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

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The issue before the people in the Pres
idential campaign of 1896 is Cleveland
autocracy or gold plutocracy against the
Peoples party and Jeffersonian democ-
racy, This is the dominant issue. The
skirnishers i'll congress are attempting
by feints such as an emergency tariff :"
bill, sham bond bill, Monroe doctrine
scare, Cuba belligerent declaration, SYM
pathetic resolutions for Armenians, ETC.,
to draw the people away from the finan-
cial question in which is involved all
their distress and increasing debts and
poverty. On this issue there is no diff
| ference between the leaders of the old
parties. They are working in harmony.
They spar with each other on details but
entirely agree in principle. They are
both in favor of selling bonds to Roths-
child; both in favor of keeping silver de-
monetized; both in favor of the President
and Carlisle violating plain provision of
law in paying gold in place of silver for
demands ON the Treasury, and running
the country deeper in debt to buy gold to
give away to the English Shylocks, for
their process amounts to giving it away.
So the only live question before the
public is the house of Rothschild against
the American people and the United
States republic, with the John Sherman
republican party and Cleveland democrat
party on the Rothschild side, against the
Peoples party, who stand against the
English Rothschild yellow gold party, as
the "old Continentals i'll their ragged
regimentals" stood up against King
Georges red coats.
If you turn this question over and sift
it to the bottom you will find there is no
other living, full blown issue before the
country to-day but the battle of the peo-
pie to save their homes and liberties from
this great Rothschild conspiracy. The
national banks are all enlisted on the side
of these London pawn-broker Jews; they
have bought up the morning daily press
VI t'S NObiiSAJ thSy \ohtioi SiAS oPA
they intimidate the railroad interest by
controlling large amounts of their stocks
and bonds; intimidate or have in Their
employ the President and Secretary Of
the United States and in congress such
leaders as Sherman, Reed, Allison, Hill
Gray and numerous lesser lights. These
are held in leading strings by the Roths
child family by the power of gold or by
influences behind which the gold powe,
stands. This is the formidable army
which the Peoples party is facing and
propose to give battle as the old Cont
nentals did i'll 1916 The Peoples party
are poor as their ancestors, the old Con
tinentals, they have only their brave
hearts and glorious cause to inspire them,
while the enemy have all the wealth Of
the world to lean on for support and a
greed that never was or can be satisfied
to inspire them. The Peoples party calls
upon the plain people to rally to their
flag as they did in their homespun to the
banners of Washington. They are being
driven, like cattle to the shambles, down
hill TO poverty and vassalage by the silk
hated gentry of the Rothschild court
They must rally in their poverty as their
ancestors did who left their blood stained
stracks in the snow, and follow the lead.
ers as they did who strike for liberty and
life. Poverty and death mark the trail Of
the hosts of the goldites The Roths-
childs are furnishing the sinews of wal
for the two old parties, planning stheir
campaign and directing their movements
The enemy that has destroyed the Amer
lean people for thirty years has been
located. His headquarters are in the
Bank of England, and the Rothschild
dynasty of gold will soon place the two
columns of their American army in the
field, the one under republican, the other
under democrat management with chosen
goldbug captains, determined to crush
the people, as the blood thirsty Spaniards
are straining every nerve to crush the
down-trodden Cubans.