The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-03-01
LIVE ISSUES.
POpuliSt rlanifesto.

dhu ehC pCoplS' AS IL 10 dll iii
portant document, we think it
should be preserved.
To the members of the People,
party. greeting:
AS early as 1866 conspiracy
was entered into between the gold
gamblers of Europe and America to
accomplish the following purposes :
TO fasten upon the people of the
United States the burdens of per-
petual debt; to destroy the green
backs which had safely brought us
through the perils of war; to strike
down silver as a money metal; to
deny to the people the use of Fed
eral paper and silver-the two in
dependent sources of money supply
guaranteed by the Constitution; to
fasten upon the country the single
gold standard of Britain, and to
delegate to thousands of banking
corporations, organized for private
gain, the sovereign control, for all
time, over the issue and volume of
all supplemental paper currency.
Thus they doubled the demands for
gold; forced upon the country an
approaching money standard, en-
failing an indefinite period of fall
ing prices; robbed enterprise of its
just profits, condemned labor to
idleness, and confscated the prop
erty of debtors.
For nearly thirty years these CON
spirators have kept the people
quarreling over less important mat
tiers, while they have pursed with
unrelenting zeal their one central
purpose. At the present moment
every device of treachery, every
resource of statecraft, and every
artifice known to the secret cabalS
of the international gold ring, are
being made use of to deal a final
death blow to the prosperity of the
people and the financial and COM
mercial independence of this coun-
try. They seek to accomplish their
fell purposes before the blow can be
averted by an awakened public
through the ballot. Their plans
have been long matured and their
line of action is fully chosen. They
address themselves to the one sub
.ject-the money question-in all of
its bredth and magnitude. This
brings the country face to face with
a perilOus issue which calls for
immediate and united action on the
part of the people. Every behest
of patriotism requires that we shall
at once meet the issue and accept
the challenge so defiantly offered.
We must meet the issue as it is
presented to-day. To falter now is
to invite disastrous failure. We
earnestly urge the Populists
throughout the country to con-
centrate their entire force and
energy upon the tremendous con-
tentiOn presented and thus meet
the enemy upon his chosen line OF
battle. Invite the aid and cooper,
alton of all persons who favor the
immediate free coinage of silver al
a ratio of 16 to l., the issue of all
paper money by the general gov
eminent without the Intervention
of banks of issue, and who are op.
posed to the issue of interest bear,
ing government bonds in time OF
peace. In a word, to extend the
hand of fellowship to al who agree
with you upon the money question,
which is certainly the mightest and
most fundamental controvarcv
evolved during the present century
LAFE PENCE.
O. NJ. KEN.
L. j. HUDSON.
WIN. BAKER.
w. A. MCKEIGHAN.
VIM. V. ALLEN.
JOHN DAVIS.
w. A. HARRIS.
JERRY SIMPSON.
JNO. c. BELL.
JAMES III. KYLE.
HALDOR +. BOEN.
H. +. TAUBENECK.
j. H. TURNER.
J. b. WEAVER.
The great international syndicate
of Cleveland, ROthschild & Co., is