The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-07-27

The plutocratic press Of 1900 with the same
press Of 1886. Now the gold shipments
and threatened exports of gold to Europe
are pooh-poohed as nothing, trifes not
worth notice. In 1856 the transfer of
even few hundred thousands of gold to
London drove the entire Wall street press
into spasms. Every effort was made to
create panic when the movement of a
little gold across the water was announced.
Runs were made on the treasury and
Cleveland, the great financial blockhead,
was scared into fits by the threats of Wall
gold movements, all for the pur-
pose of creating scare among business
firms ofthe country, to help McKinley's
election. When prices were lowered by
business with the unreliable
which would follow the cleo
ton of Bryan, by this same subsidized,
lying press, all abnormal condition in
business was declared to exist from want
of " confidence"
Prices now steadily moving downward
are said by the same press to be getting
back to normal state 4" The trusts made
a raid on the peoples pockets, under the
cry of great, unheard of prosperity, by
this same merceuary, lying daily press,
until the public ceased 10 purchase their
goods and products began to pile up on
their hands.
In 1896 such condition of trade was
declared by these same papers to be
caused by fear of Bryan's election. The
hands were threatened with the stoppage
Of all the mills, in attempts to scare them
into voting for Mckinley. The banks
threatened business firms with refusal
to accommodate them if Bryan was
elected, the mercenary daily press took
up the cry and gave tongue like pack of
hounds on bag hunt. Now all these
whilom signs and omens of impending
ruin are changed. The shipment Of gold
abroad, is an ordinary business affair
fraught with no dangerous consequences
at ALL
Wall street is scarcely bit nervous over
it. We have plenty of gold. In fact the
country is just lousy with gold; more
gold i'll the United States than any other
country. Never was such prosperity
known since Solomon's ships came from
the land of Ophar laden with peacocks and
gold. Railroad earnings are beating all
records. Carnegie's income last year was
$42, 900, ooo ,.Rockefeller's$ Sac, ooo, oco, and
the lesser millionaires in proportion. The
Oil nlonopoly's earning was $50, ooo, 600
last year We did two and a quarter
billions of foreign trade last year, and
fifteen billions of domestic business; FIVE
Thousand failures were recorded in the
United States in the last six months,
Dun s, Co tell us; the stoppage of works
in and about Pittsburg two or three weeks
ago threw out of employment 10000
employees; the shut down of mills in
Massachusetts few days since threw ont
of work 10000 more hands; strikes have
been going on in ST. Louis for months,
i'll Baltimore for several week; wages are
falling and prices dropping, but all of
these happenings only indicate that we
are getting back to normal conditions. !"
and such prosperity was never known |!
And thus the lying plutocratic press goes
on reversing itself of four years ago. The
signs of disaster then are signs of pros
perity now.
The Democratic party was represented
in the White House then by that mon-
strous absurdity, Cleveland. The Repub-
lican party is now represented in the
White House by the political jumping
jack, Mckinley. The Wall street bankers
who head the money trust, the great cor
porations, trusts, syndicates and money
bag combinations, who own the almost
entire daily commercial and weekly
religious press, are all in the Republican
party, striving with might and main to
keep their mar-McKinley-in the Pres
idential chair, in order to continue their
good times and their prosperity, while
the people, the real Drawn and honest
brain of the country who produce all the
wealth, are behind Bryan.
They believe the measures he stands
for, if formulated into law, would enable
them to share in that prosperity" which
the wealth they produce creates, and is
enjoyed only by the cohorts of Mckinley
above enumerated. The plain people who
represent the industry and morality of
the country have but few papers to speak
for them, but the power of the truths
which they promulgate is permeating all
classes of society, and they are rallying
around their great leader, as the same
class rallied around General Jackson when
he grappled with the same monster in
1892. The combined enemies of liberty
and humanity we believe are as sure of
defeat in the battle which Bryan is lead
ing as they were when Jackson led the
plain people against this same enemy.
Let the people take courage and fall in.
The battle is the dollar against manhood,
with the dollar in the saddle, fighting
under the stolen flag of the old Republi-
can party of IS56-6o-the minions of greed
and monsters of avarice against the plain
people. up and at them, boy
Strike for your affairs and your fires"
Is 1t Right For an Editor to Recon-