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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-10-29
Friday, Oct. 20, 1897.
A Sign of the Times.

1t is an undeniable fact, sorrowful in
more senses than one, that of all those
who have died apparently wealthy in this
country, during the past two or three
years, but comparatively few have left
solvent estates. This indicates in an un-
mistakable way that of those now living
in apparent comfort but few are really
"well to do" if the debts were paid. And
this deplorable state of affairs is an
object lesson that should not be disre-
garded by our people, showing conclus-
lively that if the present foreign gold
policy shall continue in this country few
years longer, most of those now compar-
atively comfortable will not be worth a
button" and the whole former middle
class will be reduced to a low pauper
level and the most degraded slavery
The P0bnliSt Banner.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-10-29

DeWitt's Little Early Risers,
The famous little pills.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-10-29
A Judicial Ass.

The records of the. day show what a
veritable set of asses are getting under the
erinine. Two bicyclists who were riding
a tandem wheel in New Jersey or Sunday
were run into by wagon and their wheel
broken. The cyclers brought suit in the
county court for 500 damage. The judge
decided as they were riding on Sunday
for pleasure there was no law in New
Jersey protecting lawbreakers and that
riding a bicycle on Sunday was against
the law Had the riders been in car
riage drawn by horse aud driving for
pleasure and the wagon through criminal
carelessness had run into and broken
their carriage the complainants would
have been awarded damages. Or had
they been walking for pleasure and sus-
tanned injury from the same cause the
wagner who ran into them would have
been mulct for damage sustained. Yet a
wooden headed judge singles out the
bicycle as the repository of lawlessness,
and not the intelligent riders in the car
riage or pedestrians, but the inanimate
bicycle. Verify, the ass knoweth his
masters stall, but does this New Jersey
judicial ass know as much?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-10-29
Paying Off Farm Mortgages.

Our farmers, even the most favored
with bountiful wheat crops, have not had
money to reduce their Indebtedness by
the great sums of which we are told.
Thus we were told of the farmers of Ne
braska paying off millions of mortgages.
Millions of mortgages have indeed been
cancelled by the mortgage companies
foreclosing the mortgages. On investi-
CATION we find that more new mortgages
have been made in Nebraska during the
present year than have been paid off.
The mortgage Indebtedness of Nebraska
is $4,000 greater today than it was a
year ago. So we see there has been no
reduction of farm Indebtedness i'll Ne
braska, save by foreclosures. And reduc-
ton of Indebtedness in this way indicates
anything but farming prosperity
Wharton Bakers american.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-10-29
The Business Panorama.

From Mondays Philadelphia Press of
the previous weeks trade review:
"There was no sign iu the market of
demand from the narrow and special or
the larger and general public. Bond
transactions are mot active. General
business, as measured by clearings, is less
large than month ago. In addition the
comparison with 1892 is beginning to be-
come illusory, because by this time in
1892 the shadow of President Cleveland
election had begun to chill trade. AS it
is, the aggregate of clearings is S per
cent less than in 1892. Currency has also
begun to return from the interior Loans
are decreasing in the New York banks.
With the exception of wheat the general
tendency of prices for the staples is down.
ward and both cotton and print cloths
made last night sank to the lowest point
on record"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-10-29
Germans Letter.

