The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-10-09

Mr.. Smith told his audience with an
earnest face and emphatic tone and ges.
ture that our silver dollars, $3.50, 600, 900,
had returned to the Treasury and could
not be got out into circulation. The
metal was never in circulation. Under
the Bland act the government purchased
enough silver to coin 1000, 900 month
aud paid for it in silver certificates, and
under the Sherman law passed in 1890 the
Secretary of the Treasury purchased
a, 500, 900 ounces of silver monthly and
paid for the silver bullion in legal tender
Treasury notes, so that all of that silver is
in circulation by its representative paper
for the amount it cost.
Mr.. Smith did not explain this but
strove to deceive and mislead his audience
A cause is rotten to the core which re-
quires such subterfuge, direct and indirect
Misrepresentation. Besides this humbug
and demagogue talk on silver there was a
great deal more regarning the ability of
the U. S government to increase value by
act of1egislation and raise the price of
silver bullion to a parity of the coined
money at $I.2e per ounce, all of which
has been explained and clearly proven so
often thai every one ought to know it "by
heart" and we will not go over it here
again. The facts are as plain as a turn
pike. If the Rising Sun goldbug club
don't believe it let them accept the chal-
lenge of the Rising Sun Bryan Free Sill
yer Club, and we will try and teach them.
The great prosperity wave which struck
this country and came so near smother
ing us in 1892 that we have not yet re-
covered, was dwelt on with painful earn
estness by Mr.. Smith. This is a stock
argument with all the goldbug platform
orators. The MIDLAND JOURNAL exam-
ined that unparalleled and unexampled
prosperity" of 1892 in a former issue.
Who got and have the results ofthat pros
porous era which reached its flood in 1892?
The people who produced it. if it was pro-
duced, never knew of it and haven't got a
uOlldI vi II. lucy I'LL iiSu I1dli iSOA anu
the republican party out of power that
year because times were so hard. Wheat
sold for 81 cts. a bushel in 1892. 1t sold
for SO cents in 'eI, 1920 failures were
recorded with liabilities over one hundred
and eight millions ofdollars. There were
100 strikes by laborers fighting to prevent
their wages being cut down, while farms
were sold by mortgages by thousands
that same prosperous year. What aren't
humbug these goldbug hireling orators do
try to cram down the Threats of the
people.
Judge Tourgees speech was reminder that
"The Fool on FOOLS Errand' had come to the
Sun as he went to North Carolina on similar
GRAND. His speech was balderdash and flap
doodle, and dear at the good supper his hosptt-
able host and hostess served him.
There was plenty of brag of what they were
going to do in November and stock abuse of the |
poor, plain people and their candidate who are
carrying the silver cause to victory, and brass
music ribbon badges and uniformed torch boys, |
but no argument, no facts against silver and no |
votes made. The Bryan men cannot be canght by |
that kind of chaff. The great circus is over and |
Mark Hanna IS bar'l lowered by so much, and not |
a goldbug vote made