The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-25
IN The HEART OF LYNN
Rev. CasSon breaches Gospel
Of Industrial Salvation.
HIS SERMON LAST SUNDAY
Crowds Come From All Over the
State Of Massachusetts
MASSACHUSETTS NOV AND THEN
The Lot of the Modern Laborer's Serf-
dom Under Combination Eloqu-
entvlConpared With the Self
Sustaining Man Long Ago.

ent'vlCompared With the Self
Sustaining Man Long Ago.
Boston. Oct. 24.--QSpeciaD Since
the campaign opened the great Sum
dav attraction has been the sensation
al address delivered by Rev. Herbert
\. Casson in the Labor church at
Lynn, Mass, and people from all over
the State fiji the large edifice to over
flowing every Sunday. The News and
Observer was the only paper, beside
one small silver weekly in this State,
that published his last Sundays SER
mon on '$Who is the Anarchist, Bryan
or HANNAH" 1t was, however, copied
afterwards by several New England
papers.
Sunday his subject was The Cry of
the Crucified Debtors" He announced
that his effort would be to prove that
the middle classes of society have in
the past twenty years been gradually
forced to join the great body of wage
earners and abandon their hope of self
employment.
Hundreds were turned away from
the doors of the crowded church,
many of whom had come great dis
tances to hear the orator.
He said in part: In 1875 Mr. Carey
the political economist, dese bed this
State eft ours as follows Nm Nassachd-
sets all have property and invest their
surplns upon their own possessions.
EYerF man lives on his own farm end
in lbs own house, He works in his OWE
sbon or may If he wishes. lie drives
his own horse. sails his own boat on
works la the mill Of hich he part
owner.
IF this account Ily ttue theIe We're
at that time no social er indus Fial
classes in Massachusetts. burt fifty
ehangeful years have made their mark
upon this State since then Only ~
per cent Of our citizens own their
homes clear of indebtedness to-day.
Giant organisms OF production have
been developed especially favored by
legislation, until from al cur Greer
industries competition has been a n-
mated Cur railroads al more
than Washington ever sN t1e e4I
trust employs more meH shan Geoef-
al Grant commanded Ne have eot a0
factories that grow tbeie 9a4 eo ton
and manage their own sd tail SEQ ass
in New York con ha g
of All trades and
all professions Some
ations own and mann
forty retail stores, fo e ha Cau
pebitors to the wall by the mac
tude of their operations
In the Western States there ara
bonanza farms 100 mEles in length
~, Il.
penal colonies of Tasmania Some of
these farms have their own ship
yards, steamship, elevators and ma
chine shops.
All the professions are likewise
overcrowded and tending to monopo-
~. Every large lawyer gathers
swarm of hired pettifoggers around
him; every noted doctor has his group
of assistants. Soon in every city there
will be a lawyers union, and they
will prosecute every 'scab according
TO law. When our young people who
are now at college step into the
world OF business they win find no
course open to them except that of
becoming cog in the machinery of
some great industrial or professional
structure. Thousands of small man
ufacturers are being forced to the edge
of the precipice, and will soon be
obliged to obey instead of command
They are just now between Hanna
and the deep sea, and must become
hirelings or bankrupts.
We are placing the power of Great
ing prosperity in the hands of few
hnanciers. The bulb of our financial
thermometer is in European vaults
That is what they call confidence
The money power have got the bust
ness of the world in a soda water
tank and can turn on any flavor they
please prosperous, dull 'improv-
ing, steady, falling panic Wall
street raises nothing but profits and
manufactures nothing but famines. At
present nations rise and fall with
the flow of one metal capriciously here
and there. Commerce is placed at the
mercy of a few irresponsible usurers.
Suppose j. Pierpont Morgan eats
green apple, gets the collie and orders
panic, there could come more evil re-
suits to the world than resulted from
the apple eaten by our Mother Eve
These fnanciers are not business
men. They take no part in actual
trade or manufacture. They are not
makers. but breakers and takers. They
are the Ylltures of commerce, at war
upon all business, and are no more
Legitimate business men than the buc-
cancers of the Spanish Main.
The money magnates are endeayor-
ing TO make one commodity tyrannize
over all other commodities. When
we say goods are cheap it is only
another way OF declaring that money
is dear, and vice versa. The real mean
ing Of the 53-cent dollar is that for
every SO CENTS tha& you borrowed
you must now pay 100 cents. That is
an honest dollar
"When the ragged children of the
poor stand outside of the plate-glass
windows of the bank and hear the
chink of the money as it is counted
inside that is a definition of sound
money The banker has the money
and the ragged children have the
sound
How can liberty EXIST when society
is composed of handful of money