That the Baltimore SIN is and has been
doing all i'll its power for the gold ring is
no secret, and whoever supports the gold
lite cause supports the Republican party is
equally clear, but that Germans letter to
Abel was heroic vindication and an
unparalleled act of self denial is about the
blankest folly on the part of those who
attempt to defend and characterize it as
such, that 1t is possible to conceive. No
man protesting to be statesman ever
before published such a contemplate
"baby act" apology for injured innocence.
In point of political honesty and con-
sistency the SIN is not whit better than
German. All these facts sustain our con-
tention that the party should have taken
the advanced aggressive position which
the Chicago platform placed it on, and
German, if he had been honest would
have done so. Honesty in this cam
paign in Maryland would, as ever, have
been the best policy. The candidates as
it is have nothing to stand on; they are
handicapped, and have to assume if they
make any defense at all, that German is
for bimetallism. If that is true why does
he take so much pains to conceal the fact,
while his friends are endeavoring to up
hold his caHse by claiming to champion
silver.
When German is driven to the brink of
despair by the goldbug organ of Balti-
more bringing up his past sins and charg-
ing him with being i'll favor of silver, he
cries ont like Cain that his sins are too
heavy to bear, and appeals TO the goldbug
organ to take them off his shoulders
denying that he is in favor of silver by
quoting his labors in favor of the repeal
of the Sherman law, thus turning down
the claim his candidates for the legisla-
ture make for him.
Both honesty and policy demanded
that German should have declared in his
Abell-Sun letter his position on the money
question, but he says not a word. That
was really all he could say, that was left
him to say which his friends wanted to
hear but he avoids it. All the political
chicanery he is charged with by the Sun
everybody knows is true, and his whimp-
ering and stage heroics by turns in his
letter amount to nothing, Is he on the
straight Democratic party Bryan BIZ
metallism side? That's what the people
want to know, Senator German, and you
open not your mouth to answer. Your
letter writes you down political fraud,
but that is not new.
If there should be majority of the
party elected to the legislature we trust
that majority will have manhood enough
to insist on conforming TO the law and
elect sound silver Senator from the
Eastern Shore Mr.. German in his
gushing benificence offers Mr. Abel the
party who refuses the gif, Let him offer
the party Senator from the Eastern
Shore with no faint of "goid standard"
about him and the people will rise up
and call him blessed. If Mr. German has
power to turn the party over to Mr.. Abel
lie has power to give it true 10 10 I
silver Senator.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-10-29
"Prepare Your Tickets :"

The yellow sample ballots have been
posted for several days for the purpose Of
giving the voters an opportunity to make
mp the ticket they desire to vote next
Tuesday. There are seven tickets on the
ballot. Beginning at the left hand side
they are arranged as follows Republican
with emblem at the top, picture of Lin
coin; Democratic, emblem, hickory tree;
Prohibition, Washington and the national
flag; Social Labor, uplifted arm with
hammer, blank space without emblem or
names, write what you please: sixth and
seventh ballots For Constitutional
Amendments" against Constitutional
Amendment" The following is the
Article:
CHAPTER 459, OF ACTS OF 1896.
AN ACT to amend the Constitution of the State by
adding an additional Section to Article XIV
thereof to be known as Section IL of said Ar
ticle, as follows:
H. Appointments in the Civil Service of the
State, in the municipalities and counties OF the
State shall be made according to merit and tit
ness, to be ascertained as far as practicable by
examination, which shall be competitive, except
appointments which are subject to confirmation
by the Senate and the General Assembly shall
pass all such laws as may be necessary more fully
to carry in to effect the provisions of this section
Vote "for" it and see to it that the
legislature enacts a law to give it force.
which specifies the term of Office, and the
incumbent shall be declared ineligible for
the next term, as the Office of Sheriff is
now restricted to a single term. That
prevents all electioneering for contin-
nous term. And all offices should be
made salaried offices and the cd abuse OF
fees abolished.
The next amendment to the Constitu-
ton of the State should be an Article
introducing the Initiative and Referen-
dunn. With that safeguard the legis ature
would be prevented from selling out 10
the lobby, and the people be made tier
own lawmakers.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-10-29
rIcKinIey BimetalliSm.

