The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-03-04
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A Vast Conspiracy.

A Vast Conspiracy.
The Industrial Conferences which met at
ST. Louis on Feb. 22ad. publishes to the
world a second Declaration Of Independence
which sets forth the wrongs that Cypress the
''plain people,. in declaration scarcely
less eloquent than the famous document
which was penned by Jefferson. The
former stirred the blood into more pas
sionate tumult because it called to arms aud
blood shedding. The latter calls the sons
of those who answered the first summons TO
use the ballot to regain the rights which
have been beguiled from them by the
descendants of those who attempted to take
them by violence more than hundred years
ago. The address put forth by the indus
trial gathering contains the following elo-
quent sentence:
IA vast conspiracy against mankind has
been organized on two continents and is
taking possession of the world. If not met
and overthrown at once it foreshadows
terrible social commissions, the destruction
Of civilization or the establishment of an
absolute despotism.''
These are not idle words of alarmists bot
as solumn truth as Paul uttered before
Festus. They were penned BY men as
firmly impressed with the truth Of their
utterance as Jefferson and his compatriots
when they pablished the Declaration Of
Independence to the world. The leaders of
this conspiracy are, like the leaders of the
conspiracy against the liberties of the coll
onies, enthroned as the money arisiocracy of
England. They haye dictated our financial
system and manipulate it through their
agents in this country, many Of whom are
members of our law making bodies and
executors of those class laws which have
enabled money aristocracy to rob the pro-
ducing classes of this country.
To right these wrongs and rebel against
the usurpers Of their rights and the despoil-
ers oftheir property by every art known 10
class legislation and usury, the "plain
people, through their representatives
assembled at st. Louis on the birthday of
the father of his country, have proclaimed
their demands. The most hopeful among
the masses have lost all hope of relief
through their old parties, who invent
excuses for failures and multiply promises
for deeds.
That new party will take the field
against the old parties is as sure as anything
that will occur in the future, and whose
coming was foreshadowed by the indepen-
pendent action last year in many parts of
the country, which changed majority in
Congress to minority. The false inter-
probation of that political conyulsion in the
West and South, by the leaders of the
Democrat party, is as foolish and will
prove as fatal as the hardening of Pharoah's
heart. Monopoly and the money power are
so completely distributed between the two
old parties that it is a matter of impossible.
ity for either to take up the cause ofthe in
dustrial classes, and they content themselves
with the sensefess cry of "iarifY," as the
Epbesians did by shouting the greatness OF
Diana.
The monopoly and money aristocracy
elements Of the old parties will be forced
together, while the plain people whom the
politicians have succeeded in duping must
inevitably gravitale to each other. The
line will be SO plainly and broadly drawn
between the Republican and Democratic
party corporation favored classes, and the
Republican and Democratic party plundered
industrial masses, that the tariff dust poll
ticians haye thrown in their eyes in every
election campaign for the past eight years
will fail TO blind the people in the next. By
this trick their pockets have been picked
for the last time.
On the next independence day, the 4th Of
July, a national party will be launched "by
the people, Of the people and for the
people" as against the plulocracy which
has ridden the two old parties till they have
become hopeless imbecils jabbering idiotic
jargon, in which the sound of but .hree
words is distingaishable, tariff" "honest.
money. "light-yeight-dollars."