The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-11-30

Mr.. Reed made speech the other night
at the Home Market Club dinner, in
which two points were most conspicuous.
First he said or admitted that the Fifty
fourth Congress would do nothing. The
real seat of the disease that is racking the
country with pain, its financial condition,
he studiously avoided. While admitting
they dare not touch the tariff, he attempt
ed by inference to lead up to the belief
that tariff and protection is the fixed and
only real policy the country has or wishes
to have, and the republican party being
the only exponent of that policy, and
having that policy only to exist for, he
inferred that on this ground, it was de-
creed by the voice of the people to re-
main in control of the country at least
twenty years.
Mr.sReed foreshadows the partys future
intentions, and its only hope. which are
to fix the attention of the people on what
is now termed the Protective Policy. II
was plain through all the important
portion OF Mr.. Reeds speech that he was
attempting to believe and to make his
audience believe this hope.
The policy" of the republican party,
if it has any special policy, is a financial
policy, and the party dare not fight in
the open on that policy. For thirty years
that has been the partys real policy. The
tariff is but secondary Notwithstanding
the beating of Chinese gongs over it
While the noise was going on the stea1thy
money ring has been noiselessly burrow-
ing its way to the vitals of the nation,
and they wish, if not hope, this stealthy
system may be continued. We need but
to look back over the administrations OF
Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Arthur to
learn that there was no such protection
idea ever entered the head of the party as
the Mckinley system of tariff till after
Cleveland issued his stump speech Mes
sage of'S7 on "tariff REFORM
This diversion offered lucky opportu-
nifty to continue the bamboozle on little
different key, and provide new cover
for Shylock to work behind Mr.. Reed,
your premonitions are true, and like the
ghost in the play will not down. You
and your party cannot longer work the
great tariff bamboozle You must fight
OH the money question and in the open
i'll the next two years. You cannot pooh,
pooh silver, or work the catch words Of
fiat" money, gold basis" Sound
money" deprecated currency" "intro-
convertible with gold," etc., all empty
sound and fury meaning nothing honest.
The Rothschild, Shylock money system
is the financial system of the republican
party, and of Cleveland and his cuckoo
following, and every voter of whateve,
party should prepare himself to choose in.
diligently the side he intendsto take in the
next two years. This financial, gold basis
system, and it alone, has brought about
the conditions that have bankrupt SC
many of the middle industrial class, auc
brought to the brink of the pauper condi
ton so many thousands of the plain lab
oring people While this monetary sys
tenn of the republican party and Cleveland
and cuckoos is continued times will grow
gradually and steadily worse. People
will be harder pressed next year and the
following than they have been this yea
and the years preceding. The gold basis
system is money contracting system, {
breeder of hard times and falling prices
The Peoples party is the only party there
is any hope for the people through
Farmer, manufacturer, mechanic, com
mon day laborer, merchant, are all in the
same boat and must sink or swim togeth
er. The democrat party will never rally
again on present lines, and if it forms a
all it must be behind the republican party
and look to that party for protection
against the reform parties which are
detaching its members. And the repub
licsn party is managed and directed b,
the Rothschild money power, whose
headquarters is the Bank of England. L
is weakness and folly for people to shu
their eyes to these facts and rejoice ovel
the success of the republican party, hop
ing change for the better. Such change
is impossible with its policy.