Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-22
MENACE OF TIE
MONEY POWER.
Its Tools Are Threats and
Doodle"
Its Object Is Plutocratic
Rule
And Death to Organized
Labor.
The Poor Mans Ballot In
Jeopardy.


ship in Lynn, Mass, assembled to hear
he Rev. Herbert N. Casson preach on
3he subject, "Who Is the Anarchist,
Bryan or Ham,"
The auditorium was crowded with
people of all shades of political opinion,
including leading Republicans, Dem
Ucrats and Populists, several city Off
ciaIs, local labor leaders and delega-
tion from the Bryan-Sewall- Williams
club of Boston. The preachers fame rs
pulpit orator is not confined TO New
England alone He spoke for two hours
and reused his hearers to high pitch
of enthusiasm when he said that ''No-
braska never had better loved son than
Bryan.
The Rev. Mr.. Casson said that as his
sermon was a political one he would
omit the reading Of the Scripture les
son, and by way Of preface read portions
of several editorial articles bearing ON
his subject from the New York Jour.
nal Mr.. Casson said i'll part:
The laws of prosperity are to be dis
covered, not constructed. The real leg
islator for whom this nation waits is
he who shall find and dare to proclaim
the perfect social order foreordailed by
justice from the beginning Of the world.
Tho real anarchist is he who seeks to
violate the laws of nature for the exclu-
sive benefit Of small fraction of the
community.
During the present campaign the cpl
thet anarchist has been hurled at the
heads of some Of the noblest and most
capable men that this generation has
produced. The fierce scarchight of
publicity has blazed upon these men for
years and not single corrupt official
act has ever been discovered.
Bryan is caricatured, just as Lincoln
was, as n highwayman, as a pirate,
even as the devil, and in many similar
ways. Whether Bryans political views
are entirely correct or not, who can de-
ny that he is Il citizen Of whom any ma
tion in the world might boast?
Whether we consider the sustained
ability of his addresses, his gentleman
ly endurance of slander and misrepTe-
sentation, his unsullied public career or
the magnetism OF his unaffected cor
NtAtlAANy " NAAO bN'tll llitAoeto ti4AA
greet him ut every depot, we cannot
avoid admiring him as a sturdy speci-
men of our American manhood.
Compare him with the gagged indi-
vidual who t1emblcs in his mortgaged
house lest Hanna may foreclose. Com
pare him with that unfortunate Napo-
leon who has already met his Yelling
ton and surrendered his convictions
and it is plain to see which best repre-
sents the principles of the Declaration
Of Independence.
Bryan is the spokesman of the half
awakened producers, who form nine
tenths Of the population He and his
associates have revived the apostolic
power of casting out devils" i'll the
Democratic party and of raising the
dead to life among the Republican rank
and file.
They have given US at last real is,
sue instead of a sham one, and though
their remedy may seem inadequate to
progressive thinkers it is i'll the right
direction and in accordance with the
peoples will.
During the last few years we have
been rapidly developing ii slave element
III our population-a propertyless class,
entirely dependent upon the sale of their
labor. No longer does Jack hobnob with
his master. The rich and poor do not
live i'll the same quarter of the city. A
second secession has split our society
into two hostile elements, and it is
childish to howl "Anarchistn' at the
! patriot who proclaims the unwelcome
| fact and seeks to weld the nation into
unity again by repeating the laws that
caused it to split asunder
| America is the workingman's
"Paradisc Lost" and it can never
be regaincd by passive obedience to
the serpent.
Our carpenters build magnificent
| mansions and live i'll rented tenements
/ themselves. Our mechanics construct
/ electric lights and use kerosene at home /;
they manufacture pianos and do not
own tin whistle; they build carriages
and 20 afoot. Our miners dig gold and
die poor; they delve in dangerous coal
mines and lack fuel in the winter. Our
farmers raise grain and want for food
export cotton and wool and lack cloth
ing, sell cattle and are without meat.
Our marvellous inventions have been
monopolized so that, in spite of the
daily miracles of our machinery, the
hungry still lack food and the homeless
wander through the streets. Step by
step the moneyless man is losing his
right to exist. Every recent change III
legislation has been made to protect
property and to disfranchise men. Ar
mories are erected and schoolhouses for
gotten. Immense grants of land are be-
slowed upon railroads, but the settlers
upon those grants are evictod. Trades
union leaders are imprisoned for having
contempt for contemplate judge,