The herald., 1896-10-25
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:PRO-MONOP0LY AND PRO-SLAVERYS |
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BY JAMES q. CLARK

and its anti-slavery prototype Of hal
century or more ago lies in the tactics uset
and circulated and reiterated by the Han
| na-Mckinley national committee syndicat
and uttered through. every subordinate
agency till they trickle, dribble and ooz
from all the numerous avenues and pore
OF Republican campaign propaganda be
tween the two great oceans. They. per
president. governors and senators, and tn.
, editorial columns of great dailies ant
their echoes, down to sermons Of clergy
expects all his subjects and devotees to dc
their whole duty and will not tolerate com:
promise, and when satan himself gets tired
or Wall streets opportunities the latter
makes its final despairing appeal to mort.
gagged church. Every seemingly new man.
Hesitation from the Hanna literary bureau
no matter whether through press, STUMP
or pulpit-has the same taste and smell
and bears the same unimpeachable witness
of contact with the Hanna fiavoring and
Even so-called Republican statesmen like
Bouteiie. and other party leaders; who,
and '50-cent dollars till Republicans
themselves hang their heads, while Bryan
men actually laugh outright at campaign
or deceive the stupidist Of voters.
The people have at last learned who are
to for aSs h1B and o.
crime pay their just part of the cost of res
titution, even though it beggars and drives
the ana s9
screams; ''They have attacked the su-
preme, court and believe in free and un-
limited rioting'm and the same sam slogan 3 Is
unanimity. by the entire fraternity of hired
POLITICAL shouters and gong beaters till 1t
th tlls the air from sea to ssa,and then IN i.
a large number of disinterested business
men," good Bishop Ireland's. magnificent
baritone comes laundering into the pawn,
brokers' grand chorus. and. as # to 60 al,
the rest one better. .proclaims the bull
of supreme court infallibility. which is an
entirely new dogma in the American CON
ago foretold by Thomas Jefferson in one
of his prophetic warnings.
AS Bishop So a Hopkins Of vermont and other ddn
the divinity of slavery and to question the
righteousness of Judge Taney's Dred
Scott decision. over fifty years ago. SO
talking of the divine rights of property and
the unpardonable sin, Of questioning the
in1fallibility of civil institution, which
greater than congress, senate and pres
ident," and hence, above human criticism.
But, we, ask. who made the supreme
court?. If the people made 1t, why should
they not discuss its decisions, especially
when, through their representatives, they
meet in presidential nominating conven-
tions to formulate and voice their latest
demands and when. if ever, 1t is expected
and lawfully and properly so that every
institution touching, the public veal shall
the question of its infiuence-even that Of
its continued existence. If necessary sub
mitted to the voice OF the whole people
The fact is, this anarchy Shrek of
Hanna-the most dangerous anarchist in
the. nation-and which is applied. by his
underlings to large majority OF Amer.
lean citizens who dare utter blasphemy
against the infamous income tax decision
of the holy and infallible supreme court.
has no basis whatever in neal public
opinion, and rests entirely upon the rotten
network of false sentiment manufactured
to conceal deliberate crime. Let the su-
by first agreeing with and harmonizing
itself before labelling an entire. political
party anarchists for echoing the vigor-
its own membership. Some of us remem-
ber that the Republican party itself was
conceived and born of what the same party
in other words, of popular denial of the
right of any court to fasten upon the ma
tion the edcts of the fugitive slave law
and Dred Scott decision.
If. like an angry or drunken man, the
present supreme court objects to the ugly
reflections of its face in the public mirror
let it reform the substance instead of try
ing to deny or destroy the shadow by shat
tering. the looking-glass.
The general attitude of the clergy in this
political and economic crisis is not sur
ural. 1t is, and always has been: char
acteristic of the priesthood of all ages to
take sides with the traditional oppressor
and against the oppressed in reform move
ments. The primitive Quaker ministry
formed most notable exception to the
rule, but we must bear in mind that this
was because. and at period when, Quaker
preachers received no salaries.
The Methodist clergy north could not be
regarded as an exception because slavery
Ssra and fhe Of
Rev. ". D. simonds Of Madison. Wis.,
one of the. most gifted and eloquent men
full speech in Battle Creek, Mich. and these
We're his Introductory remarks:.
Before 1 proceed to discuss the issues
about ministerial champions Of the gold
standard. The papers have made SO much
Of the fact that the ministers are defend
a brief reply, and that reply is only an in
cident IN history. ;. Upon one Of the pages
you will find the record of a conver-
the Hon: Newton Brakeman. CONVEX
sation. which was held a few weeks before
the Lincoln election of 1860. Mr.. Lincoln
had been looking over the voting lists and
had discovered that out of the twenty
three ministers in the immediate vicinity
of Springfield ILL.,. twenty were to vote for
Douglas and. only three intended to vote
for him. and he said: Mr.. Brakeman, l
am not CnrlStldn. But these men know
that I am for freedom in the territories,
for freedom everywhere as far as the.con
stitution and the laws will permit, and
that my opponents are for slavery, and yet
with the open Bible in their hands they are
going to vote against me, and l do not
understand it at ALL Now, without pass
ing judgment upon any man or his mo-
tives, / just wish to say that when these
ministers know that there is not trust,
not a syndicate, not a combine in all this
country that is not in favor of the gold
standard, no one either in Lombard or
Wall street, how they can defend it with
the Bible in their hands, do not quite un-
derstand; ana there, without passing Judg-
ment, l leave my ministerial friends"
While such inconsistency is a little hard
to understand" it is nevertheless fact.
The reason is not that the priesthood ,as
men, offer from their fellows, but because
their environment conStrains them to keep
on the winning, salary-paying side. In
this respect their attitude is not essentially
different from that of all other classes in
our competitive-"each for himself and
the Gevil take the hindmost"- struggle
for existence.
In addition to this the very office Of the
priest, no matter what may be his de-
nomination, compels him to steadfastly
face the past rather than the future.
When Jesus .wept over Jerusalem he
said: Thou that killest the prophet and
stonest them that are sent unto thee" He
did not say Thou that killest the priests"
for he well knew that the latter as a class
generally keep on what they deem the
very time He was uttering that terrible
lament and prophesy the priests-not the
prophets-Of Jerusalem were conspiring
together to murder him for anarchy" and
ways will be.
The priest is forever turning his face to
the past and referring the world to records
and traditions for authority, while the
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