The midland journal., November 25, 1898, Image 2

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published on Friday mornlngoleach week at
Rising Sun, Cecil Co., Maryland
BY
E. E. EWING & SONS.
Independent in politics and all other
subjects.
9 I .OO A YEAR. IN ADVANCE.
Friday 7 , Nov. 25,1898.
The mere formal adoption of the gold
standard gives a nation command of no
more gold. A nation, like an individual,
can get no more gold than it can buy and
pay for.
The negro question is up again for con
sideration if not settlement. The negro
has had his opportunity freely given him
and has shown himself to be unequal to
the requirements. There are numbers
who have succeeded in reaching a condi
tion of higher citizenship than three-tiftbs
part, the status he was placed at by the
slave master, but the overwhelming mass
shows a dismal failure.
As a body, he has shown his natural
leaning Jtoward a condition of subserv
iency, by becoming a dependent of the
Republican party, and in place of a
patriotic aud independent citizen has re
lapsed into a willing political servant of
one party. A moral degeneracy is very
plainly visible in the present generation
or young class, who are just entering the
stage of responsibility. They are idle,
vicious, with a large percentage of
toughs.
The negro in general cares little for
country. Patriotism is not a passiou of
his mind. He is a dangerous tool in the
hands of the professional politician, and
will become more so as time rolls on,
unless a barrier can be erected against
the danger. His vote is already largely
merchandise and as the tough and vaga
bond element increases will rapidly be
come more and more of that class.
But what shall the remedy be? Ah,
there’s the rub ! The fundamental error
was {committed when the reconstruction
act was passed. In place of equipping the
horrible mass of ignorance, mainly little
above the beast, with elective franchise
an educational qualification should have
been a condition of full citizenship. The
constitution bars that remedy now. But
the Ststes have it still in their power if
they will take heroic measures, to restrict
the evil and bring it gradually under
control by making education the doorway
to the right of suffrage.
If all, white as well as colored, in future
or after a stated date, attaining their ma
jority shall be able to read and write as
the qualification to become voters, the
abuse of the elective franchise would be
checked and got under coutrol.
Prosperity.
On Thursday after Wall street was sat
isfied that both houses of congress would
be under Republican coutrol for the next
two years, there was a great boom iu
stocks and speculation, the Associated
Press |reported. There was no rise or
boom in prices of the products of indus
try. The factory, the farm and mine felt
none of this “ prosperity.” It was all for
speculators and stock gamblers'
Provisions of the Bankers tiold Stand
ard Bill Introduced in the House at
the Last Session of Congress.
The Secretary of the Treasury is re
quired to provide a gold reserve equal to
25 per cent of all United States treasury
notes outstanding, which may be roughly
estimated at #450,000,000, This reserve
would amount to #x12,000,00a He is
further required to provide a gold reserve
equal to 5 per cent of our eutire silver
coinage, which would be about #23,000,-
000 more, making #135,000,000 in all.
He is further authorized and directed to
issue 3 per cent bonds whenever necessary
to insure prompt redemption. And this
is the way the gold standard fellows pro
pose putting the‘government out of the
banking business” and putting themselves
into the governing business.
By this process, with such secretaries of
the Treasury as Carlisle and Gage, the
government could readily be bonded a
thousand millions iu addition to its pres
ent debt!
The Coal Oil Trust.
The reason for the recent advance in
the value of the shares of the Standard
Oil Company, is that a plan has been de
vised which contemplates issuing stock
dividends to the extent of four shares for
each one share or certificate of stock held
by the present owners of the Company’s
stock. This is simply watering the stock
100 per cent, and the revenues of the
company will permit the treasury to pay
quarterly dividends of 2)4 per cent' on
such increase, or an annual dividend of
10 per cent on this watered stock. As an
evidence of the enormous profits of the
company it may be stated that since 1893
the concern has paid over #117,000,000 iu
dividends to its stockholders, and at a
recent meeting the trust declared its
quarterly dividend for 1898, which was at
the rate of 40 per cent annually on a
capital slock of #100,000,000. When it is
understood that the entire present plant
of the company cost less than #20,000,000
it will be seen what a gigantic monopoly
the trust has become.
There are between 150 and 200 trusts,
great and small in the United States,
steadily carrying the masses of the people
down to a lower level of poverty. They
own the newspaper press, they control
congress and State legislatures and in
fluence decisions by selecting judges to
be placed on the bench. It is time the
mass of the middle class people turned
their attention to the study ol the trusts.
