The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-02-13
The Peaceful Revolution.

Tree Coinage fiueT ou Oehate appropriation
bill was voted down, and the party papers
shouted in chorus, proclaimed in staring
headlines free coinage Of silver dead, and
with other demonstrations Of gladness show.
ed their supreme satisfaction OF the tempo.
rary check the peoples cause had received
Their exuberance leading them into the
extravaganza of declaring the measure
''dead." Some of these claqueurs Of the
money monopoly added efor the present
session. while others forgot this saving
clause.
The fact ofthe silver "rider" being taken
off the appropriation bill is no evidence Of
the defeat Of free coinage, for riders
should not be permitted to burthen any
bill, and each measure be placed on its own
merits.
Congress in both branches is overw helm
ingly represented by the agents of the
money and monopoly class, as the free dis
cussion in the present Congress has demon
strated, and this class cares nothing for the
party which they have taken possession Of
or any other party which ceases to be Of
use 10 them; hence we behold the leaders
who hold the machinery of the republican
party in their hands, resisting inch by inch
the popular demand, determined to drag the
party down with them if the plutocratic
class can no longer have absolute control Of
it. They spurn with contempt and scorn
every proposition advanced by the agrieul-
tural and labor element, as senseless jabber
of a british, ignorant class, very similar to
the mobiles and court class of France before
the great revolution.
There is a revolution in this country
already in progress, though bloodless, no
less radical than that of France which
swept corrupt priest-craft and king-craft
from place and power in an effete monarchy,
and established on their ruins the French
republic, which though overwhelmed with
numerous disasters rises from ever reverse
brighter and stronger.
The popular forces arrayed in this coun-
try against plutocracy aud corporate greed
and robbery do not anticipate such ieverses
as have chastened the old world republic
cans. The people here are vastly more
intelligent and are beginning TO discern
very clearly the causes which rob them Of
their earnings and the remedy to apply.
The first attack of the French revolution
lists was on the Dastilc, the gloomy prison Of
tyranny that had taken from their midst so
many OF their best and ablest friends, en-
abliDg the proAigate court and church class
to rob industry of its earnings with i'm
punity. In the revolution which is being
pushed by the Farmers Alliance and other
labor organizations, their first combined
assault is on the law which cut in two the
money the country; which proclaimed
that silver should no longer be used as
money but only gold. This point gained
threw the property and wealth Of the masses
more completely in the power of those who
commanded the gold. And the few who
held the bonded debt of the nation had
absolute control Of the gold. The constant
effort Of that class has been 10 curtail the
quantity Of money and make its purchasing
power greater. The effort to restore silver
to its place as money where the trainers of
the constitution and the government placed
it, IS the problem ofihe hour, which the
representatives of the banking and specu.
lating class in Congress are SO desperately
resisting. That this resistance must sue
cumb in the near future, they admit but
rather than yield, they will prefer death to
the party they misuse.
This stronghold of plutocracy will have
been won before the first session Of the next
Congress adjourns, and the battle continued
against usury which is managed through
banking corporations and watered stock,
species of gambling and robbery that has
grown to such proportions as to overshadow
all other business systems, and has become
The almost only "open sesame" 10 wealth.
Our Financial policy"-robbery would
be more appropriate name-has been
copied from England and the continental
nations, and is system devised and per
fected by the Jews, whose every thought
and aspiration are the gathering together
boards of gold. The main feature of the
system consists in persuading governments
to borrow money from their banks. The
government in order to accomplish this,
issues bonds drawing Interest payable quar-
terly or semi-annually. in gold. These
large Jewish banking firms take the con-
tract of 'placing' the bonds on the market.
The daily papers are used and subsidized to
advertise the bonds and they are sold to all
who will buy, but the Jewish banking
firms advance the money which the gov
eminent is in immediate need of and take
the "loan' --bonds-always far below its
par value. The bank if possible becomes
the depository of the governments funds
which are checked out as required, and the
government employees carry the money
back again to the bank, which checking oul
by the government officers and returning
again by the recipients of the cash, keep up
the banks reserves and strong line of de-
posits, large portions of which are available
to loan TO individuals at paying rates OF
interest. Thus il is seen that the money
firms or banking corporations, while loan
ing to the government are using its money