The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-01
They Have . Heard a Rnmor.

April 22d, and one ofthe resolutions, passed
was the following
"We oppose any attempt TO debase the
currency and coin the country, but insist
upon snch legitimate increase of our circu-
lating medium and such maintenance of the
double standard as will fairly satisfy the
increasing necessities of trade and commerce
Loyal and intelligent Republicans will not
seek to destroy vested interests nor to cripple
any legitimate enterprises, but they demand
that the best thought of the Republican
i party shall be concentrated on the formula
tion of such legislation as will save the
people from the exactions of the usurer,
| from expressions of monopolies, or from
extortionate demands of public carriers
Who debased the silver dollar by demon
etizing silver, and why did Congress refuse
to restore ii at the last session? The power
10 give this declaration effect was in the
party's hands. Every obstacle was placed
in the way Of restoring the double standard
and increasing the circulating medium by
the last Congress. What can the League
mean by publishing such resolution.
"The formulation Of such legislation as will
save the people from the exactions Of the
usurer," ETC., etc. Didn't the leaders Of
the party choke off every attempt and
smother every bill looking TO such legisla.
ton, in the last Congress? Do these pol
iticians think the people have forgotten
that the last Congress wasted two years in
striving how moi TO accomplish any such
results as avowed in the above resolution.
Not single measure was passed even look
ing to the accomplishment Of any of the
results put forward in that resolution. Or
are these politicians getting scared and
beginning to set their sails 10 catch the
breeze which is blowing from the farms?
II begins to look like that, judging from
Clarkson's published interview last week,
and President Harrison's letter to the
chairman Of the Commercial Convention
held at Kansas City recently, aud which
the press is commenting on in a bewildered
way. The President in that letter said:
Amy dollar. paper or coin, that is issued
| by the United States, must be made and
kept in its commercial uses as good as any
other dollar. Nothing about an 50 cent
dollar in this If we have dollars Of diff
ferent values, only the poorest will circulate.
The farmer and laborer, who are not in
hourly touch with the ticker or telegraph,
will require, above all other classes of our
community, dollar of full value. Fluctu-
atiobs and depreciations are always al the
! first cost of these classes of our community.
Tho ha o,,d cpooy Lot anfio;nato 1so-
count, and often profit by such fluctuations.
81 have always believed, and do now
more than ever believe in bi-metalism,
[Seems TO have changed his mind lately. ]
and favor the fullest use Of silver in connec-
/ ton with our currency, that is compatible
with the maintenance of the parity Of the
gold and silver dollar in their commercial
uses"
Great Caesar During all of the last
session the gold bug press never ceased pro-
claiming from the housetops and telling it
in the streets that the President would veto
any bill remonetizing silver, and his near
est friends never said word 10 contradict
this statement. And now the President
declares he is bi-metalist ! Did you ever
Clarkson, the ex first assistant Post Mas
ter General, says the farmers demands must
be respected if the party hopes 10 live.
Ingalls, says if their demands are not COM
piled with the party will not carry TWO
States west of the Alleghanies, and the
President comes out fiat footed in favor of
reconciliation for that is what bi-metalism
means) of silver Some body has evidently
heard something drop
| All this is not so remarkable after all, if
| we take common sense view of the situa-
ton. Clarkspn is a practical, observing
man, and sees that the great republican
party vote Of the West has gone or is going
into the Alliance, that if pushed to the wall
they will vote 10 overthrow their old party,
Kansas.demonstrated hey ond peradyenture.
The school of politics in which Clarkson
has acted has been of the iridescent dream
order as TO consistency, principle and hon
esty, and he finds no inconsistency in desert
ing it for more promising course. hence
he advises making terms with the Alliance.
Anything is better than death.
Harrison too is no fool, and cannot fail 10
have seen the strong position the silver men
hold if he read their speeches In the last
Congress, and the utter failure and weakness
of the attempts to answer them by the gold
ring and Wall street attorneys. He too
sees that TO oppose the reconciliation of
silver longer is death to his chances in 1872: