Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-03
Warning Words Of Daniel Webster
The Recent Speech Of Henry
I. Davis ProV0kGs Dis
cuSSion---An Interest
ing Symposium.


ent time, ir.asmuch the correspondent
declares that Mr.. Bryan ''in his advocacy
of the assaults upon syndicates Is array
ing classes against classes" Continuing.
he quotes Mr. Webster, whose words are as
follows:
'.Sir, L see in these vehicles which carry
to the people sentiments from high places.
plain declarations that the present con-
troversy is but strife between one part OF
the community and another. l hear it
boosted as the unfailing security, the solid
ground, never to be shaken, on which re-
cent measures rest, that the poor naturally
hate the ricn. 1 know that, under the COW
ar of the roofs of the Capitol, within the
last twenty-four hours, among men sent
here to devise means for the public safety
and TIE public good, it has been Wanted
forth, as matter of boast and triumph, that
one cause existed powerful enough to sup
port everything and to defend everything;
and that was, the natural hatred of the
poor to the rich.
Sir, pronounce the author Of such SEN
timents to be guilty of attempting a de-
testable fraud on the community; double
fraud; d fraud which is to cheat men out
Of their property and out Of the earnings
Of their labor, by first cheating them out
of their understandings.
The natural hatred of the poor to the
richr Sir, it shall not be till the last mo-
ment of my exiStence-it shall be only
when l am drawn to the verge of oblivion.
when / shall cease to have respect or af
lection for anything on earth-that l will
believe the people of the United States
capable of being effectually deluded ca
joled aid driven about in herds by such
abominable frauds Il is If they shall
sink to that point, if they so far cease to be
men, as to yield to such pretenses and such
clamor, they will be slaves already; slaves
TO their own passions, slaves to the fraud
and knavery of pretended friends. They
will deserve to be blotted out of all the
records of freedom; they ought not to dis
honor the cause of self-Sovernment by at
tempting any longer to exercise 1t; they
ought to keep their unworthy hands en-
tirely off from the cause of republican lib
erty, if they capable of being the vic
tins OF articles so shallow, of tricks sn
stale, So threadbare, SO often practiced SO
mucn worn out, on serfS and slaves.
The natural hatred of the poor against
the rich. Tine danger of a moneyed aris
tocracyr A power as great and dangerous
as that resisted by the revolution!' A call
to d new declaration of independence" Sir.
/ admonish the people against the object of
outcr.es like these 1 admonish every in
dustrioUS laborer in the country to be on
his guard against such delusons 1 tell
him the attempt is to play off his passions
against his interests, and to prevail on
him. in the name of liberty, to destroy all
the fruits OF liberty; in the name of patriot
ism, to injure and affi!ct his country; and
in the name of his own independence, to de-
stroy that very independence, and make
him a beggar and a slave. Has he dollar?
He Is advised to do that which will destroy
half its value. Has he hands to labor? Let
him rather fold them and sit still, than be
pushed on. by fraud and artidce, to sup
port measures which will render his labor
useless and hopeless" Webster's Works,
vol }, page $3.50.
Interest In Sound Money.
Webster says g vol. p. $40:
''Sir, the very man Of all others who has
the deepest interest in sound currency,
and who suffers most by mischisvous leg
islation IN money matters. Is the man who
earns his daily bread by his daily toll. A
deprecated currency, sudden changes Of
prices, paper money, falling between morn
ing and neon. and falling still lower be-
tween noon and night-these things consti-
tute the very harvest time of SPECTATORS
and of the whole race of those who are at
once idle and crafty. and of that other
race. too, the Catalines of all times, mark
ed so as to be known forever by one stroke
of the historians pen-those greedy of
other mems property and prodigal of their
own Capitalists. too, may outlive such
ings of labor, by their cent per cent, or
they may hoard
But the laboring man. What can he
hoard? Preying on nobody he becomes
the prey of all. His property Is In his
hands His reliance, his fund, his produc-
tive freehold, his all, is his labor. Whether
he work on his own small capital or an
others his living Is still earned by his In
duStry; and when the money Of the coun-
try becoT es deprecated and dsbased,
whether 1t be adulterated coin or paper
without credit, that industry is robbed of
its reward He then labors for a country
w m NJ
would say to every owner of every quarter
section of land in the west. 1 would say to
every man in the east who follows his own
plough. and to every mechanic, artisan
and laborer in every city in the country. l
would say to every man everywhere who
wishes by honest means to gain an honest
living. Beware of wolves in Sleeps cloth
ing Whoever attempts, under whatever
popular cry, to shake the stability of the
public currency. bring on distress in money
matters and drive the country Into the use
of PAPER money. stabs your interest and
s ssp5 happiness to the heart" eV0l' B. p
What Produces Prosperity.
"Sir. the great interest of this great coun-
try, the producing cause of all its pros
perity. is labor! labor. labor! We are a
laboring community. A vast majority of
US all live by industry and actual employ
ment in some of their forms. The Consti-
y,
to give 1t both encouragement and security;
but, above all. security. To that very end,
with that precise object in view, power was
given to Congress over the currency, and
over the money system of the country. In
forty Eears experience We have found
nothing al all adequate to the beneficial
execution of this trust but well-conducted
national bank. That has been tried, re-
turned to, tried again, and always found
successful. If 1t be not the proper thing
for us, let it be soberly argued against; let
something better be proposed: let the coun-
try examine the matter coolly, and decide
for itself.
Attempts to Carry Things by Clamor.
But whoever shall attempt to carry
question of this kind by clamor and vio-
lence and prejudice-whoever would rouse
the people by appeals. false and fraudulent
appeals. to their love of independence, to
resist the establishment of useful insti-
tuition. because 1t Is a bank and deals In
money. and who artfully urges these APP
peals whenever he thinks there Is more Of
honest feeling than of enlightened judg-
ment-means nothing but deception. And
whoever has the wickedness to conceive,
and the hardihood to avow, q purpose to
break down what has been found In forty
years experience essential to the protec-
ton OF all interests by arrayin9 one class