The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-02-26
Before and After Election.

the Bryan party predicted before the cleo
ton they would turn out, banks going up
by the dozen, and individuals and COM
panies in every line of business keeping
company with the closing banks, the
howlers on national honor" "repudia-
tion," anarchy" and regiment of
other ghost stories which crowded the
columns of the Rothschild papers, big
and little, before the election are now
racking their brains to find excuses for
the disastrous results which are follow
ing Mr.. McKinley's election. All through
the campaign they assured the people,
with faces as grave as monks, and
as long as donkies', that everything
was in apple-pie order for starting
business at such racket as would aston
ish the natives as soon as Mckinley was
elected. There was plenty of money,
: they said, in fact too much money; that
every factory and mill in the country had
its fires banked and stoker at the furnace
door, ready to rake down and start the
steam soon as the telegraph announced
the glad tidngs of McKinley's election.
All that was lacking was confidence"
and the success of Mr.. Mckinley would
instantly restore that one thing only which
was lacking
Well, the fireman didn't rake down the
furnace, the capitalist with money to loan
by the bushel didn't loan it. Nobody
applied to borrow it, and now the entire
goldbug newspaper kennel, big and lit
tie, Sweetheart, Blanch and Tray, whine
sorrowfully, that we must wait" Bus
mess can't be expected to come out of its
conlatose condition, caused they say, by
their friend Cleveland's Encouragement
Every one of these national honor" and
anarchist" howlers, it will be relneln-
bered encouraged and assisted Cleveland
to perpetrate his deviltries and sell out
the people. They now tell the people
that misrnauagement is the cause of the
multitude Of failures that are daily taking
place, and these wrecks in business must
be cleared away before times will i'm
prove, and a brand new tariff must be
enacted, and it will probably be a year
before the good times will make their
appearance. Large numbers of people
who were coaxed and scared and bribed
into believing the goldbug promises, now
realize what huge mistake they made
These brazen rascals who trumpet for
the Rothschids and their New York
agents, are now turning their batteries of
SANDER upon the western States, charging
that their Populistic principles have
destroyed their credit, that eastern cap
italists will not risk loans in those States
for fear the people will repudiate the debt.
This is all most infamous SANDER and
talsehood. The people of the west don't
want TO borrow, and western banks that
have surplus of funds send the money
to New York i'll order to get little in
terst. The people of the west have been
robbed by the money loaners and trans
portation companies till they have lost
their last dollar paying interest and
charges Their produce will rot fetch
money enough to pay the cost of making
it. They have been held up and robbed
by these money sharks until they can pay
no more and do not ask for loans That
is the reason Shylock cannot loan them
. his accumulated interest 1t is not the
fear of Populist doctrines that deters the
capitalists. They lowered the price of
western products till the whole sum they
sell for will not pay the interest OH money
they were persuaded to borrow when
prices were remunerative. This is the
true state of the case and in order to hide
the ugly facts, these descendants of An
thony Van Corlier who trumpet for the
goldbugs have invented this story of Pop
ulism running the credit of the western
States. They have been robbed by these
same Shylocks. That's what's the matter.
Every kind of lie and subterfuge is re-
sorted to by these papers i'll their efforts
to divert the people from the bald fact
that McKinley's election has not mitigat-
ed i'll the least the hard times which the
goldbug policy continued through long
series of years has brought upon the
country. There is but one cure for them
more sound money put into the chan
nels of business by the only power which
can create Sound" money for this coun-
try, the Congress of the United States.
No bank can create sound money All
they ever did or ever can create in the
form of circulating medium is credit or
wind money, which always has and al
ways must burst like a bubble when it
has expanded to its natural limits. This
fraudulent bank stuff is what this gang of
bunco steerers call Sound" money and
the gold standard. Such a system can
stimulate business for short time, as
whiskey will stimulate an exhausted man
who will be sicker and more helpless than
ever as soon as the liquor dies. So will
business panic and total collapse follow
the stimulus of Sound" money bank
credit which the rogues have labeled the
gold standard" The cry of sound
) money and gold standard is fraud and
cheat, their SANDER of the western States
and Populist doctrines is fraud and cheat,
their reelection promises of immediate
good times and restored confidence was