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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1900-10-20

prosperous people on earth hat
their prosperity is only imaginary
and that while they think them
selves in the midst Of good fortune
they are actually suffering the most
severe distress. We would sug-
gest to those who are being terror
lied BY the dire prophecies in
which Mr.. Bryan is now INDUCING
that they carefully investigate his
former efforts at pulling aside the
curtain Of fnturity and disclosing
the things which are to be. # he
has not improved wonderfully in
the art Of prophetic vision his pro
pheeies are entitled 70 very little
consideration.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1900-10-20
DEMOCRATIC TRUSTS.

AS the campaign advances facts
are continually being disclosed
which show the ho1lowhess of Demo
cratic pretentsions On evey question
upon which they attack the Repnb-
1ican party. Recently the Chicago
Inter Ocean has been. making some
investigation with respect to. trusts
and has discovered that seventy
sevenwe all fourishing, unopposed
and unassailed, while Mr.. Bryan
and his party were in power. This
disclosure shows the falsehood of
the persistent assertion that the Re-
publican party alone fosters trusts
and that the Democratic party now
seeks, and always has sought, to
suppress them. We append here
to a list of the trusts organized pri-
or to and during the last Democratic
| administration. The corporations
in this list designated by an aster-
isk no longer do business under the
names here given. The reason Of the
change ofname is that Mr.. while Bry
an was in Congress and his party
in power these met with SO little
hindrance that they gave birth to
still larger ones which are now false
ly called Mckinley trusts" Thus,
accordingto the Chicago Inter Ocean
the Illinois Steel Company became,
the Federal Steele Company under
Democratic ru1eand its $500, 900, 900
capitol was given as a scandalous
example by Mr.. Bryan in his ST..
Louis speech 1t will be profitable,
and a complete refutation of the
Democratic claim that the Republic
an party is responsible for all the
trusts in the country, to examine
and carefully Study the lists here
given. ,... - .
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1900-10-20
ADDRESS TO POPS.

Elsewhere in this paper appears
an address issued by the mem
bers Of the Populist party
to their party at large. The
signers of this address are we'll
Known aid responsible men reS'd-
ing in and near this city and it is
evident that they are thoroughly
in earnest to interrupt the fusion
istic tendencies in their party.
These men fully realize that fusion
has disrupted and almost destroyed
the political organization from
which they had hoped to accom-
p1ish a political reformation. They
also realize that the Democratic
party has used the Peoples party
simply as a tool for the working ou'
ofthe designs Of DEMOCRACY. Thei1
protest against a continuation O.
political alliance with other partie:
is earnest and forcible and should
appeal strongly TO every sincere be
lever in the principles ofPopulism
1t is understood that in this county
there are between 800 and 500 mid
die of the road Populists and a grea
many of them will either vote thu
Republican ticket or remain a
home on election day.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1900-10-20
NOTICE.

Sale of School Bonds of District No. 16, o"y-
hee County, Idaho.
NOTICE is hereby given that on NoyemoeFF
! nth, 1900, at O. clock p M at the oiiiCG %
the Board of Trustees at HOmedale, OWyHMSe
County, Idaho the coupon bonds OF Scho0,, d DIs
trlct No 10 will be offered for sale as 1oiio"''
tO-Wit s[-s -
Seven bonds of $4,000 each payable in ten
years from date. .as- ,u,r,
date ~.
Interest at per centum per annum payaosgf
one year after date and after first year ntesT HEY
payable semi annually thereafter on tpe tbs
Monday In January and July OF each year ~ To nm
ONCE OF the County Treasurer OF yOWyhee Co'tn .
ty, Idaho. nm.
Sealed bids will be received for these bonds ln,
til O'Clock p NJ. November nth, 1850, W.T. bnst
the bonds will be sold to the highest anu ZEE tbe
bidder. The Board of Trustees reserves VI
right to reject any and all bids and sell lne OVnS
at private sale If deemed for the best ihteTess al
the District so to do. These bonds are issa ond
and sold for the purpose OF constructing "h Nv
furnishings new school house as proVlaeat ~
law. The total issue is less than per ceh'"l"
of the assessed valuation of the District ,,,s,.
All bids ShOuld-be addressed in seaed shn and
Opes IT, the Clerk of the Board OF trustees "hN
plainly marked 'tB!ds for School Bonds; ~
Mrs. ADA MussFTI. Chairmani
Clerk. =-5,.a -rsobo
Dated at Homedale, 0wyhee County, I9 Ma
this 18th day of October, 1900. olS-N''
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1900-10-20
DO NOT SCRATCH.

