The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-01-29
Slavery. Voluntary and Involuntary


teemed friend Mr.. Ellis P. Passmore. He
is away out in the far away State of Mon
tana. In long and interesting letter to
Rising Sun gentleman he sends best re-
CARDS to us and says:
"Give E. E. Ewing kindest regards and
tell him am as ardent Republican as
ever, but that l am not slave TO that
party, because as l understand the term
slave it means involuntary servitude,
while my service is voluntary and con-
scientious.
Our old friend, who is honest as the
day is long and conscientious as truth
itself, and whose bosom is full of the
milk of human kindness, knows of no
slavery but chattel slavery, the kind that
bound the negroes of the South for CELL
fury under this government There are,
however, two other kinds of slavery as
destructive of manhood and liberty as
chattel slavery. One of these is wage
slavery and the other is mental or moral
slavery. Wage slavery is involuntary and
is as loathsome and far more oppressive
than chatte1 slavery. The latter takes
care of the sick and aged; the former
turns them out to perish of hunger and
privation.
Moral slavery, the voluntary kind
which our old friend pleads guilty to, is
condition without hope. 1t is condition
of idol worship. 1t stops the ears and
closes the eyes of its victims to truth, and
says of every party wrong, ut is fate, it
is fate Z" In free ~ America we call this
party bigotry, ard those afflicted with it
will suffer long and terribly, and sacrifice
everything they possess rather than ques-
ton their idol. AS 'Juggernaut" is to
the Hindoo, as Jos to the Celestial, so
is the word Republican and Democrat to
the slaves of party. Our old friend is one
of this unfortunate class of slaves, he de-
clares. III his young and vigorous intel
! lectual days he learned to loathe African
slavery under the flaming denunciation OF
Burley, of Phillips, Abby Kelly and other
apostles of freedom. Under the Repub-
licau party the slavery they denounced
was destroyed, but a different slavery
grew up out of its ruins, and Lincoln said
to these Wall street slave drivers who
have used the Republican party since his
death, as the Southern slave drives used
the Democratic party to inaugurate their
rebellion-Lincoln said: "They ought tc
, have their internal heads shot off," and
Thadeus Stephens said with tears i'll his
eyes when he came from the conference
room: 1--WE had to yield to the bankers
or lose the country" These same wage
, slave drivers of Wall street seized the gov
eminent after the death of these two
heroes of freedom, through the Republi
can party, and have robbed and oppressed
the people, till three millions are tramp
i, ing in search of work to earn food ane
l. shelter, the best business houses are being
wrecked, honest men have been changed
into thieves, sensible men to suicides
moral and religious men to prevaricator:
> and rogues. Every farm in the entire
country has shrunken so to 10 per cent il
value, and every house to one-half it
. cost price.
, Our old friend knows this to be true
He has felt the iron rod of that maste
+ who rules through the Republican party
: The fine farm he owned has shrunk to
p third of its former value, the splendid
q house he builded in this town sold but :
q short time ago for third of its forme
cost, when the nice lawn, shrubbery an'
other added Improvements should have
increased its former value. Had the polio,
g of Lincoln and Thad. Stephens been fol
e lowed in place of the policy of Wall street
e which they fought, by the Republican
e party, that farm and that house and ever,
+ other farm and house would be wortl
= more today than they were twenty years
n ago.
: The Republican party has been in con
/ troll and its policy carried out for thirty
4 five years for Cleveland has been but {
trick mule which Wall street directed by
feeding him oats-and this drying up o
the peoples substance has all taken place
:, under the party regime
= Our old, upright friend who should be
= in his old home in the midst of every
enjoyment, friends and plenty, has beer
. banished by these hard times to the home
of the wild Indian and cayote, wnen Lin
:, coin and Stephens were struggling against
= the power which he rejoices to own he
is a voluntary slave to.
"a little learning is a dangerous thing:
Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring;
There shallow draughts intoxcate the brain,
e And drinking largely sobers us again"
f Pope
Our old friend like many thousand
others, drank the shallow draughts of the
gospel of freedom from chattel slavery,
but has failed to drink largely" OF
economic knowledge which reveals the
fraud and deception practiced on the peo-
pie since the death of Lincoln and Ste
: phens. Hence his condition of "volun.
tary and conscientious" slavery and a
stranger in strange land Let him and
all others in the same condition do as
Saul when he went blind to Damascus.
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