Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-24
upon the whole trio crossing the plate.
And still the merry war goes merrily
A Specimen Of Rot.
on.

Look out now for attempts of the gold
standard leaders to bring on panic
Already they are setting the endless
chain in operation again and depicting
the gold reserve which they have
brought well below the 500, 900, COO mark.
Nothing is to be left undone which the
money oligarchy believes will help to
alarm the country and throw it into
confusion and panic. Just now, while
the exodus of gold standard Democrats
in the East is in progress. these gold
molochs are resting comparatively quiet,
but once the campaign is on and the
multitude is aroused by the eloquence
and energy of the Democratic leader
and his aids, we shall see the money
power show it's hand. Therefore. we say
now to the readers of this journal: do
not be alarmed or deceived; if there is
any serious disturbance of business. if
a raid upon the treasury is made, and
if Mr.. Cleveland issues more bonds and
piles up more debts. bear in mind that
it is all part of a prearranged plan.
deliberate purpose conceived in the mon
ey centers of Great Britain and this
country, to brighten the people of the
latter into pronouncing for Mckinley
and the gold standard -Biddeford
Times Gree Silver)
The above deserves the notice OF
the intelligent reader, only as a speci-
men of what is commonly known as
rot" We have respect for honest
convictions, however much they diff
fer from ours. But we think it will
generally be agreed that any publca-
ton admitting such stuff as the above
to its columns and honestly subscrib-
ing thereto is,-well, is in a very bad
way to say the least, and one using it
with view solely to exciting preju-
dice, stimulating ignorance and giving
currency to falsehood deserves the
the contempt of those it would make
it's dupes, and we think will get it,
For how many people in this land of
common schools are to believe that
President Cleveland the Republican
party and the bankers have Joined
hands to increase the bonded debt of
the country, create "a serious dis
turbance of business bring on a
panic?' Has no one in the Republican
party anything to lose by IA panic o.
Have those who constitute. what the
Times is pleased to term the money
power" nothing to lose by "a panic p"
And how is another panic and bond
issue a holm fhn Ion1Ib1ioanc
ioally? Have not the free silverites
referred with glee to every bond sale
as an argument for free silver, and do
they not propose to pay those bonds
in fifty-cent dollar? Did not their
representatives in Congress vote
against any measure whereby revenue
might be equal to expense and bond
sales be averted, as they knew they
would be with sufficient revenue and
as they were during a Republican ad-
ministration when there We're plenty
of revenues? Everyone who has read
the proceedings of Congress knows
they did. If another bond issue must
be had 1t VIII be because the free silver
senators defeated the revenue measure
| of relief in the Senate, aided by the
declaration of the administration that
| revenues would increase and equal ex-
penditure, a prediction now proven
erroneous. And yet, now, free silver
| organ tells it's readers that it is IA pre-
| arranged plan,'"a deliberate purpose
of the money centers of Great Britain
and Grover Cleveland to help elect
| Mckinley. Mckinley, the man whom
the Times would have us believe
Great Britain and Grover Cleveland
want to have made President, Can
anything more absurd be conceived
We think not. Indeed it is all so silly
that we should not have referred to it