The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-11-02
THE NATION WILL LIVE
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mot because of sympathy with the
| ideas of that speech, but because 1t Is
| chiefly question of finance and should
| be determined in that world. But the
| question has passed far beyond those
| limits, and has become ethical in the
highest sense Of the word 1t Is ethics
| that involve crime against the life of
the nation, and the hatred of man for
| his fellow man. There Is one thing
worse than a sectional war, such as the
war for the Union. That was bad
enough and it was thoroughly punish
ed but the very fact that the hatred
was sectional took away much of its
sting. The hatred of a man in the
south for his fellow citizen in the north
lost a good deal of it's force by the dis
lance through which it passed; it lost
it's personal character, and would never
| of itself have causd the war. But ha-
tired of class for class, when the classes
are intermingled, is another thing. To
stimulate 1t, to turn it into q political
measure, to incorporate it into a ma
tional party, to teach it indiscrimlnali-
ty-all employers on one side, all the
employed on the other side, and then
teach one to hate the other; to organize
hatred into society-what is this but
devilish? This is not war over states
rights; it Is something far worse and
far more deadly-it is hating your
neighbor because he happens to be your
employer
There was very serious work at Get
tysburg, but the array was not so dead
~ as that melted and encouraged and
taught at Chicago last week. What
can be worse than to cut this great
army of industry into two parts, and
put hatred between them because of
the relation itself? 1t is not merely a
sad thing, it is a dangerous thing, that
an employer cannot see his workmen
; file through his gates morning and eve
ming without feeling that every man is
his enemy, and taught to be such by a
great political party that is reaching
out for power And what is the ground
of the enmity? Unfair wages? No.
Ill treatment? No. Breach Of contract?
No. Infringement of personal rights?
No. Simply a difference of opinion as
to the proper ratio between silver and
gold. 1t may be a very important
question; take it, then, to the polls and
settle it. But to carry it there on the
breath of hatred is next door to war,
THAT was not a good Friday in Chi
cago last week. Workmen by the thou
sands were addressed. but they were
not instructed in the facts and lessons
Of political economy. Their sufferings
if they have any were used to arouse a
spirit of hatred, but nothing was said
| lol< -t,,,r
machinery, or over-building of rail-
ways, or immigration, or over-hasty
settlement on unproductive lands; there
was nothing of this, but only an array
Of class against class, underlaid by con-
slant suggestion that the future gov
eminent would be in the interest of one
class against the other; and the hot
flames of hatred were famed till reason
and charity were burned UP.
This was not patriotism.
"All this is being done under the
name of and by a great party. 1t Is so
profoundly immoral that one looks GU
riously at the source of 1t. What | say
on this point is not partisan because it
does not refer to a party, but rather to
a conglomerate that is masquerading
as party As a whole 1t has no com
mon principles or measures. It's basis,
or rallying center Is the worst half of a
divided party. In one section 1t Is one
thing; in another section II Is another
thing. At the south there is the linger-
ing old time heresy of that region; in
the far western states-who needs to be
told what is the animating principle
there? In the Mississippi valley 1t is a
vast debtor class-as honest as suffer-
ing debtors usually are, for debt dulls
the sense Of honor; in Chicago 1t is the
mob with the red flag of anarchy half
unfurled; in New York 1t Ia Tammany,
the chief political criminal of the CEN
fury; and all over the land dreamers
Of dreams-honest and well-meaning,
but belonging to that large class who
do not quite how to join theories with
facts.
Were all of the latter sort, no word
should be spoken against them here
but in what a company are they march
ing! And what are the banners that
wave over them? And what flag leads
the procession? Not the flag of the
country 1t Is mistake to put the
face of any man, were it the face OF
Washington, on the national flag Keer
: that for the invisible spirit of the ma
ton itself, but whether with or without
a face, to treat it with contempt is
treason. 1t was not difficult for the
Chicago contingent of the party to droI
TO that depth, for the flag was arrayet
against them two years ago.
II think history contains no record
Of so strangely compounded a party as
that now contending for power; ant
herein lies our safety. Its antagonist.
would destroy it if 1t should come into
power. What concord has the Kansas
debtor-a man to be infinitely pitied--1
thank God that | am not tempted will
his temptation. What has he to dc
with the Chicago anarchist, and wha
have our gentle and pure minded theo
rists to do with Tammany? But FOL
the hour they are linked friends, ont
compromising the others felonies, ant
the other concealing it's contempt TO
virtue which, in due time, it will rene
in pieces and trample under foot.
81 have nothing to say, in this place
in behalf of the great opposing party
but there is much to say that is fit t
be said here, against this monstrou
and unnatural combination of faction
and interests that is reaching out it