The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-02-23
The Enemy are Getting Scared.

L ne way tHS uiultltuuSS Oh. All parties |
,rowd round Bryan and hear him gladly
wherever he goes is frightening the enemy
and they are beginning to prophesy what
lire calamity would visit the country in
the event of his election.
1t used to be game of bluff but now
their bluff has an If to it, and the old
which stood the goldbugs so
we'll in 1896 is again being brought out.
Their solemn predictions ofpanic and dire
that would surely follow the
election of Bryan, frightened great many
constitniionally ti-:,id people in go, as
the goldbug pleaders trembled, with great
crocodile tears falling from their eyes as
they alternately coaxed, threatened TO
stop business, shut down and throw mil
lions Of hands out of work, adding to the
millions that were already out of work.
Such lugubrious predictions and half
yelled threatening warnings are finding
their way into the, McKinly papers as. the
following:
"The day after his (Bryan's) election
were known there would be such de-
mand for gold as was never before heard
of, and it would practically be impossible
to sell bonds with the Bryan party com
ing into CONTROL
If it is true that the people cannot elect
President of their choice which is not
the choice of lot of money sharks and
gold Spectators, without bringing ven
geance down upon their heads in the
form of bankrupt and ruined business and
reign of panic and distress, it is high
time that such state Of affairs were put
an end to by the election of such man
as Bryan, and clean sweep of such a
dangerous power and dangerous financial
system.
1t is very true there would be no sale
of bonds, because none would be tolerated
or required, as such bond sales by Cleve-
land and Mckinley were not sanctioned
by the people but were made without the
peoples consent or wish.
If such a rebellion against and war on
the business of the country were attempt
ed on account of Bryan's election as the
free choice of the people, he would advise
opening the minis to the free coinage OF
silver and the issue of sufficient legal
tenders or treasury notes to supply CON-
merce and trade with the needed amount
of money to transact business, and the
gold gamblers with the yellow metal
locked up would never be missed. 1t
would very soon appear again as gold
hidden will earn nothing, and when other
money takes its place it soon appears
again and its hoarders beg the public TO
take it.
The sooner these dangerous gold gam
blers are shorn of their power to disturb
business, create panics and send financial
cyclones over the country, the better it
will be for every branch of honest bus
mess. 1t is dreadful state of affairs
that exists when gang of money gam
blers and stock jobbers can rig the mar
kets and injure or bankrupt every honest
marin business in the country, and the
election of Bryan will go a long way
toward putting an end to this devils
game of gold panics and stock gambling.
When the people cannot elect man of
their choice without threats from money
bag party of plunging them into financial
ruin it is time they would take up the
cudgels against their worst enemines and
hurl them as far from power to NEEDLE
with the government currency and the
peoples business as Lucifer was hurled
from the battlements of heaven-and 10
the same place if need be.
The people are getting their eyes open
to see that McKinley's administration has
been one Of the most gruesom in Amer
lean history. His army corruption in the
Spanish war, his Cuban and Porto Rico
mismanagement has been one of un.
matched bungling and misfortune to the
people of those islands, while his Philip
pine policy has been long drawn out
succession of criminal aggression" as
he fifty named it before commencing it
His followers and partisans are driven
to the wall. They are left without
defense and have nothing but bluff to
offer the people. The government under
his feeble management has been swept
clear from its original moorings and anch-
ored on the English plutocrat system.
The people have had enough of Mckinley
and Mckinley Hannaisnl They are sick.
impoverished, disguised with his foreign
money bags policy, his English colonial
policy and trusts. and are going to clear the
whole gang out by electing Bryan The
clear sighted goldbug leaders are begin
ming to scent their doom and the doom of
their gold standard experiment.
A quarter of century of that has
brought the gold conspiracy to its fruition
aud its fruit islike the apples of the Dead
Sea, fair TO the eye but ashes on the
tongue.
Mr. Mckinley, we, the people, are
going 10 welcome you back to Canton
next fall. where Hanna will never run
another tramp free excursion to visit you
again.