The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-09-26

10 ~ ihciedseu tndL the Y5U,UOU, III us actlV-
ity, may in the course of "a year double lis
value and pass from hand to hand many
times, stimulating the various industries
of the country. So, too, this bill will
have corresponding energizing effect.
The money issued is not intended to accom-
modate the farmer alone, but as it comes
into circulation it will put the means Of
prosperity within the reach of those who
are engaged in the smaller and larger in
dustries of the country. This money issued
by the government becomes automatic. II
will contract when there is less use for it,
and expand when there is great demand;
thus disastrous financial contraction will
cease to be possible.
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This plan Of loaning money upon land at
2 per cent, with the privilege to the bor-
rover of returning it when he has no use for
it, creates moneyed system that will meet
| financial expansion and contraction as they
may occur, without inconvenience TO any.
Under its provisions, the real esta te of the
country being SO vast. there will always be
the possibility of obtaining the money nee
essary to carry on the enterprises of the
country, and when there is no further use
for the money the borrower stops paying
interest and takes up the mortgages upon
his farm.
The broad humanity of bis system is
best stated in his own words, and shows
that the lesson he learned from his
own early struggles has not been lost.
He said
The masses are beginning to realize the
condition of life. for humanity is not what
is possible. To reach the possibility is The
great question now to be considered. In the
unrest of the masses augur great good. 1t
is by their realizing that their condition Of
life is not what it ought be that vast I'M
provements may be accomplished.
l pity the statesman, or the voter.
who cannot respond to these noble
words, and l commend them, not only
to the Farmers Alliance, but to wage
workers everywhere. Leland Stanford,
by his courage to take the initiative in
this great movement, at once becomes
one OF the torch-bearers in advance of
many Of his contemporaries. He is the
Lloyd Garrison in financial reform, for
while one inaugurated the emancipation
Of the colored man from human slavery,
the other, let US hope, will be instru-
mental In emancipating the wage work
ers of all classes, from servitude to
the money kings, infinitely as degrading
to humanity.
In this connection, | cannot resist
quoting the following equally noble
words Of Archbishop ireland, on the
great moral forces of the age, as apropos
to my subject: The tendencies and
movements of the age, which alright
the timid, are providential opportunities
opening the way for us to glorious
victories. That modern ideas and
movements are under all their aspects
deserving of approval, am far from
asserting Is Il And Jet how much
there is in them that is grand and good!
The good is the substantial-the pri-
mary movement; the bad is but the
accident. The movement bubbles up
from the deepest recesscs of humanity.
AS it parts from its source its tendency
is upward; 1t makes for the elevation of
the race, the betterment of the multi.
tude; the extension of mans empire
over nature. The greatest epoch of
human history, if we except that which
witnessed the coming of God upon
earth, is with US. * i x We should
speak to our age of things it feels and
in language 1t understands. We should
be in it, and of it, if we would have its
ear. Il * Into the arena, repeat. and
do the work before US in this age and
this country, caring not for the old
customers of the dead, or for sharp
criticism from the livIng-Gshting at
every point for justice and persever-
ance."
These are golden words; and as
human thoughts are living agencies
and never die, let US hope that they will
produce equally golden results How
long, think you, would it take to rid
the wage,workers of this country at
least, of their wrongs; so as to enable
them to enjoy an equal share of their
labor, if modern craftsmanship did its
part? But, as Archbishop Ireland well
says, 'the greatest epoch of human
history is before u.s. 1t is here now,
and the great moral forces it has en-
gendered are sure to work out some
good.
Now, then, if the Farmers Alliance
and the alliance of all other classes OF