The midland journal., 1890-08-29

ng items taken from an editorial in
The Philadelphia Times of August
22d headed "Where is the farmers
swag?"
The result is the advance of silver
from 81 cents to $l.2O per ounce,
and the Silver Kings pocket the
swag, amounting to a dozen millions
annually, and the people pay the
piper while the monopolists dance"
The monopoly dance favors that Of
the wild beasts of prey which have
been driven from their feast, the
dancers being the money monopoly
and gold ring to which power the
Times is ono of the most subsurvent
tools.
"Now that the government has
been forced by political highwaymen
to buy all the silver weproduce at an
increase of 25 per cent why should
not the iron manufacturers, the
cotton men, the wooden men, the
farmers and, In short, every producer
of every kind, make the government
buy their products at an increase of
rs per cent. in price?"
Thus continues this drunken railer,
to call the whole western country,
the millions of industrial producers
who compose the Farmers Alliances,
Oranges and other farmer associa-
tions and labor unions, and large
number of the best business men and
fnanciers in the country, the whole
composing not less than three fourths
of the population of the country,
political highwaymen."
"The only difference between the
silver men and the farmers is that
the silver men are a few handed
speculators, while the farmers are the
backb of ou: whole industrial
system. The silver monopolsts now
have their swag and the farmers
chiefly pay it,
If such maudlin vaporing was
worthy of serious reply to why is it
that the farmers with scarcely a
dissenting voice demanded the re-
monotization of silver? And the
farmers chiefly pay what? If goy-
ernment buys silver for Is cents and
after coming it compels the men who
sold the silver to take it back for o
100 cents, while the 25 cents profit is
covered into the treasury for the
public use where does the loss to the
farmers come in? If any body loses
it is the men who sell the silver and
get the dollars back in exchange for
more silver at 25 cents more than
they sold their silver for. In place
of silver rising the price of gold has
come down. The farmer produce
has steadily raised with the advance
in silver, and the gold ring cannot
purchase so much of the farmers
produce now with the same amount
of gold that they could before the
silver bill passed, and ss silver con-
tipues to bring down the price of gold
which has been used by the money
monopoly, the farmers land will con
tinue to rise in value and his pro-
ducts to sell for higher prices.
There is good deal more of SINH
lar drunken jargon to that we have
quoted, that no sane man would adj
vance unless he considered the farm.
ers all a set of idiots. "Where does
the farmers swag come in?" again
and again is repeated by this idiot
in his cups in frantic effort to serve
his gold ring masters, who have been
trading and speculating in silver and
the farmers produce for twenty
years, and now see that their worse
than highway robbery is about to be
checked. Much is said by this class
of newspaper writer's about the pur.
chase by the government of the "pro
ducts of the Silver Kings at % per
cent, increase" This 25 per cent. is
clear profit to the government. The
Silver Kings haye heretofore got IS
cents and the government has stamp
ed it into dollars for the people who
have been the gamers and not the
silver miners. The rise in the price
of silver cannot cost the public one
cent, even though the treasurer pay
100 cents for the silver that is in a
dollar. The advance of silver carries
up with it the price of produce.
Silver and produce hold their relative
positions toward each other, and in
reality the apparent change marks
fall in the price of gold, in place of a
rise in silver and other commodities
All the attempts at argument by
the eastern monopoly owned papers