The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-10-24
MENACE OF THE
MONEY POWER.
Its Tools Arc Threats and
Doodle"
It's Object IS Plutocratic
Rule
And Death to Organized
Labor.
The Poor Mans Ballot In
Jeopardy.

ship in Lynn. Mass, assembled to hear
the Rev. Herbert n. Casson preach Oh
the subject, "Who Is tie Anarchist,
Bryan Or HANNAH"
The auditorium was crowded with
people Of all shades Of political opinion,
including leading Republicans, Dem
ocrats and Populists, several city off,
rials, local labor leaders and a Gelega-
tion from tle Rryau-Sewall-WNliaGHs
club Of Boston, The preachers fame as
a pulpit orator i Lot confined to New
England alone. He spoke for tyo hours
and roused MS hearers to a high pitch
If enthusiasm when he SAID that Ne
hrazka never had & better loved son than
BrTaB."
TIE R@T. NE. CassCn said that IS his
SERMON was a political che he would
emit TIE reading of rae Scripture les
s md y way u preface read portions
q ss7eEl editorial articles Barring On
hls z5.act from r1e New York jour
Ia M C4sa11 said IL part:
Tls laws q prosperity aze 70 be dis
c1v4E41, l.. constructed The zeal lag
.=4r-- tC- when this nation waits is
h who sa1- find ami dare T. proclaim
r5e re-tert social order torecrIaiued by
justice from the beginniug II the world
Tbs real anarchist is he who seeEs 10
violate the laws IF nature for the ezclu-
sive benefit Of a small fraction Of the
community.
During the present campaign the cpl
tibet anarchist has been hurled at the
heads Of some. of the nnblest and most
capable men that this generation has
produced. The fierce searchlight Of
publicity has blazed upon these men for
years, and not a single corrupt official
act has ever been discovered.
Bryan is ca%ricaturcd, just as Lincoln
was, as u highwayman, as a pirate,
even as the devil, and i'll many similar
ways. Whether Bryan's political views
are entirely correct or not, who can de-
ny that he is "a citiZcn Of whom any ma
ton i'll the world might boast?
Whether we consider the sustained
ability of his addresses, his gentleman
ly endurance of Islander and nisreprc-
sentation, his unsullicd public career or
the magnetism OF his unaffected cor
diality to the sweat stained masses that
greet him at every depot, we Cannot
avoid admiring him as Il sturdy spcci-
men of our American manhood.
Compare him with the gagged midi
vidual who trcmblcs in his ~mortgaged
house lest Hanna may foreclosc. Com
pare him with that unfortunate Napo-
lcon who has already met his Yelling
ton and surrendered his convictions,
and it is plain to see which best repro
sents the principles Of the Declaration
Of Independence.
Bryan is the spokesman Of the half
awakened producers, who form nine
tenths of the population. lie and his
associates have revived the apostolic
power of "caBting out devils" i'll the
Democratic party and of raising the
dead to life among the Republican rank
and file.
They have given us at last a real is
sue instead of Il sham one, and though
their remedy may seem inadequate to
progressive thinkers ii is in the right
direction md in accordance with the
peoples will.
During the last few years we have
been rapidly developing a slave element
in our population-a propertyless class,
entirely dependent upon the sale of then
labor. No longer does Jack hobnob with
his master. The rich and poor do not
live in the anne quarter of the city. A
second secession has split our society
into two hostile elements, and it is
childish to howl "Anarchisti' at the
patriot who proclainls the unwclcomc
fact and seeks to weld the nation into
unity again by repeating the laws that
caused it to split asunder.
America is the workingman's
"Paradise Lost and 1t can never
be rcgaincd by passive obedience to
the serpent.
Our carpenters build magnificent
mansions and live III rented tenements
themselves. Our mechanics construct
electric lights and use kerosene at home
they manufacture pianos and do not
own "A tin whistle; they build carriages
and go afoot. Our miners dig gold anc
die poor; they dclVe in dangerous Goa
mines and lack fuel III the winter. Oul
farmers raise grain and want for food,
export cotton and wool and lack cloth
ing, sell cattle and are without meat.
Our marvellous inventions have been
m~onopolized so that, i'll spite of tht
daily miracles of our machinery, TIN
hungry still lack food and the homeless,
wander through the streets. Step by
step the moneyless man is losing hi:
right to exist. Every recent change il
legislation has been made to protcc
property and to disfranchise men. Ar
mories are erected and schoolhousos for
gotten. Immense grants of land are he
slowed upon railroads, but the settler
upon those grants are evicted. Trade
union leaders are imprisoned for havin!
contempt for IA contemplate judge
while m~onopolists are aided by injunc
tions and federal troops.
Today Shakespeare has been revise,
and Shylock is the hero of the play
Portals plea for mercy is called revolu
%tionary and Bassanio is branded as
repudiatpr.
There is hardly a trust or a syn
dicate that has inaugurated thi
campaign of threats and ridicule am
object lessons that dares open up it
own business career to the pubIip.