The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-17

! it, No demagogue or anarchist has ever
! yet been able TO seduce them from the
| path of right The Sun adds: Let our
/ capitalists, our corporations. our manufac-
/ turers, our merchants, our people OF wealth
and leisure see to it that they use con-
/ scien,lously the opportunities given them
| to promote the happiness and we'll being of
! this great American yeomanry. "--Galves-
/ ton News.
/ Here at least is grateful acknowledge
ment OF the precious services OF our great
! American yeomanry." Let us hope that
! the happiness and wellbeing which is TO be
! their due reward Will not fail for lack of
| promoters. The workingman saved the
country the capitalists, corporations, man
ufacturers, merchants, the people of wealth
and leisure will now save him. My sym
! pGthy goes out without stint to all you who
| are workiugmen today.
| How did it come to pass that the services;
Of the workngman entitle him to the in
| dorsement and gratitude of the Galveston
| News-a journal he has never yet been
known TO regard as friend? What were
! the inducements and alternatives offered
| him In the late campaign? on the one
/ hand was leader possessed in full meas
urc of all the attributes that ennoble char
| acter and all the qualities that go to make
/ one man exalted above his fellows; a leader
| pleading with matchless ability for justice
! for the worker and wealth producer, eX-
! posing and denouncing the robbery OF the
| law foreshadowing II invested with au-
thority the certain and speedy extinction
OF all the damnable trusts and combines
that starvc labor and strange industry. on
the other was figurehend Mckinley and
! his hondsman, Mark Hunna the one weak.
! plant and wholly devoid of positive char
/ acter, mere putty In his hondsmlns hands.
mortgaged to his last presidential breath
to the services of the predatory horde the
/ other strong. hard. INSCRIPTIONS and ty-
I rannical, as labor organizations have good
reason TO know. Gathered around them to
man was every beneficiary OF every rob-
| Der law which corruption of government
! could write on the statute book. No prin-
| ciple that ever stransled truth, plundered
/ Industry, or murdered liberty was without
| its chucklins representative in that motley
| crew. Not only their own natural follow
ers OF pensions and protoctionists, of bond e
holders and money changers. OF trust pro-
! moters and railroad wreckers. OF land
/ boomers and produce gamblers, but all the
wrigging multitudinous screw worms that
! fed on the unhcalthiness of the old impure
J democratic party, For the American wage
slave to voluntarily align himself on the
side of this plumber working horde was not
only an astonishing social incongruity, but
the most strange and natural phenomenon
| in all the realms Of the animal kingdom.
| Did the workingman know what he was 40
ing and whom he was supporting? Does
the fly mistake the spider for his friend ?
Does the sparrow choose the nawk for his
protector? Docs the hare come out to
dance when the hounds bay together? DOES
the antelope or the ga2elle walk into tho
! lions lair? II motif mere animal instinct
warns them of their enemies, why should
not instinct and reason together save the
nottingham from nesting between the jaws
of industrial canibals? ! know not why
- leo l.. a..
his soul and meanness in his heart, is pur-
sued by the curse of his Maker.
But let us be just to God as we'll as to
man. The workingman knew well what he
was doing, and he would have done differ
ent had not his towards heart failed him.
IT Is claimed for the craven that he was
coerced and the claim is admitted. ! have
too much evidence o. the fact In my pos
session to allow me 10 deny the plea. But
did the coercion Justify his abject base
ness? I do not know. or. rather. | do not
care. I only know that. whether coerced
or not, the American workman is the most
phenomenal coward in all history. He is
the one and only willing slave the world
has ever seen, the only one with freedom
within his reach. but without the moral
strength to put forth his hand for II, the
only one whose sole need is lob. and
whose sole ambition is seryitudo and a
boss.
But was the workingman the only be-
trayer OF humanity's cause In the late cam
paign? BY no means. More inane, II not
more base. than he, more shaving because
less ground by the crushing millstones OF
monopoly, more ignorant though possessed
OF more means OF enlightenment-the emp-
ty-headed business man, the ouondam
quintessence OF wisdom and sagacity tho
man whom the plutocratic press eternallv
interviews on every question on which the
betuddled multitude needs light the man
whose paltry ambition is to touch elbows
with plutocracy and got as far as possible
from the touch OF labor, out of whose ranks
he graduated-he, too. added volume to
the sound money bray and strutted forth n
goldbug 10 save the country with his fool
ish vote.
For the standardization OF the working
man nature furnishes no parallel: but. for
perfect type OF the noisy. senseless. ash
nine inanity Of the business man whooping
for gold fof which he prates SO much and
sees so iittlc) commend me to a gobbling
gua1olots elongatipg hiA wattles, spreading