The bee., 1896-09-10
Kearneyism and Organism.

close enough to be striking, and TO
indicate that they graduated from
the same school Of demagogy. This
Kearney, in the summer of 1873,
came East to ''thc enemy's coun-
try" and in speech in Boston
denounced"the numbering monop-
olists who are day by day grinding
the workingmen in the East. :"
Again, in the same season, in a
speech at Faneuil Hall, Boston,
he asked: ''What means this out
pouring OF people1" And he an
swered that the workingmen were
arising to take charge OF their own
affairs" Again, little later, in a
speech at Union Square, New York,
he asked; "What became OF the
gold OF the country in the times OF
WARP oh, it lowered its cowardly
head. Greenbacks were called
into requisition, and now why dis
card greenbacks in times ofpeace.
These extracts suffice to show how
closely the balderdash OF the Platte
has followed the wild-eyed rant Of
the Sand Lots in its appeals to ig-
norance, to class feeling and to
sectionalism; and they suggest at
the same time, as nntural con-
clusion, that the voters OF the
country who were intelligent
enough in 1880 to reject Kearrey-
ism will not be less intelligent when
they shall come to deal with Bry-
anism in 1896.
The following extract is from
Daniel Webster's speech of Janu-
airy 81, 1884, and is so pertinent
to present conditions, and teaches
so sterling lesson that its repub-
lication is duty and a pleasure.
Mr.. Webster said:
"Mr. President-On the great
questions which occupy us we all
look for some decisive movement
of public OPINION. AS | wish tha,
movement to be free, intelligent
and unbiased, the true manifesto
ton of the public will, | desire to
prepare the country for another ap.
peal, which preceive is about to
be made to popular prejudice-an.
other attempt to obscure all distinct
views of the popular good by loud
cries against false danger, and by
exciting the passions of one class
against another. | am not mis-
taken in the omen. / see the
magazine whence the weapons oI
this warfare are to be drawn.
already hear the din of the ham.
mering OF arms preparatory to the
combat. There may be such arms,
perhaps, as reasonable justice and
honest patriotism cannot resist.
Every effort, at resistance, it is
possible, ma be feeble and power
less, but /, for one, shall make an
efort-an effort to begin now, and
to be carried on and continued
with untiring zeal till TIE end OF
the contest comes.
"Sir, see in those vehicles
which carry to the people senti-
ments from high places, plain de-
clarations that the present contro-
versity is but strife between one
part of a community and another.
| hear it boasted as the unfailing
security, the solid ground, never
to be shaken, on which recent
measures rest, thatthe poor natur-
ally hate the rich. / know that,
under cover of the roots of the
capitol, within the last twenty-four
hours, among men sent here to
devise means for the public safety
and public good, it has been
vaunted forth, as matter OF boast
and triumph, that one cause cx-
listed powerful enough to support
everything; and that was, the nat
ural hatred of the poor to the rich.
"Sir, l pronounce the author of
such sentiments to be guilty of at
tempting detestable fraud on the
community; double frauds fraud
which is to cheat men out of their
property and the earnings of their
labor, by first cheating them out
of their understanding.
+" The natural hatred OF the
poor to the richP Sir, it shall not
be to the last moment of my ex-
istence--it shall be only when l
am drawn to the verge of oblivion
when / shall cease to have respect
or affection for anything on earth
that / will believe the people OF
United States effectually deluded,
cajoled and driven about in herds,
by such abomniable frauds as this.
If they shall seek to that point, il
they so far cease to be men, think
ing men, intelligent men, as to
yield to such pretenses and such
clamor they will be slaves already,
slaves to their passion, slaves to
the fraud and knavery of pretended
friends; they will deserve to be
blotted out of all the records of
freedom; they ought not to dis
honor the cause of self-government
by attempting any longer to exer-
else it; they ought to keep their
unworthy hands entirely off the
cause OF Republican liberty if they
are capable of being the victims of
artihces so shallow, OF tricks so
stale, so threadbare, so often prac-
ticed, so much worn out on serfs
and slaves.
+" The natural hatred OF the
poor against the richp The dan
ger of moneyed aristocracyl "A
power as great and dangerous as