The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-05-08
Hitting the Nail on the Head.


Mother Earth, and is the product
of labor.
That portion Of the productions
of labor not annually consumed is
added to the worlds stock of ac-
cumulated wealth.
Money is the agent for its trans
fer from one person to another.
When money is cornered some get
more than their share.
What this country needs is dol
lar bushel for wheat. Then every
thing else will go.
The farmer wants no man or set
of men, in this country or elsewhere.
to steal his bushel measure, make a
new one of double size, and forbid
him to use his old one in measuring
his grain.
The definition of sound money as
now understood is money that the
plain people never hear thesound of.
Great solicitude is manifested in
high places about the depreciation
of the currency. But what about
the depreciation of everything else?
The currency at best is not more
than three per cent of the entire
wealth of the country.
The man is a scamp who wants
to pay his debts with fifty-cent dol
lars. And he is another who wants
his debtors to pay him in appreci-
ated dollars. We do not believe
that either class exists, to any eX-
tent, in this country, outside of the
gold combine.
A gold dollar measured by itself
never fluctuates in value, but meas
ured by everything else in the
earth, on the earth, and in the
heavens above the earth, has gone
up more than double. And the
gold corner did it.
To help the gold corner it is told
everywhere that the product of gold
mines is increasing so that there
will be gold enough for money.
Any man who believes that will
believe anything. 1t is false!
Half price for farm products, two
prices for taxes and trust prices for
supplies, interest 2 per cent to spec
ulators and 6 per cent to producers,
is the music the farmer hears. And
the gold dance continues.
The corner in gold means dis
tressed farmers, bankrupt mer-
chants, idle manufacturers, enslav-
ed laborers and gorged money
pinchers.
The gold trust is the daddy of all
the other trusts.
God has done his best for this
country but the gold combine is
doing its worst.
We suppose you sent in your bid
for bonds Tired of boarding your
gold no doubt ? Did you get any ?
Of the nine million farmers in this
country, how many bonds did they
get?
We will give a twenty dollar gold
piece to the first one who furnishes
proof that single farmer in the
United States bought a 1000 gov
eminent bond the other day with
money made at farming since 1878.
Send in his name and the proof.
Bonds mean bondage and they
have no other meaning to the men
or nations who give them.
The corner in gold has knocked
all the value out of farm lands, for
there are few farms, for strictly
farming purposes, that will sell
to-day for what the improvements
cost. And the corner in gold
continues.
Prices will never be any better
while the gold corner lasts except
in spurts, but will steadily get
worse, just as they have been doing
for tenty years. The gold gamblers
can make them temporarily better
when it suits their purposes, and
can create a panic whenever it is
their interest to do so.
There are six hundred thousand
actual paupersi in England. Twenty
four per cent of the population are
out of employment, and the farmers
are on the verge of ruin. The
farmers are in distress in every
country in Europe. And the cor
ner in gold continues.