The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-07-10
LIVE ISSUES.
The Money. Power.

biana, Ohio, published from steno-
graphic report in "Sound Money :"
You will remember the news
papers all over the country pub
lished, the first day of the conven-
ton, that there was an overwhelm-
ing majority in favor of what we
call "straddling plank on the
silver question. With the Eastern
people for gold and the Western
people for free silver they did not
know where they were at"
Suddenly letters and kilograms
began to pour in. Were these from
the farmers? Were they from the
manufacturers and mechanics {?
Were they from the merchants {?
No! None from these. They were
from the bankers of Wall street,
New York, and other great money
centers of the country. Commands
came from the strongest power on
earth-the money power-and that
great convention through fear and
trembling, smothered its conscience
and bowed to the dictates of this
selfish, dominating and destructive
influence, the head center OF which
is the house of Rothschilds in Lon
don,- England. This being true, it
is painfully evident that the great
mass of honest voters in the repub-
lican party who support this ticket
next November, will be simply
doing the bidding of the arch enc
mics of mankind, by making their
property dear and everybody else's
cheap.
Go to this head center of the
worlds financial operations and
you will find it's poisoning influence
reaching out controlling legislation,
and through the awful absorbing
power of debt and usury, with silent
yet all potent force, absorbing the
surplus of the toiling millions of the
world. For example: Thirteen per
cent of the peasant farms of France
land this is the lowest average) are
mortgaged; so per cent of the farms
of Germany are mortgaged, and
most of them are beyond the ability
of the owner to pay. There has
been an estimate made of the mort
gage Indebtedness in every country
on earth; I give it to you as a fact,
from the official statistics of the
different countries. The world
over, more than one. half of the
homes of the people are thus en-
numbered, and the interest on this
vast aggregate is either directly or
through levy tribute, under the
control of the Rothschilds; and the
establishment of the single gold
standard of payment in this coun-
try will vastly increase their power
to exact tribute, because they and
their agents possess the gold. All
the railways of this country, all the
corporations, all the banking
houses, all the breweries and the
entire manufacturing establish
ments of the country, with perhaps
the bare exception of one in every
hundred, are in debt. The farmers
are in debt; in fact the whole world
is in debt, and these debts and the
interest on them have been paid by
the people who produce the wealth.
To whom must we pay this debt
and interest.
To this thought I wish to call
your careful attention. You have
observed the periphery of a wagon
wheel; you find the spokes running
to a common centre; so do the ar
teries of our financial system reach
out over the producing world, and
through usury and speculation alb
sorb the wealth of the nations. This
house of Rothschild in London is
like unto the general-in-ch chief of a
vast army. Every bank is directly
or indirectly under its control and
dictation. You may have bank
in your city; if you have, this bank
is in some way connected with
other banks, and they in turn are
under command of the associated
banks of Wall street. When we
realize the diversified nature of our
exchanges and commercial inter
course, neighbor with neighbor,
community with community, state
with state and nation with nation,
and that this wonderful instrument