The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-05-30
I.ooA YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
Friday. May 30, 1890.
The Glasses ana the Masses.

ment as they are o-day, and as they hear
the rumble of the storm of opposition which
is rising from the ranks of labor, they are
rebuilding their efforts to secure and tight
en- their hold on the throat of the people.
The power which was gained by this class
has been acquired through the public debt,
which could have been and should have
been, every cent extinguished ere this. A
skillful manipulation through the Treasury
department has enabled the interest gather
ers to continue and double the ing power
of the debt, which has virtually swept into
the purses of the debt holding class all the
surplus earnings of the mighty energy and
industry of the American masses, for the
last 25 years. The work is being pushed
day and night at Washington to secure this
advantage gained by stealth and superior
cunning by the money class. The Treas
ury is depleted Of the surplus which was
forcing the public debt to be redeemed be-
fore maturity, and which gave the gambling
holders of that debt the opportunity to push
it up to premium as high as % per cent.
In order that check may be placed on
The liquidation of the balance of the debt,
appropriations have been made by the
present Congress that will drain the treas
ury, and arrangements are in course Of con-
summation which will increase the annual
expenses so largely that taxes cannot be
lowered, and that the revenues will possibly
fall short of the requirements of the run
ming expenses of the treasury. The pen
sions, have been pushed up quarter of
century after the war, till it Is estimated
that The annual list will amount 10 the i'm.
mense sum OF one hundred and fifty or two
hundred millions. Plans are being laid TO
construct large lronclad navy and $780,
600, 900 of all appropriation is asked to get
this expensive luxury under way. Our
little army of about $4,000 costs more to
maintain it than either of the great stand
ing armies of France, Germany or Russia,
which number each 700, 900 to LOCO. 000 coo
men.
Every indication suggests that the class,
whose interest it is to maintain heavy
government debts whereby they are enabled
to tax the laboring millions, are in control
at Washington, and that every energy they
possess is being bent TO perpetuate the pres
ent government debt, and by heavy apprc.
priations, compel further loans by the
government and an increase of the debt.
The National Banking interest is striving
for this end, the gold ring is steadily bent
on this object and if the trusts and other
monopolistic corporations, and the prohib-
itory tariff plotters, who all work for one
end, can succeed in this scheme, they hope
to make the government subsergient to their
will, and continue to use it as an interest
gatherer and drag net as they have been
using it for more than two decades, to rob
the farmers and other non-favored pro-
ducers.
When Mckinley was reminded that the
sugar bounty which his tariff bill proposes
to substitute in place or tariff might not
be appropriated by Congress if the demo-
Gratis should regain control, he promptly
replied that they would arrange for that. If
that can be ''fixed" in advance cannot other
matters of more magnitude be arranged in
advance? If appropriations are made so
heavy that money will have to be borrowed,
that would perpetuate control by rings
which have dictatad the financial and tax
policy Of the government, that have placed
mortgages on the farms of the nation which
aggregate their entire selling value, and if
this policy can be maintained for another
decade the United States will be divided
between a race Of landlords and tenant
farmers like Ireland. When the farmers
come TO fully realize that the government
has been directed by ring of gold pluto
Gratis on the one hand and on the other by a
class of trust, monopoly, probibitory tariff
propagators, and that they have been ground
to the dust by this combination of rascals,
they, il is 10 be hoped, will begin TO use
what little privilege and independence they
have left.
The business crashes Immediately around
them, which every one is feeling most pain.
fully in losses direct and indirect, should
cause them to pause and reflect if some rad,
ieal changes in public affairs should not be
inaugurated. The constant downward trend
of values has closed up the cannerIes in this
county, pretty nearly all, McCoy's at con-
siderable loss to the farmers in this vicinity.
This is followed by the fearful crash of the
Waring Fertilizer Company, which is a
terrible blow to every interest in the neigh
borhood, entailing heavy losses on many
and possibly ruin on others, while indirectly
the circle of injury will widen to immeas-
urable distances. These industries sink
under darkening fate that broods over
every self asserting industry, ard in spite of
the most prudent and careful management
and foresight ON the part Of those who have
them in charge. Every wind, from what
ever quarter il blows brings the sound of
the Sheriff's or Trustees hammer knocking
down farms with no bidder but the NOR
,tgagee, at nominal bids. Who can be-
lieve, in the face of these crushing facts,
that our laws are equal and are protecting
the people and the industry of the country?
No one who has not taken leave of his
senses. Every farmer and honest indus
trious man who is not a mere day worker is
poorer than he was two years ago. Who
can deny this blasting truth?
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