Thank the Lord The bimetal inter
national conference, the grand back
action, double.jointed humbug of the
Republican party which has stood them,
for 10 these many years as little joker
in their bimetal pretense before the peo-
pie, has been run to earth. The British
government has sent Senator Wolcott
and his commission back to Mr.. McKin-
ley with flea in their ear. Honest
Americans can now give thanks that this
Gisgraceful farce of soliciting the govern
ments of Europe, and especially that Of
Great Britain, to consent that the United
States might coin its own silver into much
needed dollars, is forever ended. The
disgrace to the American people, that
this financial, so-called, policy of the
Republican party cannot be measured or
properly characterized 1t has helped
more than any or all other causes to be-
little the influence Of the American nation
among the powers of the world,
This last effort i'll that line by President
Mckinley was the most cowardly piece of
hypocracy ever attempted by an Amer
lean President. His excuse was that the
ST. Louis platform pledged the party to
further effort to secure all international
conference to negotiate concerning the
matter of restoring silver 10 free coinage.
AS soon as his :Wocott commission had
crossed the water the President COM
menced writing message to Congress
asking authority to appoint com-
mittee to formulate monetary system
for the country, which he did not
transmit to Congress till too late to be
acted upon. He had, prior to this, select
ed Mr.. Gage, one of the most stalwart
goldbug bankers in the country, to act as
Secretary of the Treasury. Mr.. Gage at
once commenced giving out interviews in
favor of the gold standard and against
silver RECOMMENDATION at any ratio or in
any manner whatever, except as merely
subsidiary coin.
As if to publish to the world and make
the Administrators anti-silver policy
more emphatic and pro gold policy more
pronounced, the committee appointed by
the Indianapolis Convention, gathering
of goldbug Tories, proceeded to appoint a
committee of II straight gold bugs, which
committee is now sitting with closed
doors in Washington formulating a plan
to lay before Congress.
All of this open and secret hypocracy
has been prompted and aided by Mr..
Mckinley and his most influential official
friends and advisers, and in plain view of
the European cabinets, while his Wolcott
commission was begging them to agree
to some plan for an international mon
etary conference ~
Our President is showing his weak,
vascilating moral cowardice, not only in
his monetary policy, or rather lack of
policy, but his course in Cuban affairs has
been no more American than Clevelands,
who succeeded in exciting the contempt
and indignation of all classes of Amer
leans, and only the praise Of small band
of goldbug Tories who admire everything
Eugwlish you nav
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-10-29

A line of Dry Goods.
Ladies' Shoes csc, a specially, in all
sizes. Children's and Mems Shoes.
Readymade Dresses, Skirts, Wrappers,
Silk and Shirt Waists, Children's Wear
aud underwear of all kinds.
Lawn, Plaid and Lancaster Ginghams.
Mems toyeralls Fand Working iShirts
very cheap and of good quality
Oil Cloth-good article and low down
in price.
tours very truly,
b p NICHOLS.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-10-29
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve
Cures Piles, ScaIds, Burns.

One Minute Cough Cure, cures.
That is what IL was made for,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-10-29
The Southern Railway.
ms TRACKS GRIDIRoN THE sOUTl

If you are going to any point in the
South, Southwest, Mexico or California,
ask for a ticket via the Southern Rail
way. If reaches all prominent points. All
information cheerfully furnished by Jno.
NJ. Beall, District Pass Agent, SIS Chest
nut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-10-29
Reg- Bon Ton Syrup and White Lily

Rsg@ Bon Ton Syrup and White Lily
Drips lead i'll syrups.
Coffee in packages-our Santos isa fine
coffee. Old Govt Java Ill stock. Green
Coffee, Teas and Spices.
City Sugar Cured Skinned Hams and
Breakfast Bacon, very fine.
Our own Lard.
Cabbages, Potatoes and Vegetables
2oo-1b. full weight Ground Alum Salt,
by the sack or bushel.
Woodenware, Willow-ware, Queens
ware, Agateware, sc.
Lowney's Fancy Mixtures in 4 and Z
ib. boxes, just received.
Fresh Pork, Lard, Sausage and Scrapple.
Cor. Queen & Cherry SITS,
Rising sun, Nd
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-10-29

Small pill, safe pill, best pill. DeWitt's
Little Early Risers cure biliousness, con-
stipation, sick headache. Eli T. Reynolds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-10-29
WORTHINGTON'S,

