has been raised
up Tor our emergency man
VINO realizes in the same way
mat these old heroes and statesmen
oiu' the highest ideals OF American citi-
Hehship; a man who, four years ago, as
ny a single bound, many thinking the
occurrence an accident but subsequent
events confirming it as the unfolding
OF a benign and mysterious purpose
sptang forward to the leadership Of the
great new democratic movement in
America, who nobly won and worthily
wears today the white rose Of a peo-
Pies confidence. the undaunted leader
vi an unended contest. the peerless and
fearless champion of American rights
and liberties, William Jennings Bryan.
tremendous applause.) l do not advo-
cate his election because he is Demo-
crat, Out because. being a Democrat Of
To-Day, representing this new spirit OF
regenerated Democracy. he stands
above all things else as a typical Am
erican citizen. (Applause.)
his nomination, my friends, signal
lied a new and important struggle, the
opening of an epoch-making contest
IN American politics. 1t has been no.
ticeable in all ages that those influences
that make against the general welfare
to which have called your attention,
almost invariably concern themselves
first with Re money system Of the
country where they are at work. The
money system Is the most delicate,
the most readily responsive to
manipulation and the most obviously
profitable to control, of all the power
full mechanisms in a state. Through
out all time there have been men who
in their different countries and civiliza-
lions have sought to control the none
tary system in order to operate 1t to
their peculiar benefit and enrichment.
1t was so in old Greece, and you will
remember that the legislation Of Scion.
some six centuries before Christ, was
designed to afford relief from a cOndi-
ton of affairs intoleraDie ana Drought
about by the manipulation of the Gre.
clan money system, d few securing con-
troll of the propert Of the nation by
getting the people in debt to them upon
one basis of the value Of the money
unit, and then compelling the debtors
to get out of debt upon another basis
representing a much scarcer supply of
money and much lower value of prop
erty; SO that those holding the debts,
by foreclOsing upon the pledges, soon
came to own practically all the prop
erty. In Rome much the same thing
was witnessed. The soldiers of Rome
who had carried her victorious eagles
over the world, were the recipients of
the gratitude of grateful people
They were treated much like the SOL
diers of our Civil War, and we gave
the latter, under the Homestead Act
and other legislation, the right to enter
upon the public lands of the United
States, SO the old Roman soldiers were
made tenants in ownership of the pub
lie lands of Rome. But the money sys-
TEN was soon subject to patrician
manipulation, ana then the supply d
money was made relatively less. Un.
der Elliogabalus silver was demone.
tized. Laws were passed against the
debtor and in favor of the creditor and
oy ana by al the pubic iaius eaiii'
INTO the ownership Oh the occupa".s
the palaces upon the Imperial hiiis' ai'
the independent citizehship oi 'ne ~
man state had become mere h,op Ina
came every oay 10 the pack oools
the rich mems houses 10 get tnelr Iooo