The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-07

then came into her treasury until
she got nearly two thousand mil
lions of gold and silver in circula-
ton, according to Jacob and Glib
bon. Eighteen hundred millions
is about the estimate as the best
they can get from the Roman
writer's.
Then the mines failed; they were
worked out. The Romans had fall
ing prices. The money lenders de-
manded more and more collateral
until they got all the property of
the people, and the grand old
Romans, who bore the eagle from
the tropics to the frozen zone, be-
came feudal slaves and were sold
with the land. Take our money
away from us and we will share the
Same fate. 1t is not a question of
manhood or bravery. Every man
will make sacrifices to get bread
for his children, and the terms
grow harder and harder ON each
generation, until the people becomes
accustomed to slavery.
Thus are civilizations blotted
out. The dark ages came. There
was only one star that appeared
during the fourteen hundred years
of gloom, and that was the star of
Venice. There Romans had to flee,
on account of the ferocity of the
savages. They took their ships
and their gold and their silver and
settled upon the marshy islands on
the northeast of Italy. They were
without money to accomplish any
purpose. They formed a republic,
and they took what money they
had and put it in government
trust. They allowed interest at
4 per cent upon it for time, and
they made it legal tender for all
debts, public and private. They
exempted it from mortgage or ex-
ecution, so that it could be trans
ferred only on the books of the
government. They took in gold and
silver and sold them. They did
not keep any of them. This went
ON for six hundred years, until all
the world believed that it was the
best money in the world; and it was
so long as the Republic of Venice
lasted. But Napoleon with rude
hand overran Venice and captured
the bank, expecting to get great
treasures; and all he got was the
books. That was fiat money, with
the power of Venice behind it; and
so long as that government lasted
the money was good.
Take the experience of Great
Britain. When Napoleon was over
riding the world and all was gloom,
she declared the paper of the Bank
of England legal tender and sus-
pended specie payment for twenty
two years. During that time her
commerce extended all over the
world, and she was able to loan
money to the Continent, to conquer
Napoleon, and to take the first
place among the nations Of the
world. She did it by the fiat power
of the government. But when that
was done there was a vast sum
owing by England and the English
people. Then the Rothschild syn
dictate was formed, and it secured
the passage of a law that all those
obligations should be paid in gold
alone. The misery that was entail
} ed upon the people blotted from the
fact of the earth the middle class
that had given the constitution to
England. The yeomanry was nc
more. The aristocracy that were
in the deal was saved. All the rest
were lost. A moneyed aristoeracy
was created as heartless as sin, as
grasping las the devil, and it has
} been preying upon mankind ever
since. That aristocraey has reached
out its octopus tentacles and grasp.
ed the United States. Great Brit,
ain cannot meet us in arms. We
have had two wars with her, and
each was a blessing to mankind.
An English syndicate now die.
tates terms to us, and it is said that
the credit of America must be pro-
: tected by set of English gold
gamblers. Have we come to that
; Is there no other relief? If Oul