The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-09-25
Carlisle Throws off the flask.

D1ne was TO QeDaSe the silver dollar
and every other form of money eX-
, cept gold to mere token money, and
leave the whole wealth and pro-
ducts of the country to be measured
by the narrow and contracting gold
standard. Since the Chicago con-
vention the democrats have joined
the Peoples party in making this
charge. But during all this time
Cleveland, Sherman, and all of the
lesser goldites have bitterly resented
the charge, and denounced it as
false. Even no later than last
spring Secretary Carlisle gave out
an official statement to the effect
that the government was bound to
redeem the greenbacks in gold, in
as much rs they were not a full
legal tender, but that silver certifi-
Gates were to be redeemed in silver
dollars, and that silver dollars being
a full legal tender, were not redeem
able in anything. 1t should also
be remembered in this connection
that two months after Carlisle was
made Secretary of the Treasury, he
stated that he would redeem green
backs in either gold or silver at the
option of the government, and that
he would also pay out silver when
it was most convenient on bonds
and other coin obligations of the
government, according to the letter
of the contract. But Cleveland,
fisherman and the gold men forced
him to retract this statement, and
to pay out nothing but gold on
bonds and to redeem greenbacks in
gold. This was what caused the
bond issues. The bond holder
would gather up greenbacks and go
to the Treasury Department and
demand gold. The Treasury De-
partment had plenty of silver, but
no gold. Therefore, they would
issue bonds to buy gold. By this
means the gold men were able to
force the issue of bonds as fast as
they could gather up this currency
and demand the gold from the
Treasury. Now these Shylocks
have forced Carlisle to agree to
even redeem silver dollars in gold.
This will enable the bond holder to
take silver dollars to the Treasury,
call on the Treasurer to issue bonds
; to get the gold to redeem them, and
by this means can force the govern
ment to issue a thousand millions
of bonds in one year-not force the
government, for the law says that
the government can pay in silver,
but rather give the faithless govern
l ment officials an opportunity to rob
the people for the benefit of the
Shylocks and the bond holders. No
one expected that the officers Of the
government would thus boldly defy
the law to complete this conspiracy.
The fear was that they would get
3 control of Congress and pass a law
5 without the people knowing it
5 which would give the officials this
power. This is the boldest and
) most brazen defiance of law and
solemn oath of Office that the officers
of any government have ever been
guilty of. This has been done on
the order of the Rothschilds, the
same men who are to-day backing
I Mckinley; and if Mckinley is
elected President John Sherman
9 will be made Secretary of the Treas
g ury, and the same infamous and
: treacherous robbery will be carried
: on. In short, the election OF
l Mckinley means four more years
l of Clevelandism, and, besides, the
1 preparation of any new crimes and
deviltry that monOpolists and the
1 gold trust can conceive of during
that time. Let the voters remem-
Der that those who have gathered
into their pockets the millions OF
wealth made by the people during
the last twenty years are those who
: are fighting free silver in this cam
j. paign and have allied themselves
Z solidly on the side of Mckinley and
: the ruinous gold policy.
n The assertion which Mckinley makes
7 and which John Sherman and most other
: Republican leaders sustain, that the
trouble has been due to too small a
. revenue, is i'll fact a confession that they