The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-04-09
Property Interest and Human Rights.


There are two distinct classes of people
in this country whose aim is dramatically
opposed to each other and the alignment
is becoming more marked each day. The
side championing property interest as
paramount in importance to the rights of
humanity has an unlimited command of
money, and is led by men of great bus
mess ability. 1t is now organized in
great national bureau of education with
headquarters::in Chicago and with branch
offices in all the principal cities of the
United States. Several hundred thousand
dollars have been subscribed to their
fund, and they are now actively at work
to continue their system of deceiving the
people in the future as they have in the
past, till the chains of slavery are rivited
and submission follows as it has in
Europe.
This bureau here referred to is now
sending out free supplements and printed
plate matter to newspapers, selecting COM
mittees to visit congress, employing at
torneys to represent its interests and
taking other steps to increase its power
and influence.
On the other hand to meet this attack
the forces championing the rights of hui
mainly are disorganized, and each attempt
at organization has, heretofore, disclosed
the increasing necessity of money among
those friendly to our cause. One by one
the men able and willing to put up large
sums of money for educational or CAM
paign purposes in defense of such prin-
ciples have gone over to the other side.
The Peoples party was the first to
scent the danger that is now rapidly rush
ing upon the country and as practical
fact it found its efforts virtually paralyzed
for the want of money to perfect its or
ganization. The Democratic
party at the Chicago convention threw
itself into the breach in defense ofhuman
rights and against the idolatry of property.
And it is now feeling the financial effect
of the position it has taken. The chair
man of the national committee tells me
recently that he has tried to raise the
necessary money to counteract what is
known to be in operation on the other
side and that he has utterly failed,-Har-
vey's Patriots Bulletin.
There are but comparatively few per-
sons outside Of the English gold ring that
even suspect the magnitude of the COIL
spiracy which is formed against the peo-
pie and to overthrow this republic and
build on its ruins all Empire controlled by
wealth. The conspirators have now
everything in their hands and are strain
ing every nerve to consolidate and secure
their work. By the expenditure Of fifty
million dollars in the last campaign and
during Cleveland's adnlinistration-all OF
which interval they were preparing for it
they have secured almost entire control
of every department OF government; and
nearly all the wealthy men and institu-
tions in the country have gone over to
their side. All the corporations from the
railroads down to the department stores;
the subsidized colleges and the church,
both Protestant and Catholic, have
arrayed their professors and leading
divines on the side of wealth as against
humanity.
For the asking, 100 millions or twice
that sum if necessary, is ready for the
great leaders i'll this conspiracy. Will the
sodden people ever learn and arouse to
the alarming danger that is overshadow-
ing them?