The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-10-05
Always Puts His Foot in His Mouth.

Always FuLS Ills root III tbs mouth.
Whenever the Editor of the Whig
opens his mouth against the populists he
is sure to put his foot i'll it. The last fiasco
is in last weeks issue, and he manages to
put both feet in it in following the lead of
the two old bunco steerers, the campaign
liars of the old parties, i'll the new mare
nest they have made out of bills intro
duced by the populist members. The
bills introduced in the same sessions by
members of the two old parties, had they
all been passed, would have required an
expenditure of THREE THOUSAND MIL
LIONS from the United States Treasury to
be collected by taxes from the people, and
bonded debt greater THAI the war debt,
to have satisfied them, while the bills
introduced by the populists would not
have taken one dollar from the Treasury,
put there by taxation. The following
article, from last weeks Watchman, is a
conclusive answer to all such rehash of
political mendacity in which the Editor of
the Wing is wont to indulge, in currying
the favor of plutocratic masters.
THOSE PoPULIST BILLS AGAIN.
The leading idea in the Populist doc
trine is ''more money and less misery"
AS party we place the financial question
first and subordinate all others to it. In
this we are antagonized by both old
parties since they seek to cover up all
financial legislation in the noise and
glamor of the tariff or sectional strife. 1t
was only natural therefore, when the
Alliance and Peoples party began to send
| members to Congress that bills looking
i'll the direction of an increased volume of
currency should be formulated and intro
duced. This has been done to more or
| less extent during the sessions of the last
| two Congresses. Our people demanded
| from the present distressing conditions.
Sometimes bills are prepared and sent to
| Populist members who, as Iule, intro
duced them. Others were prepared by
the members themselves and introduced
in the vain hope that out of these some
thing might be evolved that would bring
relief to the people.
The two old parties, holding an iron
hand over the important committees,
relegated those bills to the waste basket
only to be brought to light as matters of
ridicule. The passage of any one of these
bills would have obviated the necessity of
all the others and given the people a
change of conditions. Besides that, not
a single bill called for a dollar of taxa
ton, dollar Of inGe6tendesS, or the
expenditure Of a dollar of our present
currency. Each and every bill called for
the creation of new money to be paid out
among the people to increase the volume
of currency and bring better times. How
different from the bills introduced by the
old parties. We have just returned from
going through the index of the bills for
the past two Congresses There were
bills introduced during these two Con-
crosses by members of the two old parties
for rivers and harbors, Confederate war
claims, Indian depreciation claims, and
for public buildings to create debt Of
more than So, 900, 900, 900. Had all these
bills been passed that were asked for, it
would have created bonded debt greater
than the one at the close of the war
i Every dollar of this would have been a
tax upon the people since not one of them
carried a section providing for the crea.
ton of the money for its payment. The
Populist bills would benefit the people,
increase prices, and bring better times,
while the other bills brought nothing but
debt and destruction. This howl about
Populist bills is simply blind and an
effort to side track the discussion of the
financial question. In the end it will dc
us great amount of good.
]. H. Turner Secretary of the Peoples
Party National Committee, located at
Washington, D. c., has made careful
overhauling of the bills introduced by
members of the old parties, and after
giving "details sums up the work in the
following totals:
Thirteen thousand bills introduced
by the DEMOCRATS and Republicans
during the sd and SD Congresses 6,S42, 125 55(
Senate bill 1917 by Palmer of ILL., 1865, 9Os go
Nicarauga Canal, by Morgan OF Ala. 100000, OO(
House bill s577, by Livingston of Ga 2S 54 600 OO(
House bill 1924 by Miller of Wis % 466, 600 OO(
Pacific Railroad bill 10000 OO(
Total 500, 74S ,O3l, 40
This catalogue of bills and the amounts
they called for, introduced by old party
members is made up from the Con.
gressional Record precisely in the same
manner that the Populist bills have been
catalogued for campaign purposes by both
old parties. Let the clumsy bamboozler
of the Whig publish and comment on
these figures if he wants to display that
Pecksniffian political honesty he so loves
| r.