What are the people doing? They are
busily engaged with organized charities;
they are increasing the number and
capacity of poor houses, insane asylums,
jails and penitentiaries to provide for
those who by reason of wrongful and
perpetual absorption of their earnings and
consequent destruction of their hopis, are
being gradually but surely converted into
tramps, paupers, lunatics and criminals.
THE TV/rTTVr.A-Nro d-OTTR/IT-AX,: FRIDAT, USTOVEiMrBEm 25, 1898.
The Outlook for the Future.
Congressmen elected —Republican, 181;
Democrats, 168; People’s party, 7; which
gives the Republican party an apparent
majority of 6, but in reality ou the main
issue before the country, that is the
money question, the party has many
more. Every Democratic member elect
ed in the middle and eastern States in
cluding Maryland, excepting Sibley, ;is a
goldbug, who will either openly or secret
ly be controlled by the gold or banking
money trust, which added to the Repub- |
licau majority of 6 over all gives a large
majority for the money power. Official
returns may vary this somewhat, and
allowing a few to be proof against the
bulldozing, blanishments and bribery that
will be used to carry its point when any
issue bearing on the money question is
before the House, the money power will
have a large majority on the test question.
Where the party in nominations didn’t
jump the Chicago platform they put up
gold candidates, the proselytes of Cleve
land, Carlisle, Palnur and Buckner,
Whitney, Flower, Hill, et. al. That gold
1 wing of the party has been completely
enthroned in power in the Democratic
' party in the eastern and middle States,
while the silver Democrats in the west
’ have lost members by a well concerted
attack in which the money power used
' without stint its main arm of warfare.
The gold element of the party has been
: greatly strengthened beyond what it was,
1 in 1896, and will be able to defeat a two
thirds vote in the national convention,
and successfully resist the nominution of
’ Bryan. There will be no stampede iu the
1 Democratic national convention of 1900.
! The tactics of the gold Democrats, assisted
' by the Republican party have demoralized
the machine element of the Democratic
party north of the Potomac and nortli
r west of the Ohio river. The leaders have
gradually but steadily moved away from
5 the Chicago platform as the party
shibboleth.
> Next year when the elections will be
1 State elections the silver issue—the money
f question—will be ignored in the northern,
* the north-western and the middle States
‘ by party leaders and the plea that local
politics should be separated from national
■ issues urged. Nothing but a scramble for
r petty offices will engage the supreme
1 efforts of the party. This will mightily
e strengthen the arm of the gold element of
e the party, who will be supplied with the
e sinews of war by the money power to
e break down the Chicago platform and
2 create a rupture with the line of cleverage
* dividing the northern and middle-western
States from the southern and silver States.
4 That this is the plan of campaign, the
r elections this year so plainly indicate that
f he that runs may read.
The Democratic party, primarily, is not
i a party of principle but of office getting.
' At the end of Van Buren’s term there
3 was a split in the party and a large
: northern wing went off as " free soilers,”
3 while the slave power captured the party
machinery and ran it successfully by
nominating northern men with southern
principles as national candidates. When
the slave-holder’s rebellion broke out, the
j machinery of the party being in the hands
j of the conspirators it was committed to the
l cause of the South. Thousands of patri-
I otic individuals chose the Union, but Jthe
. men who led the party espoused the side
of slavery. When the slave power broke
t down and was annihilated, the Deino
. cratic party as a political party .was scat
tered to the four winds. The opposition
to the triumphant Republican party were
known as “anti-coercionists,” “conserv
' atives” aud by other local appellations, but
properly |classified they were an opposi
tion, an obstructionist party.
When reconstruction was accomplished
( and the States again became nationalized,
the slavery party preserved its distinction
by taking the old name of Democrat, aud
from 1865 to the fall of 1896 it simply
. fought the Republicau party without a
, principle to rally on. Its elocutionists
. formulated platforms of glittering gen
era lites without substance, mere straw
and chaff affairs, heaping abuse on the
, opposite party which laughed in its sleeve
, while going on to perfect its money
, oligarchy.
When Cleveland was elected the san
! guine spirits who had been wandering in
> the wilderness almost as long as Moses
j. and the Children of Israel, went into
. spasms of ecstasy thinking they had
t found an idol worthy of worship. They
■ declared that Cleveland was the grandest
aud greatest man who ever sat in the
President’s chair, and the Republicans
laughed in their sleeve. They had bought
1 him and knew he was the embodiment of
l grossness and greed The Republicans
. encouraged .him till they got all out of
; him possible and cast him aside. He was
■ ambitious like all of his kind are, and
1 tried like Andy Johnson to form a party
i of his own. The men who put him in
; the White House scorned aud castihiui
; out from among them.
