Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1896-10-02
A TERRIFYING PICTURE.

The Rev. Herbert N. Casson preached at
Lynn, Massachusetts, on Sunday last TO ont
of the largest congregations 1t is said tina
was ever assembled in that town. The au
ditorum OF the great Labor Church wal
crowded with people of all shades OF politi,
! cal opinion, including leading Republicans
Democrats and populists, local labor lead
! ers and several delegations from the Bryan
4 Williams clubs OF the adjoining
] towns. His sermon was political one. II
I was fearful arraignment of all the parties
and elements opposed to Bryan and Sewall
but particularly of the Republican party as
/ led by Mark Hanna. We give a few ex.
4 tracts of this awful excoration without
/ comment:
! During the last few years we have been
4 rapidly developing slave element in our
/ populations propertyless class, entirely
I dependent upon the sale Of their labor. No
I longer does Jack hobnob with his master.
J The rich nd poor do not live 10 the same
! part of the city. A second secession has
4 split our society into two hostile elements,
and 1t is childish to howl "Anarchist" al
the patriot who proclaims the unwelcome
fact and seeks to " I'D the nation into unity
again by repeating the laws that caused ii
10 split asunder.
America is the workngman's paradise
Lost" and it can never be regained by pas
sive obedience to the serpent.
Our carpenters build magnificent man
sions and live in rented tenements them
selves. Our mechanics construct electric
lights and use kerosene at home; they man
I ufacture pianos and do not own u tin whis
tie; they build carriages and go afoot. Our
miners dig gold and die poor; they deve
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
1 Our marvellous inventions have been mo-
nopolized so that, in spite of the daily mir
acles OF our machinery the hungry still lack
4 food and the homeless wander through the
streets Step by step the moneyless man is
losing his right to exist. Every recent
change in legislation has been made to pro-
J tect property and to disfranchise men Ar
mories are erected and school houses for
/ gotten. Immense grants OF land are be
slowed upon railroads, but the settlers upon
those grants are evicted. Trades union
leaders are imprisoned Tor having contempt
for contemplate Judge. while monopo
lists are aided by injunctions and Federal
troops.
To-day Shakespeare has been revised aud
Shylock is the hero OF the play. Portals
plea Tor mercy is called Revolutionary and
Bassanio is branded as repudator.
There Is hardly trust or syndicate that
has inaugurated this campaign of threats
and ridcule and object-lessons that dare
open up its own business career to the pub
lie.
One of these defenders of law and ma
tional honor, the Standard Oil Company,
has illegally increased freight rates. closed
rivers and canals, destroyed inventions,
bought up inspectors and put its stamp
upon explosive oil, attacked the property
Of competitors and blown up rival refner
les. These trusts are religious at one end
and murderous at the other.
This law breaking, aggressive spirit OF
monopoly has found a perfect embodiment
In the person Of Mark Hanna. He to-day
towers above Mckinley and above the Re
publican party, the American Bluebeard,
who Stays bis workers instead of his wives.
The skeletons of the Seamen's Union, the
Miners Union and the Street Car Men g
Union hang bleeding in his closet
When Mckinley was Governor of Ohio,
Hanna was his guardian Therefore, in
CTltiCisiuR Diyau OpPouehti VIC iOOh uOt
at the servant, but at the master-not at
Mckinley, the most pitiable figurehead in
public life to-day, but at Hanna, his owner
and tyrant.
No mans character can be described by
his private relations with his family He
may be, like the late Gar OF Russia, u "good
husband and father" but so is every tiger
and wild beast.
Before granting any man the diploma OF
morality we ask what the influence of his
career has been upon his fellow men. If he
has gone through life as an elephant goes
through forest, crashing and breaking a
pathway for himself alone, or as devil
fish crawls through the sea, grasping and
sucking the life blood from every living
thing in REACH how can We trust such a
man with the responsibilities and authority
of public office?
Give Hanna four years of power and he
will paint the White House black He will
utterly destroy every vestige Of trades union
ism, for he will have the army, the navy
and the treasury at his command He will
discover that it is cheaper to abolish man
hood suffrage than to buy Votes and mex
November may be the last chance that
moneyless men ever may have TO record
their vote for President Many Republican
workingmen are thoughtlessly going to the
ballot box just as an OK goes to a barbe
cue-gaily decorated in honor of its own
death.
Mr.. Casson concludes his volcanic and
searching remarks in these words:
Il is time to cooperate AMI enjoy the
creation OF our hands; otherwise all the
energy, and daring, and inventiveness Of
our fathers has come to naught do NOT
believe that Columbus discovered America
for Hanna, or that the monopolist is the last
and highest product of human evolution.