We would like to impress it On
the voters of Canyon County that of
the officers which they are to eject
on November 9th, the County Com
are among the most i'm
portant. Indeed, in so far as county
matters are concerned, none of the
other officers have so much of the
Of county management
as they do. Upon them depend
whether or not county affairs shall
be we'll and economically admins
tered. It is therefore important
that the Commissioners ticket of
one or the other party should be
elected in its entirety in order that
responsibility shall attach to the
party whose candidates have been
successful. In voting for County
Commissioners the members of the
different political parties make a
mistake when they scratch their
own candidates. It is not in the
public interest that the Board of
County Commissioners should be
politically mixed, because in that
case the credit for good manage
ment goes to no party and the
responsibility for bad manage
ment devolves on no party. Ex-
perience shows that this govern
ment can only be conducted through
the agency Of political parties and
the way to purify politics is to re-
buke the whole party when it
makes mistake or resorts to cor
rupt methods. In the interest of
the Republican party, and in the
interest of the welfare of this couu-
ty we appeal to Republican voters
to give their loyal and active sup
port to the Republican candidates
for County Commissioners. Let u.s.
if successful, have a straight Re-
publican administration and then
hold the party responsible for the
acts of its administration. We be-
lieve that every man nominated on
the Republican ticket is thoroughly
honest and competent and that he
will discharge the duties of the Of
flee to which he aspires in the in
terest of the public and to his own
honor and credit. This being the
case, we feel that we can conscien-
tiously' appeal to the Republicans
of this county to stand squarely by
the nominees of their party.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1900-10-20
VoTE STRAIGHT.

According to the polls which.
have been made in this county the
Prohibition party will cut very lit
tie figure in the final results. In
the case of a close vote between
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1900-10-20
NOTICE OF ATTACHMENT

In the District Court of the Third Judical Div-
trlct OF the State of Idaho, in and for the County
OF Canyon. '''
James A. Lauor Plaintiff VS.. Henry Helmick De-
NOTICE is hereby given that an Attachment
was issued out of this Court against the property
OF the Deteudent in the above entitled cause.
4. Given under my hand and the seal of Office this
Inc 18TH day of October A. D., 1900
ror EDGAR MEEK.
loEALl Clerk
By J. P. JOHNSON,
Deputy.
Iron County register., 1900-02-15

ton is following Divine guidance in
the prosecution Of a war of conquest
they will be compelled to show tine
credentials of the man through whom
the Divine will has been revealed.
eff they assert that circumstaces
make it. necessary to remain in the
Philippine islands, they will be met
with the reply that a republican ad.
ministration has created the circum-
stances which are relied upon to JUS
tify the retention of the islands,
Thus clearly and cogently does the
splendid logic of the democratic cham
pion meet and overthrow the argu-
ments of the opposition.
Thus are the people enlightened and
thus is a brilliant light thrown on the
dark counsels of the republican i'm
periallsts.
This kind of argument is unanswer-
able and the Mckinley forces in the
east are beginning to crumble before
the sustained attacks of William j.
Bryan.
Imperialism can never appeal to a
majority of the iberty-loving voters
OF this country. On this issue alone
the democrats can meet and defeat
their opponents, and when there are
joined to it the argument against
trusts and the aggressions of the
money power victory at the polls next
autumn will be practically assured
Chicago Democrat.
Iron County register., 1900-02-15
PRESS COMMENTS.

