The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-01-25
Friday, Jan. rs, 1889.
Mammon Worship.


weeks Wing to say good word in behalf
of the trust, monopoly system. Why not
come out honestly and own membership in
the church of Mammon without attempting
to beat about the bush? This doughty
knight of the golden god says:
s.An editorial contained in last weeks
MIDLAND JOURNAL, entitled The Money
Power in Our Politics in which it is assert
ed that syndicate of millionaire Republl
cans united and bought the pivotal States"
This charge is easily disposed of for there
is not word OF truth in the sentence. No
such statement was ever published in the
MIDLAND JOURNAL.
Having set up his man Of straw the lit
erary athlete commences TO ''slug' it in the
most approved style. Bed down the COWS with
your straw dummy and pick up some of the
facts stated in the aforesaid editorial and try
your hand on them. No necessity of your
sneaking off to an Ekton paper, with a
false issue and false statement, Well give
you all the room you want in the MIDLAND
JOURNAL. You, may withhold your name
if you like. We don't care whose doctrine
is preached, nor who breaches il. Whether
lis false or true is the point that interests
the public.
This champion of ''the monied class" clos
es his panegyric on plutocracy with the fol-
lowing flourish:
s'This seeking to infame the spirit Of
jealousy and hatred towards the monied
class. in the minds of the moneyless rabble.
is to help fan fame which must eventually
burst into volcanic fire, which will blast
and burn up everything in its path includ-
ing those who have helped kindle it,"
This defender of "the monied class" need
not fear perishing in his imagonary vol.
cano. Nor is it probable he'll be ordered
to stand up in hades and be counted with
the Dives Of the 10Th century. There is no
'sspirit of jealousy against the monied class"
but univel sal protest against the methods
employed by a portion of that class. Nor is
there any effort to "inllame the spirit Of
jealousy IN the "m;nds Of the moneyless
rabble" against honestly accumulated
wealth, but it is the colossal fortunes that
are being piled up by methods that rob
honest industry of its earnings, which the
angry demand for justice is against. Van
derbit gathered into his Golfers one hundred
million dollars in few years, by being per-
mitted to control at his pleasure two rail-
roads between Chicago and New York, and
by that power as truly robbed the produc-
ing public as though it bad been done by an
army of brigands. No man ever earns hon.
estly by brain OR muscle in a few years,
millions. 1t is not the men who constitute
the smonled class" whom cur Sixth Dis
trict friend is making salams before, bowling
his mouth in the, dust to glorify, that the
honest, intelligent, patriotic class (which
this worshiper of illgot wealth scorns as
"the moneyless rabble") are at war with,
but the system which fosters the growth of
plutocracy. And it is to prevent the "vol-
canic fires" which this dangerous system if
unchecked, is sure TO produce by spontane-
Gus combustion, tina the best \thiukers and
puresl COINCIDENCE Of the nation are striving
for.
Some fifteen years ago, returning from
Washington, that seething maelstrom
of society, politics and passion, to his
quiet home in Ekton, Hon. John A. J.
fH.o,,,oII - oonyar.a t;or y,;tl, th. vy,;ie -
said, fittings go on in the course they
are tending this nation will ere long
be plutocracy in place of democ
racy. What was then but an infant is now,
in comparison, a giant. Does this Sixth
District scribe know what piitocracy means?
In his eagerness to PROSTATE before, and kiss
the modern golden calf he most probably
has never sought to know. 1t means rotten
luxury aud licentiousness at the top, an ar
tiicial famine with its handmaids of vice
and ignorance at the bottom, and a virtuous
middle class crushed aud ground to powder
between the upper and neither milestone.
With one almost universal outburst of
denunciation from pulpit, press and forum
against the bribery and corruption
which characterised the last political camp
paign, our Sixth Dirtrict friend assures us
that the quiet, deliberate will Of the people
was the only influential factor known in the
canvass! Is this at the expense of his morals
or his intelligence? This is not a party
charge but national charge, and both par
ties are alike under the ban of p1blic dis
pleasure; hence the laws tina, are suggested
IN almost every newspaper picked up, to
break up this alarming evil.
And now "honest IaSo" OF the 9th dis
trict, if you want 10 combat any Of our views
or statements, just quote our words and sail
in, and we promise 10 meet you At Philippi.
And don't manufacture straw dummy in
cr.ey t, make an opportunity 10 pay court