The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-01-20
DaV Is Breaking.


The country press is beginning to see
the danger and speak out. The Mary
land Republican after looking at the
trusts thus expresses the impressions
created by this glance at the monsters =
"Do we realize that the Standard Oil
Trust controls every gallon Of coal oil sold
i'll the country? The Sugar Trust prac-
tically every pound of sugar? Do we fully
realize that our city, village and country
storekeepers can sell us sugar or coal oil
only at the prices these trusts fix? Do we
fully realize that we can only buy from
their agents; for to all practical intents
and purposes, every storekeeper is their
agent Does it come home to us that
these great trusts can and do ruthlessly
crush all who oppose them? Does it come
home to us that individual enterprise,
individual competition is no longer pos
sible in many articles of daily and hourly
consumption We surely cannot realize
the position which these trusts occupy to
the people; for if we did, the people
would rise in their might and overthrow
them"
The peoples Knight " What is it?
The people have no might as long as they
can be kept in ignorance of the economic
conditions that exalt the trusts. The
power which controls the trusts OWNS
nearly all the great daily papers, and it
uses these papers TO mislead and keep the
people in darkness. These papers mis-
lead the country press to large extent.
The editor of large part Of the country
press has not only to collect and collate
the matter for his columns, but roll up
his sleeves and work at the case i'll order
to get his paper out at all. He has no
time to study these questions The trusts,
or the money trust at least, offers him
plate matter free if he will insert their
deceptive sophistries in his paper.
The editor of the Republican admits
that these trusts lead up to government
ownership and control, which is socialism
but scares at the word, while he admits
that trustism leads to slavery. The editors
conclusions are -
eff these trusts are not overthrown they
for they are building up socialism which
must lead TO revolution or slavery
But how are they to be overthrown !?
That is the rub. Trusts did not exist
until the money was trustifed. The
money trust was the first and is the
greatest of all trusts Let us socialize the
money. We have socialized the army,
we have socialized the navy, the post
office, the courts, the public schools, the
roads and some other things, and "indi-
vidualism" has not been endangered
thereby. Let us try socializing the money
which the government creates. Surely
| there would be no danger to individualism
by adding one more function to the above
named prerogatives of government. How
shall we go about socializing the money
as we have the public schools and courts,
etc. Very easily. Let the government
establish banks as it does post Offices for
the convenience of the people. No body
would deposit money in a private bank
| TALL our banks are private concerns) if
there was government bank in the same
town. Government banks would be con-
trolled in the interest of the people.
| The banks we have are controlled
in the interest of trusts, because the
banking business has grown to be the
international trust of the world with
Rothschilds, the lenial descendants of
Judah, controlling and directing it.