The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-11-16
Friday, Nov. 16, 1894.
The Lesson of the Election.

ACooOh Va NhS
This is the one leading theme for edi-
torial comment and the business man,
the public functionary, and the slippery
politician interviewer. If the back files
of the newspapers are turned to the same
things are repeated many times, and all
such sudden and violent changes demon
strate but one thing clearly, which is
chronic dissatisfaction and unrest among
the masses of the people. If the past was
turned to or clearly remembered these
periodic results could be predicted, pretty
nearly as accurately as the eclipses.
But the important inquiry is what will
the great republican majority do' Very
nearly nothing. Large majorities never
do What will be the leading object of
the party's attempt? To strengthen the
power of monopoly, especially the money
and national bank power. limitations of
this are being cautiously put forth from
Wall street, The Baltimore plan" was
prepared in advance, which is the destruc-
ton of all government paper money, IN
Guiding silver certificate, reduce all silver
coin to subsidy money, making it a legal
tender for only five or ten dollars, the
banks to be the sole issuers of paper
money.
The capital of the national bank of the
future on which currency may be issued,
not confined to government bonds, but it
may be composed of any approved col
1aterals, specie, the notes OF other banks,
state and city bonds; in short any ZAP
proved security, approved mainly by
the bankers themselves. On this capital
currency to be issued by the bank to the
amount of fifty per cent or some other
agreed upon ratio. These new national
banks will be subject to pertunctory
examination by government appointed
officer-a man of their own class as now.
Every arrangement has been mapped
out for some such program. twill never
be known outside of the gold ring circle
how many hundreds of thousands OF dol
lars we're expended to get control OF
western states for the purpose of packing
the Senate more strongly with bankers
and millionaires. Everything was most
favorable for the success of the plot. The
drouth last summer drove the farmers and
other country people away from the
drouth stricken regions by thousands.
The roads were lined with those impov-
erished people coming east, leaving their
bliphted farms and desolate homes behind
them. The cities and towns where the
partisans of the eastern monopolles and
exploiting classes live held their popula-
ton. and that class are always the willing
tools of the eastern money power. Ihls
octopus has sucked the substance OF the
people of the western states dry, and
when men are on the verge OF famine,
overwhelmed with debt and the tempter
approaches them with money and per-
suasions to vote the ticket they are OPP
posed to, thousands will fall victims. A
few dollars provides temporary relief to
their hunger tortured families and the
tempter is too strong to resist.
Herein exists one of the greatest of the
powers which money exercises. 1t first
robs its victim by usury till want and
poverty torment him and his family like
hell hounds, when the robber appears as
a friendly persuasive tempter, offering
him money to sell his future self slave
to the power which has despoiled him.
The tariff is no longer to be the tub
used to amuse the whale. The great
whale has been harpooned by the money
power. That power is strong in both
Houses and the President is willing tool
of the money power, ever ready to accom-
modate it. The grand finale is to be at
tempted by the next congress ofsecuring
this great sperm whale, the industrial
masses, by consolidating and pertecting
the money power by laws which will
forever prevent the people from having
any future control over the money of the
country and place the government COM
pletely in the hands of the money trust.
This is what the election means. And to
accomplish this devilish purpose every
movement, secret and open, of the Fifty
fourth Congress will be directed. Hun
dreds of millions if necessary will be spent
to carry through to success this conspiracy
which has been maturing for thirty years.