Inc season for heavier underwear better shoes and
ruooers has struck us suddenly while are casting
ABOUT to replensh in these lines hesitation in
saying 1--WE have what you want The whole line of I'm
aer%ear now In and everything prepared heavy winter
trade-Mens Ladies' and Childrens
Boots and Shoes have mostly arrived, and profit
Ing by past experience have dropped everything that has
given us trouble heretofore and retained the best More
Ladies' and Misses to arrive his week.
NEW NOVELTIES IN DRESS GooDs-A special 25 cent line
are extra good value.
we have the agency for of the largest New York
LADIES Cloak houses. Cloth samples the $50 diff
eren styles and qualities Ladies' and Chirens Coats and
Capes ~
you want Flour equal to the try Golden link
Finest Groceries usual.
EDW. II. WORTHINCTON,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-05

appeals both to our business neces-
sites and the patriotic aspirations
of a great people
OUR FINANCIAL POLICY.
1t has been the policy of the
United States since the foundation
of the government to cultivate rela-
tons of peace and amity with all
the nations of the world, and this
accords with my conception to
oEr duty now. We have cherished
the policy of non-interference with
the affairs OF foreign governments,
wisely inaugurated by Washington.
keeping ourselves free from en-
tanglement, either as allies or foes.
content to leave undisturbed with
them the settlement of their own
domestic concerns II will be our
aim TO pursue a firm and dignified
foreign policy which snail be juss,
impartial, ever watchful of our
national honor and always insisting
upon the enforcement of the law
for the rights of American citizens
everywhere. We want no wars of
conquest; we must avoid the tempt
alton of territorial aggression. 4
war should never be entered upon
until every agency of peace has
@NAASN, POe1cC ID III CAC1 AUG ~ Ne-l III
almost every contingency. Arbitra-
ton is the true method of settle-
ment of international as well as
local or individual differences. 1t
was recognized as the best means
of adjustment of differences be-
tween employers and employees by
the 49th congress. in 1886, and its
application will be extended to our
diplomatic relations by the unani-
nous concurrence of the senate and
house of the 51st congress in 1890.
The later resolution was accepted
as the basis of negotiations with
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-05

Then came the committee on ar
engagements and next President Cleve-
land and President-elect McKinlev.
Following these the other occupants
OF the senate chamber, headed by
Vice-President Stevenson and the sem
ators, reached the platform and were
seated.
THE OATH OF OFFICE.
The first feature of the ceremonial
was the administration of the oath OF
office. The Bible was an immense at
fair, weighing fully 20 pounds. 1t was
a magnificent specimen of the typo
graphic and bookbinders' arts, bound
in flexible covers of black seal. In one
of the lids was inserted a silver plate
inscribed William Mckinley, President
of the United States, Inaugurated
March 4. 1897"
The tumult was so great that the
voices of the chief justice and presi-
dent being wholly inaudible to those
within a few feet of them.
When he arose to read his inaugural
address, there was a great cheer, but
when it subsidized the crush and tumult
of the restless, moving crowd were so
great that it was still impossible to
hear a word.
In the midst of the confusion Presi-
dent Mckinley read his address, stand
ing with barred head.
The strained relations between the
United States and Spain growing out of
the rebellion in Cuba made Mr.. Nc
Kinley utteranceS on the subject or
our foreign relations of especial sig
nificance. Naturally the most inter-
ested member of the corps was the
Spanish minister. Mr.. Dupuy De LONE.
When Mr.. Mckinley arose to speak
he faced an audience that filled the
broad esplanade for B street on the
south to B street on the north and
stretched eastward like a human tor
rent, until it broke against the white
walls of the beautiful congressional
library building in the rear.
Mckinley read his speech from man
uscript. His hat rested by his side,
his head was thrown back, as is
usual with him when speaking earn
eStly, and his fine face. smooth-Shaven
and intelligent. stood out with silhoutte
distinctness against the background
formed by the massive capitol build
ing He was dressed in dark colors
and wore the badge presented to him
yesterday by Postmaster General Will
son at the request of the Sigma AL
pha Epsilon, the college fraternity of
which the president is a member.
Toward the close of the reading of
the address the commotion in the
crowd stilled and Mr. .McKinley's clear.
ringing voice, which has lost none of
it's resonant quality since he was last
in Washington, penetrated to great
distance from where he stood. His
patriotic declaration that the institu-
tons of the country must be preserved
and the law of the land everywhere
recognized and obeyed evoked great
cheering. The most enthusiastic re-
ception was given to the assertion that
in our foreign policy the recognition
of the utmost rights of American citi-
zens would be insisted upon. Equal
almost was the pleasure expressed at
the announcement that he would con-
vene congress in special session on
Monday. the 18th of March, only ten
days distant.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-05

