The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-07-02
The Arena for July

Is grand number through and
through, but the browning article of the
number is Wall Street. That great con-
spiracy as sketched by Henry Clews, and
its true inwardness as delineated by John
Clark Ridpath, the managing editor of
the magazine. The brief history of Wall
street, its plausible, satanic sophistry and
pretense as sketched by Henry Clews, its
defender and champion, and the uncov-
ering and holding up naked before the
world the hideous conspiracy by Ridpath,
is worth many times the subscription
price Of the arena for whole year. No
such scathing exposure of the satanic,
colossal conspiracy against the human
race, known as Wall street has ever been
written.
When liberty fled to the new world and
made her last stand in arms against her
old world enemy, and came out of the
battle victorious, then the enemy knew
that his reign by the sword was near its
end and if his power was to be perpet-
uated an entirely new plan Of warfare and
campaign must be invented. Then Wall
street was evolved from the fertile brain
of the arch enemy of mankind.
The following is snap shot of Wall
street from the Ridpath article
81 acknowledge certain admiration
when consider this stupendous scheme.
1t is more than Napoleonic; it is CONT
mental, interplanetarp, sidereal l cam
not recall another conspiracy in the his
tory of mankind quite equal i'll colossal
and criminal splendor to the profound
and universal plot of Wall street to make
perpetual the national debt, to keep that
debt the bottom fact in the banking sys-
TEN of the United States, and to bull the
unit of money and account until it shall
be worth four times as much, or perhaps
ten times as much, as it was when the
bulk of the debt was contracted.
''The history of this scheme in its true
inwardness is the history of Wall street
for the past thirty years. The details of
the history relate to such small circum-
stances as the transfer of the government
of the great Republic from the hands and
control of the people to the hands and
control of the Street. Of course no such
scheme as that referred to could be carried
into successful operation nnkeSS the
national government could be delivered
over to the keeping of the Street and
locked up, as 1t were, in the same vault
where the national debt is deposited.
'This feat, however, was easily accom-
p1ished Wall street reached out its hand
and plucked down the American eagle
| from his perch Wall street got posses
sion of the government. The COUP was
accomplished while the nation was asleep
else it never could have been accom-
plished Wall street climbed the Tarpeian
rock in the night, and no goose cackled
to give the alarm. Columbia had gone to
bed. The keeper of her treasure house
had already given the key to the enemy.
The keeper of the treasury was Part of
the enemy. He gaveup both citadel and
| city. In the morning the walls were
placarded with lying posters which said
that the delivery of the government into
the hands of the Hessians had been ren-
dered necessary in order TO preserve the
| national honor 1t was done i'll order
to keep faith with those benevolent
patriots who had bought the debt of the
nation at less than fifty cents to the dollar
and who, not satisfied with bringing it to
par, were now engaged in the honorable
| work of making it worth two hundred
cents to the dollar. The fact that the
industries of the people would be crushed
and the people themselves be reduced to
poverty by the transfer Of the national
sovereignty from the capitol to the stock
exchange was nothing in comparison with
the preservation of national honor"
In another paragraph the Mckinley
candidacy and campaign of 1896 is
described and Wall streets interference
in presidential elections
"If the candidate and his friends have
already fixed platform before the date
of the convention, and if it have been
published everywhere as the decision Of
the candidate and his following. we will
take that platform from the wires and
will carefully revise it, to the end that the
national honor shall be preserved. We
will write it over again into new mean
ings. We will interpret it so that no harm
shall be done to the national credit
We will make our candidate into puppet
When we put our foot on the treadle his
jaw shall drop and he shall utter many
mockiag words about the national
honor and the prospects Of our glorious
country'-signilying nothing.
The willing slave to Wall street that
the Secretary of the Treasury has become
is told too truly in few sarcastic lines:
81 believe that the Secretary still has
all Office al Washington, but that should
be closed i'll the interest Ct economy and
reform. To do so, we doubt not would
be strong factor in the restoration of
confidence. Perhaps the Washington
Office might be left in charge of janitor,
for it is understood that some official cor
respoadenea is still directed to the old
address The presenss Of the Secretary
in New York, however. has beco4e so
essential to the proper discharge of his
duties that the removal of his residence
thither can only be deferred by all absurd
Difference to public opinion !! ~
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