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The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-07-21

Standard Oil monopoly, was de-
MED denomination by the repnbli-
can party. AS we'll might Deliver
undertake to prove that black is
white as to convince intelligent
people that republican leaders are
against trusts! II is not because
the party is their enemy that the
industrial combinations are con-
tributors to its campaign funds. 1t
is because the organization is their
friend.
WHEN a Kootenai county repub-
lican has yelled prosperity until
his throat is sore, his face is as red
as a beet and the salt brine trickles
from his eyes, it is downright
cruelty for a Kathdrum prairie far
mer to ask him to give the exact
percentage of prosperity in accent
wheat. Don't ask him that. Ask
him who gets the prosperity when
a soulless corporation fires all the
white men and puts in crew of
laps and dagos? This will cheer
him up, and while everyone knows
it is the corporation, he will pre-
varicate like second cousin to
! Annanias and swear it is the people.
| For four years the republicans
and the republican press have
howled that the money question
was dead--that the silver question
had been buried fathoms deep.
They have proclaimed it from the
housetops, from the rostrum and
from every two-by-four country
weekly of the tribe. Now comes
the word direct from the mouth O.
Mark Hanna that the money ques
ton is the paramount issue OF the
campaign; that imperialism is the
base subterfuge of the ignoblt
| democrats to evade this issue
Either someone has lied most Wig
orously in the past or a mighty
poor job of burying has been done
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-07-21
Installation Of OMcers

Panhandle lodge, No: IS, Knights
of Pythias, installed the following
officers last Tuesday night: G. c.,
I. S. Quarlesf Prelate Joseph Buckle;
X. of b. aaa 81. A. W. Post; NJ. Of W.,
c. II. Sheffield: M, of f., D. e. Dam
by; n. of e.. Frank w enz; NJ. of A.
George Wright; 0. G., Elmer Porter,
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-07-21
Republican State Ticket.

After IL two days aneyentful ses-
sion, the republican state convention
at Boise nominated the following
state ticket:
Presidential electors-George NJ.
Parsons, Judge W. b. Hepburn and
}. W. Rowton of Idaho cotsl4ty.
For congress-Johr E.. Morrison OF
Canyon.
For supreme eoart--Edgap G. Steele
of Latah.
For eeserncr-E. w, Srsnarod of
Bannock.
Fos lisuteaany geverner--A. A..
Crane of Koetenai.
Fog secretary Of state-M Patrie of
gremont.
For rreasufeF-George W. Hester of
Nez Perez coarty.
For state audieor-.-Harry j. Syms
OF gilmore.
For attorney general-George E.
Gray of Oneida.
For superintendent of public in
struction-Mies' Jessie Reilly of
Blaine,
For mine insptctor@N. Robert Bell
of Custer.
-==zA-------N
Andrew Christ enson is in Boise
attending the republican state con-
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-07-21

Card of Thanks.

We desire to tender our mt,st crate
ful thanks TO the many friends who
have been SO kind to- us during the
sickness and death Of our little one.
Mr.. and Mrs. GEO. CeMN0Rs..
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-07-21
THE DOGS OF WAR,