Mr.. McKinley's war in the Phil
ippines began year ago. 1t is still on,
though Gen. Otis has $4,000 soldiers
there and has announced that the "war
is over" about every other week.-N. Y.
World.
Many republican papers are say
ing Mr.. Mckinley should not uphold his
secretary of the treasury. They seem
to overlook the fact that Mr.. Cages
questionable acts were performed in
upholding the men who upheld Mr.. Nc
Kinley-Kansas City Times.
Having successfully lodged the
Kentucky issue the Honorable William
Mckinley may exercise all his address
in keeping out of the way of the Idaho
boomerang, which is now returning in
his direction with an ominous hum
ming noise.-Chicago Chronicle.
To withhold from the people Of
Porto Rico the right to sell their prod
ucts in the United States without tariff
restriction will be unjust and coward
ly. If those people are not accorded
the benefits of being ciassed as Amer
leans the island might better be re-
turned to Spain. = Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
1t was said of old that "a mans
foes shall be they.'of his own house
hold" Nobody can look over the politi-
cal field in the United States to-day
without seeing that William Mckinley
has greater need to take this saying to
heart than any other president in our
history just entering upon a campaign
for reelection.-N. Y. Pest.
THE administration leaders in
congress are little chary about push
ing their schemes for a large standing
army. They have in view the election
this fail and the ingrained opposition
of the American people to maintaining
q large standing army in time of peace.
In war it is different. Then the people
are willing to give every dollar and
every man that may be called for. But
in times of profound peace they re-
-all the warnings of history that a
great standing army is not good thing
for republican institutions.-Pitts-
ourgh Post.
Iron County register., 1900-02-15
INSTRUCT ALL DELEGATES
Democratic Organizations Should
Thoroughly Prepare Rep
resentativen.

Since 1896, events have so shaped
| themselves to the detriment of the ma
ton and the American people, that no
man can scan the principles laid down
in the Chicago platform without being
convinced that it is the true democratic
doctrine in every detail, and that to
change a single line of it would be
qualification.
| 1t has been charged against the DEM
ocratic party that it is too steadfast in
| its principles and that it is not a party
| of progress. The plain answer to that
| is that it never has and never will pro-
gress in such fashion that the auton-
| omy of the nation must be destroyed
to permit the aggrandizement of
special class and the ruin of the people.
1t desires no such progress as that con-
templated by the republican party; q
progress towards imperialism and the
destruction of the individual citizen;
| a progress towards the establishment
of a separate sovereignty lorded over
by the president of the United States;
a progress which puts in the hands
of a favored class the money of the
people; progress towards industrial
slavery and the apotheosis of plutoc-
racy. Its progress is based upon the
progress and welfare as well as happi-
ness and content of the whole people,
which is the only American progress.
To maintain the principles of the
democratic party, it behooves all demo-
cratic organizations to see to II that
every delegate to the national conven-
ton is an unwavering democrat, a DEM
"a
1896, and who will now pledge himself
to the Chicago platform and such other
issues as may be forced upon the con-
vention by the trend of events towards
policy dangerous to the freedom Of
the citizen and ruinous to the nation.
The mass of democratic voters are un-
Iron County register., 1900-02-15
English Scientists in France.

In welcoming to Boslogne the Brit.
ish and French associations for the ad-
vancement of science, the mayor of
Boulosne said their reunion repre-
sented the cooperation of Anglo
Saxon, Celt and Gaul in the service os
science and humanity at large. Sir
Michael Foster in reply said that the
one prominent characteristic of the
English people is their power to hide
their feelings, but when the French
scientists visited Dover though the
Englishmen did their best to keep up
the national trait, they failed. There
was proverb in England, and all the
newspapers keep it in standing type,
that "Theysdo these things better in
France" He then made the confess
sion that though Dover did her best IN
her reception of the Frenchnen, vet
they did these things better in France
Tribune
Iron County register., 1900-02-15
THE MONEY QUESTION.
A Clear Issue for the Voters to Decide
Upon During the Coming
Campaign.