’ And thus the Democratic party drifted
1 without chart or compass till 1896, when
f the young patriots seized and hurled the
1 old Chinese joss leaders out of the party,
; drew a set of living principles from the
l Populist platforms, captured the conveti
-1 tion by storm and nominated a Populist
1 for their standard bearer. This bold dash
; came very near defeating the Republican
L party, and from the most authentic in-
I formation cost the party fifteen or twenty
t million dollars to save it from defeat.
> It was hoped that the combinttion of
' - the three elements of opposition which
! had come so near achieving a signal
triumph could be welded more firmly in
; 1900, but the inclination of the Demo
’ cratic party to reject any sensible organ
* j ization that holds out a promise of victory
'| in 1900 and a reform in our monopoly
} government, in the light of the recent
j election looks hopeless.
‘ j The Democratic party is the nineteenth
* century Bourbon. It learqs nothing,
! 1 forgets nothing and claims to be divinely
j appointed the greatest political organize
* tion in the United States.
* |
f 1
1 Late to bed and early to rise, pre; ares
l a man for his home in the skies. But
: early to bed and a Little Early Riser, the
> pill that makes life longer and better and
, wiser. Eii T. Reynolds.
At the average range of prices that pre
vailed from 1863 to 1873 the property
valuation of the United States instead of
being #65,000,000,000 would be #100,000,-
000,000 at least. The difference would
more than cover every dollar of our in
debtedness both public and private. This
has been brought about by the gold
standard and its steady fall in prices.
This #35,000,000,000 loss of property by
the fall in prices has taken from the poor,
the laboring, the wealth prodneing classes
and transferred it to the pockets of the
rich, who own fixed securities—bonds,
mortgages, etc., fixed salaries, interest
receivers, annuitants, etc.; and foremost
among this class are the bankers. Their
incomes are all derived from interest on
the credit loans which they make on their
depositors' money.
A Sure Sign of Croup.
Hoarseness in a child that is subject to
croup is a sure indication of the approach
of the disease. If Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy is given as soon as the child be
comes hoarse, or even after the croupy
cough has appeared, it will preveut the
attack. Many mothers who have croupy
children always keep this remedy at hand
and find that it saves them much trouble
and worry It can always be depended
upon and is pleasant to take. For sale
by E. T. Reynolds, druggist.
Lower Prices.
A few weeks ago the banking fraternity
held a convention at Omaha. In that
convention their chief expounders or
rather advocates of the gold standard—
for they failed to explain the theory—
assumed and contended that low prices
for property was an advantage to business
and the class of people who produce.
Bradstreet and R. C. Dun & Co., in their
trade review publications, have caught on
to this goldbug deception and say in their
recent issues, and since the Omaha debate;
“Progressive civilization calls for a
lower range of profits and prices as the
volume of business increases, in order to
make possible improvement iu the con
dition of the working classes.”
Do the laborers think that lower wages
would improve their condition ? Do
farmers believe that lower prices for their
products would benefit them ? Do those
in debt think that lower prices for that
which they have to sell to get money to
pay their obligations, believe that less
money for the products of their labor
would enable them to pay their debts
easier ?
The advocates of the gold standard are
at last driven to the reckless assertion
that lower prices would benefit people
who sell their labor aud the products of
labor ! We say they are driven to this
subterfuge at last because the gold stan
dard is steadily scaling down prices. They
used to preach that the gold standard
would cause the dollar to buy so much
more of labor's products that it would
benefit the laborer That is to say it
would be of great advantage to him to
sell labor and products at low prices in
order to get money to buy other laborers’
products at low prices.
At last the ridiculous feature of this
assumption got through the thick skull
of the hard working class and they now
ring the change on that a lower “range of
profits and prices is necessary to improve
the condition of the working class ! What
are we to hear next from this refuge of
lies ?
From New Zealand.
REEFTON, New Zealand, Nov. 23, '96.
I am very pleased to state that since I
took the agency of Chamberlain's med
icines the sale has been very large, more
especially of the Cough Remedy. In two
years I have sold more of this particular
remedy than of all other makes for the
previous five years. As to its efficacy, I
have been informed by scores of persons
of the good results they have received
from it, and know its value from the use
of it in my own household. It is so
pleasant to take that we have to place
the bottle beyond the reach of the chil
dren. E. J. ScantlEbury.
For sale by E. T. Reynolds.
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve.
The best salve in the world for
cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt
rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped
bauds, chilblains, corns and all
skin eruptions, and positively cures
piles, or no pay required. It is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfac
tion or money refunded. Price 25
cents per box. For sale by Dr. L.
It. Kirk.