The press dispatches state that
Russia has handed the Chinese
envoy at St. Petersburg his pass
ports and requested him to leave
the country along with his mission.
This means but one thing, war.
War between Russia and China
certainly, and war possibly be
tween Russia and England. 1t
means that whatever horror OF
butchery and outrage witch may
have occurred to the ministers and
missionaries of other nations, the
demands of these powers tor IN
demnty and retribution must wait
in allegiance upon Russia or, it
means a clash of nations. AS a
straw pointing the setting Of the
winds comes this dispatch from
Washington:
"'The United States has inform
ally notified the other powers that
this country must hereafter be
reckoned with in all steps taken
either for pacification or partition
in China. In furtherance of this
policy it is believed the United
States, Germany and Great Brit
ain have taken a determined stand
and will act together. Japan nor
Russia nor any other nation will
be permitted to profit by the situa-
ton which has been created by the
horrible attack upon the diplomat
ic ENJOYS Of all nations.
What can the United States
hope to gain by interference in the
partition OF China2 Can she gain
anything but hand in the broil:
Is it trade? What will trade with
China amount to when she is
struggling in deadly war with Rus
sia or other powers, or after she
has been impoverished by such
war? Is it indemnity? In either
event in what condition will China
be to satisfy indemnity claims Of al
nations? Is the indiscriminate
slaughter of Cinnamon in punish
ment, in vengeance, a sufficient
and righteous satisfaction of these
claims? Will a slice OF Chinese
soil atone for the blood and torture
or salve the heart wounds of those
who mourno Is American punish.
ment more severe than that of the
Russian?
Now that the situation has
forced Russia to the front, to be
the first to declare war; now tina,
oiiC lids NidooCQ ZOO,OOO Troops
to be Immediately hurled into
China, the powers can do no more,
can render no greater service tc
the cause OF right and Christian
civilization than by standing aside,
placing the settlement OF this ter
rible affair in the hands of Russia,
and unitedly strengthening her
hands IN every possible way. As
the situation has shaped itself this
IS the true course. This is the
only course the United States can
pursue. Russia is first upon the
held, first in power, and first in
ability. Any other course can but
embroll the nations
But England is not content to
do this. Nothing but territory will
satisfy Great Britain. If America
stands with England at all, as
above intimated, she stands to
assist her in this purpose. If the
Mckinley administration interferes
irs the pastieion of China, 1T inter
seses LIN THE, behalf of England
,fhe people more than llalf believe
no the existence of the secret ALI
anee SO much talked about. Inter.
terence IN the partition of China
will simply confirm this belief-a
belief that while England is crush,
ing two republics in the Transvaal,
Nc klnley IS pulling English chest
mats, out OF the Chinese fire..
"WHAF. ls the empire?" askee
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-07-21
MINISTER CONCER ALIVE.

The state department has been
handed IA cipher dispatch in the secret
code, signed by Minister Conger,
which states he is alive but in deadly
peril
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-07-21

the Lincoln ratification meeting
And he answered: "The empire is
where the question whether man
shall have his due is determined
by the caprice of some other man;
where the promise of nature is
only barren ideality; where the
Declaration of independence is re-
pudiated and scoffed at; where the
liberty which that great charter
declares to be given by God to all
men is replaced by the liberty
which a Mckinley may grant to
some men 'in such measure as
suits his opinion of their capacity
where the consent of the gov
erned' is changed into the consent
of the governors where there are
no rights but only concessions;
where authority may be limited in
some places but absolute in others,
and, therefore, tends to become
absolute in all places; where rea-
son is subordinated to force and
selhshness; where military ideals
usurp the place of the ideals of
peace; where war is glorified in
and for itself and the shedder of
blood has more status than states
men, philosophers and poets have;
where colonies and dependencies
are insulted by false pretences of
philanthropy, while their resources
are exploited by the minions and
agents of power. This is what
exists in the Philippines, and it is
what will exist in the United States
if the American people sanction
imperialism by re-electing Presi.
dent cKinley.
DISCUSSING the Chinese situa.
ton the Berlin Kreuz Zeitung
says: "Doubtless, if the United
States government has already ere
ated military basis in China,
Washington would now make g
claim for special sphere of influ
ence. If Imperialism succeed.
at the forthcoming election, expan
sion towards China is to be ex
pected from the United States.
What a commentary is this upon
the republican party--an American
political party. eff imperialism
succeeds at forthcoming election
the United States would expane
toward Washington would
claim d special sphere OF inhu
ence." What does this sphere o
fluenee mean? 1t means that sic,
Of territory which each power viii
claim as its share in the partition
of China. The fact is so paten
that foreign papers comment upol
it and accept it as a matter o
course, that if Mckinley is elected
the war Of conquest will go on, no
only in the Philippines, but il
China, and anywhere else wher,
the people are too weak to defent
themselves. That to raise the i'm
mense army necessary for con
quest, the consetipt will be uset
and war taxes be levied to main
tain it. Do you know now wha
the republican platform means?
THE path of militarism and terri
torial conquest and aggression up
on which the republican party ha
entered is not one of roses. 1t i
beset with thorns that are con
stantly pricking the people. On
particular thorn which is now jab
bing to the quick is this. If thi
territory is to be obtained by fore,
OF arms it must be held by force o
arms. General Macarthur now in
slsts that 100, 900 troops are now
after two years Of war, necessary
to conquer the Filippinos; and NJ
man knows how large an army viii
be required to make them stay
conquered. The republican, part,
says it makes no difference how
large an army is required, it viii
be raised. But how? By volun
II
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-07-21

