Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-09
"WH0'S The ANARCHIST,
BRYAN OR HANNAH
This Is the Question Propounded By
the Rev. Herbert n. CassOn....
He Also Answers 1t, and
Does SO in the Most
Emphatic Ian.
guage.
s.Give Hanna Four Years of Power,''
He Declares, ''and He Would
Paint the White
$50. House Black. ao..
THE BLUEBEARD OF TO-DAY.
Instead of Chopping OFF Female
Heads, Says the Preacher, the
Ohio s'Boss'' Contents Him
self With Destroying
Only His workmen.
THE B1uEBEARD OF TO-DAY.

Lynn, Mass, Sept. 27.-Ihe largeS
congregation ever seen at Sunday ser
vice in any place of worship in this cit.
assembled in the labor church today L
hear the Rev. Herbert N. Casson preach
on the subject: "Who is the Anarchist
Bryan or Hanna?"
The auditorium was crowded with peo
pie OF all shades of political opinion
including leading Repu blicans, Democrat
and Populists, several city officials, loca
labor leaders and a delegation from tn
Bryan -Sewall. Williams Club of Boston
The preachers fame as pulpit orator il
not confined to New England alone. HI
spoke for two hours and reused hi
hearers to u high pitch Of enthusiasm
when he said that Nebraska never hat
better loved son than Bryan" &.
The Rev Mr.. Casson said that as hi!
sermon was a political one, be woulc
omit the reading Of the Scripture lesson
and BY way of preface read portions o.
several editorial articles bearing on hi!
subject from the New York Journal
which paper, he said. WAS ''the most pro
gressive organ of public opinion pub
lished in the Eastern states today"
Mr. Casson said in part:
The laws of prosperity are to be discov
cred not constructed. The real legislator
for whom this nation waits is he who
shall find and dare to proclaim the per
feet social order foreordained by Justice
from the beginning of the world. The
real Anarchist IS he who seeks to violate
the laws of nature for the exclusive bene'
fit of small fraction of the community.
During the present campaign the epi.
thet "Anarchist' has been hurled at the
heads of some of the noblest and most
capable men that the generation has pro-
duced. The fierce searchlight of public.
ity has blaZed upon these men for years,
and not single corrupt official act has
ever been discovered. ..rt.
Bryan is caricatured, just as Lincoln
was, as highwayman, IS a pirate. even
IS the devil. and in many similar ways
Whether Bryan's political views are en-
tirely correct or not, who can deny that
he is citizen of whom any nation in the
world might boast? .. .-..
Whether we. consider the sustained
ability of his address, his gentlem:nly
endurance of slander and misrepresenta-
ton, his unsullied public career, or the
magnetism of his unaffected cordiallty to
the sweat-stained 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 individ-
ual. who trembes IN his mortgaged
house lest Hanna may foreclose. Com
pare him with that unfortunate Napoleon
who has already met his Wellington and
surrendered his convictions. and it Is
plain to see which best represents the
principles of the Declaration OF Indepen-
dence.
Bryan is the spokesman OF the half
awakened producers, who form nine:
tenths of the population. He and his
associates have revived the apostolic
power of casting out devils in the