The herald., 1896-09-01
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
SATAN QUOTING SCRIPTURE
BY JAMES q. CLARK

ot JAHES 0s NLANh
The evolution of the present anti
monopoly agitation is along parallel
lines with that of the anti-slavery agi-
tation fifty years ago. The same old
epithets, the same old subterfuges and
lodges under the pretext and shadow
of 'law and order" national honor"
constitutional" interpretations, pro
lection of sacred property rights against
agitation and crazy fanaticism," ETC.,
indulged in so persistently by the slave
holders and their southern congressional
ana northern commercial defenders are
with slight variations being repeated
and are filing the air now, until one would
almost be forced to conclude that the
slave lords of fifty years ago had been
reincarnated in the pro- monopoly speak
ers and editors of the present decade.
The venerable Bishop Hopkins of Ver-
mont wrote an elaborate volume to
prove that it was the will and design
of God that the sons of Ham should for
ever remain the chattels of the sons of
Japhet, and Judge Taney ruled that
the black man had no rights which the
white man was bound to respect"
But where are Bishop Hopkins and
his book now? Both sleep in the same
grave. Judge Taney and his pro- slav-
cry decision ditto-just where the pres
ent supreme court judges and their pro-
monopoly vaporings, and just where
Bishop Newman and his Wall street
will 1,n IN, fI,n,
years hence.
Another point of resemblance lies in
the Satanic gift displayed by our latter
day pro-slavery advocates in pervert-
Ing scripture to unholy ends Mr.. Barnes
not of New York" but of San Fran
cisco tells his audiences in Pasadena
and Los Angeles how that ancient plu-
tocrat, King Solomon, ran the temple
on the single gold standard But he
does not go on and tell how the people
after patiently enduring financial op-
preston for a worthy end under Solo
mons reisn-'went to the son who sue
ceeded the great temple builder and'p
titioned the young king to make lighter
the burdens of taxation, and how the
king, after consulting the young men,"
of the Jerusalem "Alliance and March,
ing Club" comforted the Hebrew IAN
archists" with the assurances that his
little finger should be heavier than his
fathers whole body'-very much as
Carlisle talks now. And Mr.. Barnes
does not tell us that four-fifths of the
Hebrews answered the young fool by
revolving, precisely as the same pro-
portion of American voters will do in
November, only they will do it through
the ballot and take possession of. the
government instead of leaving it to be
run and ruined by modern monarchists.
Oh, yes, Mr.. Barnes, the Scripture is
fast being fulfilled, and there is nothing
in it in the way of moral lesson or pre-
cept that will not turn or stab or rebuke
you and your class il you will only un-
sheath and keep hold of it long enough
When we come down to plain and di-
rect Bible ethics as taught by the pro-
phets, the apostles and the author of the
golden rule, the Lords prayer and the
sermon on the mount we anti-monopo-
lists are at home, and say of the pluto
Gratis as the Wall street fellows said of
the people when the news came that the
supreme court had one majority against
compelling millionaires to pay their
share of the taxes. A gentleman who
was on the "street" at the time tells me
that the usurers actually hugged each
other on that occasion, saying over and
over again: "We've got 'em, we've got
EN-. GOl w no Inc people.
When it comes to the decision of the
higher court, as expressed in the Bible,
we can truly say of the recreant Re
publicans and their employees: We've
got 'em," and can refer them to the
tempter of Job for scrlptural arguments
on their side. 1t will be remembered
that Satan said: "All that man hath
he will give for his life'-precisely as
our rich corporations are now saying to
T., 4
charge and starvation If they will not
shout and vote for Hanna Mckinley.
But the most ridiculous, presumptuous
and absurd reference to scripture that
the San Francisco Oakland
Alliance "oratorical prize contest" was
made by Judge Carpenter when he said:
THE Savior of mankind had his Judas
and Mckinley had his Bryan" This
was most wretched and pointless imi-
tation of Patrick Henry at best, and was
so stupidity Inappropriate that it is
charity to infer that Judge Carpenter
had been drinking. He might have re-
deemed his credit for common sense
and won the applause of his hearers by
saying in addition: II
THE Savior of mankind rode on an
ass, the foal of an ass, and Mckinley is
doing the same thing, and Judge Carr
penter of the S. +. G. o. Pam that
knows it." Not one of some nine
whose names had been placed |
by the local committee on the list of
vice presidents waI present on that |
platform. Yet, if the country is in such |
danger from the invasion of silver dol |
lars, why was this thus?
Perhaps the reason is that most people |
are just now "courting danger" of this |
sort.