HIVING SUN MARKET.
Butter, per lb 15
Eggs “ doz 16
Chickens “ lb 06
Spring chickens 07
Lard, 06 )4
Tallow, 03
Wheat 50 65
Oats 20 25
Corn, on ear 30 35
Corn, shelled 30
Hay, prime, clear of baling 400 600
Oats Straw “ “ “ 3 00 350
Wheat Straw “ " 300
A CHEAT record of cures, une
qualled in medical history, proves
Hood’s Sarsaparilla possesses merit un
known to any other MEDICINE.
Dreadful
CROUP
Mothers, when your children are at
tacked by the dreadful croup, you
need not despair; Dr. John W. Bull’s
Cough Syrup will relieve and cure
this disease at once. You can always
depend on this marvelous remedy; it
never fails to cure. For whooping
cough and measle-cough it is the best
remedy in the land. Children like it.
Dr.BulTs
Cough Syrup
Will cure Croup without fail.
Doses are small and pleasant to take. Doctors
recommend it. Price 35 cents. At all druggists.
BUSINESS and SHORTHAND COURSES,
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE.
Thirteenth year. SOOO students from 200 places and different states have at
tended. Famous tor quickly starting young people on SUCCESSFUL CAREERS
through its brief Commercial and Shorthand Courses. 388 students from every
where (some 100 ladies)—and 02 graduates last year! Largest attendance.
Original plan for boarding students in Private Homes for $3.50 a Week.
Money saved here. Write to any citizen or any minister of any denomination in
Wilmington about Goldey College. Graduates aided to positions. SELF-SUP- j
PORT quickly given through our SHORT Courses. Send for Enrollment Blank. I
Our magnificent Catalogue will delierkt and amaze you. One of
tk# finest In the world. Just send for it end see. It Is free.
H. S. GOLDET, Principal.
They banish pain .
No matter what the matter is, one will do you
a good, and you can get ten for five cents.
■ A new style packet containing tbn bit ans PABCTrs In r. paper enrton (without glass) is now for sale
■ at some drug stores—iron five cents. Tliis low-priced sort is intended fr the poor and tho economi- £
W cal. One dozen of the flYe-oent carton* (130 tabul***) can ho hid by Mail by sending forty eighteenth w
a to tho Ripans Chemical Company, No. 10 Sprite*! troet. New York— or a s.i.gle carton (tkm f
S k tabules) will bo seut for nve cents, best modlcuo over made since tho world was created.
poeepy <§tot?e.
Headquat ters for Meats, Groceries and Provisions.
The season is here and we have Fresh Pork, Sausage and Scrapple always on
hand. In City Cured Meats we handle the best. Orders for city goods are arriving
daily, and goods weighed to our customers at actual weight, at a fair and legitimate
profit. Canned Goods, the best brands, are always to be found here. We make a
specialty of Coffees and Teas. Our Rio and Mocho brands of Coffees are becoming
very popular with lovers of a good article. New Orleans Molasses, grades of
Syrups—try the “White Lily, an excellent brand at a very low figure. Six gaades
of Flour—Pillsbury’s Best heads the list. A carload of Worcester Salt on band and
G. A. Salt in 200 lb. sacks. Some special things in Queensware. Tinware, Glassware.
flour in lots to suit.
Dry Goods, Notions, Underwear and Shoes.
Cantons, Muslins, Underwear, Laces and Embroideries, Dress Skirts and Waists
Working Shirts, Overalls, &c. A LINE OF SCHOOL SUPPLIES. This line of
goods is bought and sold on the spot cash system , beyond the shadow of credit, hence
we guarantee onr prices are as low as the lowest as all times.
Very truly,
Cor - Queen^nTs r Sn,V 18. IP. JsTIOHOXjg.
J. S. Chapman,
Having had 25 years experience in repairing of ever) description ol
I Watches, Clocks, Jewel y, Spectacles,
EYE GLASSES, MUSIC BOSES, Ac.
All work guaranteed. Special attention given to Chronograph
Next door tolPost Oflice. RISING SUN, MD.
OYSTERS-*,”
We are prepared to furnish the finest quality Oysters, Raw, Fried, Panned,
Stewed, or iu any stvle desired, and can supply them in quantities to suit, by
the plate, quart, gallon or barrel, in the shell or out. Fresh shipments in the
shell daily. We also have a full stoek oi
Groceries, Meats, Sausage and Scrapple.
ICE CREAM and FRUITS of all kinds in season. Special attention given to
orders for catering for balls, parties or festivals.
TOUCHTON & NIEIvDS,
Town Hall Building. Rising Sun, Md.
