The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-05-09

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machines at home with never delivery
in one Of their fictitious sales. We will
send every mothers son of them to the
penitentiary. We think any man who
runs corner or a bucketshop on the
products of our labor deserves the pen
itentiary. and it is our fixed purpose to
attend to our knitting and see that the
laws send them where they belong.
(c) More still. We propose that our
Uncle Sam shall own and control the
track and roadbed Of every railroad in
the land, and we think we see no
trouble in leasing those tracks to men
perfectly competent to run any farmers
car any number of miles at fixed rate
per mile. and We think the great ship
ping public will respond, Amen.
ca We are willing that there shall
be unlimited coinage of silver, aud we
believe in dual coin currency, but We
demand much more than that. We
declare that our Uncle Sam has for
years and years been issuing his own
bonds to all these money classes and
voluntarily paying them, needlessly and
wrongfully, three to four per cent for
the use of his own fat money. We
declare it was his fiat and nobody's else
fiat, and that on bis fat those same
moneyed classes deposited the bonds
and issued their fat money, called by
courtesy national bank notes, and
which they have loaned to us-to US
farmers. drawing thereon seven to ten
per cent interest. So that these classes
get per cent from Uncle Sum on his
fat and double per cent on their own
fat. This we propose to change and
ask our Uncle Sam to fat his green
backs without interest to us and take
the very same security-to wit {: our
farms that we gave to the moneyed men
as their fiat. and so stop paying interest
himself and cut our interest down to
minimum, and we are just big fools
enough to think that our Uncle Sam
can be made to see that is for his and
our best interest to do that thing.
The Tribune thinks that we may be
going the way of the old Grange. Not
so. The old Grange was defeated in
Illinois by the election OF Gov Cullom
and Lew Steward Of Plano, Ill. That
defeat was accomplished by fraud and
it sounded the death knell of the
Grange all over the land. That trick
will fail next time. Allow me to give
a personal "reminiscences to show that as
class we cut no Fl CURE in the calcula-
ton of current affairs, and tits not top
late 20 remedy this error. Along with
you, Mr.. Editor. and others l (and we
all do) wish the coming Columbus Fair
all possible success. The occasion is a
great one. The indefatigadlc Secretary
wrote to and received reply from the
President of the Southern Alliance. an
organization OF nearly or quite 1000,
900 men, in which the President said !:
''If the authorities shall give to the
Alliance and to our orders such prom
lnence as their character and numbers
deserve then, indeed, we will all help
to make that Fair grand fair" q
give from memory but am not mistaken
in the idea About that time GER
tain United States senator came along.
and that letter being read to him, he
said 20. pshaw, these fellows have
not got as much influence as they think
they have" l mention this circum,
stance to show that as class we cut
no figure in current drought or calcu
atons. 1t is our purpose to change
the drift of public sentiment in this re.
gard. l think was the only farmer
enjoying the distinction of membership
on any Worlds Fair committee except
possibly Mr.. Streeter. Now, as to the
minor questions named by the Tribune,
it is safe to say that the good Of The
whole and the rule of the majority will
be entirely cared for and properly so by
farmers when in power.
Remarkable Rescue.
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