Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1899-02-10
Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver. "

"GOld many hunted, sweat and bled for
gold"-a great truth, apparent not alone to
the dscernment of the immortal Pollock,
but plain to any mind, great or small, that
takes a scrutinizng glance over th restless
gold hungered people of this country. The
truth OF the poets assertion could not be
more torcibly sustained than by the hordes
OF disappointed and penniess gold seekers
returning from their mad hunt for this
"shining thing that men admired and called
Il god" in regions frozen, fruitess and mala.
| rious.
But the American people are not the only
gold lovers, by any means. Many a robbel
| dignitary has lost his crown in attempting
to save his i'll gotten gold. Abraham, with
all his righteousness, felt the convenience o
the filthy lucre when he paid several hun
dreds OF it for burial place for himself and
family His grandson appreciated it in the
form of sheep and cattle. Solomon, who
distributed apples ofgold so freely in the age
of anility, bowed in worship 10 idols Of brass
and gold and from what we can learn from
history the idols he most adOred were golden
idols. He certainly realized the wonderful
influence gold had upon his people, if moi
| upon himself, or he would not have used II
so extravagantly.
But why should we turn to the dim ages
| of the far distant past to pick the golden
apples OF instruction Let US know our
selves and profit from the study; but do not
raise the spectre of sacrilege when we say
| that the "rOOt of all evip has made won
derous growth since the days Of Abraham
and his grandson. IL has twlned Itself
around the hearts of our people with the
force Of the octopus tentacles. IL is the
same god now that 1t was in ancient times,
and the average American wOrships II just
as devoutly as did PollOck's miser.
While many, very many, of our people
are hungered for the golden lruit-not the
| trety that Solomon sought to distribute
| yet the desperate efforts that some OF our
| fellow citizens made two years ago to pick
the golden fruit from pictures OF silver were
| not abundantly successful Yet, nOtWlth-
standing the failure attending that effort,
the failure seems 10 stimulate the votaries to
make rene wed efforts two years hence.
True, though il was, that the apples of gold,
that they hung in pictures OF silver before
the confdng tilers of the soil, like the ap
pies of Sodom turned to ashes on their lips
and were renewed only through the specu
lative schemes of Letter and his associates,
still our "Amerlcan Napoleon" is making
renewed efforts 10 rob Letter Of his short
lived glory in filling the depleted pockets Of
the honest husbandman, and il placing new
apples of gold in his furnished pictures OF
silver
But the eloquent champion OF Unlimited
coinage is not going TO confine himself to
his lree-silver platform; he is already greas
ing the rusty and fOrsaken Monroe car, and
when the hour OF battle comes, armed with
silver shield and gold mounted sword, he
will lead his veterans to certain victory
Never did Napoleon l. plan more admira-
BILE campaign. Who would not wear the
silver badge, fatal as II seems 10 gold bugs
if he could by that means aid 10 checking
the course OF the Imperial" army, aud fix
ing American interests on American soil :
May the gifted non imperlallst have smooth
and certain pathway To victory But how
much more zealously would some OF his FOL.
lowers battle If their leaders sword was di-
vested of It's ornamentatiOn ol silver and gold
aud contained only the true steel OF right
| and Justice TO all,
But while We wish the brilliant Democratic
leader success in every honest effort OF his to
confne American glory 10 this continent,
| vet we must warn him that his battle tor
| freedom will. not be u Cuban Invasion, for
there Is Gen. Mckinley 10 overcome, and
Mr.. Watterson's men, Admiral Dewey and
Gen. Lee, may outhank him. Truly the
battle will be a hot one, but they will lind
our Napoleon" a fighter 10 the last man
and the last ditch
COmus, Feb s, 1899 Y.