The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-07-28
The BambooZlerS,

so unutterably contemplate TO watch
the doubling and twisting, the luffing
and filing of the old subsidized
party press. They seem all a: sea
in their anxiety to serve their mas
ters of the money power. A little
while ago if the Sherman law was
only repealed, confidence" would be
restored, business would resume its
normal condition. banks would
cease to close and business houses
to fail. The Sherman act was the
author of all this calamity.
Now there has come over these
noisy herslds of the money power a
remarkable change Of opinion. The
Sherman act is not so bad, in truth,
it is only che OF the causes of the
conditions complained of, there are
| other a1d more potent causes. Some
of these heralds of falsehood and
deception even are bold enough to
assert that the Sherman act had little
or nothing to do with causing the
panic. that it was rather benefit to
the public, the legal tenders issued
every month under that act having
supplied great want of currency,
STAYED off the crisis several months
and considerably lightened the pres
sure. Thus these deceivers shift
and turn.
The republican papers blame
| Cleveland and Carlisle for the break
down of confidence" and instead
of the Sherman act it is now the
tariff REFORM measures which were
threatened by the democratic party.
The facts, however, are that Cleve.
land has changed nothing, and Car
Isle has run the Treasury on the old
lines. The President is anxious
over anxious-like the rest of the
gold bugs to repeal the silver law
and wholly demonetize silver and
the tariff he thinks isn't of very much
Importance. Some change in the
schedules after while, when the
financial question is settled, he
thinks is all that is necessary.
So the two old party leaders dance
to each other, swing corners, retreat
and advance, pass over and balance
like partners in quadrille. Cleve-
land has turned out some partisan
office holders and put in their places
other professional Office hunters. He
has announced no proposed change
of conditions, Carlisle is paying out
gold to the Wall street gam blers just
as former republican Secretaries did,
whenever called for, and promises to
continue to do so. The smash up
that is taking place among banks
and business firms is the legitimate
result, the necessary climax, of the
policy pGrsued by the republican
party ever since the war The fruit
has ripened and is plentiful crop
of business disaster TO the public
The harvesters are gathering their
grain in liquidations. The million.
aires are gathering in the property
and wealth which other men have by
their enterprise and industry created
within the last two decades. They
are reaping what they sowed by the
aid of our class favored and indus
trial cursing government. They
sowed debt and are gathering in the
property of the bankrupts. They
stimulated the volume of business by
credit and speculation, shrurk the
volume of money and are calling"
their victims like the gambler when
he holds the stocked cards.
And this is the end of that "pro.
tective policy" of that financial
system" that unparalleled prosper
ity" with which the ears of q
credulous public were charmed,
until they began to doubt and over.
threw the party which had practiced
so successfully the deceit upon them
In order to confuse and divert atten
ton from the authors of the mischief
these same deceivers are endeavor.
ing to persuade their victims that the
ruin which stalks over the country
like pestilence at MONDAY, has all
been caused by the shock to "confi.
dence" in the election of Cleveland,
when the truth is they are the authors
of his nomination and election. He
is one of them and they know it. So
do the people.
The object of this attempt to con
fuse the public mind is to still keep
the people divided between the two
old parties, which are both machines
used for spoliation in the hands of
the monopoly GLASS. But the public
is slowly awakening to this fact
The leaders of the democrat and re
publican parties mortgaged their
parties to Rothschild long ago and
he is foreclosing. The American
people were bsm3oosled by their
daily press into endorsing for their
party leaders, and Shylock is taking
his pound of flesh from near the
heart and they have no Portia to
judge their cause.
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