The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-29
GA WorId-Power. !"

ments recommend an increase in the
army and navy which, If McKinlev-or
rather the imperial junta behind McKin-
ley, who pull the strings and make their
puppet dance-can have his way, will
equal that of the Kaiser and Great Brit
ain. Such military establishment would
serve to sol:dify the power of aristocracy
of privilege and wealth which the Repnb-
lican party is busy and intent on building
in this government.
The larger the army and navy the
greater we would become as world
power in the yes Of the admirers of Old
World institutions. The pension and
dependent list would certainly increase
and the tax roll grow larger year by year
and the laboring class, particularly
farmers, grow poorer and more dispirited.
We know the masses Of the Republican
party-its bone and siuew-are opposed
to such policy, but the leaders of the
party are bent OIL consolidating aud
building anew the republic on these Old
World foundations
AS fast as the special privileges of this
imperial class enable them TO rise into
millionaires they form business alliances
with the same class i'll England, marry
their daughters to the mpecunious scions
of aristocracy, spend their summers i'll
London and OH the continent studying
the institutions and admiring the poverty
of the poor, the degradation of labor and
the luxury and privileges of the rich.
This millionaire, gold standard, sound
money, trust, monopoly class has got
complete control of the government and
are shaping it to conform to the mon
archical, aristocratic pattern of the COY
ernments OF Europe, more especially to
that of Great Britain. We marvel that
the industrial class who suffer and grow
poorer and more dependent, year by year,
under this system, do not recognize where
they are being led by the policy which
the Republican party is pursuing, or
rather being directed into by the class
which is absorbing all the wealth that
their industry creates If they will but
use their common sense, independent of
all party prejudices, they cannot fail to
see that all the exploiters, the trust mag
mates, the railroad kings. the bankers, the
great corporations that rob the people
through the special privileges they have
secured by unjust laws placed on the
statute books of State and nation, by
their at.ornies, are all combined In one
solid, compact mass in the Republican
party. The powerful, wealthy class have
skilfully manipulated and shaped the
policy of the party for thirty years SO cum
ningly that their designs have remained
hidden from the eyes of the plain people.
Under McKinley's administration thy
have so far developed that they are begin
ming to be seen and understood by all
men of all parties. The boldest of their
advocates are proclaining their policy
and their preference for English insttu-
tons, from the house-tops and in the
streets. They are in possession of almost
thO ShliC Uaby press, Wiki - 1Stp III
line by the banks under the pretentous
fraud of sound money and gold standard.
By these cabalistc terms they have
succeeded in catching the ear of the
masses and deceiving them while forging
chains for their future industrial slavery,
like that of the Old World The class In
the Old World that parallel our farmers,
mechanics and day laborers, is buried SO
completely out of sight under the op-
preston of wealth and class privilege that
its voice is never heard. The machinery
is in motion which is steadily forcing that
middle class" III this country into the
same condition, the powerless silence of
poverty and despair.
This condition is what the anarchists
of wealth. call world power; great
standing army and navy on which an
arislocracy of wealth and privilege rests.
This nation has been a power that made
the crown on the head of every monarch
in Europe rest uneasily since the Decla-
ration of Independence was sent like a
trumpet call round the world With an
army of $4,000 men and scarcely the
semblance of navy, this nation, not by
the force of its arms but by the charm of
its system of popular government, has
advanced to the first rank among the
nations of the world, Its strength lay in
free institutions and in it's volunteer SOL
diery. aud its wealth sprang from free
opportunity to industry. Both of these
have almost. if not entirely. passed away
The world power that free men and free
opportunity built has been usurped by
class disguised in party habiliments under
the folds of freedoms flag This danger
invisible to the masses--is drawing its
ever constructing folds steadily around
them.