The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-11-07
Goods Marked Up.

Advertisers all over the country
are notifying the public that they are
marking up prices on account of the
Mckinley tariff. The Republican
politicians declare it is democratic
ruse. But when houses like Wanna
makers and Strawbridge & Clot hier's
notify the public that they are mark
ing up on that account 1t ceases to
be political dodge and must be-
taken as q serious fact. In th,
mean time, reports from all oyer the
world agree that the wheat crop is
short. In the United States it is
much below that of last year, not
withstandlng the price is low, scarce
ly maintaining last years figures.
Hay, which is one of the leading
money crops of the farm in this sec
ton of the country, is down to S.
and 81 a ton. Although there was a
great show in Congress last summer
of protecting" the farmer to the
amount of over three hundred MIL
lions annually. and tariff duties were
placed on wheat, corn oats, hay, etc..
these products are dropping in price
rather than rising. Farmers cannot
mark up the price of wheat, corn,
hay, &C., with the facility of mer-
chants and manufacturers, but look
YEARLY into the gold ring, monev
trust daily papers OF New York and
Philadelphia and see the prices of
all they have to sell marked down.
Two weeks since the gold monopoly
shipped several millions of gold to
London from New York, with no
other object in view but to make
money temporarily scarce, and bring
down the price of farm products
Only q fortnight before this ship
ment took place the Wall street
wing of the London money trust,
made a raid on the United States
treasury, demanding all the surplus
in the hands of the treasurer, for the
ostensible purpose of sending the
money west to move the crops to
the sea board.' Secretary Window
and John Sherman, the money trust
man sger in the United States Senate,
met the New York bankers in that
city to ascertain their-the bankers
views on the financial situation"
The result of the conference was that
Mr.. Secretary Window advanced
S. 100000 in gold interest on bonds
months before it was due, paid the
gold ring sixteen millions of dollars
and two million six hundred thousand
dollars in premiums for the redemp-
ton of bonds not due till 1902 and
then advertised that he would pur-
chase twenty million of A per cent
bonds due next August and pay the
interest on them up to that time by
way of premium, in order to relieve
the stringency reported by the Wall
street agents of the Jew London
money trust. AS soon as they got
these millions from the treasury of
the peoples money before it is due,
they proceed to ship gold to their
CO workers in London 20 hold and
make a scarcity of money in the
United States till farmers crops are
purchased at starvation prices, then
the money will be reshipped, and
plenty of money in "trade centers'
will put up the price of farm pro-
ducts in the hands of spectators.
This is the game the financial de-
partment of our government is play.
ing with the London money trust
and their New York agents. against
our farmers, and the game they have
been at for years. While this rob-
bling of the farmers is going on the
cry is kept up by the other detach-
ment of the same financial trust over
the tariff, which resembles for all
the world the cry of stop thief by
one part of gang of pick. pockets,
while the Others are plying their
business at the pockets OF the excit.
ed crowd. Farmers, are you going
to be longer fooled by this double
game of the politicians who are in
the employ of the money monopoly?