The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-09-04
LIVE ISSUES.
The Instinct of Liberty.

of the few have devoted themselves
to the propagation of the truth
could not and did not extend to a
very large portion of the American
people. The commercial press was
secured by the Rothschild combina-
ton and the allied powers of Euro
pean monarchies' when the con-
spiracy to rob the people of money,
impoverish and enslave them was
first devised. Under the cover of
dark cloud of falsehoods, belched
forth from the great blanket-sheet
press and echoed and re-echoed by
hireling politicians and dependent
business men, the conspirators have
transferred more than half of the
property of the United States to
less than five per cent of the people.
They have not only deprived the
world of more than one half of the
supply of money metal by the de-
monetization of silver, but they
have combined in their nefarious
schemes the great powers of Europe
and induced them to buy and hold
more than one-half of all the gold
coin in the world.
There is no more gold coin avail
able for commercial purposes than
is controlled by the Rothschild
combination. The tinanciers of the
United States are so completely
under the control of the great
Rothschild moneyed institutions on
the other side of the Atlantic that
when they give the word, gold
moves from America to Europe,
and when they change that word it
flows back. When they say it
shall stand still and flow neither
way, their word is as implicitly
obeyed as was the word of Joshua
when he commanded the sun to
stand still. These arrogant rulers
of the money and the franchises of
the American people assumed,
when they nominated Marcus
Hanna's man, William Mckinley,
at st. Louis, that the American
people were as much subject to
their command as American finan-
ces and American commerce. They
organized committees and published
the fact that they controlled hun.
dreds, and, if necessary, thousands
Of millions which would be used to
subject the American people to the
rule of the European combination
of monarchs and gold gamblers.
They supposed that such an exhi-
bition of power would so intimidate
the American people that there
would be no opposition either to
their corrupt rule or to their
imperial will.
They ignored the fact that the
American people have been brought
face to face with the powers of des-
potism, financial, commercial, and
political, on many well contested
fields for more than a hundred
years. They are amazed that their
exhibition of financial power, of
persecution through the banks of
business men, of cruel extortion in
sacrificing the debtor class, has
aroused the American people, and
that the spirit of 1916 still lives.
Their work, their efforts, intimida-
ton, and robbery of the debtor
class has produced the contrary
effect from what they anticipated
Instead of submission to the will of
their tormentors, the people of the
United States have arisen in their
might and DEFY the enemies of the
republic.
Marcus Aurelius Hanna has been
inI New York city, imploring the
gold kings to pour out their i'll
gotten gains in torrents which will
sweep away all opposition. He and
his hackers at last realize that the
American people cannot be intim-
idated. They are now counting the
cost of purchasing enough votes to
elect William Mckinley. They
discuss the price of an American
election, in the presence of the
American people, with the same
freedom and with no more caution
than the great Armour of Chicago
discusses the price of cattle in the
hearing of the stock yard, where
thousands of them are collected.
Thew have no more idea that the