The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-08-05
TEACHINGS FROM THE
ENEMY.

should DC deeply interested in the
money question. All of these claim to
be. yet at least ninety per cent of them
are not. Talk with the average citizen
among the above classes for three min
utes and he is obliged to confess that
he knows very little about the science
of money and that the whole matter is
a mystery. The trouble is he has
learned all he knows from the very
men, the money dealers, who are inter
ested that he shall not get facts, and
who are interested in making the sub
ject of money a mystery. When rightly
studied there is but very little mystery
about it, and there should be none
whatever to the individual who is able
to read.
To illustrate We read this moment
a little screed in paper protesting to
be newspaper, but which through its
editorial columns seeks either to sup
press or distort facts to serve the inter-
est, not of its subscribers who ought to
be served and suppose they are served,
but to serve the interests of Wall street
whose interests are directly opposite to
the interests of the masses of readers
Here is brief statement: "Thc passage
by the National Senate of a free coinage
bill vas not well received in financial
circles in Wall street. and as a conse-
quence there was more disposition to
part with securities than has been seen
in long time
The average busy man looks at the
above and concludes that because a GER
tain theory is entertained in Wall street
therefore all ought to entertain the
same. The fact is that if Wall street
opposes free'silvcr everybody else ought
to favor it. Wall street works for its
own interests. Why should not every
man not connected with and not under
the domination Of that nest of Shylocks
and gamblers do the same thing? Why
should he not defend his own interests
The quotation above says that "there
was more disposition to part with secu =
rites than there has been for long
time" Who cares except the owners
of such securities? What the people
are concerned in is the payment Of
every security as we agreed not twice;
as much, not ten per cent, twenty-five
per cent nor fifty per cent more but
Just the amount and value as named in
the agreement.
= The meaning intended to be con-
veyed in the above Wall street news
is about this: Since Wall street opera
tors spend their lives in the study and
manipulation of money and securities.
they ought to be and are supposed to
be very wise in mysterious science,
the science of finance. Therefore we
with great awe, credit them with great
wisdom, learn from them all we know
and do just as they want US to do The
wolf in the we'll known fable taught the
same doctrine to the lamb, and in the
famous invitation to visit a beautiful
parlor the spider said similar things tc
the fly. What skilled fnanciers in New
York, London, Amsterdam, Paris and
Vienna want is: first, to get US into
debt; secondly, to pass evidences Of
debt into the hands of buyers-innocent
purchasers, as the lawyers say,,-as fal
remote from the original parties as
possible !; thirdly, to destroy the orig
inal agreement fourthly, to appeal tc
the producers and debt.payers' sense Of
honor to meet new conditions in order
to defend his reputation for honesty
filthy, to provide for new and differ
ent kind OF money from that agreed
upon in the original contract and
sixthly, to manipulate money till what
they get in payment shall be worth
vastly more than the money with which
they bought the securities. To other
words, they want us to be so very honest
as to swindle ourselves in order to
max free gifts to gang of rascals who
possess neither conscience nor much
honor. This was the sole purpose Of
demonetizing silver, of burning up legal
tender money with which the country
was saved, and of further reducing the
volume Of money by Withdrawing bank
notes from circulation in order to make
money scarce among those who might
make it most useful, the business and
industrial men of the country.
Even a remote prospect that silver
will be restored to its original money
uses makes the spectators and gam
blers fear that they will be obliged tc
do az thew agreed when taking paymeni