The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-03-29
THEIR CRUMBLING GODS.

| the price of about every thing they have
to buy, notably harvesting machinery and
agricultural implements Of all kinds, is
unreasonably high They attribute the
| high prices to the trusts and the protec-
tive tariff, which work together for The
/ benefit of manufactures and the ruin of
the farmer who gets no protection, and
when they have a chance their votes will
express their ideas on this animation.
The Oregonian.
The longer one considers the ahove.
| the stranger it sounds, coming
from the Oregonian, heretofore the
most viruleut goldbug and blindly
plutocratic journal in the west. 1t
has ever stood on the side of Deified
wealth and supported every specious
policy or special law calculated to
Cypress productive and industrial
classes for the benefit of favored
circles and money bag interests which,
like huge sponge, ever dips into the
great milk howl, soaking up all the
cream and large share of the milk
Every move which tended to elevate
the throne of the privileged classes
ami dollarocracy above The general
mass has been echoed by the Oregon
ian. The gold standard, The root.
germ and chief weapon Of every
vicious evil growing up today, was
enshrlned in The Oregonian's editorial
columns and crammed and ram med
down the threats of those poor Will
lamette farmers over which the editor
ial tears are shed Like all the gold
bug gang, The Oregonian denounced
the silver men as deluded fanatics
who would have this country on a
silver basis=well knowing that in al!
The land there was not a silver man
who would not protest just as strenu-
ously against decentralization of gold
well knowing that the demand was
simply to put silver back into the
statutes in the same legalized posi-
ton it held prior to its surreptitious
destruction-tO admit both to. the
mints for free coinage without dis
elimination against either.
And when the argument in favor
of this was brought forth, when it
was submitted that as the pound
measured weight, the foot measured
height, the bushel measured quantity
50 the dollar measured values. and
that all the gold and silver of the
world Cloth, not one) was necessary
to do the value measuriDg of the
world and expediliously convey from
one TO another the difference in and
different values of the various prop
critics constantly being exchanged
the Oregonian sneered in all the
disdaln OF its assumed superior in
tellect.
When it was claimed that
by deny ing silver to the minis on the
same footing with gold, it was
throwing one half the worlds money
away Gas measure of value) and he
business of the world was impeded,
one meal being compelled to do the
work Of Two, and that the effect upon
business was the same as it a man
were empty ing bin of wheat with a
two-bushel basket and were com.
PEELED to throw it away and use one
bushel basket; and that the stagnation
of business because of this was par
TALLY responsible for falling prices,
and that because one metal became
ChC oOiC vi NdlutS III WAS
doubling the value of the gold, as
compared with products, or cutting the
value of products in two as compared
with gold; giving the few who had a
corner on gold double advantage
over those who produced the comodl-
ties-ihe Oregonian said it was fear
of democratic president being elect
ed that caused the low prices of farm
products
When it was said that because the
dollar of the statute had been chang
ed to gold alone, and the metallic money
reduced one half, and because of
that it required twice as much wheat
to buy the money with which
to pay taxes, exactly as it.woud take
twice as much money to buy bushel
of wheat if the wheat supnlv of tho