The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-02-18
The Republican Party Must Go.

ooW-"o"s do last do any polltlCdl oT SdHlZa-
ton can travel. 1t is now in power
and compelled to shoulder responsibility
The Dingley tariff which Mckinley put
before lthe money question, in the vain
hope that his cheap fame derived from
the Mckinley tariff would be renewed
and he would be carried on the high tide
of success, clear of the financial rocks
which the ship of state had been driven
amongst by the pressure of the gold
standard. But that fond hope has been
disappointed, and his speeches and mes
sages are cheap veneering of glittering
generalities. The Dingley tariff is be-
hind expenditures last month IS, 600, 900,
and for the year the revenues are short
over $5T 900, 900. The Republican party
in the New England States is threatening
to split and will split over the tariff and
free silver.
The gold standard millionaire Repub
lican manufacturers are turning to free
trade aud European wages in order to
find market for their goods in competi-
ton with European manufacturers. The
farmers and merchants are going over to
free silver as protection against falling
prices which have ruined them. The
gold standard must be supported by low
wages and free raw material in order to
enable the millionaire manufacturers
whose colossal fortunes have been built
up by protection, to compete in foreign
markets with the "pauper labor" mills of
England, France and Germany. The
cotton growers in the South are begin
ming to talk tariff on cotton in order to
shut out Egyptian cotton, and the West
ern and Southern manufacturers and
farmers want free silver coinage either 10
increase the worlds volume of money
and raise prices, or to serve as protec-
ton against foreign low prices for farm
products and manufactures.
So it may be seen that the force of con-
ditions that cast their shadow before is
writing on the wall the doom of the
Republican party,-weighed in the bal
ance and found wanting-as surely as the
hand wrote on the wall of Belshazzar's
banqueting hall, "mene, tekeI. ubharsin!"
The party has gone from the people to
following after wealth and corruption of
the Belshazzars of greed and gold and
the party's defeat and destruction-for
defeat means destruction-as surely as the
intelligence of the age is steadily rising
superior to the tyranny, and greed, and
avarice that are inseparable FROM gold,
dear money, and an impoverished and
wronged people.
The Republican party must go because
conditions are demonstrating the fact
that its whole economic policy is wrong,
radically wrong and destructive of every
interest of the agricultural and entire
producing and laboring class, aud only in
the interest of a rich, idle class, that is
exceeding small compared to the great
mass of population.
The manufacturers, too, are going
under, victims 10 the gold standard and
poverty among the people which have
destroyed the consumers of their goods,
and the struggle is beginning between
them and old world "pauper labor" for
the worlds markets. They are cutting
down wages of their employees to bring
them down to the wage scale of the
'pauper labor" of Europe, and forming
trusts to freeze out the small manufac.
turers. The Republican party and these
things are so inseparably bound together
that he who runs may read.
Tine banking class, which is the active
power of the money oligarchy, has such
mastery and control of the
Republican party that it is called every
where and by every one the national
bank party.
By this aristocracy of wealth, power
and pelf the people look on Mckinley as
they watch game of battle door and
cock. He is the flying shuttle
which the gamblers and Office scramblers
knock to and fro. He is the smallest
man i'll the administration. Gage has
taken possession of the treasury as the
representative of the banks, and McKiH-
ley's money policy is what Gage dictates
1t is written in the very heavens, the
party must go, and before
another fualx.a ~,
sentiment will become a battle cry that
will echo from lakes to gulf, and from the
pine forests of Maine and the surf beaten
shores of Rhode Island to the golden
sands of the Pacific.
Honesty must confess that the Repub-
lican party is losing ground in all direc-
tons. Its policy has failed wherever
tried and breaks down. Its devotees and
most earnest defenders have little to say.
They are losing heart They cannot sue
cessfully defend single measure the
party advocates. Their daily papers are
rendered ridiculous by the sophistries
they use in place of facts and arguments
and the people have come to view the
gold press as venal, subsidized and slavish
Their press has ceased to lead public
thought and is looked upon as a tool for
the use of master.
The people view the Republican major
ity in Congress with disgust as it sits
without celebrating week after week.
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