The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-10-22


England Clergyman A Sermo-
That is a Scorcher-Mckinley's Pc
sitiOn a Pitiab!e One-VirtuaII,
Owned aud Controlled By His Po
IiticaI Boss Who Poses As iii:
Campaign nanager
LYNN (Mass.) Telegram to New Yorl
Journal
The largest congregation ever seen
al u Sunday service in any place o
worship i'll this city assembled in the
Labor church to day TO hear the Rev
Herbert N. Casson preach on the sub.
ject, "Who is the Anarchist, Bryan or
Hanna?"
Mr.. Casson said in part:
"DurIng the present campaign the
epithet "Anarchist" has been hurled
at the heads of some of the mobiles. and
most capable men that this generation
has produced. BRYAN is carica,ured,
| just as Lincoln was, as highwayman,
| as pirate, even as the devil, and in
many similar ways. Whether B.yan's
political views are entirely correct or
not, who can deny that he is a citizen
of whom any nation in the world
might boast? Whether we consider
the sustained ability of his addresses,
his gentlemanly endurance of SANDER
and Misrepresentation, his unsullied
public career, or the magnetism of his
unaffected cordialty 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 indi-
vidual who trembies in his mortgaged
house lest Hanna should foreclose.
Compare him with that unfor,une Ma
poleon who has already met his We'll
lington and surr ndered his convic-
tions, and it IS plain to see which best
represents the principles of the Decla-
ration of Principles.
During the last few years we have
been rapidly developing slave ele-
ment in our population property
less class, entirely dependent upon the
sale of their labor. No longer does
| Jack ho5-nob with his master. The
rich and poor do not live in the same
| quarter nf the city 1t is childish .n
howl "anarchisl" at the patriot who
seeks to weld the nation into unity
again by repeating the laws that caused
it to split asunder.
America is the workingman's "Par-
adise Lost," and it can meyer be re
gained by passive obedience to the
serpent.
Our carpenters build magnliicen,
mansions AID live in rented ,ene
ments themselves Our mechanic.
construct electric lights and use kero-
sene a. home; they manufacture pianos
and do not own tin whistle; they
build carriages and 60 afoot. Oul
miners dig gold and die poor; they
delve in dangerous coal mines and
lack fuel IN the winter. Our farmer:
raise grain and want for food; export
cotton and wool and lack clothing
Sell cattle and are without meat.
Oar marvellous inventions have
been m Dnopolized Sd that, in spite q
the daily miracles of our machiner,
the hungry slill lack food and III.
homeless wander through the streets
Step by step the moneyless man is los
ing his right to exis:. Every reCen
change in egisla,ion has been made tc
project property and to disfranchist
men. Armores are erected and schoo
houses forgotten. Immense grants 0
land are bestowed upon railroads, bu
the settlers upon those grants are
evlctcd. Trade union leaders are i'm
prlsoneh for contempt by contempt
lble Judge, while monopoiIs,s are aided
10y lnjunc,lons and Federal troops.
There is hardly a trust or syndicate
that has inangurated This campaign o
threats and rIdlcule and object lesson:
that dare open Up its, business career
to the public.
This law breaking, aggressive splri'
Of monopoly has found perfect en-
bndlmen. IN the person Of Mark
Hanna.
He TO day ,owcrs above McKinle,
amt abose The Republican party, lhe
American BIuebeard, who sIAys h.:
workers instead o. his wives.
The skeletons Of the Seamen':
Union, ne Miners Union and Tn,
Street Car Mems Union hang bleeding
in his closet.
When Mckinley was Governor .
Ohio, Hanna was his guardIan. There
fore, in critIclsIrg Bryln's opponent
We loOk not al the servant, bur al ,h
mas'er-"o, at Mckinley, the mos
pi,lable figure head in public life 10
day, but at Hanna, his owner and iy
rant.
, Before granting any man the dIpio
ma of morality We ask what the inhu
ence OF his career has been upon hi
frllowmen. If he has gone througI
life as an elephant goes through a for
est, crashing and breaking a pa,hwa
for himself alone, or as a develhs
crawls through The sea, grasping ant
sucking the life blood from every liv
, ing th.Ls IN reach, how can We intrus
such man with the responsiblitle
and authority Of public office.
Give Hanna four years Of powe
and he will paint the White Hous
. black.
He will utterly destroy every yes
tige Of trades unionisn,, for he wiI
| have the army, the navy and IN
Treasury at his command. He wi
discover tina, i, i, cheaper to abolls
manhood suffrage than to buy vote
. and next November may be the las
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