The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-11-11

upon the heart and brain. These organs are
engorged and conges:ed while the extrem-
tiles are benumbed and cold. Speculation
in stocks and farm produce is running mad
in the Exchanges" and boards of trade"
the gamblers being supplied from the album
dance of money which the city banks have
collected in from every point Of the com.
pass. The betting runs high in these "bus
mess" gambling bells. the exchanges, and
brokers gather in their commissions from
sales Of millions of pounds of wind wheat,
and wind cotton, and stocks of all descrip-
tiops that have been manufactured out of
wind and catalogued for betting on. This
gambling business goes on day after day in
the large cities aud is called "business" by
the newspapers and gamblers. The system
is demoralizing to the last degree and detri-
mental TO every honest business in the
country, and will continue TO grow worse
and more destructive TO honest employment
and legitimate traffic till our present degrad-
ing and demoralizing financial system is
torn up ny the roots and utterly destroyed.
Il is copy of the system established in
England by the Jew bankers, the object of
which is to roo honest industry of its earn
ngs and raise up class in society such as
Jesus scourged from the porticoes of the
temple and called the place den of thieves.
This class has artfully managed to control
all the large daily papers in their intesest
and by laying hold Of party politics they
play on the superstition of the nass ofread-
ers, and by that means make them uphold
ers of systems which they, the masses, are
heartily opposed TO, but their party super
sutton deprives them of their manhood and
independence. Until American political
manhood rises above party superstition the
robbery which is going on through class
laws will be continued.
We are compelled to confess it with
humiliation and shame, that but few Amer
leans know as much about the genins and
work ings of the United States government,
as the common people of European countries
know and understand, OF the monarchical
governments of the old world. We are
densely ignorant Of the principles Of repub.
lican government, all our institutions being
copies of the class governments of Europe'
with only the forms Of a republic, and to
this we add the most slavish party super
stition.
The little band of ieformers like Chris
tan in Pilgrims Progress, who set out to
reach the celestial country of true republic.
have met with many difficulties and must
encounter many more. They need all the
Greathearts, and Fathfuls and will have
many Fainthearts join them who will
turn back at every little Slough Of
Despond. Chained lions and toothlesa
giants will roar and gnash at them and
Vanity Fairs will oppose them with iron
cages and persecution when they ask for the
truth, or speak it. For thousands of years
man has been struggling for political free
dom and fleeing west from the prosecutions
of greed and tyranny. lie fled from Asia
through the primeval woods of Europe
steadily pursued by his old enemy intent on
devouring all that his industry accumulated.
Driven from the old world he crossed the
Atlantic and entered the unbroken wilder
ness of The new, hoping he had at length
found a resting place for his weary feet,
but the old sleuth hounds, Avarice and
Tyranny kept close at his heels as he pressed
onward to the setting sun. He has at last
reached the western shores of the Pacific,
and to him the end of the world. He can
flee no further. He must now fight for lib
erty and the fruits of his toll or perish as
freeman and sink into the deformed human
beast of the serf He has turned on his
pursuers and is facing them in the last
desperate battle for his manhood and the
enjoyment of the wealth he draws from the
bounteous breast of nature by ceaseless toll
and the sweat of his brow. II is desperate
battle and is only barely begun. Relentless
Tyranny and CONSCIOUSNESS Greed have
grasped every thing and are using all their
powers against bin. But man in his divine
beauty must conquer or perish in this battle.
There is no other land to retreat to. He
must conqusr or die as freeman and owner
and erjoyer of the fruits Of his labor.