The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-11-09
LIVE ISSUES.
Congress Responsible.

from the greenbacks their full Legal
tender, and issuing a demOnetized
currency, thereby forcing gold to a
premium; for refusing to rectify
the crime when they saw that the
full legal tender greenback kept
exact pace with gold in it's upward
flight for selling bonds for less
than so cents on the dollar; for
returning 80 per cent of the face OF
the bonds to the bankers for ex
empting the bonds from taxation ;
for permitting the national banks
to loan and speculate with govern
ment money ; for permitting the
credit mobilier to plunder the nation
of $3.50, 100000 of money for max
ing the holders of bonds preferred
creditors for paying them in dearer
money than was expressed in the
contract while other creditors, in
Guiding the soldiers in the field,
were paid in a cheaper money than
the government agreed to pay for
withhold, as a matter of fact, one
half the amount due the soldiers,
and presenting it free to the bank
ers and patriotic" bondholders ;
for changing the terms of payment
of the bonds, doubling their value ;
for compelling the people to pay
countless billions in interest, pre-
miums, and principal, on bonds
unnecessarily; for issuing 81, $780,
100000 gold bonds, when there was
not One-fourth that amount of gold
in the nation; for funding the
peoples money into interest bearing
debts, when there was no occasion
for any bond issue; for paying in
terest on bonds in advance; for
furnishing money to bankers, and
refusing the people the same priv
ilege; for buying $1OO,OOO,OOO gold
for specie resumption ; for keeping
one kind of money in the Treasury
to redeem another; for not paying
out the gold reserve that it might
circulate among the people; for
issuing any money which is not the
equal of any other money F.; for not
retiring all demonetized money, in
Guiding national bank bills and
government bonds, and issuing full
legal tender money in lieu thereof !;
for destroying $5O, ,OOO,O 900 fractional
currency ; for giving $4,000, 900
acres of land to the railroads for
permitting $15O,0OO,OO0 to go
abroad each year for sugar; for
paying alien ocean transportation
companies hundreds of millions of
dollars each year for carrying ex-
ports, imports, passengers, and
mails ; for demonetizing silver and
doubling every debt for depreciat-
ing the value of all farm products
One.half or more; for running our
export trade for depreciating the
value of all our surplus products
for compelling our people to pay a
billion dollars or more each year
more than we should to foreign
countries; for giving four times
their cost to the Pacific railroads in
lands and money, and taking worth
less second and third mortgages as
security for the debts for not fore
closing the defaulting railroads and
placing them under government
control, fOrfeiting the unsold lands
and restoring them to the people
for destroying 81 400, 600, 900 of the
peoples moneys. contracting the
currency from $50 per capita to less
than $40, and thereby causing the
panic Of 1873; for repeating the
process of contraction and conse-
quent panics four times in twenty
years, each time confscating billions
of dollars of property, then expand.
ing the currency only long enough
to enable the modern brigands tc
sell their confiscated lands for 1OC
per cent or more profit for permit
ting the transactions to be carried
on until the people have contracted
debts of over SAC, 900, 900, 900, while
the sixty-five billions of property
which the census shows we had in
1890 has decreased by reason of the
present panic to probably 10000,
100000 or less, leaving the nation
bankrupt for $1O,OOO,OOO,OOO oil
more.
Prices can be restored by an in