The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-03-20

insist upon this policy as be as good as any other
especially necessary for We commend the wise
the protection of theIand patriotic steps
farmers and laboring already taken by the
classes the first and most government to secure an
defenseess victims ofinternational conference
unstable money andIto adopt such measures
huctuating currency. as will insure Il parity of
value between gold and
silver for use as money
Throughout the world.
Well, have you determined (Which is
which ?" Can't tell them apart? Think
they are twins and the nurse has changed
their clothes. Being unable to tell them
apart can you explain what they mean?
Are they in favor of free coinage of silver
or against it? Are they in favor of gold
or silver, or both !? Can't say. Both rid
dies. In the Presidential campaign of
1892, in the Western States the speakers
and newspapers of both parties declared
to the people they meant free coinage of
silver. In the East they as stoutly
affirmed they meant monometallism and
gold standard. Three years of practical
experience have satisfied everybody they
meant Rothschild and Wall street dicta-
ton for the financial policy ofthe country
for both parties, with Cleveland answer
ing for the democrat party, little in adj
vance of John Sherman, agent for the
Rothschild policy and spokesman for the
republican party, and all the daily papers
crying, Away with silver Long live
gold /" No one remains in doubt about
the financial policy of the old parties,
and how they have construed the above
"planks."
The other day republican party State
convention was held in Ohio to start
Mckinley in the Presidential race for
1896, and the following is the money
plank constructed by the convention, on
which Mckinley is seated astraddle.
Compare it with the above "planks" of
the platforms of 1892 and see if you can
find any difference:
eve contend for honest money, for
currency of gold, silver and paper, with
which to measure our exchange that shall
be as sound as the Government and as
untarnished as its honor; and to that end
of both gold and silver as standard money,
either in accordance with a ratio to be
fixed by an international agreement, if
that can be obtained, or under such re-
strictions and such provisions to be de-
termined by legislation as will secure the
maintenance of the PARTIES of values of
the two metals, so that the purchasing
and debt-paying power of the dollar,
whether of silver, gold or paper, shall be
at all times equal"
Did you ever see greater straddle?
What does this rigmarole of words mean
Nothing but to cheat and deceive the
people as they were deceived in 1892.
In vain the fowler lays his net in sight of
the bird. You cannot deceive a bird or
rat if the trap is placed in sight. or by the
same trick twice. But the human biped
has less natural sense than either, and
the republican party proposes to set the
old trap of go for him in 90, and the
Mckinley convention has started the
hunt.
The daily, Rothschild-Wall street
papers have been bowling down silver
and baying up gold till the people can't
sleep for their noise, and the foremost
one of the pack of the Rothschild kennel,
the Philadelphia Press, makes this at
tempt to swallow the Mckinley plank.
The grimmaces and gagging in the at
tempt are amusing to say the least. while
the rascality that shines the whole bus
mess is most disgusting. The Press
comments:
"Mr Mckinley has been accused of
being unduly friendly to silver, but the
Ohio plank adopted yesterday, though
not in the most desirable form, is essen
TALLY sound. 1t is conservative and con-
ciliatory, and though one of the condi-
tons which it suggests for the joint use
of gold and silver as standard money is
impossible of realization, the vital point
is kept in view and made prominent that
gold and silver money must both be i'll
use and kept on a parity. So long as leg
islators recognize the necessity of keep
ing our currency on par with itself i'll
all its forms and on par with the best in
the world they will not go far wrong.
''The Ohio silver plank would have
been improved if it had avoided the sug-
gestion of the possibility of having free
coinage in this country save with inter-
national cooperation With the quail
fcations annexed, however, it is directly
onDoSed to the free coinage aims of the