The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-11-06
LIVE ISSUES.
Apostrophy to the Flags as Raised by
rIark Hanna and the Trusts.

THE FLAG AND ITS PROFANERS.
'Look up at the flags" says a
circular widely distributed in Chi
cago, where flag patriotism is vastly
relied upon to cover up schemes
for spoliation of the people. "Look
up at the flags"
Who placed them there? Whose
money was expended, and what
powerful interests were invoked
that they may wave to-day?
What cause do they represent &?
What dividends will they pay?
When did patriotism forsake the
prairies and take refuge in La Sale
street? When did the American
workman become an Anarchist and
the Wall street banker patriot {?
When and how was love of coun-
try, of liberty and of law syndi-
Gated into trust?
Mark Hanna and the American
flag.
J. Pierpont Morgan and the
American flag.
August Belmont, the bond steal
and the American flag.
Andrew Carnegie, H. @. Frick
and the slaughtered workmen at
Homestead-and the American flag.
Carrot A. Hobart, Republican
nominee for Vice President, founder
of the anthracite coal trust, which
is now forcing coal up to $40 ton;
Chicago Evening Post and the stars
and stripes of Old Glory.
The Standard Oil Trust and the
American flag.
G. P. Huntington, w. G. P.
Breckenridge, Russell Sage, Herr
Most, a distinguished lot of gold
advocates, and the glorious banner
of the Republic.
Look up at the flags, try to forget
that they were manufactured by
the Bunting Trust; that they were
paid for by money levied by Mark
Hanna ON the trusts, and that they
are made to do service in cause
foreign to true Americanism.
Those who steal the livery of
heaven to worship the devil in are
more than matched in insolence by
the men who float the American
flag in an attempt to foist British
financial system on the people of the
United States. If they dared show
their true colors, they would wave
the British jack and not sully the
Stars and Stripes.
And again when Mark Hanna
and his associates, out of the plen-
titude of their campaign fund and
the insolence of their pretension
that the American flag was created
to serve as the emblem of the party
of plutocracy, covered the bill
boards and hoardings of Chicago
with paper banners bearing partisan
appeals, men stout in courage tore
them down, replacing them with
this proclamation :
"The use of the American flag
for purposes of advertising is vic
lation of law. The money power
hesitates at nothing. We love the
flag, but we hate the men who are
trying to monopolize it,"
MIR. BRYAN ANSWERS ANOTHER
"PoSTER."
He says workingmen's savings
will not depreciate and demon
strates why holders of life insurance
policies have nothing to fear should
the free silver doctrine be victorious.
The Question.-Will not the free
coinage of silver reduce by one
half the deposits the value of the
workingman's deposits in savings
banks, and his interests in life in
surance companies and benefit
societies?
The Answer will speak first
Of the life insurance companies and
benefit societies. If you will take
the statistics you will find that the
premiums paid into life insurance
companies far exceed the losses paid
out by the companies. Therefore,
if a dollar rises in value, the com
pany, getting more dollars than il
pays out, profits more than the
policy holders.
You must take the total amount
paid and the total amount received
and Fyou will find that the DreSi-