The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-07-20
QUESTIONS OF THE DAY.
Crimes of the National Banks.
EXTRACTS FROM THE SPEECH OF
HON. HENRY A COFFEN.

EAIhAO1S FROM IHE SPEECH Ot
HON. HENRY A CoFFEN.
| challenge any student of his
tory to find in the ages of the past
any nation that made any pretense
to enlightenment that ever furnish
ed such stupendOus record of
financial crimes and legislative
folly as this nation has furnished
during the last twenty five or thirty
years under the blind and wilful
following of advice from the money
power, and an equally stupid and
vicious refusal to listen to the ap-
peals of wronged and long suffering
people. And again, l know of no
instance in history where kings,
emperors, or tyrants of any kind at
the head of marching armies,
sweeping in conquest over any
portion of the earth, were able to
gather tribute so rapidly and ac-
cumulate so vast volume of wealth
as the money power of our country
has been able to do by their
schemes of contraction, demonetiza-
ton, and confscation of the prop
erty of debtors, with a great polit-
ical party to establish and legalize
their monetary schemes. And this
Plutocratic party has posed before
the people for thirty years as "the
party of great moral IDEAS" while
they have accomplished and con-
firmed by law such gigantic robbery.
LEGAL TENDER PAPER MONEY OUR
ONLY SALVATION.
Serfdom for the people of Amer
lea is their inevitable doom unless
they can break the dominating
power of gold, release themselves
from servitude to the panic breed
ing bank system that now prevails
and declare their monetary indie
pendence, establish government
system of legal tender money indie
pendent of gold, expand the volume
of currency until it shall bring
again into productive employment
the full energies of our nation, and
in legislative, executive, and judi
cial halls, and also if need be on the
battlefelds of another American
revolution, defend a true American
system of money against the COM
bined syndicates of Europe and
their Tory allies in this country.
If we shall cut loose from a SER
vitude to the gold standard and
coin and use the credit and author
ity of our own people and nation in
an Eample volume of money our
suffering people shall rise into pros
perity again, and the gates of the
Internal regions shall not prevail
against the justice and security of
our money and the prosperity of
our free and emancipated people.
[Applause.]
THE JEWS HAVE CAPTURED THE
WORLD BY A TRICK.
The keen, calculating, diplomatic,
money loving forces that, as money
changers, fled from the anger and
scourgings of the Anoited eighteen
hundred years ago, in the temple of
truth and justice at Jerusalem, and
that soon afterward league itself
with Pontius PLATE and became the
antichrist of that day, have in our
day again raappeared as the money
changers of the world. They re-
appear in every great commercial
city and temple, and full of cum
ming diplomacy, they have formed
their leagues and combinations with
Caesar and his subordinate rulers.
With their cunning device of
''making the Ephah small and the
shekel great" as they did of old,
they are climbing into power and
devOuring the wealth of the world.
They have been dispersed among
the nations and "trOdden under
foot of the Gentiles" for eighteen
centuries, but now rising again like
the fabled Phoenix of ancient days
they have planted their great bank
ing institutions in the great capital
cities of Europe and America, be-
ginning with the Rothschilds in the
year 1912, capturing the English
Parliment in 1916, and the Amer
lean Congress in the public-credit
Strengthening act of 1869. Still
later, perceiving that they might
not so easily control both gold and