Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-10-17


men. Arm0ries are erected and school
houses forgotten. Immense grants of
land are bestowed upon railroads, but
the settlers upon those grants are
evicted. Trades union leaders are
imprisoned for having contempt for a
contemplate Judge, while monorolists
are aided by iniunctions and Federal
troops.
To-day Shakespeare has been revised
and Shylock is the hero of the play.
Portals plea for mercy is called revo-
lutionary and Bassanio is branded as
Il repudiator.
There is hardly trust or syndicate
that has inaugurated this campaign of
threats and ridicule and obiect-lessons
that dare open up its own business ca
reer to the public
One of these defenders Cf law and
national honor, the Standard Oil Com
pany, has illegally increased freight
rates, closed rivers and canals, destroy
ed inventions, bought up inspectors
and put its stamp upon explosive oil,
attacked the property Of competitors
and blown up rival reiineries. These
trusts are religious at one end and
murderous at the other.
This lawbreakin g, aggressive spirit
OF monopoly has found perfect en-
bodiment III the person of Mark
Hanna.
He to day towers above Mckinley
and above the Republican party, the
American Blueheard, who slays his
workers instead Of his wives.
The skeletons of the Seamen's s
Union, the Minors Union and the
Street Car Mems Union hang bleeding
in his closet
HANNA Ills OWNER AND TYRANT.
When Mckinley was Governor Cf
Ohio, Hanna was his guardian. There
fore, in criticising Bryan's opponent,
we look not at the servant, but at the
master-not at Mckinley, the most
pitiable figurehcad in public life to-
day, but at Hanna, his owner and
tyrant.
No mans character can he described
by his private relations with his iami-
". He may be, like the late Gar of
Russia, good husband aud father
but so is every tiger and wild beast
Before granting any man the diplo-
ma of morality we ask wha; the in
huence of his career has been upon his
fellow-men If he has gone through
life rs an elephant goes through a
forest, crashing and breaking path
wav for himself alone, or as devilfish
crawls through the sea, grasping aud
sucking the life blood from every
living thing in reach, how can we in
trust such 4 man with the responsible
tiles and authority of public Office ?
Give Hanna four years of power
and he will paint the White House
black
He will utterly destroy every YES
tige Of trades unionism, for he will
have the army, the navy. and the
treasury at his command He will
discover that it is cheaper to abolish
manhood suffrage than to buy votes ;
and next November may be the last
chance that moneyless men ever may
have to record their vote for President.
Many Republican workingmen are
thoughtlessly going to the ballot-box
just as an OK goes 10 barbecue
gaily decorated in honor OF its own
death
Mayor Pingree gave us national
motto when he said : ''Give the peo-
pie what they want" am not one
of those who regard the people as
dangerous, covetous animals who must
be chained and muzzled. The eXper-
iment of the referendum in Switzerland
has proved that when the people are
left entirely free that they are natural
" conservative French revolutions
never occur except when some King
Louis has repressed the people and
goaded them To resistance. II am the
State, said the boastful king. and the
people replied with the guillotine.
trust in the common heart OF all
more than in the private scheming OF
any financial syndicate. | don't excuse
the ignorance of the masses. don't
celebrate their poverty, don't ignore
their frailties, but ! say that they are
far nearer the truth regarding all
social and political problems than
those hoodlum students of Yale, whose
only argument is an insane college
yell
II is time to co operate and ENJOY
the creation of our hands otherwise
all The energy. and daring, and in
venliveness ut our father, has come Ia
naught do no, believe that Colum-
bus discovered America Tor Hanna. on
that the monppolist Is the last and
highest product of human evolution
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