The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-06-21
LIVE ISSUES.
Senator Stewards Speech at the
Memphis Silver Convention.


three years show that the American
people are face to face with concen-
trated capital, the enemy which
destroyed all previous civilization.
The modern Colossus, the Roths-
child combination, the greatest
brokerage establishment that the
world has ever seen, furnishes
money for it's customers by selling
their bonds to the public for vastly
more than the cost of the combina-
ton. The vast bonded debts of the
United States and Europe have
passed through their hands for
nearly a century, and the incre-
ment retained by the Rothschilds
alone, independent of their num-
erous associates, is estimated at two
thousand millions.
In 1898 the vaults of the United
States treasury were opened and
more than one hundred millions of
gold was shipped to Austria with
the aid of the Administration,
which refused to exercise the option
provided by Congress to pay in
either gold or silver. By this means
the great combination wrecked the
finances of this country and created
the panic of 1898.
The success of the gold combina
ton in repeating the purchasing
clause of the Sherman act, and
thereby ratifying and confirming
the infamous Act of 1873, demone
tizing silver, placed the fortunes of
7O,O00,000 people at the mercy of
the gold kings. The temporary
lull in the financial storm which
the country now enjoys was bought.
President Cleveland contracted with
the Rothschild combination to cease
their raids on the United States for
eight months. He gave them
twelve millions in the difference
between the market price and what
he received for sixty-two millions
of United States bonds, and agreed
to allow the combination to pur-
chase whatever bonds might be
issued before the meeting of another
Congress.
"What further proof is required
than this contract to demonstrate
that the gold of the world is cor
nered. Four-ffths of the Ameri-
can people-yea, nine -tenths
been at heart in favor of restoring
silver ever since the crime of 1873
was discovered but the gold combi-
nation has seized every avenue of
communication. The press and the
telegraph belong to it.
Four thousand national banks
are its agents, and 5000 other
banks and trust companies do its
bidding. Merchants and boards of
trade are dependent upon the banks
for accommodations, and are
clamorOus in their praise of gold
monopoly.
The President of the United
States places 800, 900 offices at the
services of the money powers for
the political or other favors to be
received. Before such a force any
other people would be pOwerless;
but the American people for more
than one hundred years have met
and conquered every foe.
The alarm and distress caused by
the raid of the gold combination on
the Treasury in 1898 created a
furore, which amounted to a polit
ical cyclone, which was directed by
the firm hand of the Executive
against the two Houses of Congress.
Many Democrats fell before the
blast, but the Republicans sailed
with the wind, and the Democrats
who were stranded by the violence
of the storm were swept back into
the arms of the Republicans of the
two houses. Together they made a
majority to wipe from the statute
books every law which recognized
silver as a money metal.
The people have at last taken
this matter into their own hands.
No man is a bimetallist who does
not advocate bimetallism as it eX-
listed for thousands of years before
Sherman visited England in 1867,
and before he carried out the pur-
poses of an English syndicate