Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-10-23
WHO THE ANARCHIST.
a MASSACHUSETTS PREACH
Err DEFENDS BRYAN
AND DENOUNCES HANNA
Says Mckinley is a Mortgaged
Candidate.


Bostoniaus last Sunday l went tt
the famous shoe manufacturing
city of Lynn, Massachusetts,. tt
hear Rev. Herbert N. Casor
preach on the subject, "Who i:
the Anarchist. Bryan or Hanna?'
The largest crowd ever assem-
bled at a Sunday service IL
Lynn were present at the Labor
church. The vast auditorium
was thronged. People of all po
litical inclinations crowded the
available space until it woulc
hold no more. Prominent off
cials of the city, including Dem
ocrats, Republicans and Popu
lists, labor leaders and a delega
ton from the Bryan. SeWa.l anc
Williams club of Boston were
conspicuous. The ministers
fame is not confined to New
England alone, for he is wei
known throughout the United
States as gifted public orator
For two hours lie spoke and helc
his audience spellbound.
After announcing that as his
sermon would be political one
he would omit the reading of q
scripture lesson, he announced
his theme. When he came to
the sentence "Nebraska never
had a better loved son than
Bryan" the audience for the mo-
nent forgot they were in church
and gave vent to applause.
Mr.. Cason 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 tine
perfect social order fore ordained
by Justice from the beginning OF
the world. The real anarchist
is he who seeks to violate the
laws of nature for the exclusiv
benefit of small fraction of the
community.
During the present campaign
the epithet "anarchist' has been
hurled at the heads Of some OF
the noblest and most capable
men that this generation has
produced, The fierce search
light of publicity has blazed
upon these men for years and not
a single corrupt official act has
ever been discovered.
Bryan is caricatured, just as
Lincoln was, as a highwayman
as a pirate, even as the devil
and in many similar ways
Whether Bryan's political views
are entirely correct or not, who
can deny that he is citizen ot
whom any nation i'll the worlC
might boast?
Whether we consider the sus.
tanned ability Of his addresses
his gentlemanly indurance O.
SANDER misrepresentation, his
unsullied public career, or the
magnetism of his unaffected cor,
diality 10 the sweat stained
masses that greet him at every
depot, we cannot avoid adlnirine
him as a sturdy specimen OF oul
American manhood.
Compare him with the gagec
Individual who trenbles in hi:
rnortgaged house lest Hanna may
foreclose - compare him with
that unfortunate Napoleon who
h already met his Wellington
and surrendered his conv lotions
ard it is plain to see which bes
represents the principles of the
Declaration of independence.
Bryan is the spokesman of The
half>awakened producers, who
form nine-tenths of the popula
ton. He and his associates have
revived the apostolic power O
"casting out devils" in the Dem
ocratic party and of raising the
dead to life among the Republi
can rank and file,
They have given us at last
real issue instead of a sham one
and though their remedy may
seem inadequate to progressive
thinkers it is in the right direc
ton and in accordance with tht
peoples will.
During the last few years we
have been rapidly developing
slave element in our population
"a propertyless class entirel,
dependent upon the sale of thei
labor. No longer does Jack hob
mob with his master. The ricl
and poor do not live in the same
quarters of the city. A second Sc
cession has split our society int
two hostile elements and it i
childish to howl anarchist" a
the patriot who proclaims th'
unwelcome fact and seeks t