The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-09-07

paper, the Baltimore .4fVeT7c1N, OF last
Friday. There is good deal more of the
same kind OF rot in the same article but
the above should be enough to surfeit
with disgust any reasonably intelligent
farmer. That Mckinley is not credited
with the good crops is remarkable adj
mission and the first of the kind which
has appeared in the trust ridden press.
But the farmer scratches his head and
asks where his good times come in at less
than 70 cents busbel on the farm for his
So cents as the american
quotes while the goods he has to buy
are advanced so to 100 per cent by the
trusts. which have grown up under
McKinley's administration.
The deprecated silver currency claim
is bit Of concieneeless mendacity or
ignorance so dense that it might be sliced
like cheese. Never in the history of this
country's finances have silver.dollars been
deprecated or would buy less than gold.
On the contrary the american silver dol
lar from the foundation of the govern
ment to the day its coinage was stopped in
1873, was worth three cents more than
gold, and is now and has been ever since it
was demonetized, worth its face in gold.
Now where does the AMeyicaN find
any authority for saying zone dollar of
Mr.. Bryan's currency would buy about
thirty-eight cents worth of goods Mr..
Bryan never had aud never can have any
currency. Uncle Sam is the man who
issues silver dollars He coined and
issued SIS, 900, 900 last year, every one
equal in purchasing power 10 the best
gold dallars in the United States. These
new silver dollars might be called McKin-
ley's currency ifthe method of designat-
ing money adopted BY the American is
used. In 1897 the Republican Congress
passed law, and Mr.. Mckinley signed it
to coin all the bullion silver in the treas.
ury, million and half a month. Ninety
million of these Bryan dollars are being
coined under the law Mr.. Mckinley
signed, and every one is as good as gold.
And if nine hundred millions in place of
ninety of them were coined blythe United
States they wonld be as good as gold,
every one of them, and they are Ie to /
dollars too
Had Mr.. Bryan been elected in 1896
wheat might have been now one dollar a
bushel, the Ameyiean admits. There is
no doubt of it. had a Congress of his party
been elected with him. In 1872, the year
before the minis were closed to the free
coinage of silver, wheat was $I.4o a
bushel. After silver was demonetized
wheat began to fall steadily till it reached
so cents a bushel
Do such papers as the american be-
lieve that American farmers can be stuffed
with such audacious rot as silver dollars
purchasing only 3S cents worth of goods
while gold dollars would buy 100 cents
worth Do these city editors believe
that farmers are SO stupid as to believe
such rot? The United States never has
made silver dollar that would not pur-
chase as many goods and pay as much
debt as gold dollar, and we venture 10
say they never WILL
There has been a great increase of gold
in the last three years, amounting to
nearly one thousand millions i'll the out
put of the worlds gold mines. The in
crease of money has raised prices of pre-
ducts slightly in all the leading countries
of the world. Much less silver at a ratio
of Is to has been produced in the same
time. Had that silver been coined, prices
would have increased in the same ratio
that the money increased. They always
have done so, and the United States silver
dollars have always purchased as much
as gold and paid as much debt. There is
no getting away from these facts.
Silver will be again remonetized. The
increase of the worlds business demands
it, and when the mints of the United
States are opened to the free coinage OF
silver they will be opened in every couu-
try in the world, and there will be no diff
ference in the purchasing power Of the
two metals. Then the farmer will sell
his wheat for a dollar and upward a
bushel, and he will never do it until silver
is reinonetized in this country, (unless
there is another wheat famine). Mark
that Mr.. Farmer, and consider how vot-
ing for Mr.. Mckinley and what he stands
for affects your pockets. Every farmer
ought TO understand by the stupid rot
which the banking trust, goldbug papers
of the Ameyioan class publish, that they
think all farmer are fools.
The last bankers law, called the gold
standard, passed at the last session of
Congress demonstrates the use these
financial jugglers make of silver.
The silver that was purchased under
the Sherman law at about half its money
value, was paid for in legal tenders, that
is, special issuse of greenbacks. The
goldbug law passed last year commands
the Treasurer to redeem these notes in
gold only, destroy them and issue in their
stead silver certificates based on the silver
at 10 to I, coined out of the silver the
government bought with The legal tender
Sherman notes. The treasury is opened
10 be looted by the Wall street bankers
by presenting the Sherman notes for re-
demption in gold, and then the amount