"AWHAT Is the empire?" asked
Charles A Towne in his speech at
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-06-14

Last fall l sprained my left hip
while handling some heavy boxes.
The doctor l called on said at first it
was slight strain and would soon be
we'll, but it grew worse and the doctor
then said | had rheumatism. 1t
continued to grow worse and l could
hardly get around to work. l went
to drug store and the druggist re-
commended me to try Chamberlain s
Pain Balm. tried it and one-half
of so cent bottle cured me entirely.
/ now recommend it to all my friends.
F. A. BABcocK, Erie, Pa. 1t is
for sale by r. W. SMITH.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-06-14

The ably written article in this is
sue upon portion of the great miner
al belt tributary to Weiser is by Chas.
A. Dinsmore, editor of the Idaho Min
ing Journal who kindly permitted the
Signal t0use the matter prior to the
June issue of the Mining Journal
which will appear this week. While
the territory covered has been in print
scores of times, it has never been so
carefully and exhaus lively covered as
in the present instance, and Mr.. Dins-
mores article can be thoroughly re-
lied upon. The Idaho Mining Jour
nal is the only one Of its class ever at
tempted in the state where the editor
made point of personal visitation to
all districts discussed.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-06-14

one, sheetings have doubled, print
cloths have gone up from 2 cents per
yard in 98 to ST cents in 1900, the
story of wire nails is known at every
farmers Preside Where farm pro-
ducts may have advanced 5 to 10
per cent everything the farmer has to
buy has gone up SO to $50 per cent
and it is the fact that the products
Of the farm will not buy as much Of
farmers necessities as they would
four years ago, by perhaps one-half.
And this is what the republicans tell
the farmer is gold standard prosperity
Try again, Mr. Teller, write to Hanna
and perhaps he can furnish you with
something that may deceive the
farmer.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-06-14

General Otis, In his interview, publish
ed this morning, disturbs some of the
theories of those who would have US pre-
cipitately abandon the Philippines. The
general says the islands are Of great val
ue and that the business done there will
be enormous. Statesman.
OF course sgreat value" is an ar
gument before which everything must
fall in these days Of dollar domino
ton. The flag goes shifting around
after trade, and where ''enormous
business" can be found, theories (of
freedom) must give way. The sneer
ing contemptuous, plutocratic press
gives utterance to many brutal, vul-
gar sentiments these days, and in the
worship of the gold standard, com
mercial tyranny and the supremacy
of wealth, no attempt is made tocon-
ceal how they now despise the right
eous principles out of which ou1
hitherto glory grew.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-06-14

While the republicans are casting
about for candidate for governor
they should not overlook Washington
county, and while the republican
ranks here hold two or three avail
able men, Mr.. Il. Nj. Barton as pos
sibility will rank with any man they
can bring from any part of the state.
He is successful man in the affairs
of life and would have the confidence
of business men. While now prin-
cipally engaged in the hotel business
he has reputation as a sheep grow
er that will fairly compare with
Messrs. Gooding, Ormsby or Bob No
BILE, all of whom have been mentioned
in connection with republican guber-
Material honors.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-06-14
THEIR ONLY WEAPON.

1t was demonstrated when the Beers
failed to strike . blow at the gold mon
ster by destroying the mines at Johannes
burg that they were not good democrats.
Statesman.
There is no limit to the villifca-
ton the goldites are ready to heap
on all those not in favor of the sin
gle gold standard, which enables the
lily handed leeches of the world to
gather all the profits Of the worlds
industry and pile up in gigantic for
tunes the bulk of all margins over
the ''keep" ofthe producer. The above
is simply the language of hatred and
deliberate false witness bearing. The
blackening and falsifying Of the at
titude and motives of the honest adj
vocates of return to the monetary
standard Of the constitution (de-
stroyed surreptitiously and in the
night is common these days. Cheat
and Fraud is stamped upon the gold
press denunciations OF the followers
OF the ''dead ISSUE"
The Statesman knows that no sill
yer man would countenance an as
sault upon gold any more than he
has endorsed the assault upon silver.
Both metals, and all there is of them
in the world, are needed to maintain
q proper ratio between property and
products and money, the measure of
values. The silver man would COM
bat the destruction Of gold, and the
Statesman knows that the only mon
ometallist IN the world is the gold
man, and the Statesman's party new
er dared to come before the country
on single standard platform until
this year. 1t has always deceived
some of the people into the belief
that it was against the single stand
ard, and its present absence of dis
guise will defeat it this year. Such
distorted attempts to belittle silver
men simply denote an utter de-
ficiency of argument on the part of
the opposition.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-06-14

