The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-11-06
The Campaign of Education.

Political Economy and civilization. The
proper use of money has built up civiliza-
tons, which its abuse has afterwards torn
down and destroyed. The destruction of
every great empire that has fallen and
been blotted out, can be traced to the
abuse of money.
Therefore 10 education OH government
and civilization is so important as thor
ough education on the question of money
This has been the object of Mr.. Bryan
and those who labored with him, while
the party which labored for McKinly
strained every nerve to mislead, confuse
and deceive the people OH this money
question. In no presidential campaign in
the history of the country has been made
such herculean efforts to deceive and mis-
lead the people as the money classes put
forth in the canvass just ended. Never
before was so much sophistry used in the
effort to mislead the masses of the plain
people. Great numbers have been con-
fused and bewildered by the plausible,
| ingenious dI uoCNl W tiiS illiNN
newspapers and orators of the gold trust.
On the other hand great progress has
been made by its honest advocates in en-
tightening the people OH the nature and
functions of money.
This battle is not nearly ended. In
truth it may be said to have only just be-
gun 1t will be the duty of the teachers
to go on steadily with this education on
the money question till all who can be
induced to think, to comprehend the
true significance and uses of money
have been enlightened. Those whose
! Judgment is weaker than their supersti-
ton and prejudice in the midst of pres
identia1 contest, will in the future begin
to think more seriously OH the question,
aud will acknowledge to themselves that
they have been deceived and wrong in
their views Oh the question, and will be-
come anxious to understand the subject
The masses of the people will acquire a
valuable fund of information on this I'M
portant question in the course of the next
four years 1t is the political question
of the time and cannot be put aside, as it
has been in the past by the money power,
that has ever been intent i'll leading the
public away from the study of financial
problems.
The danger which threatens the re-
public from the "money power' was never
so manifest to the people as now. The
banking institutions, through which that
power exerts its greatest influence, have
been massed on one side and have con-
trolled, with the arrogance of slave
driver, every organized business in the
country. The railroads have stood in
fear of that power, where it did not abso-
1utely own them. Every large corpora
ton bowed subnissively to the behest of
the banks which received orders from the
head of their organization, Wall street.
and Wall street its orders from London.
No large manufacturing or commercial
firm dared to disobey the orders from the
banks, under penalty of being crushed
and driven into bankruptcy if they re-
fused to join i'll the cry for the gold stan
dard, when they knew that financial
system was crushing the life out of them
by inches. They chose lingering death
with hope held out to them of future
safety and prosperity, rather than sudden
and sure destruction.
This is the dangerous, domineering
power that has attacked the foundations
of this republic, and by stealth has made
rapid progress in the work of destruction.
1t has arrayed all the colossal forces of
wealth, however organized and of society
whose votaries are fashion, wealth, liter
ature and the church. All of these powers
have been skillfully nlassed against the
masses, the wealth makers of the world
Every form of threat and abuse has been
hurled at all who dared to oppose this
money power The business of the coun-
try has been squeezed and choked in the
efforts of this power to compel submission
to its commands to vote and work for the
election of Mckinley. Railroads have
sought to terrorize their employees, large
mercantile establishments have threat
ened their clerks with dismissal if they
spoke in favor of silver. To enforce the
demands of this invading tyrant, the
European money power, millions have
been poured out like water. Every bank,
every corporation, every trust, every COM
bination, syndicate and aggregation of
capital has been Systematically assessed
by Mark Hanna on its capital stock, and
this accumulated sum turned into the
immense corruption fund controlled by
Hanna.
And this mighty enemy to liberty of
the people is what they have to grapple
with i'll the immediate future. The battle
is only just begun. The financial ques-
ton is the problem which is to become
the study by the masses. To understand
it thoroughly in all its branches, its power
for good and its power for evil must be
learned, or slavery is the portion of the
unborn generations of the present race
who constitute the people of the great
republic.
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