The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-03-01
They Fear an Extra Session,


AS the session of the Fifty-third Con.
gress approaches its close and the repub-
lican party must assume control, take up
responsibility and answer to a public
more on the qui 0i0e than ever before,
the leaders of the party quake with
fear. There is CONSERVATION in the
palace of Belshazzer. They know, if the
public does not, that the party is at the
end of its tether. They offer nothing and
have nothing to offer which the people
have not Enthusiastically condemned and
rejected. The democrats being in control
have had to bear the peoples condemna-
ton. Soon the public will shift its atten-
ton and criticism to the republican party,
and with jealous inquiry demand meas
ures other than the party leaders have
offered or even limited at They have
suggested nothing better than more bonds.
The democratic congress has offered
nothing but that and the people spurn
the offer with constantly increasing
anger.
The republican leaders appear to en-
terrain kind of infant hope that some
little additional increase to few of the
tariff schedules would serve to increase
the revenue and all would be we'll. They
know, and the public know, this is only
the hope of drowning man grasping at
Tho ortx, Il, i
trembling at the near approach of an
extra session, and talks of compromise"
with the "silver men" and the issue of a
hybrid greenback which they call "debt
certificate redeemable in almost any,
thing, short time in the future. Sher-
man has suggested it; German has offered
it. Whatever is offered as temporary
expedient to stave off the evil hour little
longer must be an evidence of debt and
bearing interest. Nothing resembling
money must pass into the hands of the
people that does not draw interest, but
gold, and gold cannot because it is all
owned by the debt holding fraternity.
The greenback they call a debt"
issued by the people to themselves, but it
draws no interest, and the money arts
tocracy hate it and are bending every
energy to destroy it. In its place the
banks could loan wind and draw interest
on that, they cannot draw interest on the
greenback and they hate it 1t is money.
The republican party has no policy they
dare proclaim, more than the democrat.
They have witnessed the latter's fate
wien put to the test. 1t has gone to
pieces like wreck on the rocks, and the
party leaders of the republican party
stand aghast in sight of this peril, shrink
from the prospect of an extra session and
its inevitable consequence. The policy
OF the republican party has come to the
end OF the voyage and the pirates are the
only gamers. They have steered the
ship OF state on the rocks, wrecked and
plundered it, while the crew is struggling
to escape
The republican party is coming OH the
stage III the next congress with nothing
to offer the indignant people and they
wish to defer their fate till after the next
election by escaping all extra session
We hope they will not, but be brought
before the bar of public opinion to answer
and their doom is certain. The fate OF
the ante-bellum Wing and Democrat
parties awaits our two old fossilized
parties. They have nothing to offer the
people whose demands can no longer be
evaded or postponed. Make way for the