The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-06-22
Platforms.

who make up the political division known
as party, believes to be the best to sub
serve public interest, and should be as
explicit and well defined as our Declare
ton of Independence, which proclaimed
10 the world that in the people is lodged
the divine right to rule, and not in kings
and noble class, selfconstituted small
number of the people whose cunning,
superior intelligence and INSCRIPTIONS,
aggressive spirit had served TO place that
class in power and who claimed and ex-
ercised the right TO beqneath it to their
pendence was an eye-opener to the peo-
pie of the world, showing them that they
had been robbed of their God given right
to rule, aud that the divine right claimed
by small, select class of the people had
been taken from their ancestors by force
and cunning and held by their descend
ents, that the people of America having
successfully resisted the enforcement of
that usurped power claimed by kings to
be divine right lodged only in their
blood kin, proposed to assume it again
and establish government by the people
and for the people.
Every party platform since the publica-
ton of this great charter, has professed to
be reaffirmation of the principle pro-
mulgated by the Declaration, so we'll
expressed by the great philosopher aud
champion Of liberty, Thomas Jefferson,
and published to the astounded kings and
nobility of the Old World on the 4th day
of July, 1875
After the destruction of chattel slavery
whose sun set in fire and blood to rise in
that form no more, the platform of the
Peoples party and that of the reformed
Democratic party of 1896 were the first
positive declarations of the rights of
the masses. All previous national party
platforms prior to that time were vague,
meaningless or paltered in double sense.
onitting much and expressing little.
The National conventions of 1896
brought the money question prominently
to the front as it had not been since the
famous battle waged against the aggres-
sive and usurping money power by Pres
ident Jackson and Col. Thomas H Benton
ofthe Senate.
In 1862 when the government was in a
life and death struggle with the slave
power, the subtle enemy to civilization
and the human race, the money power
again made its appearance to renew its
old battle for supremacy of the dollar
above the man. 1t had succeeded ia
packing the Senate Of the United States
with its attornies, who s;ezed the oppor-
tunity and succeeded in inserting in the
law providing for an additional issue of
greenbacks the word except" This
little word deprived the greenback of its
legal tender function in the payment of
duties on imports and interest on the
public debt, notwithstanding the debt
was a greenback debt and the business
money of the country was entirely a
greenback currency.
From this little appearingly insignifi-
cant word except" has flown all the
epidemic of financial ills from that to the
present day. It has cost the American
people thousands of millions 1t has been
the main promoter of the gigantic trust
combinations that have sprung up in the
country. Out of this little word in the
law Of 1923 has grown up our multi
millionaire class, a heavy, beetle proved,
coarse featured race of men. the epitome
of avarice and consuming greed
National conventions are beginning to
assemble to form platforms and place in
nomination Presidential candidates for
Congress. The Democratic party is
pledged to reaffirmation of the Chicago
platform of 1896 with additional plaaks
on trusts and imperialism.
The money plank of the Chicago plat
form reads: I'VE demand that all paper
which is made legal tender for public and
private debts, or which is receivable for
duties to the United States, shall be issued
by the government of the United States
and shall be redeemable in conn.,,
The concluding clause "redeemable in
coin" should be stricken out. There is
no reason for redeeuing legal tender
money of the United States in any other
kind of money. The people never wanted
greenback exchanged for coin-''re-
deemable" means simply an exchange of
one dollar for another. The gold and
the silver coins were never needed for any
other purpose in the country but to carry
on trade of buying and selling. If for
any other purpose it was for metal to take
or send out of the country, which should
be prevented as far as possible. The send
ing of money to foreign countries lessons
the home supply, contracts the volume in
circulation, upsets prices and injares
business.
Only spectators in money want the
opportunity to form corners in money by
having a clause in the law empowering
them to demand coin in exchange for
legal tender United States paper money.
The cornerers of money took advantage
when they had their confederate in the |