The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-01-24
THE TRIBUNE AND SILVER.

like a thorough American on the subjec
up to within the last few weeks Now
his opposition TO the army bill is as bitter
and vndctive and mean as that of Pet
tgrew himself.
SO speaks the Salt Lake Tribune,
showing that it cannot brook its own
characteristics in any one else Re
place Teller and the Philippines, in
the above, with the Tribune and
silver, during the recent campaign
and how does it taste? The Tribune s
treatment of the silver cause was
about equal to Judas denouncing
christianity At this time it is Civ
ing out ftful bursts of It's old time
song, the harper attempts to strike
once more the chords triumphant.
but the effect is very weak to the
reader who reflects on the fight of
twenty years, the mighty fall and
shameless treachery of last fall when
all its life work was scorned. and
who now sees the Tribune conscience
striker over the loss of character and
power, and the drifting away from
1t of the love of the jewellers of the
west, all occasioned by subverting
its editorial honor to pressure from
the business office seeking to regain
its lost crown by writing editorials
that, containing much of the
real truth which stands uncontroyert
IDLE, by their own weight condemn
its own position and nearly every
utterance it made during the late
memorable contest. Less than four
months ago the Tribune said:
Every sensible man in both states
knew. for the present, at least. the silver
cause was dead. They realized that there
was money enough; that prices were high
enough, and that the ground on which
they urged the election of Mr.. BRYAN
four years ago had moved from under
their feet. They then urged the restora.
ton OF silver to increase the volume of
standard money. They, nor any one
else, at that time, could see where that
increase was to come from except through
the reconciliation of silver. But it came
and came in such volume that prices adj
vanced as rapidly and as high as thev
ought to be-
1t now says.
The unlooked-for gold product has
come;the famines of the Old World have
for years given us great market for
1000 products, and AT last our manufac
turers have begun to push their wares
into foreign counties. but not one of these
events was expected by the men who per-
petrated ''the crime of 49," hence. To
point TO the present situation in orr
country as a confirmation of the wisdom
OF that crime is cheeky. at least
This is exactly what the SIGNAL
pointed out to the Tribune when we
denounced its statement that ttbe
reasons for silver no longer exist.
Continuing in the same article it saws
In the United States silver amounts 10
no more than metallic greenback. All |
That sets the pace is standard money. and |
while there has been mighty accumula- |
Ilon OF gold in this country, for reasons
which are manifest enough, WHY is il if |
mere has been such an accumulation of |
money, that every money center of the
oiu word is In such trouble that a
mighty fear of an overwhelming panic
.ssails them all?
How completely does the two
after extracts, from one of
is issues of last week, expose the
of its campaign words as
'oove quoted? If the Tribune will
ook back about four years it will
IND most powerful editorial pre-
entlng the picture of some foreign
'rlnce on the docks of Liyerpool
'atching the unloading from
great fleet of ships of vast
argoes of wheat, cotton, lumber and
arlous other goods from the United
tates. Did the Tribune, during the
ampalgn, ever attempt to overcome
lie financial philosophy which ensu- s
In the conversation which occurr-
between the prince and an Eng i
shman standing by? Then the i
rlbune protested to believe that
liver was world-lssue. 1t taught v
1896, that the scope of the ques- O
IN covered the poor of every civil t.
ed nation on earth. In the above c
tracts the Tribune confesses that I
e "reasons"a applied to this country 8,
me. we're created from temporary a
q unusual causes, and demonstrates tt