The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-07-31

CAMPAIGN TALK.

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rats-who are no Dcmocrats-are tryin z
to make the people believe that the Chi
cago platform is Il radical departure from
the time honored principles of the party.
1t certainly requires an amazing degree
Of impudence, a total diSre gard for the
truth and. above all, the hypothesis that
the people have no more intelligence than
the dumb nrutes. to attempt to palm off
such an imposition upon them. The fact
is that, 50 for from being a departure from
Democratic principles the Chicago plat
form is a return to principles which the
universal Democratic party. without eN-
ception. had protessed and advocated from
the beginning until the traffic in United
States bonds and the banking business had
made the milltonaircs and the house of
Rothschild the law giverS of the party.
might quote page after page from the
Democratic fathers to prove this, hut will
give only few brief and pointed extracts.
Thomas Jefferson said:
Bank paper must be. suppressed and
the circulation restored to the nation to
| whom it belongs
The power to issue money should he
taken from the banks and restored to Con-
gress and to the people
II sincerely believe that banking estab-
lShmcnts are more dangerous than stand
ing armies
Here is the whole Chicago platform in
a nutshell, except, of course, the free coin
age of silver; but even this is included III
Mr.. Jefferson declarations by necessary
Inference Was Mr.. Jefferson an Anar-
chist, a dynamiter and an assassin, or was
he the author of the immortal Declaration
of Independence and the greatest states
| man that America ever produced:
prnSilnnt lack said in his
message:
The question is distinctly presented
whether the people of the United States
are to govern by their unbiased sutfrages,
or whether the power and money of a
great corporation are to be secretly exert
ed to control their decisions.
Events have satisfied my mind, and |
think the minds of the American people
that the mischcfs and dangers which flow
from national bank far oycrbalancc all
its advantages"
Thomas Benton said. referring to Il na-
tional banking system:
THE government itself ceases to be i'll
dependent, it ceases to be safe, when the
national currency is at the will of a COM
pany.'
And so thought and spoke Mr. Madison,
Mr.. Calhoun and Mr.. Macon and other
victory in better DAYS gone by under the
banner of the peoples rights.
In addition to this, long succession of
national Democratic platforms declare the
same principle in unbroken unity and har-
mOny down to 1852, when it was supposed
that the monster had been DESTROYED, ncv-
er to rise again.
In 1910 the National Democracy assem-
bled in convention at Baltimore declared:
That Congress has no poWertO charter
the United States bank: that VIC believe
such an institution one of total hostility
to the best interests of the country, dan
gcrous to republican institutions and the
liberties of the people and calculated to
place the business of the country within
the concentrated money power and above
the laws and will of the people
Again, in 1874, the same principles were
reembodicd in Resolutions 6 and s of the
national platform. Again in 1913. and in
still stronger language, it was resolved in
section II that, the Democratic party was
unalterably opposed to the ''tyranical do
minion of the bank of the United States"
And finally, at the national Democratic
Convention at Baltimore, June, 1852, the
same doctrine was re-atlrmed and incor-
porated in the platform.
Thus the Chicago platform of 1896 is I,
return to, and not a departure from, the
time honorcd principles of Democracy as
taught by the fathers and unanimously af-
tirmed in Democratic platforms.
The departure was first made when GER
tain so-callcd Democrats of New York,
under the whip of Belmont, the Roths-
child's oversccr for the United States, op-
posed the election of Mr.. Seymour for
President of the United States on the
ground that his views of finance were an
tagonistic to the interests of the money
power. From that day to this the traitor
Democrats of New York have hung like Il
milestone about the neck of the true Dem
ocracy. They have ruled it under a rcig IN
of terror and with an iron rod. Wall
street controls New York and the British
gold kings control Wall street. For thirty
years British bankers and capitalists have
dictated the financial policy of the Demo-
cratic party. At last, by a glorious upris-
ing of the people, i'll their might and i'll
their majesty, the yoke has been thrown
off. The line of battle is clearly marked
out and defined 1t is the gold power of
England with their aiders and abcttors in
this country on one side and the great
American people on the other. Choose
We this day whom We will serve c.