The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1908-06-23
.HARkS BACK TO SILVER.
JUDGE GOODWIN PAYS HIS RESPECTS TO THE
EASTERN GOLD BUG PRESS

nc a pleasure II00d-
wins Weekly when the old judge takes fall out Of the
fasteners the silver question and present the fol-
lowing from the last issue of that journal
The New York World says Mr. Bryan allowed the
silver mine owners contribute 1888 900 to the campaign
fund Of 1896 and there could be sordid purpose
than that which permitted those contributions"
How about the insurance companies that made their
contributions amounting to millions of dollars be enabled
to perpetuate their steals?
How about the tariff manufacturers who contributed
their millions in order to keep fastened upon the country
their monopoly?
How about the bondhoders who were afraid in case
Of Mr. Bryans election that they would have their interest
and principal paid in money only about twice good
what thev paid for their bonds?
How about the national banks that contributed their
millions that they might deposit bonds draw interest upon
them and still have ninety per of their capital do
business and guarantee for all the money they had
deposited in the treasury of the United States for the loans
which they put out?
1t will be noted that all these classes paid their money
for artificial use Of or grab the money in the United
States None of them disturbed the Word-none except
the contributions of silver miners and it that what
they gave altogether sordd that they wanted to stop
the drain upon their property which by sneak had been
cut in 1t would though that was but natu
raj desire But it not limited to them A great panic
had swept the country The property of the whole country
had been reduced fifty per cent by the warfare upon silver
The silver miners anxious to bring this back and anx
what Justly theirs of what they took from
the mines. That they right two very striking ex
ampe supplied the people of the United States all
the time One poor, degraded Mexico, that PoSered
all the time while the most eminent workers IN the United
States grew poor all the time for twenty years The other
France which, while the world was dong It's best to
destroy silver basic money using IN conjunction
with gold without reducing ratio to gold at ALL and was
prosperous beyond all calculation
The silver miners in the west thought they could have
silver restored it would the value OF all the depre
caed property in the country They not only thought So
but they knew it They knew something OF the history OF
gold and silver They knew that when Mexico and Pert
poured their floods of silver upon Spain ana reaWee
the business life of all Europe that the ratio only changed
three points between gold and silver They knew tnat
silver money just good as gold and larlVallel
seadier value long the nations let the TWO eta
side bv side They knew that the object OF deno1e
tizng silver reduce the real money OF the coul
fifty per and thus double the value OF the interest,"
and principal which the nation was paying on
railroad and other bonds They knew that the de1none
tlzaton of silver the most gigantic steal OF all m
and they wanted arrest and turn back thaU llaly
possible They knew that halt the people o r til
could do business in no other form of money Ihey Wle
to increase the trade, at least MAINTAIN the Lra
the country had with the Orient and with Spanish Cd
They saw business shrunken to the lowest InlntS ny
saw that nearly every farm in the United oale wac %
gagged and that thousands and tens OF tnotsaplS 4 H.
had been lost because of the demonet1zaton OF Snv
They cried that there must be an hCIedSe
money before there could be any relief and no visible
was in sight except through the restoration ol 1
money since has come no Impeachment u :o,, Vi
gence, vndication for the thief who maze te
They working for their own and because ~ | 9 %
they failed they are losers up to date OF qute J @ ha
dred millions of dollars since then that Qug4V ~ ut
theirs. If the law compelled the New YORK WON
IN ads at fifty cents on the dollar below the eSeI'
if arbtrarii INSISTED that the World should De delivered
subscribers for 81 per anu would the World aoqesGe d
or would make fight? And would II De Ian = ~
make fight to declare that it was due TO Tue iiDos
motives in the word ... f +be
Up to date the World has had no crltlciSlL l - from
millions Of dollars which in 1890 Mark Hanna @ fleT tinted
the favored classes and with which ne deDaucIqa toll
States S298 600 which the silver miners site
Mr. Bryans cause and which did not pay the { et' " tbe
expenses of the campaign still rankeS IN the ob oIeSe Were sub
World and the kindred sheets OF the "el ,f he money of
sdzed to Justify the striking down OF nan tle i i her
the country the ruing Of millions Of people d and the o the
yertng Of public sentiment vote Ct 3fi1r the Pe0d PPoad give
United States today if left to them ,, l Had t been
majority in favor of the restoration OF suSe