The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-08-28

be false And they are doing it for their
own personal ends and interests. There
is not one single preteNt which they put
out for an argument which is not false in
fact or illogical in deduction. They have
all and singular been exploded and eX
posed time and again. Yet they are con-
tinued in order to impose upon ignorant
and contiding voters. When thoroughly
beaten by reason and pinned to the wall.
they fling dirt with an industry not here
tofore witnessed in political campaigns.
Were we indeed anarchists as they charge,
they would not be living to make these
libellouS accusations. The anarchists do
not desire a peaceful solution by the bal
lot Their aim is armed resistance. Their
hope is that the screws will be pressed
down harder and closer yet and that the
people. in their despair and without nope
of redress by peaceful methods. will resort
to the last alternative of fire and steel,
For this reason the anarchists, with Herr
Most at the head, are all in rtro" Of m SIN
| g'r gpid $ian,i1rd A rascal who obtains
| money or goods under false pretenses Is
sent to the penitentarv. W hat should he
| done to these raScals in high position VIII"
| wear fine clothes and mix with the cream
of fashionable society who are guilty of
| the far greater crime of cheating man
out of his vote by false representations:
| The hiueorS mark of Cain should be brand
| ed on their foreheadS and they should he
| haniShed like leperS from the ASSOCIATION
| of honest men. But. to such degree has
concentrated wealth dcbiuched the public
| morals and conscience that these men are
! actually courted and honored i'll proper
! ton to the success of their vllllanle>
| Mark Hanna is the coarSeSt and most bru-
! tai type; but there are others, whose names
! L.
| looked upon as men of honor, but who are
now aiding Hanna in his vile work.
Some deSpotisms are maintained by bay
| onets; the American despotism is main
| tanned by the corrupt use of money. Han
ma and his gang boast that they have Il
| fund of fifty millions to buy votes with
and can get as much more as they want
| for that purpose. They make no secret of
| this. On the contrary, they are advertls-
| ing for bidders who will exchange their
| irthrlght of American citizenship for Il
| few paltry dollars of the syndcates' bank
notes. They make no secret of their in
| tent to get control of the government and
| run it as an agency of the confederated
| trusts and mOnopolics, using poor bank
| rupt Mckinley, whose debts they have
paid and whose promissory notes they
| hold in terror over him to insure his Obedi-
| spectacle bow down in shame and humilia-
| ton the head of every honest minded
American citizen. One would surely
| think so. But such is not the case. Bri-
| berries in all directions and frauds so ram
| flied and extensive have become familiar
| to the public in such a degree that, even
honest men have come to look upon these
methods as the natural order and process
and as inseparable from our republican
form of government. The comfort of the
honest citizen lies in the fact that, he
knows the government and country can
not long exist on the Hanna idea. Thuci-
dides, who, after twenty-five hundred
years, still merits and retains the title of
prince of historians says that, the thing
which has been will be again, that while
surroundings and conditions will change
| from aye to age with advancing civiliZa-
ton, human nature, remaining the same,
| will always bring forth the same fruits:
that revolutions and bloodshed will con-
! tlnue to occur from time to time, varying
| only i'll their forms and not in their essen
| tial natures.
But, because these great historic events
| are not of frequent occurrence on-retlec-
tive people do not believe them any long
er possible. Even Henry Ward Beecher,
a few years before our late civil war, wrote
and said that, under our advanced civil
Zaton Il civil war in the United States
was an impossibility too absurd to be con
templated. And 50 nine out of ten of the
optimistic thinkers would say day. The
philosophic student of history hnO,rx better
He knows that the law of revolution is as
certain as the law of gravity and, if hui
name man, he will seek to effect the
change by peaceable methods and avoid
the cont1agratiOn.
Hanna's sole hope of success is to buy
the necessary amount of votes. The
question is, who is willing to sell. There
always have been, and there always will
be, creatures vile enough to be bought. In
the last generation, however the number
of such was exceedingly few. But, with
increasing corruption, the number of
'tloaters" has been vastly augmented.
The fixed and continuous policy of the
money power is and has been to break
down and degrade the sense of honor and
the manhood of the citizen, to reduce him
to poverty and dependence and then to
keep him in slavery by means of his own
vote, bought and paid for to effect this
purpose They have seethed the kid in lis
mothers milk and destroyed the miserable
wretch with the poison produced from his
own body.
But there is good reason to believe that
many who have sold before will not sell
now; that they will take the bride and then
vote for their deliverer, as they have the
right to do and will be justified in doing
Most of them have children who are dear
to them, if they have no respect for them
selves. They would reject with horror
the offer of IA Turkish slave owner to buy
Il son or "A daughter for chattel slave
And they will be selling their children to
slavery if they sell their vote to Hanna
and the gold syndicate. But, if Ameri ar
citizens are so debauched as to do this to
any considerable extent, then, indeed,
there is no longer hope; they may be left
alone to wear the yoke for themselves and
to breed more slaves for their masters.