Y|Tl I Is it, our stock ot Watches and Jewelry,
I ml tt \ T J 4) Stationery and Blank Books, Pocket
II II V r , Books and Purses, Silverware and Sil
l ver Novelties, Drugs, Chemicals, Toilet
Articles, etc., are
So much iu demand, so satisfactory to the buyer,
So acceptable to everyone, so salable without argument.
BECATTSE
t
Our stock is large and complete, the latest, up-to-date
styles, obtainable at the lowest possible price, the most
permanent and best known.
TZEEEJ LOG-IG
of these facts crystalizes into an idea which every pur
chaser will find profitable to act upon. Try it.
RISING SUN PHARMACY,
Eli T. Reynolds.
We have Rose-Vel for Sore hands, Sure Cure for corns,
Celery Powders for headache.
Buffi ngtons^^
.... RISING SUN, MD.
Notwithstanding apparent reverses, the world’s higher
thought moves onward. We are not yet beyond the pos
sibility of mistakes. We, however, learn by mistakes,
I and with confidence face the future.
As to our success in gathering together the largest assort
ment of seasonable and desirable merchandise, there can
be no question ; the mistake may be in marking prices
a little too low for our own profit. Our consolation is
by so doing you are the gainer.
COATS AND CAPES —The unprecedented demand for
Ladies’ Coats and Capes has made large gaps in our
. racks. We have however yet remaining a full assorment
for later comers. Another invoice to arrive from factory
today.
CLOTHING —stiII keeps moving out. If it were not for
the large supply the assortment would be growing small,
but hundreds of dollars worth may be sold and you would
not notice the difference in the general stock;
something good and below regular retail prices.
DRESS GOODS —More of those popular cloths iu desirable
colorings now on our counters. Also an unsurpassed
assortment of Novelties and Plain Colors, from 50 cents
to $1 per yard.
SHOE DEPARTMENI —again replenished. Customers
have learned that the factory Shoes we handle are be
yond all competition for material and workmanship.
We simply ask you as a favor to compare our Lot 990
Shoes at $1.50 per pair with any $1.75 or even $2.00
Shoes you may have met with. We have sold them for
a considerable time and know their merits.
Mail your order for Butterick’s Paper Patterns.
Very truly,
E. R. BUFFINGTON & SONS.
WORTHINGTONS
l/l/e don’t beep them
You have seen shabby new Cloaks as well as
shabby old ones. You have seen Cloaks that looked cheap and
you knew they were cheap, just as plainly as if the price was
printed on the back. You can get cheap Cloaks here—lots of
them—but not oiv that looks cheap. Little prices we believe in,
but cheap looking Cloaks we have no use for.
Lei us prove it!
Do you know that cloth for a dress costs less than one-half
what it used to not so very long ago? Do you know that prices
are a good deal less now than they were last fall? Maybe you
havn’t found it out, because you have been shopping where they
don’t tell you these things. Try this store for your new Dress
and we will prove the truth of what we say.
Horse Blankets , Bed Blankets , Comfortables , Etc.
’Twill certainly pay you to look at our line of these season
able articles before purchasing elsewhere.
Underwear.
The time is here for you to buy Underwear. The stock of
Underwear here surpasses anything we have heretofore carried.
A careful examination will convince you.
Shoes _
The sale of Shoes is daily increasing. New things added
this week. Up to-date Shoes for the nobby dressers—Shoes for
the old people—Shoes for the children —Shoes lor everyone—
every quality. Prices very low.
Attention is called to our assortment of Boy’s Reefers. To
tit your boy out properly you must have one Jofi |these stylish
coats. Sizes from sto 15 years.
Hereafter we will have a complete stock of “Standard” Pat
terns and publications on sale. They are absolutely the best
produced, and the prices—s to 20 cents (none higher)—command
the attention of everyone. Call and get a fashion sheet. Then
mail your orders.
Very truly,
E. H. WORTHINGTON & SON.
t Heaters
Ourjdisplay is now complete with
Fite Place Heaters, Double Heaters, Par
lor Stoves, Shop ami Office Stoves, Cooks
and Ranges, Wood Air-Tight, in Double
and Single Heaters. We are in a position
to give good values in these goods, and
f'Vvm UoruAct Baskets, Stalk Hoes, Husking Gloves, Husking Pins,
V>UI 11 narvebl working Gloves, Pure Sisal Fodder Yarn.
Guns, Ammunition, Targets, Coats, Belts, Bags, Tools, &c.
Blatchley Pumps for all depths of wells.
HAINES & KIRK,
Rising Sun, Md.
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