The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-03-11
A SHAMEFUL STORY.

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Mr.. Heath stated that in the cam
paign of 1896 the bureau at repubh
can headquarters supplied twelv,
thousand publications with materia
which they in turn put out through
their own columns to sway publ
opinion.
The matter was of course supplied
by hired writer's, it went to tn,
world as the opinions of editors.
When presented, millions of PEG
pie throughout the country read til,
articles and gave them local signif
canoe everywhere. In every schoo
district men read and probably eacl
knowing personally the editor IN his
immediate neighborhood read the
articles as their own editors opinio ns
Behind all this was an inexhaust.
IDLE campaign fund supplied by the
great moneyioaning contingent in
every state. Could more effective
plan to prevent public opinion be
devised?
The politicians were not to blame.
for the rules that apply in war apply
in politics. To seize strategetic
positions, to lay ambuscades to
TENT at one point when the intention
is TO strike at another: to mask bat
terIes; to Out-fank the enemy-all
these devices are permissible. But
what of the editors who will further
such schemes. Their work is not
honest warfare; 1t is poisoning the
wells of country, it is displaying
false signals to lure innocent mer-
chant ships on breaker beaten
coast, that the ships may be stranded
and looted
Of course the fight in that year
hinged chiefly upon the silver cues
ton. We can all we'll remember the
simulated indignation of those twelve
Thousand editors who made long
pleas for "sound money" who re-
coiled before the proposition "to pay
debts in deprecated coinsu who
were insistent that the honor of the
country "was at stake, and 80 on
ad-lnfinilum, 'ad nausium. Wben
we realize that they hired themselves
out at price for the sole purpose of
corrupting the nation, what do we
think of the character of such press
what OF the intelligence of a peonle
that can, in so transparent a way. be
beguiled?
linen men, eminent IN the scientific.
political and literary world, were EN-.
ployed to prepare those writings
That school at which Edward Akin.
son, Carl Schurz and Horace White
stood at the head. Behind them
were the Clevelands, the Whitpevs
the Morgans, the Carhsles. the
Lodges, the Aldrchs. the great press
OF the East; the Tribunes of New
York and Chicago, the Pioneer Press
the Courier Journal, the Boston Her. |
aid, the Philadelphia Press The
papers and a hundred |
more, and behind all we're the east
ern national banks with strings IN
every politician who aspired to anv
honors.
1t is as shameful record az tho
world ever beheld. Then while it
succeeded and though the outside
worlds distress turned before nm
heard of volume of gold to our shores
What was gained2
1t is clear that half the world,s
can use no money but s,lver
Ino "copper" it is clear that without
money their energies are exhausted
o vain, and our great Transportation
hlefs lack freight for their cars and
hlps' and our manufacturers lack a
market Tor their wares, what was /,
aimed by debauching the nation for {
ne purpose of giving a higher pur. Z
haslng power to the money collected 7
interest?-Goodwin's Weekly. !