The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-04-13
AS Moses Lifted up the Serpent in the
Wilderness

CldlIlluS INC lHHdlSu uSWS Vi tlCu ACouAl
as an endorsement of the policy of the
party, especially of the Mckinley system
of protection, and in the rear of this they
drag i'll "honest money!" juggler's
term not we'll defined. AS drowning men
catch at straws, people in their despera
ton vote almost any way to show their
dissent and disgust with existing condi-
tons which are crushing them down.
The party in power is the only visible
object to strike.
1t was the same distress surrounding
the people which caused them to turn
and rend the republican party, hurting it
from power, and replace it with Presi-
dent and a majority in both houses of
Congress of the democrat party, trusting
in the loud promises of the leaders of that
party to adopt measures to relieve them
from their distress. Finding themselves
betrayed and the policy of the republican
party continued, it is not a matter for
surprise to find them voting an expression
of their indignation at the fraud which
has been practiced upon them by the
leaders of the democrat party. They see
Cleveland and his cabinet in full accord
with the leaders of the republican party
on the great overshadowing question of
the nineteenth century, the financial
question, while the republican leaders in
the towns and cities fatter and coax with
promises the we'll nigh distracted voters
to punish the faith1ess democrat party,
and they rush to the other exteme as they
did in 1892
The money power and the corporations
which are fighting to maintain their
supremacy, are leaving no stone unturned
to intensity the distress among the peo-
pie, which they attribute to the democrat
party being in power. AS shallow as this
is, it is not too thin sophistry to gull
great many easily gullable people in
political matters. The American people
are the most easily cheated in political
affairs of any people, probably, on the
face of the earth The middle class will
spend days in pursuit of five cent bar
gain, but cannot be induced to devote ten
minutes to informing themselves on po-
litical questions which to them would be
worth hundreds of dollars.
AS gullable as the average voter is we
are not prepared to believe that the repub-
lican party policy, the demonstration of
silver, further issue of gold bonds in a
time of profound peace, when the
country is OVERLOOKING with all the
products which represent the wealth of
the world, a steady contraction of the
circulating medium, and the entire con-
troll of the money of the country placed
in the hands of national banks, will be
accepted by the people who have so lately
repudiated these measures. Their sheer
desperation is inducing the people to vote
recklessly in the local elections, in most
cases having but two old parties to choose
between.
No party ever had such an opportunity
offered it as the democrat party at the
opening of the present administration.
Had the traitor to human hopes and
American liberty given his voice in favor
of the cause of the people as confding
millions hoped he would, the solid body
of his party in Congress would have sup
ported the measures and carried them in
triumph to consummation. But with
pockets filled with the gold of Wall street
and placed above the heads of the people
by the arrogance of quickly acquired
wealth, armed with thousands of fat
offices, which the hungry crowd who were
boosted into power by taking advantage
of the indignation of the people at their
betrayal, his party was divided, demon
allied and destroyed.
That more than million voters forsaw
and prophesied such result, was estab-
lished by their votes for Weaver and
Field, and is evidence that the hopes of
the subsidized corporation and shy1ock
press, of the republican party being
returned to power next fall, and at
the Presidential election two years
following, is to believe that time is turned
back in its flight and that revolutions go
backwards.
The conditions of distress which con-
front the common and middle class peo-
pie are scourging them to learn this lesson
like pedagogue's rod to the bare back
Their intolerable sufferings will compel
them to commit the lessons to heart.
There is no visible prospect of a revived
prosperity, nor is there possibility of it,
under present financial conditions, and to
these conditions the shylocks of Europe
and their Wall street agents, supported by
the national banks, are determined to
hold the two old parties, even at the risk
of an instruction, created by hunger,
restitution and enforced idleness of the
great labor masses.
AS the summer months roll by the same
wall of distress will be heard in every
quarter of this wide country, forced from
unwilling lips by the pinching pain OF
want, and the sober second thought OF
the people will satisfy them that they
have no hope of relief from either of the
old parties. The republican party has
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