The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-01-24
not so sad. One of the greatest ar

not 80 sad. One of the greatest ar
guments in 1896 was that this coun-
try could, by remonetizing silver,
control the commerce of the world.
and that was then a shining light
with the Tribune. But when it dis
covered that cuisines PROPOSE
ton, as Pat Lannan termed it. was
greater than the silver cause. it was
content that England during 1898
took S43, 600, 600 of our SAT, 600. 600
of exported silver which she should
have paid 800, 900, 600 million for
(Which gave her the usual commercial
advantage), because silver was no
longer an issue with it. Now that
the gold standard has secured firm
er hold by its recent successes at the
polls, campaign deals are off and some
time elapsed to allow possible
shadow to fall over its mighty treach
cry to the west, the old power, tue
old light struggles within its prison
confines and in moment of agony for
gets itself and crys out in the issue
of the 18th:
One would think that great journal
L. ha lOINn n.,~1 Al:
ing why 1t is necessary for Pacific coast
merchants to be dependent upon the sill
yer dollars they buy from Mexico. in or
der to carry on their Oriental trade
There are several hundred millions of
silver ounces IN our treasury why cannot
fixed value be given to silver as com
pared with gold, and then the minis be
set to work on the silver CONS which the
Orient needs. We expect great things
In the way of trade with China and ia
pan and the Philippines
nat is to be our medium of exchange |
with China and the Philippines? Are i
we to depend upon the dollars that can
be purchased of Mexico?
with the troubles in Chin settled. that
country Will need a thousand millions of
dollars IN silver with which to start bus
mess Ihat TO Say nothing of the in
uemnlty which the nations are lowing
upon ner' would give her people but So
80 per capita. They cannot trade in
gold-their transactions are too small
What Intelligent arrangements are being
made by our Government to secure our
fair proportion of that trade! 1t is all
well enough to say that the finding of
new, great gold deposits, and the getting
OF vast sums for food sold to STARVING
peoples are vindication of the men who
struck down silver, but the situation in
the Orient is condition, not a theory
ana what is being done to meet the re-
qulrements of the case?
1t was all we'll enough for the
tribune three months ago to SAY
that the finding of new, great, gold
deposits, and the getting of vast
sums for food sold to starving peo-
pie, " removed all reasons WHY it
should continue to stand with the
silver men. The above rings with
truth and in the light of it how was
it possible for the Tribune to stand
as 1t did? 1t supported the perman-
ent gold standard and all its evils
Were the conditions it now realizes
nothlng, ninety days ago? Are not
nose whom it asked the people TO :
acct proposing the application Of S
'ne English 5O-cent dollar plan in the 9
philippines as it is used in India? t
More than that, are not its masters g
planning to seal the crime comnletelv o
turing the present lease of mower b
ND wind up their unfinished work INV
king silver as subsidiary coin only.
Vlping out of existence the silver
loliar and recoining the entire stock l
nj that, too, at a time when even
lexlcan dollars cannot be kent in
he Philippines, nor even in Mexico
nder the magnet of Oriental do.
land. The advantage now given
ne gold monopoly and the carefully
'riieo out plan arranged so that if
bound to come out on ton in tho
""i VIVA up OF the great shifting n
ow gong on in the commerce of tho u
ora, was countenanced by tho
rlDuue in tha Lotto r&,