The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-19
Gin.Mill Statesmarship.

Gin-Mill Craftsmanship.
Under this head the Toice, January 18th,
the leading organ of the Prohibition party,
publishes one of its ablest editorials. Able
because plain statement of facts, with,
however, the primary cause for its facts
wholly ignored. From that editorial we
clip the following extract:
"The real disease from which we suffer is
GIN.MILL CRAFTSMANSHIP; and both parties
are the victims Of it. Those parties run the
government; the primaries run the parties !;
the gie-mius run the primaries. The path to
political preferment lies through the grog-
shop, and the men who will not or cannot
consent to pursue that path bave to-day
small chance of a successful political career.
| The screen doors that swing before the
ofthesmen of developed consciences and lets
! those of dwarfed consciences pass easily
through into the political arena, to make
and administer our laws. We are under the
political domination OF the gin mill, and
what else can we expect from gin mill
government than the demagogism, the
narrow partisauism, the shifty. tricky
se6shness that have brought two million OF
unemployed men face to face with starvation,
and made the crowded monarchies of the old
world more attractive 10 the poor and
oppressed than the young Republic that was
to be haven of refuge to honest toilers in
every age?"
are returning TO Europe than are immigrat-
ing to America, and their places are being
| filled by Russian Jews who are coming to
this country at the rate of &C, 600 per month
we are informed. Through gin mill infu-
epce Jew has been placed at the head of
immigrant supervision at New York and
his race is being let in without hindrance.
The Voice blames, and rightly blames,
the gin mill for this political degradation,
but says not word against the power which
stands behind the gin mill and supports it
for purpose of its own. That power is the
monopoly power which has its hand on the
throat Of the psope, and at the head of the
monopolies stands the money monopoly. a
gigantic monopoly that deals only in money
and bonded debts drawing interest, never
adding to the wealth Of the world single
farthing, but gathering to itself all the
surplus wealth that escapes consumption
sufficient to keep life in the workers.
The railroad and telegraph monopolies
use the gin mill to ell Legislatures and
Congress with their creatures, to pass class
laws in their and other minor monopolies
interest. And when these railroads default
on the interest on their bonds through
extravaganza and stealing on the part Of
their management, the money trust steps in.
has receiver appointed, ''lurns the rascals
out" and starts the business anew, with its
interest paying power renewed.
| The government has been forced to accept
the liquor business as one of its chief sources
of revenue which strengthens and forti6es
the gin mill with all the power of the
government sustaining it.
The money trust together with the whole
band of corporations haye securely placed
the gin mill behind government delenses,
made it a tax necessity, and they use it to
perpetuate their power and control. Does
the Voice not see and know it is useless to
attack this devilish tool and leave its users
untouched? That as long as these corpora
tons are allowed 10 control the government
the gin mill will exist because il is their
indispensable tool? These powers have
robbed the Treasury and in its sore need it
goes to the liquor monopoly for 1927, 000,-
600 of its revenue. Every year the sum
rises which liquor pays into the Treasury.
The present Congress is going to demand
still more, and strange to say the monster is
willing TO pay. The only willing tax payer
in the world is the liquor monopoly.
Why does the Voice continue to deceive
the temperance people with the vain hope
that the Prohibition party is gaining
strength and there is fair prospect of its
becoming majority party with Congress
and President of lis choice, while concealing
the fact that the gin mill, which debauches
politics, is the tool only OF these other giant
monopolies, esp ecially the money monopoly
and which its editors know, also, can never
be suppressed while the gin mills real
supporters remain in possession of the
government. The gin mill can never be
suppressed while the money trust retains its
present national control. The Prohibition
party is being misled and deceived. The
control of the money for the use of the people
must he placed under direct government
management before the saloon can be
made to 60. II will not down till this is
accomplished.