The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-08-02
SUGGESTED BY BORAH.

issue OF, not only the United States,
but the whole civilized world today
as it was four years ago, and always
will be until the great wrong is
righted. or the people are crushed to
such state, politically, where they
are forced to surrender hope of sue
cess and yield themselves to decay.
| 1t is true that new issues are up,
which, from their .newness, mopopo-
lized the major part Of discussion,
but the money question itself is a
component part of imperialism I"
Conquest is imperialism in war. Or
gained trusts and monopolies 20 con-
troll manufactured products and crush
out individual operators, is i'm
perialism in business The gold
standard, to enable the few to con-
troll the money of the world and thus
control men and property, the turn
ing over to the banks the issuing of
our circulating medium so that they
can dish it out as they see fit, is i'm
perialism in finance?
TX The three dragons glaring upon
the cOuntry-miltarism, trusts and
the gold standard-are the triplets
of imperialism. The gold standard
stands in the center, and when Mr..
Borah stood before Weiser audience
and, as an apology for his switch on
presidential candidates, argued that
the money question was not an issue,
was not vital plank of democracy,
he stated what was not true and
what he does not himself believe 1
Mr. Raymond & Dodge, a pillar of
republicanism and gold buggery,
says in New York publication:
1t is idle to talk of the opposition to
free silver in the Kansas City convention,
or of the attempts to stem the tide of
reputation" such talk is childish and
outside of practical politics" Political
contests are not to be won by sneering at
Anniversaries nor by making light of their
preparations for the most arduous cam
paign of the century Most of the op-
position 10 the new free silver plank
came from men who were either actively
or secretly identified with the old green
back movement, or the Democrats who
have been dodgers upon the money
question in every political emergency.
He doesn't agree with Borah about
Kansas City
Mr.. Dodge continues in his article:
The Burning Issue of Imperialism,
with its twin familiars of Militarism, and
Trusts and Monopolies, form an appro-
pirate introduction to the REAL PURPOSES
of the Democratic party contained in its
boldly exploited plank of the platform
adopted at Kansas City on July 5.
Then follows the entire silver
plank from the democratic platform,
printed in heavy black type. The
fact of the matter is that the repub-
licans themselves are going to make
the money question the leading issue,
even though they have killed and
buried it over and over. The land
slide to anti imperialism is so start
ling that they are glad to dig up the
dead issue, upon which they won in
SO, and with it attempt to stem the
tide for Bryan, and they are eager
to charge that all questions are dis
guises of the democrats to conceal
their real intentions. Hear Dodge:
Thus the election of Mckinley in 1896
and the passage of the currency act of
March IA, 1900, by the Republican Con-
gress did not forever kill the free silver
issue; 1t becomes again menace We
have again the revival OF the anxiety of
1896 and the necessity of far greater ex-
ertions than ever before to meet the i'm
pending shock TO American credit and to
American industries.
Populism is dead, simply because the
Democratic party has returned to the
doctrines OF money which prevailed In
""ONoOh . Jay Jnc utmanu IOr the COIN
age of cheaper dollar; and because the
only principle of currency that galvan-
lied the greenback forces into temporary
activity, the free silver plank and the
issue of all money by the Government,
has been revived as democratic doctrine.
Note the cry to the banks about
democratic doctrine being .sthe issue
of all money by the government,
as if that were not where it belongs.
Cause for alarm, indeed, by the
money sharks, Mr. Borahl They
are anxious enough, in the east, to
rally the ranks of the money power
again to the silver issue. Further
Dodge says;
Imperialism, therefore, is to be the
CATCHwoRD and the battle cry upon
which democrats Of all shades of opinion
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