Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1893-12-08
The Political Forecast. :

Mr.. Editor! Throughout all time proph
cts have existed-false prophets many OF
them, but prophets nevertheless, and while
Hicks and PETER remain, why may not your
unworthy correspondent make feeble
though earnest effort TO draw the veil from
the lace of coquettish political future
Cold waves and cyclones there always have
been and always shall be, then why should
not Hicks, PETER and - be also?
After giving the subject exhaustive atten-
ton, the writer, your prophet, "Old Prob,
or whatever other alias you may give him,
would say that, according 10 the best of his
knowledge and belief, the late dampening
shower whichfell upon the Democrats was on
account OF the currency-that is southerly
free silver current and northerly full
weight current, and an easterly hig press
ure tarifiic current and low pressure tar
iffic current, meeting in the Ohio valley,
caused the unexpected precipitation. Prob
abilities indicate strongly that these tarlillc
currents will again be experienced in the
near future, and storm signals will be raised
along the coast they will concentrate in
the Potomac valley, but their greatest force
will be felt in the mountains of Pennsyl-
vania and West Virginia, where they will
reach hurricane velocity and may result in
great destruction.
Financial drought is affecting seriously
many districts OF the country, including
Comus, which has heretofore escaped the
blighting effects Of limited financial precip
itation. Ia times of drought, or other evils,
Comus has been enabled 10 keep afoat
through her magnificent egg crop, but wheth
er II be the result of the brought or other
cause, cannot be definitely ascertained, but
our egg crop is alarmingly short. No doubt
the Sherman bill had the same disastrous
effect upon our fowls AZ IL had upon other
things, and one thing is clear enough, that
the existence OF the Sherman bill did not
prevent our fowls from presenting several
bills Of their own in a Congress which they
held in our garden last summer. These
movements In favor Of free tomatoes, If not
free silver. were led by the Hon. Peterpetfer,
the gentleman from Nevada, and the Hon.
Mr.. TOughentaray, and whether they gained
their end by cloture or some other Infamous
rule has not been determined, but they
made free tomatoes grand success.
Comusites would be pleased 10 see tho
United States coin all the silver Ia the
universe If an equal distribution OF II were
made and we could get our share or more
but as the government has made no sucl
| agreement | can't see how we would bt
benefited by free and unlimited coinage. We
have no gunboats or custom houses 10 sell
articles which the government needs Just nj
this time-and am sure Messrs. Stewart and
Jones wouldn't give us cent more for Ou
wheat and corn If the Treasury would buy
every dollars worth Of their silver at thei
price.
There may come day when we Of Comu
may have q few gunbOats for sale, when, i
Brother Jonathan wishes TO buy, we will b.
only too happy TO supply him and 1t vii
make no difference ~ US If he have not 8
dollar Of silver on hand his paper with q
daub Of green paint on one sitie, Baby Ruth'
| picture on the other with Growers indOrse
ment where it can be seen, and brand me rs
a story teller il that paper wont pass current
around Comus for gun boats or any other
merchantabe commodity.
Some of our Republican friends are try
ing 10 make people believe that the pres
| ent stagnation 10 business was caused by
Growers lavish expenditures OF money II
| buying finery for Ruth and Frances; but
don't think that could have been the cause
Of IL any more than the fact Of my hav
ing bought a coat and not paying for IT,
| think that the cause was more likely thai
the country was running business under toe
heavy a head Of steam and the biler busted
Il Is not the first case Of the kind Persia
busted her biler that way, and so did Rome
The people all concluded that raising grain
didn't pay so that they all began raising towr
lots In some localities there was no ground
at all left for wheat and corn, the supply d
lots was far greater than the demand and o.
course there had to come let up | tel
you, Grover was not 10 bame-it was th'
man who raised town lots aud the man WIN
sold the government gunboats.
Comus, Dec. !, $685. Y.