The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-10-09

CDo pulplL WIFI poiItlCdl HaiI buSueS
and denunciations which transforms
the sacred cloth into the green maize
upon which the words of the preacher
fall like the click of the die or the
swish of the playing cards, we 10
not want the people to believe that the
sentiment of all the ministers is for
Mckinley, as some papers would have
them believe, and SO. for that reason,
we reprint the following sermon of the
Rev. Herbert n. Casson:
LYNN, Mass, Sept. 27.-The largest con grega
ton ever seen al a Sunday service in any place
of worship in this city assembled in the Labor
Church to- day to hear the Rev. Herbert n.
Casson preach on the subject. Who is the
Anarchist, Bryan or HANNAH"
The auditorium was crowded with people or
all shades of political opinion, including Lead
ing Republicans, Democrats and Populists,
several city officials, local labor leaders and
delegation from the Bryan-Sewall-Will
Club, of Boston. The preachers fame as
pulpit orator is not confined 10 New England
alone. He spoke for two hours and reused his
hearers to q high pitch OF enthusiasm when he
said that " Nebraska never had better loved
son than Bryan
The Rev. Mr. Casson said that as his sermon
was political one, he would omit the reading
of the Scripture lesson, ard by way of preface
read portions of several editorial articles bear
ing on his subject from the New York journal.
which paper, he said, was the most progress
sive organ of public opinion published in the
Eastern States TO day"
HOW PREACHER VIEWS 1T.
Mr.. Casson said in part:
The laws of prosperity are TO be discovered,
not constructed. The real legislator for whom
this nation waits is he who snail find aud dare
to proclaim the perfect social order foreOr-
dained by justice from the beginning of the
world The real Anarchist is he who seeks to
violate the laws Of nature tor the exclusive
benefit of a small fraction Of the community.
During the present campaign the epit het
AnarchisJ" has been hurled at the heads of
some ofthe noblest and most apab men that
this gene0 4tion has produced. The fierce
searchlight of publicity has blszed upo' these
men for years, and not a single corrupt official
act has ever been discovered.
Bryan is caricatured, just as Lincolnwas as
q highwayman, pirate, evil as the devil
and in many similar ways. Whether Bryan's
views are entirely correct or not, who can deny
that he is a citizen that any nation in the
world might boast?
Whether we consider the sustained ability
of his addresses his gentlemanly endurance
of SANDER and Misrepresentation, his unsull1ed
public career, or the magnetism OF his unaf.
fected cordially to the sweat-stained masses
that greet him at every depot, we cannot avoid
admiring him as a sturdy specimen OF our
American manhood.
!. Compare him with the gagged individual,
who trembles in his morIgaged house lest
Hanna may foreciose him. compare his
with that unfortunate Napoleon who has al
ready met his Wellington and surrendered
his convictions, and is plain TO see which best
represents the principles of the Declaration OF
Independence.
SPOKESMAN OF THE PRODUCERS.
Bryan is the spokesman of the half.awaken-
ed producers, who form nine-tenths of the pop
ulation. He and his associates have revived
the apostolic power ofcasting out devils in the
Democratic patty and of raising the dead 10
life among the Republican rank and file.
They have given US at last O. real issue In
stead OF sham one, and though Their remedy
may seem inadequate to progressive thinkers,
1t is in the right direction and in accordance
with the peoples will.
During the last few years we have been de-
veloping slave elemental property less class,
entirely dependent up the sale of their labor.
The rich and poor do not live in the same
gu rter of the city. A second secession has
split our society into two hostile elements. and
1t is childish TO cry Anarchist at the patriot
who proclaims the unwelcome fact and seeks
TO weld the nation into unity again by repeal
ing the laws that caused it to split asunder.
America is the wOrkingman's
t'Paradise LOST" and it can
never be regained by passive
obedience to the serpent.
Our carpenters build magnificent mansions
and live in rented tenementS themselves. Our
mechanics construct electric lights and use
and do not It, own lin Whistle; they build car
riages and go afoot. Our miners dig gold
and die poor. They delve in dangerous coal
mers raise grain and want for food. port cot
ton and wool and lack for clothing. sell cattle
and are without meat.
LOSING HIS RIGHT TO EXIST.
Our marve llous inventions nave been mo.
nopOlized so that, In spite fthe daily mira
cles of our machinery the hungry still lack
food and the homeless still wander through
the streets. Step by step the mOneyless man
change in legislation has been made to pro-
tect property and to disfranchise men. Armo-
ries are erected and school houses forgotten.
Immense grants of land are bestowed upon
railroads but the settlers upon those lands are
evicted Trades union leaders are imprisoned
for having contempt of for 'Hltemptibe
Judge, while monOpOlies are aided by injunc-
lions and Federal troops.
To day Shakespeare has been revised and
for mercy is called Revolutionary and Bass-
no is branded as repudiator.
There is hardly trust or syn
dictate that has inaugurated this
of threats and ridicule
and Object-lessOns that dare
open up it's own business career
to the public.
One of these defenders of law and national
honor the Standard Oil Company, has ile-
galIy increased freight rates, closed rivers
and canals, destroyed inventions, bought up
and put its stamp upon explosive
oils, attacked the property of competitors ana
OJOWn up IlNdl IcuE0IleS 146SG bTuStS are
religious at one end and murderous at the
other
This law-breaking, aggressive spirit of mo-
nopoly has found perfect embodiment in the
person of Mark Hanna.
He to-day towers above Nc
Kin1ey and above the Republic
can party, the American Blue
who Stays his workers in J
stead of his wives.
The skeleton OF the Seamans Union, the |
Miners Union and the Street Car Mems I'm |
lon hang bleeding in his closet.
HANNA HIS OWNER AND TYRANT.
When Mckinley was Governor of Ohio, |
Hanna was his guardian. Therefore, in criti- I
ciSing Bryan's opponent, we look not at the /
servant, but at the master-not at Mckinley, /
he most pitable fgure-head In public life to
lay, but at Hanna, his owner and tyrsnt
No mans character can be described by his |
private relations with his family. He may he, /
Ike the late Car OF Russia. good husband
Ind father" but so is every tiger and wild I
,east
Before granting any man the diploma OF |
we ask what the influence of his ca
pnr has naaD ur00 his fef men "a has