The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-05-24
The i" Silver Craze"

do not begin to understand the strength
of the silver sentiment of the Mississippi
Valley and of the silver States"
The Wall street bankers have been
pushing an earnest inquiry among the
banker of this section of country by letter,
and the following voices their hope, at
least, if not their belief:
"That, however, does not confirm the
information that some of the bankers and
financiers here get. Their correspondence
with business men in many of these
western cities convinces them that the
craze is a superficial one; that the silver
men are making all the noise, and that
perhaps the opponents of free silver feel
that it is prudent Just now not to be con-
spicuous in their opposition. 1t is this
correspondence which has led our fnan-
ciers and bankers to believe that the
craze will assume the same phases that
characterized the greenback excitement
of rs and '79, and will disappear just as
suddenly as that did"
This is the view the MIDLAND JOURNAL
pointed out last week that enemies of the
Peoples party hope most from, and that
by skillful use of the democrat party,
whose leaders are for free silver in free
silver sections and are gold monometal
lists in the gold bug sections and straddle-
bugs in "border state" territory, such as
Delaware and Maryland.
In the meantime Cleveland is using all
his influence as President to induce the
monarchies of the old world, or rather
the gold bankers of Germany, France
and England, to aid the money power of
this country ard England by calling
another conference to hold a further
international talk among the gold ring
monopoly about international bimetal-
lism. Germany appears to have been
persuaded by Cleveland to promote the
bamboozle by calling the conference"
This it is hoped will assist to halt the
steady march of the free coinage senti-
ment which threatens to carry all before
it within the next eighteen months and
completely wreck the shambling old
democrat party.
If the efforts making fail, another
compromise" something of the Bland
order will be attempted, and i'll case the
silver tide for free coinage proves too
strong to be resisted, free coinage will be
adopted and an order from Wall street
and the English Rothschilds will insure
the Presidents approval, if not by sign
ing the bill, by allowing it to become a
law by limitation.
Such step will be taken to draw off
the Bimetallist party from support of the
Peoples party and endeavor to disrupt it
as they did the greenback party, which
was accomplished by the Bland law.
The bimetallists are only separated from
the gold bug money monopoly of the
world by thin line. both believing in
what they call primary money! the
addition of silver to gold, silver to be
made equal in every respect to gold. This
accomplished all of the silver mine class
would join heartily with the gold bug
Rothschild gang to shut off all govern
ment currency of legal tender class and
make all paper money ''redeemable" in
gold and silver coin. This is the law at
present of the United States, but both old
parties have violated it, and have steadily
refused to pay silver out of the Treasury,
hoping to force the gold standard by a
special act of congress, and secure the
Lott aF Iy,,ifa1 M
by the Rothschilds of the Bank of Eng
land. If the determined march of the
| free coinage sentiment shows that it is
too strong to be defeated by the yellow
bellied party under Cleveland and the
republican leaders, a compromise on the
bimetallic line will be agreed to and an
effort made to overthrow the function of
legal tender money lodged in the federal
government, through the Supreme court
which is now tool in the hands of the
money power, as their decisions OH the
income tax law too plainly show.
Such movement OIL the part of the
enemy would literally break up the
Peoples party if the policy of some of its
leaders were adopted, of dropping all but
the money plank-or what is virtually
the same thing, saying no more about
them-and that plank given over to the
direction and control of the bimetallic
party who are now taking the leading
part i'll the money question, When they
have forced the yellow beilied hosts of
Rothschild to accept their demands as
they are certain to do, then the vital
planks of the Omaha platform will be the
hope of humanity, which are legal tender,
transportation, telegraph and land The
government must reclaim the franchises
involving the control of these or the
banking and corporation power over the
government will remain as strong as
ever. There could not be graver mis-
take In leadership judgment than the
attempt to leave these vital parts of the
Peoples party, or in truth the reform
movement behind, nnoticed-ignored-
with real or pretended reason of taking
them up when the money question is set
tied. That question cannot be settled by
the establishment of silver free coinage
and this fact should be kept before the