The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-07-09
Trying to Dodge Responsibility

And Eow that the last hope of Mr..
Mckinley and the party is about to be
tested by the passage of the tariff bill, it
is an interesting study to mark the deep
ening shadows of doubt darkening over
their countenance The Binetallic Com
mission sent to Europe is not heard from.
No cheering promises are sent back by
them to their chief. The trio is having a
good time spending the 500, 900 in max
ing the tour of Europe, and that is clearly
all the good to be derived from Mckinley
bimetallisn.
III the meantime Mr.. Mckinley has, or
rather had, devised project for none
tary commission, and the newspapers in
the Presidents interest gave out that he
had prepared a message asking congress
10 appoint, or give him authority to APP
point, such commission, who would pre-
pare financial plan to be submitted 10
congress next winter, but finding that
congress had no intention of forming such
piece of hunlbug machinery to enable
the President to dodge responsibilities,
the same papers are giving out that the
President has abandoned that plan also.
Secretary Gage in the meantime is
keeping the wires hot between Wall street
and his Office in Washington, working on
a financial plan to hand over the entire
control and issue of the money to the
national banks, which banks are not
national" at all, but private, corporation
banks with the government as indorser
on their notes. This Gage-Wall street
plan contemplates the issue of bonds
bearing low rate of interest, to be ex-
changed for greenbacks and treasury
notes which are to be destroyed. There
are several adjuncts to this plan, but it is
pretty we'll ascertained that congress will
not empower the President and Mr.. Gage
to destroy the greenbacks after having
snapped them off to Wall street for bonds.
All these fragmentary financial schemes
are worrying our buckeye President not
little.
There is another plan which the crafty
John Sherman recommended and Cleve-
land and Carlisle commended putting into
practice; that is, to empound the green
backs and treasury notes in the Treasury
lock them up, bury them as it were, in
place of burning them. There is now
locked up i'll the Treasury near 500, Co.,
900 of these notes and $I44, 600, 900 of
gold, which in part explains the reason
which has caused times to be tighter and
harder this spring than last. Driven to
the last extremity the goldbug newspapers
are boldly asserting that business condi-
tons are steadily improving, that "specu-
lation' is on the upward move i'll Wall
street exchanges and that speculative
stocks are expected to advance ten or
dozen "points." That is the class of bus
mess which is " steadily improving" In
the meantime wheat and other farm
products are rather OH the decline.
The Cuban question was a Mckinley
favorite before the election. All his
papers were whooping it up and denounc-
ing Cleveland for aiding Spain and inter
fering against Cuban independence. Mr..
Mckinley is now pursuing the same
course, in fact walking right in the tracks
Cleveland made. He-so his goldbug
organs tell us-has instructed the new
Minister to Spain to propose plan for
Cuba similar to Great Britain's relation to
Canada, which is about as sensible as
supposing that Spain has advanced i'll
night about five hundred years in civliza-
ton and sat down beside Great Britain
and that the Island of Cuba has been
shifted from the tropics up to the Gulf of
St. Lawrence and changed her negro and
creole population into Canadians. If the
Cubans refuse to accept such nice condi-
tons then Mr. Mckinley threatens TO
wash his hands and say on their own
head be the blood Of laborers in the fields
and women and children, whom Weyler
murders by hundreds.
The whole drift of the administration
proves it to be policy of avoiding respon-
sibilities and lodging.
The tariff is not going to improve con-
ditions and everybody knows it, The
lying of the big daily papers has ceased to
fool people. They no longer believe
anything published about improving con-
ditions and "revival of business" They
have been fooled too often
Mr.. Mckinley and the Republican
leaders have got to face the money ques-
ton. The people of all parties are honest
and are watching the by-play going on.
Nothing will relieve the hard times that
the gold standard conspiracy has spread
over every country on which it has been
fastened, but the reconciliation of silver
and the people are coming more and more
into that belief All Sc ~,