Middletown transcript., 1899-06-17
MIDDLETowN, DEL. JUNE II, 1899
PROSPERITY

remember our laugh at the Smyrna
"Call" because Of it's blunder in say
Ing editorialIy-in substance-that the
low price Of strawberries has been
because Of absence Of prosperity"
vile leealig the paper said @the
strawberry acreage is too large" The
stCalp' comes back ramblingly in a
column. After reading the article a
second time, had we not known diff
ferently, we should have thought it the
product of an asylum where the in
mates are allowed to write and publish
for their own amusement, and improve
ment as well, and should have thought
s'this is interesting but erratic; pity
the writer is ''offo mentally" The
"Can" editor. however, is said to be
sane, and to be fair, as the TRANSCRIPT
ever is, we quote the article entire at
the expense of being too lengthy:
It seems that the Middletown Transcript
is the excuser and defender OF the little
weeklies that sell their editorial columns
to the gold bureaus. (1-Answers made
beIoW). The Transcript says that these
gold editorials are mere matters" of INTEREST," >
.publishedwithout' consideration OF money"
1t is strange that nothing is interesting on
the other sioe. Millions Of men in this
country voted against the gold influence in
'96. 1t must have been intensely interest
ing when three little papers got the same
piece on the same day. The MiddletoWn
paper says that the gold bureaus on send
ing this matter Suggests its use." ~
But suppose that Bryan should send these
little papers interesting matter and suggest
its use. (3) That editor would probably
say that the thousands of clerks employed
in these gold bureaus are working without
consideration Of money. That the build
ings are rent free ard the road agents pay
ing their own bills. (4) Wasn't it fairly
proven that the prosperity blowers opened
up campaign banks in Kansas three years
ago and shipped out money and clerks
from Wall Street. to keep the spurious
banks humming day and night till the
polls closed in November? (5) What
notion has the MiddletoWn editor of the
way in which the millions which the bank
ers and trust companies subscribe to the
sound money fraud is used? He thinks
probably that they are building churches
with it. That editor puts US in hole.
He wants us to tell him that he is either
fool or yarner, and we don't intend to do
it. We will argue the case and let it go to
the Jury. Even the Dover editor at this
moment is down on his knees laughing at
the break which that Middletown editor
hasymade. We are all laughing. Notody
expected such dissipating diversion with
s1ch delectable discourse. When the Call
built little smoke at that hole 1t was
never expected that the coons would come
out. They had been smoked before. The
Dover editor has had the fire all over him,
and never opened his eyes. He is tough
and kiln dried. Well, let 'em go. The Call
is not the author of the statement that
Mark Hanna doesn't think the Delaware
papers worth little fattering. Mr.. Mark
has means at his disposal. He has never
beeTlA accused of standing on niceties. If
our little Delaware papers can't pull the old
man blamed if the Call cares about owning
it. (6l We freely concede, however, that
our Middletown contemporary is not in
that compact. We caution that editor
against freshness and advise him to lay low
and study the signs Of the times.s
AnsweTs-D 80 The TRANSCRIPT
said last week those papers do not sell
their editorial columns to the "gold
bureaus = but we leave them to answer
this vile charge-and it is vile.
(2)-The Bryan or Democratic |
bureaus do furnish literature, or did
during the campaign. There now.
(3l-Name a bureau with ten clerks. |
Name two bureaus. You can't do it,
don't cher know Who ever saw
'troad agentl" Name cue in Delaware.
Ahl caught again.
(4 Never heard the charge outside |
Popalistic papers, and every sensible |
man knows the charge is foolish.
(5)-In the same way Democrats use
their millions collec I'd from free trad
importers, from TanmaDy Hall, and
the liquor league. Seel
(6) Personally accept thanks that
the TRANSCRIPT is not classed as an
offender. The "caution" We will share
with the "Call."
ut seems that the Transcript and divers
local editors and newspaper correspondents
are hurt and disappointed at the prices of
the strawberry crop. They had been fan
ming prosperity breezes all spring and
didn't expect a storm from the opposite
way. They had paraded rise in wages
and what they called louder hum in all
trade. They had raised expectations in
rural districts and the wretched failure of
the strawberry business lifts the fraud with
a jerk. ~ The CALL had told the people
that the prosperity racket was humbug.
That 1t was all ink and paper. (8) There
never will be any prosperity without cause.
The taxing of our people and sending the
money away to pay our soldiers in Asia
couldn't bring prosperity and the CALL said
that. The CALL will never be made fool
and ass of by anybody. Ifever the Demo
cratic party is engaged in such internal
business as these gold people are driving,
The CALL will fly the pen and join the
,nemy. Of course we could have let the
fzzle pass in silence, but it was
,ur duty to notice it. 1t is q matter of
,deucation and not sentiment (9) As to
he good or ugly principles involved these
,old people three years ago actually laugh
d and clapped their hands whenever
mill had to shut down. They called it
Silver fright" We call the present slump
Strawberry fright" We shall discuss
10Th as the weeks pass.
Well, they say the strawberry disaster I
vas supply and demand affair. They are s
old this as parrots are taught to say .'Mis- 9
us gone away" (l0) Now the SIMPLY Of Il
money makes the demand. A bakefmieht Fl
rave bread to sell and ten men without 81
money might be starving at his door. 1D a
The supply of bread would in that case n
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