The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-10-28
Choose Whom We Will Follow.


campaign, this campaign of education
as the subsidized press of the old Plutocra;ic
parties hoped to gull the public by asserting.
They have not attempted to ''educate" the
people, but as far as in them lies to prevent
all education of the people on political
questions. They have confined their efforts
TO presenting the puzzle game Of the tariff
TO their readers, the dear people, and their
tricks in this line have been equal to the
Indian iuggler. Education indeed by
these old twin cheats Education of the
masses is what they most fear. The crank
lest stuff that was ever invented and offered
to the public by set of political mounte-
banks has been the rubbish ground out
during this presidential campaign, by press
and speakers of these twin tools of Plutoc-
racy. The only public educators have been
the Peoples party papers and speakers,
and the old party press knowing they could
not answer the array of blighting facts con-
tinuously pushed TO the front. took TO the
woods, by tacit agreement to pretend to be
entirely obIlvious of the fact that there was
such party, till that fighting party made
il so warm they were finally compelled TO
admit there was something giving them
trouble in the West and South. Well, there
is in very truth such an organization, and it
tells the people what it means TO DO when
the government is wrested from the grip Of
monopoly which is controlling it through
the organizations of the two old parties. 1t
means that the men who create all the
wealth shall enjoy an equitable share of
that wealth. 1t means that the money Of
the country shall be increased in volume
commensurate TO the ever expanding volume
of business, and that it shall be taken out Of
the control of banking corporations ard
placed under the control of the class who
use it to promote industry and create wealth.
1t means that the telegraph and telephone
shall be taken out of Jay Gould's hands
and placed under the post Office department.
1t means that the railroads shall be taken
out of the hands of gang of spectators
and stock jobbers, many of them foreign
nabobs, and be put under government con-
troll. 1t means that all important national
legislation shall be submitted to direct
vote of the people before such acts of Con-
gress shall become laws, as articles Of
amendment to the constitution are submit
ted. 1t means that the millions of acres Of
land given TO corporations through railroad
land grants and gobbled up by foreign and
eastern state syndicates shall be again re-
stored to the government and held for the
use Of, and homes for the people.
The Peoples party has been teaching the
people through its papers and speakers how
these things can be done, and demonstrate.
ing the incompatible advantages that must
accrue TO the great mass of the industrial
people from these reforms. They have
listened 10 this teaching and are seriously
moved by this new gospel which they have
never heard from their old parties, hence
the serious and ominous quiet that reigns,
and the absence of the torchlIght procession
and the brass band.
Now, brothers of The great toll weary
host, your interest is common interest.
Do you still hesitate, in doubt how you shall
cast your ballot, the only barrier that
stands to-day between you and wage
slavery? Yon have been voting for we'll
nigh 80 years for these old twins of Plu-
tocracy. Has your condition improved, or
your lines become harder? Has not the
price of your lands, your grain, your stock
steadily gone downward, and the debts,
interest, taxes and public expenses grown
harder TO meet? Has not the best years of
a lifetime satisfied you that this political
road is hard one to travel, and without
the sign of a turn in 1t, but up hill all the
time ? "Hills mount Ger hills and Alps
on Alps arise" before you. There is nothing
but a desolate plain and cherries snow
capped mountains before you. Have you
not travelled all 100 long on this cherries
road, and are you not almost, or altogether
persuaded TO harken TO the voice from your
own household, the voice of your brothers
who have been treading the wine press with
you, but are now calling you to turn away
from this path where nothing but disap-
pointments and broken promises have re-
warded your toll, and try the path they
have discovered that was blazed out by the
strong, true and wise men who revolted
against King George? That path has been
closed and masked by the friends of King
George and his aristocratic courtier class
and new path opened for the people which
led back to the serfdom of that aristocracy
which the old Conlinentals SO heroicly
defied and drove back over the ocean. Will
you not cease travelling this desolate road
and join your friends who stand IN the ranks
of labor by your side, and who have organ
lied party that is Of the people and led by
the people and is for the interest of the
whole people, not part of the people or a
special, favored, wealth grabbing class
Wall street and the British arislocracy are
at the head of, and direct both the organiza.
tlons of the old parties. Chauncy Depew,
the boss manager of the Vanderbilt rail-
roads, and William Whitney the national
bank diplomat and Standard Oil trust
prime. minister. What part have you with
hese AZ ents of Dives, men of the plow and