The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-09-12
THE Farm.
Alliance Picnic IN Howard County.

Howard county made grand dem.
onstratlon on August 9th that shows
how the Maryland farmers are getting
walked up about the Alliance and its
doctrines. The County Alliance picnic
on that day at the seventeenth mile
stone on the Baltimore and Frederick
turnpike was attended by 1000 people
Every prominent man in Howard
county was present, whether he was a
farmer or not, and the adjoining coun
ties of Carroll, Baltimore, Anne Arun-
pei. Prince Georges, Montgomery and
even Frederick were represented in the
assembled multitude.
John W. Renehan, the president Of
the Howard county Alliance, was the
chairman of the meeting, and at IL
o'clock he introduced the days oratory
by few remarks about the Alliance
and then introduced Hon. G. III. Ellis
M. c., from South Dakota. His speech
was devoted to considering the power
of organization and the necessity Of
economic education.
DR.. M. G.. Elzey, of Woodstock.
Howard county, then made long and
strong speech which was several times
applauded by the highly interested
crowd. He said the country was in
the face of crisis such as is rarely
known. The past has proven that
wherever wealth was amassed in the
hands of few there was an invariable
sequence of events. When plutocrats
sought to enslave the masses. the peo-
pie, tortured by their suferings, would
be disconnected and at last rebeliious
The result was civil contention
anarchy and ruin. The question now
is can we escape what others have pass
ed through? The hope Of the Farmers
Alliance in this connection is that the
industrial masses can appreciate the
situation and meet the emergency by
peaceful and constitutional measures
if possible. Whether success was pos
sible depended upon one thing only,
wisdom and patriotism in pursuing the
line of action marked out.
We demand practical recognition,
the civil equality of men and the po-
litical supremacy Of the people. The
consequences Of such recognition will
be a remedying of the evils which
exist.
Not only in the United States, but in
all Christendom, the money power is in
the hands of a few, the result of de-
liberate combine into the money trust.
We hear much of trusts of all descrip-
tons, but little of the money trust,
which is the Oldest of all, dating from
1860. Its advent was prephesied by
great men who had gone before. 1t is
the result of deliberate conspiracy to
enslave wage earners. The conspiracy
is far ON its road to success, for the
financial policy of the United States for
the past thirty years has been controlled
by the money trust. AS to fuance,
there has been no legislation which has
not been formulated in the bank closets
Of London.
Referring to the Hazard circular, he
said it was the origin of the money
trust. 1t suggested combine of the
rich men Of the United States with
those of other countries to substitute
capital control of labor for chattel
slavery, not that the rich man had in
his heart any sympathy for the African
bondman, but he was doing what is
known in sporting circles as betting on
a certainty. The capitalists of this
country and England knew that slavery
was to be abolished, because they knew
where the money was coming from to
DO it, and that the bonds arising from
the var debt were to be made the basis
of banking system.
The association of London bankers
In accordance with the suggestion Of
Hazard, secretly circulated, recon-
mended the adoption of the suggestion,
and soon bill was introduced by John
Sherman, known as the banking act. 1t
was passed under the lash, in a few
days was signed by Abraham Lincoln,
and remains the law of the land now.
We have talked much lately of gag
law, but this beats all ever known in
this country; it was passed without
discussion being allowed. John Sher-
man is still at work. He wanted green.
backs retired because those he repre-.
sented could not have control. He
wanted silver demonetized for the same
reason Iohn Cba,1oo L.. H..