While some of the editors are won
dering if the money question win fig
ure in the next campaign, Hon. j. G.
Johnson, chairman of the executive
committee of the democratic national
committee, calls attention to the fact
that the proposed currency bills of
the republican party in congress have
already fixed the issue. By proposing
| to fix the single gold standard upon
the country, the republicans have
| shifted the issue from that which was
before the country in 1896, to con-
| test over the gold standard pure and
| simple. In the last campaign the dis
| cussion was between those who fav-
| ored the free coinage of silver at the
old ratio and those who were opposed
to the proposition.
At that time the republicans re-
fused to make the gold standard the
issue. They fought shy of it and evad-
ed it. They admitted in their plat
form that bimetallism was better for
the people than the single gold stand
ard provided it could be reached as
the result of international agreement.
And now Mr.. Mckinley was so keen
for the introduction of international
bimetallism that he took it upon HIM
self, even before he took the oath of
Cffice, to arrange for commission
whose duty it would be to visit Eu-
rope in order that the evils of the sim
gle gold standard might be mjtigated
as promptly as possible.
1t is hardly necessary to say that
many voters who were utterly opposed
to the single gol5 standard were won
over to the republicans by the con-
servative stand which they conceived
that party had taken on the money
question. The impression left upon
the more thoughtful voters by the re-
publican leaders was that these Lead
ers were equally opposed to the gold
standard and to the independent free
coinage of silver; they were supposed
to occupy the safe and conservative
ground midway between; they feared
independent free coinage, and so they
turned to international bimetallism.
But now, since they have thrown
off all disguise they have changed the
issue. The contest will now be, not
only for and against silver, but for
and against the gold standard. The
main question will be whether the
GOLD standard shall be permanently
fastened on the country, with all the
evils admitted by the republicans in
their efforts to secure international
bimetallism.
For the first time since the question
Of the standards has been agitated
the people will have an opportunity
of deciding whether they want bimet-
allism-the free coinage of both mon
ey metals-or the single gold stand
ard. Always, heretofore, the issue has
been confused; the republicans have
been shifty enough to evade it. But
now they cannot escape the results OF
their efforts to make the gold stand
ard the permanent measure of all the
values in this country.
This is a question which the people
must decide for themselves and they
will be given an opportunity in the
coming campaign.
Iron County register., 1900-02-15
BANKS AND THE GOVERNMENT
To the State Should Be Reserved the
Sole Power of Making
Money

- correspondent asks us: "Is it not
the issue directly by the government of
the United States notes, or greenbacks,
that puts the government in the bank
ing business?" supplementing the in
quiry with the assertion that lit is the
natural province of banks to issue cir
culating notes.
We answer that the issuing of paper
money is not banking, but the exercise
by the government of a function like
that of coming metal money, the
usurpation of which by banks, under
any conditions, is wrong, and should be
prohibited. 1t is no more the mat
ural province" of banks to issue cir
culating notes than it is for them to
run the post Office, maintain an army or
navy, or exercise any other govern
ment power. That they have been al
lowed to do it in past years is no rea-
son why they should be allowed to do
it forever.
The way to provide the sound, stable
and unimpeachable currency that is de-
sired is to reserve for the government
the sole power to put the stamp of
money on metal or on paper.-N. Y.
Sun.
Iron County register., 1900-02-15
THE cHILDLEss FLAT aELow.

St. Peter sat inside the gate
A soul appeared outside,
And knocked upon the golden bars:
pray. let me in,'' she cried.
when you were on that little ball
Men call the earth'" said he
''You lived in what is called a fiat"-
Yes, what of that?" said she
''You lived" the saint went on to saw
In quiet comfort there:
No noise was made by night or day
To nil you with despair
"'Tis as you say" the woman said.
AID 1 was free from sin;
81 west to church as Christians should
Now, pTythee, let me in"
'sYou hunted round until you found
A fiat" st. Peter said,
"Where children never romped below
Nor scampered overhead"
"Ah, yesi they barred the children out"
She answered him, land that
Was why took such comfort in
My cozy. quiet fiat.
''There were no children there to raise
A soul-disturbing din,
And mine, therefore, were happy days
Now, prythee, let me in!'
NAY. nay, go down below" he said.
And turned his head and smiled,
There are so many children here,
They'd simply set you wildl
'Go down below-far down below
You'll find a place there that
Is just as free from children as
They kept your childIess 1atv'
5. E. kiser, in Chicago Times-Herald.
Iron County register., 1900-02-15
Philinnine SnoiIx.

