The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-04-30
Under the Prop
critics Disposed of by Sheriff
Hayes

critics Disposed of by Sheriff
Hayes.
THE LIST INCLUDED A NUMBER OF FINE
FARMS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS OF
CHESTER COUNTY.
"Sheriff Robert L. Hayes held his sec
ond sale at the Court House, commencing
at II O'Clock this morning, and i'll all
batch of seventeen properties was dis
posed of. The properties consisted largely
of farms, many of them fine ones, in
various portions of Chester county
There was a good-sized crowd present,
nearly all of whom were parties directly
interested i'll the sales, and there were
few outside bidders"
The above is from the West Chester
Local of April 22nd, and description Of
the different properties is given with the
price sold for and debt against them.
They were all nice homes. The reader
can form his own opinion whether the
times which produce such results are
good" or bad. There is one feature
however, which admits of no divided
opinion. They are goldbug times
Chester county is one of the most
wealthy and best farming counties in the
United States, with as good and conven-
lent market for all kinds of farm products
as the whole world can offer
The class of people whose homes are
swept away in the cyclone of usury and
debt that is raging in every nook and
corner of the country are the middle
class" so termed because they do not
belong to the very rich or the dependent
poor The class which are being made
as homeless as the victims of the Missis-
sippi floods, with less hope foi the future
than the flood sufferers, are the bone and
sinew of the land, the hope of the
nation.
The United States is repeating Eng
lands farming class experience. In 1916
at the close of the Bonapart carnival Of
war in Europe, the fnanciers," who
were the Rothschild crowd, persuaded
the government to demonetize silver and
convert the paper money which had been
used during the war into bonded debt.
The money which had sustained the in
dustries of the country as they had never
flourished before, was at once destroyed,
and i'll its place an immense debt of forty
thousand millions saddled On the people
with tax sufficient to pay the interest on
the same annually gathered from them,
The demonstration of silver, which
established that deadly upas tree to honest
industry, and the contraction of the vol
uine of money i'll circulation by convert
ing it into a national debt, sent prices of
farm and all other products down like
solid shot to the bottom of the sea- Like
drowning men grasping at straws farmers
shrinkage i'll the value of their products,
hoping the storm to blow over speedily,
but it never blew over. Two hundred
thousand land owners in Great Britain in
1916 shrunk to 10000 by 1923 when the
bottom was reached, and the great yeo-
man class, the pride and power of the
British nation, had disappeared, never
again to appear, but in its stead tax
ridden race of tenant farmers.
The Chester county picture at the head
of this article is only reproduction of
that which was seen in England from
1916 to 1928. 1t will take longer time
to use up this country, the United States
being many times greater in extent and
resources than the British Isles, but it's
only question of time if present cond-
tions are continued
The identical same game was played at
the close of the STAKEHOLDER rebellion in
this country. The paper money of the
government which stimulated every
branch of industry, and created a pros
perity which enriched every prudent
farmer, was changed into a government
debt and in 1873 silver was demonetized
by the same trick that was worked in Eng
land for its demonstrations; it was quietly
dropped from the act which regulated the
mintage of coin. In 1869 John Sher-
man visited England He fell in with
the Rothschilds. He became gold ad-
vocate and when he came back to the
United States commenced his scheme
of demonetizing silver. He failed in his
first effort and then took up the mint bill
and dropped from among other coins the
silver dollar. This trick was not discov
cred till two years after. The English
Jews had invented the trick and Sherman
acted as their tool to play it on the people
OF this country. He is now reputed 10 be
worth ten millions. Before the badger
game of decentralization was worked OH
the people of this country he was poor as
a church mouse. The Jew is a skinflint
but lie will pay well for a dirty piece of
rascality that promises to put money in