The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-07-28
QUESTIONS OF THE DAY.
CIRCULAR NUMBER 2.

OF the National Industrial Legion.
IN THE GREAT CRISIS NOW CONFRONT.
ING THE NATION THE INDUSTRIAL
LEGION WILL DO ITS DUTY.
In the great crisis now confronting
the nation, the Industrial Legion will
do its full duty. They will pass reso-
lutions and send to congress protesting
against the repeal of the Sherman act,
unless free coinage Of silver is substi-
tuted at a ratio of Is to l.
They will object to the repeal of the
law taxing the issue of state banks and
induce other organizations to take the
same action. Wherever organized, the
Legion is grandly educating the masses.
1t is teaching them the truth. 1t is
laying bare the infamous crimes and
conspiracies of the money power. 1t is
demonstrating the highway robbery
that has impoverished the people and
rendered them powerless to pay their
obligations.
The ruthless money kings want to
cause utter desolation in the West and
South. They want to gather in the
100000 mortgaged homes. They
want to foreclose on all the railroads in
the West and South which they hold in
the same iron grasp. They want to
turn the brave miners and the sturdy
farmers and fearless laborers, who have
dared to revolt, and have voted to be
free, out of their homes, and will
delight in their woe and want. They
are striking down the business men in
the towns, eating up the weak banks
and closing up every avenue of employ
ment they can. They want to degrade
and make beggars of the common peo-
pie. Meanwhile they are shipping a
horde of the scum Of Europe, and fill
ing go our cities with rabble who
will do their bidding, and they fiddle
and sing and bow the knee to royalty
and aristocracy, and shut their ears to
the walls of the starving poor all over
the nation.
Their hearts are utterly dead 10
human sympathy, and the evident pur-
pose Of the grasping money monarchf
is to ensla7e the whole world. The
same direful spectacle is visible in
every nation except France, which has
the largest volume Of money in circu-
lation, among the people, of any gov
eminent in existence.
From the parlors of the Rothschi'd'
are cent forth the mandates that rule
the universe. Gladstone and Cleveland
are but puppets in their hands. Thei
agents bough. both of them their places
and they willingly carry out thei
orders. This nation, when but 3,000,-
600 strong, shook off the letters o
Great Britain; but now with $1,000, 00(
souls, they lie like Rip Van Winkl
and quietly sleep.
Our Treasury Department for NOR
than twenty five years, has been die
tated to by aliens foreign to our soil
and yet the people slumber. The pen
sion money in circulation has been
blessing to the people. 1t is the clean
est pay roll of the United States gov.
eminent and yet the order goes fortl
to nullify the law, trample cour
decisions under foot and degrade ant
dishouor the old gray haired veteran
and widow and orphan.
The agent of the money sharks, com
missioned by the United States, ar
invading every hamlet to see if SOM
pittance cannot be taken away from tn
heroes of the war. These men hav'
been compelled to furnish testimon,
enough to hang man, have been ex-
amined over and over by doctors, ant
then pensioned IN sums that will no
buy the family bread. Our poorhouse
are full, our soldiers homes are crowded
and yet within few years of thei
hnal muster out, President VIII
bought substitute, (who deserted,
orders war all along the line on til,
men who did their duty when hi
shirked his; on the men who were
robbed of their pay by the Shylockl
depreciatiug the money during the war
Too much money in circulation is the
gold bug war cry, and the law must BE-
violated and the silver states depopu-
lated by the war on silver. Men of the
blue, let us join hands with the gray
coats and sweep this robber horde OIL
plundering bandits from power.
The law of the land DEGREES the
redemption Of silver certificates in coin
and orders the coinage of enough silver
IN radaa0, fham and rot n xu;ll;no