The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-08
The Situation.

The republican party in that vote placed
itself squarely on the Eng fish system, and
the controlling power of the democrat party
placed itself as firmly by the side of the
republican party as any party platform
could possibly do, and much more decidedly
and Enthusiastically than the national plat
forms of either old party has declared itself
| in recent years.
The English gold money principle for
fixing at the highest purchasing power,
debts, interest, annuities, salaries and taxes
was endorsed by that combination, and the
Auctuating, uncertain gauge of values by
national bank notes, which increase and
diminish prices of all property and all
products, at the pleasure of the issuers of
such money, which is entirely under control
Of banking firms and wholly independent of
the government.
The gold of the world is in control of a
very small and favored class, who have
secured most of the indebtedness of the
wealth producers, and is used by them to
sustain and increase the purchasing power
Of the debts they control. The same class
and their allies aim 10 secure perpetual and
undisputed control of the currency by
which all business is conducted and all
exchange of products effected. This circu-
lating medium or national bauk currency is
based" on the public debt, or bonded
obligations of the nation, and by this ngen-
ious deyice double sucking tube is fastened
on the veins of industry with power 10
exhaust every spare drop of blood oyer and
above barely enough to keep feeble life in
the victim. That victim is the entire
industrial class.
This in brief is the financial system de-
vised by the Jew gold bankers of England
and Germany for the United States and
adopted by the republican party and the
Cleveland part of the democrat party.
An examination of this financial system
will show that it is a system which estab-
fishes complete Plutocracy above the
power of the government, and which holds
despotic sway over every branch of business
in the entire country, from the greatest to
the least, exacting tribnte from all to the
last cent it will bear. Under this system, if
it can be permanently fastened upon the
country, regular process of initiation and
expansion of productive industry, and as
regular or periodic contraction would be
established. When enterprises had built up
prosperous, wealth producing business by
the favor OF bank credit, the gold and hank
trust would as Systematically proceed to
confscate such business and divide the
proceeds among the trust. Under their but
par TALLY perfected system, the evidence is
before the eyes Of the public in the present
distress and ruin to business concerns,
brought about by cold blooded conspiracy
of this money trust, which has arlfully
placed its tools In possession of the govern
ment. Had the laws of congress now on the
statute books been executed in letter and
spirit, this financial conspiracy which has
robbed the people of billions in wrecked
business and confscated property, could and
would have been frustrated by simply issu
ing an order from the Treasury Department
declaring the law would be carried out in
letter and spirit, with any discrimination
given the Secretary in favor of the people.
The Secretaries of the Treasury for the last
80 years have either been members of this
money trust or its creatures, and the men
whom the people have unfortunately placed
in executive control of the government,
have been either imbecils in financial mat
tiers or favored system OF government in
which the rich shall be the rulers and the
poor the workers.
On this line there is going to be polit-
ical party divide. This is the avowed policy
of the republican party whose mission was
the destruction of slavery and the preserva-
tion of the Union intact. That accomplished
its mission really ended, but amid the
smoke, confusion, Generalization and
excitement of the war, the old Hamiitonian
theorists who t;a.rew their influence on the
side of the Union, slipped into control,
and by distracting the attention of the i i;:h-
lie by heated inyectives against the dead
cause Of slavery they were enabled quietly
TO consolidate their plans and when the
people are at last awakening they find
themselves well nigh helpless, bound hand
and foot by system of class laws which is
rapidly creating class of wage slaves and
class of corporation masters.
The people have been Systematically
drilled for thirty years in political ignor-
ance, and at no period since the foundation
OF the government have the masses and the
larger part of the more intelligent class
been so ignorant Of the genius and theory CT
our government, and the class systems
which now control it. These are thoroughly
aristocratic and of English origin.
We are now paying annual tribute of
hundreds of millions of dollars 10 the mon
led aristocracy of England, and if the gold
ring money trust of that country is allowed
TO perfect its plans the United States will be
little short of colonial dependence of
England. BY their gold ring contraction
policy, which they have been enabled to
carry out through the national banks, they
have Systematically made money scarce.
the inevitable result of which was to lower
the price and diminish values of all prop
erty, and with the surplus money. the