Washington, d c.. March 4-William
Mckinley OF Ohio, at 20 minutes past
I o'clock today, succeeded Grover
Cleveland as president of the United
States. when ne was sworn to preserve.
protect and defend the constitution.
Before an assemblage Of fellow citizens
as representatives of American man.
hood and womanhood as great as ever
greeted any previous chief magistrate.
and as great in numbers as the accom-
modations would permit the fourth son
of the state Of Ohio TO occupy the high
office became the head of nation of
100000 people.
The day broke bright, clear and crisp.
The memories of the last two inaugur-
arion days were sufficient to cause
worry TO anybody with more than a
passing interest in the success Of
Washington's quadrennial show, and
that yesterdays rain caused worry goes
without saying.
But there have been inaugural days
that have come down from generations
past as wonderfully beautiful with
regard to weather conditions. Such
days have been in the minority, for
March is not the pleasantest month IN
the year, even in balmy Washington.
GOLDBUG BADGES.
This morning a few clouds were in
the sky, but they were clouds of the
sort that precurse nothing disagreed
BILE The newsboys were the first to
awaken the town into activity and
they We're soon augmented by the
badge fakirs, selling goldbug badges,
and the gilt-capped men who sold OFF,
cial programmes
Between 6 and : o'clock. however,
the streets and avenues in the central
part of the city became alive with hu-
man activity. Enterprising exhibition
lists who arrived late yesterday or in
the small hours Of the morning ana
who feared for their chances OF viewing
the White House, wandered through
the grounds surrounding the historic
mansion before the sun was well above
the horizon.
BY 9 o'clock the sun came out full
and strong and served to temper the
slight chill of the atmosphere. Penn
svlvania avenue was Of course, the
center resort of the early sisht-seers.
They walked along the broad. pave
snlents. congratulating themselves and
frcnuaintances on the perfect day that
had been given for the occasion. 1t
was Just cool enough to make a light
overcoat comfortable
IT was after 8 O'Clock before the first
blare of trumpets reminded the people
that the military parade would shortly
By ; o'clock "the avenue" as the
broad hiShway is best known, was
pretty Well crowded
EARLY SCENES.
People had begun to take positions
along the curbs and to bank up at par
ticular points of vantage. In the vicin-
ity of the White House and the Ebbitt
-. LARGE
mum bers.
Bands playing lively airs followed
the bodies Of troops. the latter to take
part in the parade. as they marched
W the proper positions in the line. The
(regulars troops. selected TO form the
escort d the president and president
elect from the White House TO the cap
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-05

Congress should give prompt at
tention to the restoration of our
American merchant marine, once
the pride of the seas in all the
great ocean highways of commerce.
To my mind, few more important
subjects so imperatively demand its
intelligent consideration. The
United States has progressed with
marvellous rapidity in every field of
enterprise and endeavor, until we
have become foremost in nearly
all the great lines of inland trade.
commerce and industry. Yet while
this is true. our American mer-
chant marine has been steadily
declining, until it is now lower both
in per centage of tonnage and num-
Der of vessels employed, than it
was prior to the civil war. Com
mendable progress has been made
of late years in the upbuilding of
the American navy, but we must
supplement these efforts by pro-
viding as a proper consort for it
a merchant marine amply sufficient
for our carrying trade to foreign
countries. The question is one that