The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-02-09
Voices from the Tomb.-What the
Wise Men of the World
Have Said.
Martin Luther said :

as great a murder so far as in him
lies, as he who starves a man OF
utterly undoes him. Such does q
usurer, and sits the while safe on
his stool when be ought rather to be
hanging from the gallows. Little
thieves are put in the stocks. great
thieves go Haunting in gold and silk
Therefore there is on earth no greater
enemy ct man, after the devil, than
a grip-money and usurer."
Rollin, the ancient historian, said
"Usury has always caused the ruin
of states where it has been tolerated
and it was this disorder which con-
tributed very much to subvert the
constitution of the Roman Com
monwealth, and to give birth to the
greatest calamity in all the prov
inces. l warn you against usury."
What DR.. Wilson, who died at the
close of the 18th century, said:
II do wish some penal law OF
death to be made against usurers. as
well as against thieves and nur-
derers, for that they deserve death
much more than such men do; for
these usurers destroy and devour up,
not. only whole families, but also
whole countries and bring all folks
to beggary that haYe to do with
them"
What David Hume, the great
English historian, said:
calling prices, misery and
destruction are inseparable com
panioas The disasters of the dark
ages were caused by decreasing
moaey and falling prices. With the
increase of money labor and industry
gain new life
What Thomas Jefferson said:
"Banks are more dangerous than
standing armies. Put down the
banks and if this country cannot be
carried through the longest war
against the most powerful enemy,
without loading up with perpetual
debt, l know nothing of my country
men. Bank paper must be sup
pressed and the issue of the circulat,
ing medium restored to the govern.
ment to whom it belongs"
What Salmon P. Chase said:
"My agency in securing the pas
sage of the National Bank Act was
the greatest financial mistake of my
life. 1t has built up a monopoly
that effects every industry of the
country. 1t should be repealed. But
before this can be accomplished the
people will be srrayed on one side
and the banks on the other, in a
contest such as we have never seen
in this country"
In the above utterances we have
the wisdom of some of the greatest
and puIest men since the times OF
Luther, on the money question
Every one of them lifts his voice in
solemn warning against the course
the leaders of both old parties are
pursuing. Is there any reasonable
solution to this course with such
warnings, except they have been
taken in by bribery and share the
plumber with these jew and Wall
street Insurers /? There is 20 other
reasonable solution. The time is
near at hand which Chase predicted
when "tbe people will be arrayed or
one side and the hanks on the other .
Party organization has been Gun
niDgly planned, and the banking anG
other corporation Influences have
been placed in control of both The
ole parties by ajudicious division o
the most skillful and unscrupulou!
politicians in the money interest
They invariably join 10 vote in favo,
of every movement the Wall stree
bankers suggest, and bitterly de-
nounce and vote against everything
the people ask for.
The next congressional contes
will be pretty sharply defined be
tween the peoples policies and tha
of the bankers. and in the Presiden
tial contest the lines will be still
more tightly drawn. The principle,
championed by the Peoples party
and the measures the leaders OF bott
OLD parties are contending tor in the
present congress. will be the ques
tions which will fire the people in tht
next Presidential campaign. Her
culean efforts are being made by th,
leaders in the plot or conspiracy tt
have the tariff engross the time o
the present session, and if possible
the Wilson Bill will be defeated. Oh
if this would seem to be risking toe
much the alterations in the Senate
will be such as neither party viii
own the act, with the hope of renew
ing agitation for a new bill Tt
stave off the financial question i:
what is disturbing the leaders of the
two old parties, and saddle The
country with a bonded debt 10 the
utmost that is possible The Hebrew
outfit which holds all the gold of the
world in the heart Of its hand, will
spend hundred million dollars i
necessary in the effort to defeat the
Peoples party.
The money and debt owners, The
national banks and all the corpora
tions, great and small, will be array
ed under the republican flag in the