In an article on first page mention
is made of new mill for the Rapid
River district. This mill will be
taken in from Lewiston, the same
point from which the concentrating
plant now there was taken in. Cam
bridge is nearer the Rapid River dis
trict than any other railway point,
but the causes which require this ma
chinery to be transported twice the
distance by another route cannot be
here treated. The progress of the
P. & l. N. is necessity not only for
this section, but for the interests Of
the road. The people behind it
it are losing valuable business every
day they lie idle, and business judg-
ment should push it far enough north
to command the transportation of all
the machinery and supplies now 60
ing into Central Idaho.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-06-14
NOTEWORTHY CIRCUMSTANCE

1t is time for Bryan to raise anew, and
in more stentorian tones the alarm against
the, encroachments of plutocracy; Five
farmers from single township in Kan
sas have taken their families for trip
to the Paris exposition.
The oppression of the agricultural
classes under the gold standard and
its trust offsprings is so effective. that
the possibility of five farmers from a
single township in Kansas going to
the Paris fair is something SO re-
markable that we do not wonder at
the Statesman Selling upon it with
avidity. Now if it is true that these
five farmers are not former money
loaners who took the land under a
mortgage, or any other class of spec
ulators, who through class legisla-
ton have plenty of funds in the bank
to farm on an immense scale and fill
the place once supplied by a score of
small agriculturalists; if, after years
of toll and hardship, five sure enough
farmers have succeeded in accumu-
lating two or three thousand dollars
of surplus money, and have decided
to once in lifetime indulge in trip
which the beneficiaries Of class legis-
lation enjoy every year, then we are
astonished that so rare thing is
proof in the mind of the Statesman
that there is no encroachment of plu-
tocracy in this country, no elevation
of the dollar above the man, no at
tempt to create and make permanent
an aristocracy of wealth and estab-
fish the divine right of money in lieu
OF the divine right of kings in this
country. The same creation of and
relation between classes can be es-
tablished in more than one way. There
are different means of elevating one
set far above the heads of the vast
host upon whose Bonded shoulders
they build their palaces. When these
farmers return from "Paree' how low
will they be skimping and economic
ing to recover from such unwonted
extravaganza? What proportion of
their resources will the cost of the
single trip represent to the five
Kansas farmers compared with the
bagatelle spent on the hundreds of
pleasure jaunts of the trust magnates
who make the barb wire, the stock
gambler who handles the wheat, or the
member of the trust company which
has been reaping annual interest from
all the other farmers in that happy
Kansas township? With such prev
alent prosperity the Statesman should
trot out few Paris visitors from the
farms of Idaho.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-06-14
Jewelry a Staple.

Look at the ten people you meet and
see how much is worn of the now called
Jewelry. From 5000 watch chain to
q ave I'VE cent SUCK pin. Yes, jewelry has
come to be staple article of dress.
You will buy more or less of it; see
mat you get what you pay for when Won
ouy; You can be sure of this if YOU buv
OF SHEPHERD BROS, CAMBRIDGE
iDAHO, who have full assortment of
the w. F. Main Co.. goods Evarv ~. ~
ticle of these goods is fully warranted to
De exactly as represented. A printed
guaranty to this effect is given with each
article OF these goods purchased at their
store. '"o'i
w. f. MAIN CO.,
y eastern Factory Cor of Friendship and
Euoy Sts., Providence, R. l. Western
FACTORY Largest Jewelry Factory in
tne world, under process of copstruc-
tlon IN East Iowa City, la. Over So OO0
1t. of floor space. ~O'0
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-06-14

At Philadelphia 43 labor organi-
cations refused to take part in the
parade of republican clubs on the eve
of the national convention. The
trade organizations were asked to
send 20 men each, and the refusal
was made on the ground that the con-
vention hall was built with non union
labor. The republican path is not
all strewn with roses.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-06-14
Cheap Excursions on all Railroads.

ment. 1t sounds the campaign
slogan for the reform forces in the
coming battle between government
by the dollar and government
by the people. Every reformer
should purchase copy and
place it in the hands of
his republican neighbor. For sale
by the Weiser Signal-25 cents.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-06-14
TRY AGAIN.

