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

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bold as to enter. Left to tt
they juggle with the machIr
the table and you pay the fidd
say to you, my friends, II IA
to know anything about shoeinf IA
you go to a blacksmi.h-tu ~
sheer; IL you want to know ~
about law you go to a lawyer tE
en-, therefore, II you want I, xnl IA
thing about money YOU must M
banker That does NOT solIcw ~
means. Suppose a man shouId Al
me that If / want to know E3
about the geology of n horse
must ask the man who shoes
Well. the banker who count.
and discounts notes 0auyhtsf
from that very fact alone no ,uo,e NJ
or opportunity to know ahou
science of money than the h,ac ~
who handles iron has. from thr In;
alont anv chorca ~ 49,. Nv
about geology. The oniv wav 10 IN
anything about the science of III
is to study it. and the blacksm,t IN
study 1t and know more about n slt
the banker who doesn't II the !, IN
does study it he is ant to study I'd re
his STANDPOINT. whereas the tvnro,t
q
ought to be studied FROM, thas
Queer standpoint. The hanLar M
want money of the greatest n,,rchs
power. what docs that r,aor7
means n dollar that q win toLg I'M
most of your wheat to Inv 81 ~
scarce dollar Is a dollar that coI,u... d
a good many things in exchange.
is a good dollar for tho banker !, III
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plause)
My friends. I find the hour ia "A 4
ing late. and I shall NOT no ahle toV Al
ry through this discussion even ,n4
rather hap-hazard way In whid !,
have started 1t. fCries OF "ro on
on.") In my Judgment this Is the or
est campaicn this country has
faced. (ApplauseD II Won viii \.
with me, l will give Won inst q bi1
eye view of the greater mart OF ~
field.
We are told the silver question:
settled. Who settled 1t. Voice IN ~
fence: Mark Hanna,) U.aupht.
No, my friend Is a little bit In ar,g-
Mark Hanna settled his frierd,s dottA
but he never settled the silver ouastiS
1t is said that in addition n this AZ
turn of prosperity. the silver ouests
has been settled by n big balance Y.
trade. Now. my friends. while I no
not time to discuss 1t at length ton,uI
I want to leave n word or two with y.
on this so-called favorab,e halaro.
trade. In the Renublican nIatro,
the statement ia made thai vraar ~
Republican administration tharo ~
been n so-callad "fnyoroh,a,, ha,.,,
of trade OF over fourtaen hundred ~,
lions of dollars which o,ght 20 ho :,
the corrected figures aow,, to ~. -
of June. our fiscal wear sometime III
sixteen hundred mi,l,ors oe do,,or. .
that the situation 10 either thot v,,,,s
worse or that much better a. tha a.,
may be. than the Republican Mat nv.
stated it. Ahout sixtoan hundred ~,
Lon dollars more Of wealth ha. 90,
out of the country than has Gonna a.
it. on the face Of their f,vures az
they think that means prosnerit
Think of II. The exports excaadad II
imports by sixteen hundred millions
dollars. What do Won think or tha
If a man spends in n wear sixteen hu
dred million dollars more than he tax
in, is that a sign that he IL sixte
hundred million dollars r,char or pof
err? Now YOU must not he mistaken
the specious analogy between the ~
vate mans debit and credit accou
and the national exports and impor
The exports are what other natios,s ,
from us. We reckon them In doIIa,
they are really for the most part
many bales of cotton, SO many aid
of beef, so many shoulders of ham.
many bushels of wheat and SO
What we get from other nations is sil
ilarly diversified. Now then, Accord
to the statement of the bureau
Washington, we have sent to other n
lions sixteen hundred million dole
worth of things under the McKinI
administration, I'm excess of what h
come in. That much more property h
gone out OF the United States than h
come into 1t, by these figures. C
anybody say that that has contribut
to the wealth of the United States
the extent of sixt en- hundred mill
dollars? But somebody tells me
have got gold for 1t. Mckinley has h
the audacity to say that in one of |
state papers But we have not. T
net imports of our gold are only abo
one hundred and thirty millions, as
remember it, In the last three yea
Where is the balance! "Oh," somebo,
says, gone to pay debts" No. r
cause when the Mckinley administr
ton came in. and for the period fro
the beginning of the government t
then, there was a similar balance
more than one billion and a half, II
remember correctly about eighte,
hundred millions: so that the net ba
ance was the same way at the time
came in, and there has not been a diff
therefore to pay. How can you accOu
for 1t? ! am not now advancing al
theory from our side. My friends, t
most ! am now concerned in showil
liz. that the whole prODOsttiOn Is elu0l