The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-10-10
WHO THE ANNARCHIsT,
BRYAN OR HANNA q''

Labor Church today to hear the Rev. Herbert
n. Casson preach on the subject, who is
the Anarchist, Bryan or Hanna p
The auditorium was crowded with people
of all shades of political opinion, including
leading Republicans, Democrats and Popu-
lists. several city officials, local labor leaders
and delegation from the Bryan-Sewall-
Williams Club, of Boston. The preacher
fame as 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 Nebraska never had a
better loved son than Bryan"
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 shall find and dare
TO proclaim the perfect social order foreor-
lained by Justice from the beginning of the
world. The real Anarchist is he who seeks
TO violate the laws of nature for the exclusive
benefit of small fraction of the community.
During the present campaign the eplthet
Anarchist has been hurled at the heads of
some of the noblest and most capable men
that this generation has produced. The
fierce searchlight of publicity has bazed upon
these men for years, and not single corrupt
official act has ever been discovered.
DTNAu is cdTICdtuICh, just 40
highwayman, as pirate, even as the devil,
and in many similar ways. Whether Bryan
political views are entirely correct or not,
who can DENY that he is citizen OF whom
any nation in the world might boast
Whether we consider the sustained ability
of his addresses, his gentlemanly endurance
of Islander and Misrepresentation, his unsuiiled
public career, or the magnetism of his unat-
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 mortgaged house lest
Hanna may foreclose. Compare HIM with
that Unfortunate Napoleon who has already
met his Wellington and surrendered his con-
yictions. and it is plain to see which best re-
presents the principles of the Declaration OF
Independence.
SPOKESMAN OF THE PRODUCERS.
BRYAN is the spokesman of the halt-awak-
ened producers, who form Rine tenths OF the
population. He and his associates have re-
yiyed the apostolic power of casting ont
devils in the Democratic party and OF rals-
ing the dead to life among the Republican
rank and file.
They have given us at last real issue IN
stead of a sham one, and though their remedy
may seem inadequate to progressive thinkers,
it is in the right direction and IN accordance
with the people, will.
During the last few years we have been
RAPIDLY developing slave element IN our
population-a propertyless class, entirely de-
nendent upon the sale of their labor. No
longer does Jack hobnob with his master.
The rich and poor do not live in the same
quarter of the city. A second secession has
sniff our society into two hostile elements,
and il il childish to howl Anarchist at the
patriot who proclaims the unwelcome fact
and seeks to weld the nation into unity again
by repeating the laws that caused 1t 10 split
asunder.
America is the workingman' 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
kerosene at home; they manufacture pianos
and do not own tin whistle; they build car
riages and go 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 clothing, sell cattle and
are without meat.
LOSING HIS RIGHT TO EXIST.
Our marvellous inventions have been mo-
nopolyzed so that, in spite OF the daily MIRA
cles Of our machinery the hungry still lack
food and the homeless wander through the
streets. Step by step the moneyless man Is
losing right to exist. Every recent change in
legislation has been made to protect property
and to disfranchise men. Armories are
erected and school houses forgotten I'm
mense grants of land are bestowed upon rail
roads, but the settlers upon those grants are
eyicted. Trades union leaders are imprison-
ed for having contempt for contemplate
Judge, while monopolists are aided by inlunc-
tions and Federal troops.
Today Shakespeare has been revised and
Shylock is the hero of the play. Portals
plea for mercy is called revolutionary and
Bassanio is branded as a repudiator.
There is hardly trust or syndicate that has
inaugurated tbi: campaign of threats and
ridicule and object-lessOns that dare open up
its own business career to the public.
One of these defenders of law and national
honor, the Standard Oil Company, has lille
gally increased freight rates, closed rivers
and canals, destroyed inventions, bought up
inspectors and put its stamp upon explosive
oil, attacked the property of competitors and
blown up rival refneries. These trusts are
religious at one end and murderous at the
other.
This law breaking, aggressive spirit ofmo-
nopoly has found perfect embodiment IN the
person of Mark Hanna
He today towers above Mckinley and above
the Republican party, the American Blue
beard, who slays his workers instead Of his
wives.
The skeletons of the Seamen's Union, the
Miners Union and the Street Car Mems
Union hang bleeding in his closet!
HANNA HIS OWNER AND TYRAST.
When Mckinley was Governor of Ohio,
Hanna was his guardian. Therefore, in crit
icising Bryan's opponent, we look not at the
servant, but at the master-not at Mckinley,
the most pitiable 6gurehead in public life
today, but at Hanna, his owner and tryant.
No mans character can be described by his
private relations with his family. He may
be, like the late Gar of Russia, good hus
band and father but so is every tiger and
wild beast.
Before granting any man the diploma of
morality we ask what the influence of his
career has been upon his fellow-men. If he
has gone through life as an elephant goes
through a forest, crashing and breaking
pathway for himself alone, or as devilhsh
crawls through the sea, grasping and sucking
the life blood from every living thing in reach,
how can we intrust such man with the re-
sponsibilities and authority of public office?
Give Hanna four years of power and he
will paint the White House black
He will utterly destroy every vestige 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 money
less men ever may have to record their vote
for President. Many Republican working
men are thoughtlessly going to the ballot-box
Just as an OK goes to a barbecue-gaily decor
ated in honor of its own death.
Mayor Pingree gave us a national motto
when he said ''Give the people what they
WANT am not one of those who regard
the people as dangerous, eovetous animals
who must be chained and muzzled. The ex-
pertinent of the referendum in Switzerland
has proved that when the people are left en-
tirely free that they are naturally conserva-
tive. French revolutions never occur except
when some King Louis has repressed the
people and goaded them TO resistance. 81
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,