The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-30
TIE SILVER QUESTION.
Judge Sheldon Discusses It From
the Standpoint of Free Coinage.

Juuge oneluon discusses It From
the Standpoint Of Free Coinage.
The Palladium. New Haven. Conn.
10 Palladium representative yesterday
Judge Joseph Sheldon said:
You ask for my opinion of the effect Of
the silver bill, if it becomes law, upon
New England interests. / answer il will be
good and only good-the same as the instant
cessation of any other robbery effected under
the forms oflaw; the same as protective
tariff against the Legitimate competition
now aimed against the farmers and planters
Of the West and South in the sale Of their
products. 1t will be protection extended
to them against tricky and most astute
composition contrised and now existing for
the benefit Of the English and European
consuming class. 1t will enable the western
farmers to pay the interest and principal on
the loans made to them by Connecticut in
vestors. 1t will enable them to buy the
products Of our factories and machine shops
and the splendid results Of our inventive
capabilities. It will prevent the farther
fall in The value Of their farms and will work
partial restoration of their former value.
ut will lift some Of the pressure from
Nsw England farms and farmers. 1t will
set idle men TO work. 1t will enable them
to turn their idle days into things desirable
and empty the poor houses. 1t will give
the Mckinley bill some chance TO be Judged
on its own merits and prevent its enemies
from laying 10 protective laws the disasters
that have followed in the wake of the silver
legislation OF 1873. 1t will give the repub-
lican party some chance eff success in 1892.
1t will enable New England man to feel
that he is not exactly sneak is not dis
posed TO ask others to secure that protection
for himself and his people which be is not
willing TO grant to the very men through
whose help-he has gained it. 1t is tricky,
illegitimate competition against which both
the tariff and the silver bill are primarily
aimed for the benefit of Americans against
those abroad and at home who despoil them
by the most subtle contriyances ever devised
by the wit Of man.
ut will enable this nation to become the
leading manufacturing and commercial
power in the world, to the great special ad.
vantage ofNew England. Ii will enable us
to offer exemption from the expenses Of gold
exchange on London in building up our
mos. profitable trade selling manufactured
goods to silver using nations, particularly
to the nations of South America and Central
America. 1t will compel deposits in the
banks of New York and New Eng land from
those silver-using nations of portion Of
the vast Sums now sent to London banks
following British trade, and which, in
great part, enable their shareholders to
divide among themselves their immense
annual dividends. 1t will, in short, be a
great step towards international monetary
peace throughout the world, while It pro-
tects the farmers of the west and the plant.
ers ofthe south from an Legitimate trade
little short of pillage that costs these classes
OF our conntrymen more than $500 600 900
year. 1t is primarily against ibis pillage
that the Farmers Alliance is banded to-
gether. Just how The silver bill will do all
these things without any chance of mis-
take about it, without injury to any human
being, [ will more fully set forth in an
address which hope to make within few
days, to which You and your readers will
be particularly invited"