The herald., 1896-10-25

De QeluQeQ by their large promises
when these have failed before thei
eyes in the past by all parties. 1t is
very large contract to promise "wor
for every man." as Is now done-th
every" in italics-on the election of 1t
candidate.
Invective is not argument. but lik
curses, often comes home to roost; an,
creates a combative rather than a re
ceptive spirit.
Prophesy is not argument. but gam
at which all sides can play. Many of u
have been through too many campaign
to be appalled, by the tremendous pro
phesies which now. as always, darker
the air.
My friend Carl Schurz has some scorn
full words to say in his fervid fashion o
those who see in the money power {
menace to our freedom. Does he not re
member that our far-sighted patriots
from Washington and Jefferson to Lin
coin. Grant, Garfield, Blaine and others
have warned US In most strenuous sen
tences against the probable encroach
ments of the money power upon our lib.
critics, using the precise term which ex
cites Mr.. Schurz's scorn? Does he ex.
pect us to forget his own experience
during his brief and brilliant career al
senator in the national capitalize pub
lie scandals of the Pacific railroads anG
other lobbyists section of the money
power which is still alert and hopeful
in it's work with legislatures and peo-
pie?
Alas! when those upon whose side is
power" use that power unjustly they
sow the wind and reap the whirlwind,
which is now upon US. Sow victim
and you reap a socialist" says an emf
nent eastern writer. 1t may even be an
anarchist.
Pray remember to their credit the
"forbearance of the poor, which is mar
velous," of those who ask only work and
proper pay; who hear of hundreds OF
thousands of acres in the game preserve
of our multi-millionaires; of the thou
sand dollar income per hour of another;
of a $4,000 dollar bedstead, a jeweled
dog collar, ETC., etc., while they can only
wiring from the wealthy employers a
few pennies more towards decent liv-
ing wage by the expensive machinery OF
unions" and at the cost of long and dis
astrous strikes.
Under such circumstances as these
which confront us in our boasted land OF
liberty, and of abundance, let us not fear
the cry of sentimentalism; let us learn
to put ourselves in the places of the
wronged and the needy; let US
remember that life is not a
game of statistics and cold-blooded
theories; that we are our brothers keep
ers; that moral forces are the vital ones,
such as are embodied in The Song of the
Shirt in England, of Uncle Toms Cabin
in advance of our civil war, and OF the
characterization Proclamation later. That
at is the heart and not the brain which
to the highest doth attain" and be sure
that when one feels for those in ponds
as bound with them," we shall learn that
the golden rule is the only just rule and
the only safe business basis.
We need not fear final ruin, nor expect
the millennium fom the victory of either
party. My fear is that the long suffer
ing smasses'' may find in the possible
triumph of the "classes" the unbearable
last feather in their burden of griev-
ances. And I marvel that the employ
ers have not been wise enough to avert
such q conflict as this by cooperation
and profit sharing, thus securing COM
munity of interests which would insure
a lasting peace as has been found true
wherever it has been properly tried.
We are fallen on evil times" my
friends. The encroachments of tyranny
are always insiduous and deceptive at
first, the very elect. We were promised
"a campaign of education you remem-
ber Heaven spare us such another!
What an object lesson for our precious
youth and maidens. OF open bribery
and 'boodle;' of intimidating of en-
ployes; of voters at caucuses and pri-
maries; of false issues; shame, enthu-
siaSms of envy, hatred, malice and such
uncharitableness spreadfor their enter
tainment in the daily papers. And alas!
a thousand times alas! that this has
been done by the party whose youthful
record was so glorious. But now, bound
hand and foot by it's scheming and mer-
cenary captors, 1T meekly does their will.
Captors who have not only taught it to
forsake it's early traditions in the cause
of the people, but to sneer at the latter
as the mere people," "the common
people" who heard Him, gladly, you
remember "The plain people" as Lin
coin called them, of whom he was one,
and of whom he said, with his true
brotherly insight and sympathy: you
may fool some Of them all the time, and
all of them some of the time, but not all
of them all the time" Let the party of
brains and respectability respect this
warning, perchance out of the derided
masses shall come at last the ten right
eous men who shall save our cities from
destruction! Perchance even the sling
of the youthful David may bring to
earth the modern Goliah of misrule! I
do not give this as prophesy, but as a
possibility, with many precedents, which
my staunch faith in the common people
ible.
Ali my sisters, in whose hearts the
mother and Madonna love and faith, in
the wonderful child of your bosom, who
is the hope of our future, in his name and
in that of God and home and native
land, l implore you to arouse to your
sacred duties. To claim your right to
be released from the dishonorable and
degrading position on your country's
records with aliens and OutcaStS To
strengthen by your divine enthusiasm
for the right the hands of those whom
pulpit and press, counting their lives
not dear unto them" manfully rebuke
wickedness in high as in low places and
proclaim the gospel of glad tidings; "the
loosening of the chains of the captive,
the opening of the prison doors to them
who are bound of sight to the blind and
the coming of the heaven upon earth
the acceptable year of the Lord"
United you and they shall be more
than all who can be against you, and so
save the ark of our liberties from the
hands which would profane it, These
are the true anarchists who defy civic
and moral law and threaten the founda-
ton of all social order. Let us comfort
ourselves meanwhile with the noble
faith and hope of our patriotic poet:
sail on, o Union, strong and great:
Humanity, with all its fears,
With all its hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate.
I'm spite Of rock, and tempests war,
In spite of false light on the shore,
Sail on. nor fear to breast the sea!
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our
tears
Our faith triumphant DER our fears,
Are all with thee-are all with thee"
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