The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-06-19
The United States VS.. Great Britain.

manners of the plain men and
women who have been the real
builders of the nation.
They entice men who have
amassed millions of ill-gotten gains
to their land and, by introducing
them into the mysteries of British
society, secure their vast wealth
and cooperation in favor of British
schemes. They to-day own more
newspapers in the United States
than they publish in the British
Isles. They own millions of acres
of Landau empire in extent.
They own the majority of the
stocks and bonds of our vast rail
road system and our greatest banks.
They own breweries and mines, and
dominate the great trusts that con-
troll our productive industries. 1t
is estimated that we owe them more
than $5,000,000,000 of indebted
ness, and that it takes all the gold
we claim to possess to pay the an
nual interest. If they had con.
quered us every ten years and lev
led war indemnities each time, we
would not have owed them so much
as we have lost by the insiduous
policy they have pursued.
Desiring to destroy republican
government among men and make
free government the scorn of
the world, they have acquired
ownership of our Presidents,
our legislators and our editors,
and they all sing the chorus
in favor of British system of
finance. They own the leaders of
both the old parties, and dictate
the policy and platform of each.
The Treasury Department is on
British ground, and they own it as
much as they did on the fatal day
they captured Washington. The
stealthy footsteps of their paid
agents pass into the most sacred
precincts, where the genius of Lib
erty is supposed to be enshrined.
They dictate in secret the terms
upon which they will protect our
financial system.
], All our great papers applaud the
act of the President when he bows
in humble submission to their de-
, mands. The spirit of the fathers
, seems to have persisted from the
earth. They won their freedom
when the world was in arms, and
they only three millions strong.
To-day 7O,0OO,OOO of people, with
f wealth that can never be exhausted,
, a nation that can stand alone and
never use a product of an alien
power, worships at the feet of the
golden image that rules the world
. Is the spirit of liberty dead ? Has
hope died out of the hearts Of
e the gallant men who wore the
9 blue and gray in the greatest
conflict the world has witnessed
} Will they not awake and unite in
e one grand struggle to emancipatt
the nation from British rule before
g their final muster out?
e Will they not arouse and shout
{ with old-time vigor, "Away with
peace and welcome war, to save the
] nation !" for the millions now
= enslaved
Thousands of our most thought
} full men and women predict bloody
revolution in our land. Great
1 newspapers have published histOr
t zeal articles showing the almost
E exact parallel between our condition
5 and France one hundred years ago
We have always hoped AND prayed
! that we would rise above all OBJ
structious and camly settle oul
! wrons at the ballot-boX. But the
danger is, that the will of the peo-
I pie will be thwarted and overcome
| even if they won the victory; and
| we solemDly believe that, calling OIL
!, the world to witness our wrongs
which are ten thousand times
greater than those named in oul
: charter of liberty, that caused oul
, fathers to revolt, we should declare
war on Great Britain and all hel
allies and unitedly fall on her
: hammer and tongs, on land and sea
S from one end of the world to the
other; and when she is overwhelm
ed, her trade destroyed, her rotten
; aristocracy buried, then levy wal