Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-09-28

the yisionaries, the cranks, the agita-
tors. and the enemies of law and or
der against every man who does not
accent the idea of free coinage Of sill
yer at a ratio Of 16 to l.
Mr.. Sewall is a good citizen. at least
has been so considered, but he Is GER
tainly not playing the part of good
citizen when he makes such talk as the
above. Then he becomes a more dan
gerous firebrand in the community
than does the blowsy, ranting anar-
chist. Is it not reasonable to suppose
that within sound of his voice, when
he uttered that incendiary talk which
he must have known to be in several
important respects utterly false and
which he evidently intended should make
a false impression, there were men, lack
ing in Mr.. Sewall's sagacity, breadth of
knowledge and experience men who
had suffered or fancied-and fancietl
wrongs often excite the more trouble
that they had suffered some injustice
from the existing condition of things ?
Is it unreasonable to suppose that those
men would say to themselves and that
Mr.. Sewall intended that they should
This man ought to know whereof he
speaks. He has been behind the
scenes as director and president of a
great railroad, he is an employer of
labor he IS a bank man and knows
what goes on among the 'Shylocks and
money changers -? Certainly nothing
seems more natural than that such
thoughts should be left in the minds of
hundreds if not thousands of men who
heard him at Boston: that they went
away with these wickedly false i'm
pressions ranking in their breasts; tina !;
from that moment they ceased to he
as good citizens as before. because they
had accepted fancied wrong as real
personal injury. II was wicked speech.
1t cannot fail, it seems to us, to arouse
the indigna tiOn of every man. who is
falsity, the hypocrisy, the dangerous
demagoguery of it all.
Only four years ago Mr.. Sewan while
saying little was aiding the party that
declared trusts and monopolies due
wholly to the Mckinley law That
same party has demonstrated by a
shameful record that it's statements or
that. subject, at least, were campaign
lies. Trusts have never been more nu-
merous than under the administration
of the partytha promised to enact laws
that should wholly discourage them.
The scandal of the sugar trust legs-
lation is on its skirts, one of the most
notorious recorded. The scandal OF
the silver trust is on Organism Mr.
Sewall has received fair treatment at
the hands of Republicans in this State
We believe that there are as many
grounds for charging him with being
an oppressor of labor as there are for
making such charge against any
large employer of labor in this coun-
try. He must know. if he is the intelli-
gent man he is reputed to be, that with
free silver the cost of labor on his ships
and in his ship yards would be les
sened, yet it has not been denied that he
is sincere in his advocacy of unlimited
coinage. Under such conditions for
him to assume the position he did in
that speech is as absurd as it is wicked
In closing that wonderful, astound-
ing effort he said: Il did not come here
to make a speech but to show myself"
etc. And we think he succeeded in
showing himself We also feel that the
light in which he showed himself is one
which reveals him in a role, that will
deeply pain his truest friends.