The spoils system was tried in the
United States for many years and
proved melancholy failure. What the
result would be thousands of miles
across the Pacific can readily be con-
ceived. If political and personal IA
vorites were sent to govern the Fill
pinos their cupidity and inefficiency
would in time become as intolera BILE to
the natives as the maladministration of
Spanish officials before President Nc
kinley adopted his policy of giving the
Filipinos freedom by shooting them to
death. If the future has in store for
the United States the abandonment of
american principles and the govern
ment of an alien race as subjects, let
us at least try to make the lot of the
latter endurable by sending them Off
cials who will be capable and honest
and who will not go to the islands
principally for the money that is in
it." Certainly, if Providence has given
US the Philippines, as the imper:alists
claim, he must have intended the is
lands to be governed by men of integ-
rity and proved Baltimore
Sun.
Iron County register., 1900-02-15
BRYAN ON IMPERIALISM.
The Republican Policy R0undly
Scored by the Champion OF
Dem0cracy

William J. Bryan is a leader oi
thought, and he was the first great
thinker of this country to protest
against imperialism and to point out
its dangers to this republic.
It rec Guired a great deal of courage
for public man to oppose the trend
of war enthusiasm when it was at its
height, but armed with the courage
OF his convictions, Bryan spoke boldly
and now the people are with him.
Recently. in discussing the imperial
istic policy of the republican admin
istration, Mr.. Bryan said:
I'm all my speeches I devoted con-
siderable time to the subject of imperi-
alism. and found that the argu-
ments against a colonial policy were
well received.
81 am convinced that effort to en-
graft such policy upon our form of
government will ALLEVIATE more repub-
licans than have left the republican
party in any previous campaign. AS
the purpose of republican leaders to
forcibly annex the Philippine islands
becomes more apparent, the defenders
of that policy become more and more
bold in their reputation of funda-
mental principles, and as the doctrine
of force is more boldly avowed the dis
affection among the republicans in
creases.
when the republican party meets
the speeches of Abraham Lincoln IN
the next campaign it will find that
the gulf between Lincolnisra and Han
naism is so great that the admirers of
the former cannot be followers of the
latter.
eff the republicans assert that an
imperial policy will pay, they will be
compelled to put a pecuniary value
upon the lives that will be sacrificed
in the purchase of the supposed ad-
vantages. If they assert that the ma
Iron County register., 1900-02-15
The fool cared not for this pitiful plea
AS he feasted the great, right royalty.
CONTRACTING THE CURRENCY.
A Coincidence That Is Si&nificant-
Single Gold Standard Fathers
q Panic.

Apparently the republican money
tinkers have taken an unfortunate
time to place this country on the gold
basis.
Coincident with the discussion of
the gold bill in congress a panic RACES
in New York and Boston, banks and
commission houses fail and all for
the lack of money to float their enter
prises.
Explanations of the cause of this
panic are being made and all of them
point to the fact that the price of
money for the last three months has
been abnormally high. This being the
case, to contract the currency one-half
by establishing the single gold stand
ard is to force the price of money so
high that these local panics will be
followed by a general financial tor
nado.
Speculation has been fast and furi-
Gus. Trust stocks, more than half
water, have been sold at or near par.
the fictitious value has gone out of
these stocks, owing to the scarcity of
gold, and panic has resulted.
Demand for gold has increased
Europe has called for it. South At
rica has ceased to send in it's supply
of $s,000,000 a month. American Sc
curities are being liquidated abroad
and gold is flowing eastward across
the Atlantic.
And yet the gold maniacs insist on
contracting the currency. The Bank
of England discount rate has gone
up. Call money brings 1s6 per cent.
interest on the New York market, the
price of American eagles has advanced
and industrial" or trust stocks have
tumbled disastrously.-Ch Chicago Demo-
crat.
Iron County register., 1900-02-15

swerving in their faith to the principles
set forth in the Chicago platform, and
no man must be permitted to trouble
that faith. 1t is the voice of nearly
100000 of people, and to betray them
is to be recreant to the greatest trust
ever reposed in men.
Beware then and do not let any man
deceive you by any sort of specious ar
gument, or by any charge of bossism,
but let every delegate be instructed
upon the principles of the party and
instructed right
Iron County register., 1900-02-15
Demand for Gold.

In the face of an international de-
mand for gold the republican money
tinkers are bending all their energies
10 force the republican congress into
passing the gold standard bill. Under
the circumstances it would be both
financial and political wisdom TO let
well enough alone, but the money pow
er is ravenous and, having tile repub-
lican party in its clutches, proposes
to force the issue now irresI ective Of
Chicago Dispatch