Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-10-17
A PREACHERS
EMPHATIC WORDS.
Rev. Herbert N. Casson
Wants to Know who
is the Anarchist
BRYAN OR HANNA?
Bryan He says is Carica-
tured as Lincoln was.
A Noble Man.

,ity assembled in the Labor Church
.oday to hear the Rev. Herbert n.
Casson preach on the subject, "Who
S the Anarchist, Bryan or Hanna ?"
The auditorium was crowded with
people of all shades of political opinion,
including leading Republicans, Dem
1crats and Populists, several city
local labor leaders and del
egation from the Bryan-SewaIl-W vii
Iiams Club, of Boston. The preachers
fame as pulpit orator is not confined
to New England alone. He spoke for
two hours and reused his hearers to a
high pitch of enthusiasm when he said
that Nebraska never had better
loved son than Bryan"
HOW A PREACHER VIEWS IT
Mr.. Casson said in part
The laws OF prosperity are to he
not constructed. The real
legislator for whom this nation waits
is he who shall find and dare to pro-
claim the perfect social order foreor-
iained by justice from the beginning
Of the world. The real Anarchist is he
who seeks TO violate the laws of nature
for the exclusive benefit o: a small
fraction of the community.
During the present campaign the
epithet "Anarchist" has been hurled at
the heads of some of the noblest aud
most capable men that this generation
has produced. The fierce searchlight
Df publicity has blazed upon these men
for years, and not a single corrupt
official act has ever been discovered.
Bryan is caricatured, Just as Lincoln
vas as highwayman, as pirate,
even as the devil, and in many similar
ways. Whether Bryan's political
views are entirely correct or not, who
can deny that he is citizen of whom
any nation in the world might boast
Whether we consider the sustained
ability OF his addresses, his gentlemanly
endurance of slander and misrepre-
his unsullied public career,
Or the magnetism of his unaffected
cordiality To the sweat stained masses
that greet him at every depot, we
avoid admiring him as a sturdy
specimen of cur American manhood.
Compare him with the gagged indi-
vidual, who trembles in his mortgaged
house lest Hanna may toreclose Com
pare him with that unfortunate Ma
poleon who has already met his
and surrendered his con
and it is plain to see which
best represents the principles OF the
of Independence
POKEsMAN OF THE PRODUCERS.
Bryan is the spokesman of the halt
awakened producers, who form nine
tenths OF the population. He and his
associates have revived the apostolic
power of casting out devils in the
Democratic party and OF raising the
dead to life among the Republican
rank and file.
They have given us at last real
issue instead of sham one, and though
their remedy may seem inadequate to
thinkers, it is in the right
direction and in accordance with the
peoples will.
During the last few years we have
been developing slave element in
our populatiOn-a propertyless class,
dependent upon the sale of
their labor. No longer does Jack
hobnob with his master. The rich
and poor do not live in the same
quarter of the city. A second secession
has split our society into two hostile
elements, and it is childish to howl
"Anarchist" at the patriot who pro
claims the unwelcome fact and seeks to
weld the nation into unity again by
repeating the law that caused it to
split asunder,
America is the workingman's Para
disc Lost" and it can never be
regained by passive obedience to the
serpent.
Our carpenters build magnificent
mansions and live in rented tenements
themselves. Our mechanics construct
electric lights and use kerosene at
home they manufacture pianos and
do not own tin whistle they build
carriages and go afoot Our miners
dig gold and die poor; they delve in
dangerous coal mines and lack fuel in
the winter. Our farmers raise grain
and want for food, export cotton and
wool and lack clothing. sell cattle and
are without meat.
LOSING Ills RIGHT TO EXIsT.
Our marvellous inventions have
been monopolized so that, in spite of
the daily miracles of our machinery
the hungry still lack food and the
homeless wander through the streets,
Step by step the moneyIess man is
losing right to exist Every recent
change in Legislation has been made to
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