The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-03-01
We are ooolly informed by the rep

LcsSnvatiFeS VI Ihe SOiu SCauUaru con-
tractionists that the United States is
powerless to mitigate or redress the
! great wrong without the consent of the
conspirators who demonetized silver
and who are constantly devising meas
ures to transfer the wealth of th e many
to the few and monopolize the fruits of
labor and enterprise. They assert with
the arrogance of wealth that an agree
ment with the leading powers of
Europe must be obtained before the
United States can resume the free use
OF silver as money and provide the peo-
pie of this country with constant and
sufficient supply of that circulating
medium which has been regarded as
best suited for use as money through
all ages since man emerged from bar
barism. They know full we'll that
Europe is controlled by an aristocracy
of accumulated capital, and that the
people have no voice in determining
what financial schemes shall be devised
and carried into execution for their op-
preston. and assume from the success
of their financial measures in this
country for the last twenty years that
the people of the United States have
no more knowledge OF their rights or
capacity to protect them than the peo-
pie of the Old World.
Subsidized newspapers and hired
political economists have done much to
keep the people ignorant of the wrongs
they suffer, but outside of the money
centers in this country, where free
speech does not impair financial stand
ing and endanser success in business,
the people are fast being educated on
the money question, and will soon as
sert their rights in the most effective
manner.
The great mass Of the people view
with alarm and indignation the power
exercised by the money.cbangers of
New York over the Treasury Depart
ment. The number Of clerks, servants,
and agents of the gold.standard contrac.
tionists and money manipnlators of
New York who have held and now hold
high places in that Department and
the brazen effrontery with which they
use the funds of the Government for
their fayorites without interest has
shocked the moral sense of the nation
and tame submission to Wall street rule
is at an end. The people of the United
States will be represented in the great
financial department of the Government
or they will know the reason why.
President Cleveland has already
received some slight intimation of the
views Of the people with regard to the
management of the Treasury Depart
ment.
An examination of the evidence
taken before the English royal COM
mission on gold and silver and the re-
port of that commission will furnish
much valuable Information for consid-
eratiou in this country. Although the
commission was equally divided as to
the advisability of inviting the United
States. Germany, and the countries
forming the Latin Union to join in
consultation with Great Britain and
her colonies to discuss the expediency
of fixing ratio at which the coins of
either metal shall be available for the
payment Of all debts at the option of
the debtor, it is morally certain that
England will take no action in that
direction. The hesitation with which
six of the twelve commissioners suggest
such consultation aud the many rea-
sons they assign against it show that
they are overawed by the holders of
accumulated capital and haye no cour-
age to pursue the right as they seem to
see it, Through glass darkly." The
following extract from their report in
dicates the power of the influences
which will compel the people of
England to submit to the single stand
ard and continued contraction:
"We need hardly dwell upon the fact
that the financial position which this
country occupies is matter of immense
importance; that the risk even of in
tersering with it, or of taking any
course which could reasonably be ex.
pected to affect il. is not to be lightly