The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-10-12

uuCy OH pcHhuINSS, ol COlldIS anu
cuffs, and other little trinkets that
a few men can make a few dollars
out of. That is what we are dis
cussing, and the country is excited
over this tariff. What difference
does it make to the countrya at large
whether sugar is 10 cents a pound
or 10f cents pound? The farmers
cannot buy the sugar unless they
can sell their wheat and cotton and
corn and pork, and if they can sell
their products they will not feel the
difference.
This country can never grow rich
until you avail yourselves of what
makes country rich. What makes
a country rich is the employment
of labor in developing its resources.
Labor cannot be employed while
gold is appreciating and property
depreciating. If you go on here in
the midst of calamities that are
falling upon the world and discuss
nonessentials, you are only making
the matter worse.
My Democratic friends will be
disappointed in the result of their
legislation; matters will grow worse;
and the people will attribute it to
their legislation. My Republican
friends, if they come into power, if
they follow the same course, will
again disappoint the people, as they
disappointed them in the last ad-
ministration. They were not turned
out because the people thought the
Democratic party was better, but
because they believed the Republi-
can party was worse; and the next
time it will be not because they
think the Republican party is better
than the Democratic party, but they
will think that the Democratic
party is still worse than the Repub-
ican party.
So you will go ON as long as you
allow a few men to mOnopolize the
gold of the world and deprive the
people of money and continue to
have enforced falling prices. The
people will be against the party in
power, Whenever it may be, and
however they change, it will make
no difference, so long as this policy
is not to be changed.
1t appears both parties are so
welded to the policy of gold con-
traction that they cannot give it up;
and as long as they adhere to it we
shall have hard times; and | say,
furthermore, and say it with en-
phasis, if this policy is maintained
for ten years, our civilization will
be so changed thai it will bear no
comparison with the civilization of
twenty years ago; there will be
classes in this country, as there are
in every other country; there
will be the mobiles, the rich, and
the very poor, and under such
conditions republican institutions
cannot be maintained. Republican
institutions can only be maintained
by allowing the masses of the peo-
pie to prosper, to be independent,
and self-reliant. They cannot be
maintained under your present
policy.
speak of the policy of the two
parties, because while there may be
honest and sincere men who differ
from this policy in both parties, the
ultimate result of the action of both
parties is the same. That is the
reason why | cannot act with either
of the great parties. The action of
both these parties leads to the same
lamentable result; it leads to the
same ruin to my country. | cannot
stand by and see my country ruined
by the appreciation of gold, the
falling of prices, and starvation in
the land without raising a word of
protest against it and against the
discussion by this Congress of non
essentials while this cloud is hang
ing over the people.
Specimen Cases.
S. H. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis,
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