The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-02-18
BOSTON SEEKS TRUTH.
rlore Books on Money Than on
Slavery,

Slavery.
The anti-slavery movement of "more
money and less misery" is growing every
where. Here is one instance, furnished
from Boston, by T. H. Proctor, the dis
tinguished author of 1.-THE Bankers
Dream" Writing the .Sik0ey KNIGHT
Watchnan, he says:
81 spend lots of time in the Boston pub
lie library digging up matter for a work
on which am engaged. In Boston today
there are more books being written on
the great monetary wrongs which are
crushing the American people than were
ever written here on slavery. II is break
ing out everywhere. Like murder-it is
nurder-'it will out in time. Press,
pulpit, politician can not smother the
goldbug crimes of the past thirty years.
Mckinley once said: We do not want
cheap labor in the United States. Cheap
labor means cheap men, and cheap men
mean dear money. would elevate and
build up manhood, instead of making the
dollar dear, and thereby giving more
power to the money-bags
"This is the kind of Republican Nc
Kinley was ten years ago, before he be-
came Republican Monarchist, as Gage
is Republican Free Trader-a Cleveland
Republican as that variety is now called.
"All the big cash-box1 Republicans in
Boston are now free traders, and they are
consistent They say: Unless we can
| reduce our tariff-and we can't without
free trade-we can never sustain a gold
basis, as we must undersell Europe in
order to attract gold to maintain gold
! payments So the move has commenced
in the cotton mills.
THE South is going to supply its own
trade, and that of the West, in cotton
cloth. So the East is driven to Europe
for market, and agents have gone there
to get orders at low figures, and to buy
yarns until the mills win here in forcing
British prices for work. The New Eng
land manufacturers now want the duty
| taken from raw cotton and cotton yarns.
If Mckinley, therefore, wants re-e election,
he must go over to the free trade wing of
his party, with Gage. Reed is already
there on the sly, and is bidding for 1000.
There is likely to be great change, you
see, in sentiment, all through the
country.
II observe from Bryan's report of his
visit to Mexico that he is taking time by
the forelock.' He evidently sees that
free silver may act as a protective tariff
for Western raw material, and he appears
not to deplore the prospect 1t is time
The Eastern millionaires-the great Re-
publican importers-now fight silver on
that ground alone. IT'S the protective
features of free silver they are fighting;
but they talk tariff and gold, knowing
there can be no high prices under the
gold measure of labor and its products.
"It is getting hot here in Boston. The
Republican party will split very soon, all
through New England. The merchants
are heartily sick of thirty years of falling
prices, and the gold aristocracy claim that
prices are not yet down to the gold basis.
The silver men are pushing the agitation
of starvation profits and constant cut
downs. They predict, too, the lowest
prices ever known for wheat, next fall,
as every farmer is planting it all over the
world.
Senator Stewart is grand man, and
he is appreciated better than he imagines
right here in Boston. Hoar and Lodge
don't represent the mill operatives or the
farmers and merchants. Those goldbug
Senators represent the holders of Western
bonds and mortgages"