The Signal recently made passing
comment on flimsy prosperity
paragraph in the Lewiston Teller,
and the tender gold bug conscience
of the Teller was 80 deely touched
that it dovotes column to demon
strating the 6owery bed of ease upon
which that beloved child of fortune,
the farmer, is reclining. The Teller
takes the year 1896-the year tue
banks and money power brought a
panic upon the country in order to force
the election the way beneficiaries of
class legislation wanted it to GO
and shows that to 1900, four years
Of Mckinley skill at making pros
perity, spring wheat has advanced
from SO to 634 in go to 654 and sc
cents in 1900; and that winter wheat
has advanced from 718 to 753 in the
panic year to 78s and 70 now. 1t
also shows that baled hay has ad-
vanced SO cents per ton in four years
Honestly, now, aren't those wonder
full advances? Granting the figures
of the Teller to be true. does it, as
supporter of the gold standard, mean
to stand up and assert that the figures
it gives on wheat show a splendid
prosperity for the farmer? If so, it
is most pitiful prosperity the re-
publicans are willing to accord to the
producer while the fortunes of the
beneficiaries of class legislation
are doubling and trebling. Those
were Chicago prices, too, with
all the grain gamblers mar
gin. and the transportation trusts
rake. off tackled on. The farmers
around Lewiston are now getting 35
cents per bushel for their wheat, with
the new crop to come on and drive
the price still lower. Where is the
dollar bushel which the gold stand
ard has rendered thing of the past?
And with these wonderful 1900 prices
quoted by the Teller and showing a
pitiful advance Of few cents over
SO we must remember that but for
the total failure of the Indian wheat
crop and the present famine there,
the price might now be lower than in
go.
Then let us look little further,
brother Foresman, and see how your
advance helps the farmer. Two years
ago barb wire retailed at $2.75 per
hundred and today it goes at s.. 90.
THE FARMER MUST GIVE UP
TWICE AS MUCH WHEAT to get
100 pounds of barb wire as he had
to give up two years ago. That
is the way prosperity hits the
farmer under Mark Hanna's
management. Cotton goods have
nearly doubled, wooden goods
have jumped four jumps to wheat's
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-06-14
$1,000 Reward.

Lost or stolen, one bay horse, white
strip in face, branded R on right
stiAe, weight about 1000 pounds. One
sorrel horse branded DL on left
shoulder, weight about $50 pounds.
One gray horse, branded 81 on left
shoulder, weight about 1000 pounds.
All are broke to ride. l will pay IS
each for their return to me at Weiser.
A. G. BUTTERFIELD.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-06-14
Coin on Trusts.

The Trenton Leader, Trenton, Neb
says ''The book is destined to be a
great success and to have wonder
full influence on the political thought
of the day, and it will do this for
the same reason that "Uncle Tom 8
did it, because it teaches funds-
mental and self-evident truths about
human liberty and human govern
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-06-14

Mr.. Disappointed Democrat, take ride
out from Lewiston five miles on the Lap
wal road and look at an 800-acre field of
wheat that will yield go bushels to the
acre. 1t will cure your lues.-Lewiston
Teller.
Show the D. D. also that tie pro
product of the field will bring a
dollar bushel, as it ought to, and
he will drop dead
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-06-14
Clothes don't
Make the Man,

but I'm the man that makes the
clothes. How do l make them? Make
them fit. l exercise great care to nrs'
take correct measure of your form; nav
ing done this cut and make the garments
to conform to your form. Not an easy
thing to do; it requires experience tnats
just why so many have had me to do tnelf
work and why you ought to. l guaran'
tee perfect satisfaction.
b. HOLMAN, T MeTcaln'