The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-28
QUESTIONS OF THE DAY.
OUR AFFAIRS.
Are the Great Monarchies of Europe
Taking Mix in Them.

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invested in this country, while Germany
and Austria have large sums invested,
it would seem that they are taking a
very extraordinary mix in our affairs,
1t is very fine piece of political econ
omy for these nations to transact their
businss at home with paper money and
invest their coin in the United States
Of course it is done to absorb our
wealth, but there is also more far
reaching aim than that; to arrest the
progress of our country, if not to divide
and destroy US.
Let US briefly go over the facts of
history for the past thirty years, and
see what grounds we have for that
opinion. About that time the govern
ment was compelled to undertake vast
schemes to preserve the union. They
had not dollar in money nor could
they borrow dollar. They created
paper money, and our people not only
showed willingness to accept it, but
an eagerness to get it, because they
loved the government, and they gave
to the greenback paper money the very
highest value known to any money on
earth, ely-their labor and the
products of their labor. In the name
of God and reason what greater value
can gold produce?
The effect of paper money on the
country was clearly stated by the Sec
rotary of the treasury, MCCULLOUGH, in
his report to congress. He says:
Business is done on a cash basis.
Everyone can get work at good wages.
The people are contented and happy"
This is our experience with paper
money, which the bankers and their
hired Hessians called the period of
initiation. Our homes were inflated
with hams, barrels of -four and every
thing else we needed. Our labor was
inflated with an American price in
which we had voice.
The products Of labor created by the
greenback were equitably distributed
among our people by the same means
and blessing of blessings. The curse
of foreign investments was warded off
by our greenback paper money.
At that time labor organizations
were, comparatively speaking, unknown
among us. Our people felt secure
under the law in their rights, and they
had confidence in their employers,
because they had voice in their own
wages and all were satisfied. Not till
the advent of foreign capital wholesale
was labor made aware Of the painful
fact that capital was their enemy.
But let US take things in order
From 1868 to 1878, ten years, series
of financial measures were passed by
congress and the executive, through
the aid our domestic 6nanciers, backed
by foreign bankers, who were placed
in front to mask their respective gov
eruments, which for cruelty, destruc-
tion of property and ruin of our people,
Stands the blacklist record of our other.
wise honorable history.
1t must be borne in mind that. the
legislation in regard to the greenback
vas supported by our own fnanciers in
unison with foreign hackers, but the
movement against silver was conducted
wholly by foreigners. They were
probably afraid to confde in our fnan-
ciers, lest patriotism might show itself.
At all events they began and carried
through, alone, the demonstration of
silver. Germany and England demon
etized silver Then comes their agent
with a corruption fund of half a mil
lion, which he is given to understand
can be increased to any amount he may
want, to consummate tue destruction OF
our silver dollar unit of value. Success
was theirs.
The great object for which they
plotted SO long opened to them with the
failure of Jay Cooke & Co., of Phila-
delphia, and the thousands of other
failures following in the wake. This
was their opportunity. They swooped
down upon us like birds of prey and i'll
omen, Foreign investment like a
political smallpox fastened itself upon
our country.
In one short year our vast business
prospects, represented by greenback
money in the hands of our own people,
employing our own labor at good wages,
passes through bankruptcy into the
hands OF foreign investors. From that
day to this there has been kept up tie
most persistent fight against American