The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-03-01
The Money Conspiracy.

The people felt the state of affairs that
now torrents the country approaching,
during the Harrison administration, and
in order to avert it upset the republican
party, and i'll their desperate straits, Sc
lected the democrat party, as people are
inclined to try any experiment when
confronted by difficulties they don't
clearly understand. The democrat lead
ers seeing their opportunity to gain power
and office promised anything and every
thing which the public discomfort sug-
gested, and the management of public
affairs was placed in their hands. The
party with Cleveland at its head had
scarcely taken the reins in hand before
discriminating people saw that from the
President down, the party had no definite
plan in view, and that Cleveland was
thoroughly untitled for the exalted and
responsible position he had accidentally
reached through a combination of cir
cumstances such as frequently occurs in
the affairs of nations
What the President lacked in states
manship, was abundantly supplied in
egotism and stubbornness. Being wholly
wanting i'll statecraft training he attempt
ed to continue OH the lines which the
republicans had occupied for the past
thirty years, and which, as they approach
ed their eliminating point, caused the
universal discomfort and hard times
among the people. The President and
his party being but poorly equipped in
the knowledge of government affairs soon
found themselves in a sorry mux in
attempting to take up measures where
the last administration had laid them
down aud carry out the same line of
policy.
Before retiring from office President
Harrison's Secretary of the Treasury,
Charles Foster, had prepared plates for
an issue of bonds, but the President COIL
Guided not to issue them, but to turn over
the control to the incoming administra-
ton with all its responsibilities, the foul
growth of three decades. The conditions
which turned Harrison and his party out
and put Cleveland and his party in, have
continued without a break, and would
have been just as we find them now had
Mr.. Harrison and his party been con-
tinued. The Mckinley tariff would have
been as powerless to furnish revenue as
the Wilson or German tariff is Poverty
and the fall of prices were blighting the
power of the country to purchase, and to
was about resorting to an issue of bonds.
This purpose was carried out by Cleveland
after potteriug several months, uncertain
what to do.
The extravagant appropriations made
by congress, adopted by Harrison to get
the surplus out of the treasury, like bad
habits once fallen into are hard to reform,
have been kept up by every congress
since. The spendthrift extravaganza on
one hand and the diminishing ability of
the people to furnish taxes for such reck-
less waste, has brought the Treasury to
its present pitiable plight, and Cleveland
and his party know only the methods of
bad manager, mortgage the estate for
present emergencies.
The fly back to the old party which
was discarded and whose policy has been
continued by Cleveland will not remedy
matters, which will grow worse under
two years of republican rule in congress
and Cleveland ineficiency and mulish-
ness in the executive branch.
In the mean time the bankers are
moving earth, and would move heaven if
they were permitted to approach that
sacred place, i'll order to consolidate and
secure more complete power over govern
ment and people. The liberties of the
people are on trial as never before, and
the situation is made all the more perlous
by public oblivion to the extent of the
danger at hand. To load an enormous
debt on the people and bind them by
laws which gather grinding tax from
them to fill the pockets of an idle, schem-
ing heartless monied aristocracy, is the
conspiracy to which our incompetent
President is being made cats paw for
concentrating