The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-05-24
LIVE ISSUES.
The Worst Conspiracy of nodern
Times.

crime that makes the masses of a
whole country poor, leads to every
other crime that men and women
can commit. Abject poverty is
necessary degradation, necessary
sin, or death. The despoiling of
the American people, the garroting
of their industry, the reduction of
hundreds of them to suicide and
millions to penury, has been the
deliberate crime of "the anarchists
of wealth." and, although various
combinations of these enemies of
mankind have planned and plotted
againgt us III many ways, there has
been on vast conspiracy which
overshadows and includes all the
rest. The manner of working this
''infernal machine" is very simple
when once understood.
Everybody knows that when a
requisite of human life is scarce it
is dear. If the wheat crop is bad,
the price Of flour ''goes up" If
horses are stricken with disease,
carriage doubles in values. Labor,
if hard to get, brings high wages.
Limit land a few square feet make
a fortune. Very well: but one
Acknowledgements and ex-
changes all the requisites of human
life. When money, therefore, is
scarce, land, labor, horses, crops,
and everything else, must he sacri-
feed at any price to get it. Now
whatever dust the anarchists OF
wealth have flung into the peoples
eyes, here is the chief cause, and
almost the only immediate cause, of
our present hard and wicked times.
For illustration-In 1865, though
at the end of costly war, the
northern half of the United States
was exceedingly prosperous. The
people all had homes, food and
clothing. and, as Hugh McCulloch,
then Secretary of the Treasury,
said, they were individually out
of debit But Hugh McCulloch,
as long since proved, was the tool
of Wall street gold,jugglers. and of
European holders of American
bonds. To give their property a
dishonest, illegal, double value, as
against all other property, he pro-
ceeded, as fast as he could, to con-
tract the nations volume of cur
rency, which had been made suf-
ficient to exchange the peoples
products. Thus he leeched the
veins of enterprise. He reduced
the mOney-blood of business more
than half. Then, for the first time,
we heard of the American "tramp."
The tramps were soon estimated at
two millions. Hugh McCulloch
made them. Their ghosts will haunt
his soul in Sheol.
Again-In 1873, the miners and
owners of silver had the right OF
presenting it at the minis for I'M
limited coinage, according to the
laws and customs of centuries.
Fearing that silver money would
take the place of the paper money
destroyed by McCulloch, his anar-
chists of wealth procured the de-
monetization of silver. This job
was done for them mainly by John
Sherman. 1t was done by fraud
a fraud which has been repeatedly
proclaimed, and has been officially
exposed, in both Houses of Con.
gress. All honest men, not toe
ignorant, rebelled against ''the
monster crime of 1872 and laws
were enacted partly restoring silver
money. In 1898 Grover Cleveland
became President. He was elected
largely by contributions from
Europe, as an appendage to Nc
Culloch and Sherman. Their band
of vampire contractionists, using
him again as bosom of destruction
precipitated our last panic, tc
brighten us into being further rob.
bed. Hugh McCulloch is now
merely a hideous memory; but
John Sherman and Grover Cleve.
land manufactured the tramps OF
1894. Let us go back a little and
have all the particulars.
ENGLAND'S ANARCHIST BOMB TIC
"Do' THE PEOPLE.
On the Sd of October, 1887, John
G. Calhoun, then in the United