The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-23
HERR JOHN MOST
ESPOUsES THE GOLD STANDARD
PLATFORM.
The Enthusiasn Aroused by the
Chicago Convention Platform and
Nominee still Continues to Swell
Into a Mightier Volume.

COLUMBUS, o., July lS.-[Special i
By far the most important politico.so-
cial event of the week was the open ad-
hesion Of Herr John Most. the head Of
the anarchist propaganda of America, to
the gold standard declared for in the st.
Louis Republican platform.
In his paper, The Friehiet, he assails
the Chicago convention, its platform
and candidates with the most bitter in
vective and denunciation, declares for
the gold standard, praises Wall street
for demanding it and seeking by every
means in its power to enforce that de.
mand, and calls on all Of his fellow-an-
archists to fight to the last ditch the
Chicago platform and nominees, and
throw all their influence to the election
of the single gold standard candidates.
The public should not underestimate
the real significance Of Herr Most's pro-
nunciamento. His motives may be OBJ.
scure, but there is no mistaking the
trend of his judgment as to ultimate
future events, depending upon contin-
gencies.
In the riveting of the single gold
standard upon the country by the votive
consent Of the citizens, Herr Most sees
the opportunity of himself and his fell
low. w.propagandists. His gospel of the
destruction of all existing social and
political fabrics will flourish best on
human misery, human inequality in
botht he social and political scale, and the
creation of distinctly defined classes and
castes.
Under such a system the anarchist
finds his paradise. And he shrewdly
calculates that, with the financial pol
icy proclaimed in the st. Louis platform
irretrievably fixed upon the American
people, men will flock to his standard oi
destruction in multitudes.
In the election of William j. Bryan,
and the application of the liberal, con
stitutional, common sense and Ameri
can financial system promulgated in the
Chicago platform, he sees no hope fol
his evangelization. His occupation
like Othello's, will be gone. Anarchy
does not and can not thrive when the
people are fairly prosperous, have aver
age employment at living wages, WHERE
opportunities are distributed with som,
degree of equity, and when one small
class do not dominate all the others by
the sheer power of wealth.
Herr Most is politician, student anC
philosopher enough to understand il
advance that the election of Mr.. Bryan
is the only promise held out by either o
the two parties to the voters to brine
these conditions about, or enable then
to realize their long-deferred hopes ant
expectations.
That he should throw himself into tn
breach to prevent restoration of tn
true American idea Of political an,
social equality under financial system
that will maintain both, and be equita
BILE and just to each and every citizel
according to his good citizenship, moral
ity and patriotism, rather than accord
ing to his rent roll or the size Of hi
bank balance, is just as natural as tina
Herr Most should be an anarchist. In
deed he could not be consistent an
archist if he did not oppose the pros
pective condition of things involved i
the formulations of the Chicago CONVEX
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