The Butler weekly times., 1896-10-29
PAYS ATTRIBUTE TO BYRAN.
lie Reasons Deeply of the Pres
ent Situation.
A GREAT SPEECH.



evolved by the present campaign
uone are attracting more attention
than that Of Rev Herbert \. Casson
It was a sermon from his pulpit a,
Lynn, Massachusetts,, last Sunday
The subject was"Wno is the anarca
ist, Bryan or Hanna He said:
The laws Of prosperity are to be
discovered. not constructed The
zeal legislator for whom this nation
wants is he who shall find and dare
TO proclaim the perfect social order
of the world. The real Anarchist is
ne who seeks to violate the laws for
the exclusive benefit of small frac'
zion of the community.
During the present campaign the
epithet "Anarchist" has been hurled
at the heads of some of the noblest
and most capable men that this gen
Grafton has produced. The fierce
search,light of publicity has blazed
upon these men for years, and not II
single corrupt official act has ever
been discovered.
Bryan is caricatured, just as Lin
coln was, as highwayman, as a pi
rate, even as the devil, and in many
similar ways. Whether Bryans po
4itical views are entirely correct or
not, who can deny that he is citi
zen of whom any nation in the world
might boast7
Whether we consider the sustained
ability of his address, his gentleman
iy endurance of slander and misrep
resentation, his unsullied public
career, or the magnetism of his un,
affected cordiality to the sweat.stan.
ed masses that greet him at every
depot, we cannot avoid admiring him
as sturdy specimen of our Ameri
can manhood.
Compare him with the gagged in
dividual, who trembles in his mort
gagged house lest Hanna may fore
close. Compare him with that un
fortunate Napoleon who has already
met his Wellington and surrendered
his convictions, and it is plain to see
winch best represents the principles
of the Declaration of Independence.
Bryan is the spokesman of tho
half awakened producers, who form
nine.tenths of the population. He
aud his associates have revived the
apostolic powers 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 least a real
issue instead of a sham one, and
though their remedy may seem in
adequate to progressive thinkers, it
is in the right direction and in &C.
cordance with the peoples WILL
During the last few years we have
heen rapidly developing slave ele-
ment IN our population-a property
less class, entirely dependent upon
the sale of their labor. No longer
does Jack hobnob with his master
The rich and the poor do not live in
the same quarter of the city. A sec
ond session has split our society into
two hostile elements, and it is child
ish to howl "Anarchist' at the patri
OF who proclaims the unwelcome fact
and seeks to weld the nation into
amty again by repeating the laws
that caused it to split asunder.
America is the workingman's ''par-
adIse lost, and it can never be re
gained by passive obedience to the
serpent.
Our carpenters build magnificent
mansions and live in rented teue
Gnents themselves. Our merchants
construct electric lights and use ker.
osene at home; they manufacture
pianos and do not own a tin whistle:
they build carriages and 60 afoot.
Our miners dig gold and die poor;
they delve in dangerous coal mines
and lack fuel in the winter. Our far
mers raise grain and want for food.
export cotton and wool and lack
clothing. sell cattle and are without
meat.
Our marvellous inventions have
been monopolized so tat, in spite