Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-07-22

"BryanlSm " Will not again Oo noN
of in the land, have a ridiculous aP-
pearance alongside of the telegraph
dispatches telling of the hundreds of
thousands of eager people who are
f1ocking to Che places where WIN. }.
Bryan is speaking. Even IN the tar
east, in old Massachusetts,. right at
the front doors of the rich,. protected
monopolies of the land, there are brave
men who dare to continue calling TOR
Justice: honest men who do not fear to
"teH the truth and shame the devil. "
The following extracts from an address
by Rev. Casson, from his pulpit IN
Lynn, Massachusetts, on a recent
date, ought to open the eyes OF the
common people at least to the danger
one course in which tbis country is
drifting. He said in part:
1.-The present question is not which
reform Will come first, but whether we
shall have any reform at ALL
eve are at present a defeated,s
thrashed, thrown down nation of peas
antry. We have no longer a social
problem; it is now struggle for lie.
The political question is not how to
teach the people to vote right, but how
to get their votes counted when they
do vote right. No impartial man can
doubt that Bryan was the real choice
of the Americas people. The indus
trial question at present is not how to
get the full reward of your labor. but
how to get any kind of job. Millions
are struggling, not for money, but just
to keep what they have, not to get
homes of their own, but to escape the
poorhouse and the jail"
1.-THE terrible question now is not
what is the best legislation to work for,
but whether legislative reform is pos
sible, so long as monopolies exist
eff we pass city law in favor of
the masses it is vetoed by the state;
if we capture the state we are undone
by congress and the senate, and, tow
ering above all, stand the president
and the omnipotent supreme court.
"Every department of governme mt
is now controlled by Mark Hanna.
The man who was only nightmare
year ago Is now a horrid fact. The
most Infamous labor crusher in the
country ois in power. Everything
yields to his whip. He is master OF
rabbit congress. grounding senate
and a sawdust president. The king
maker and the slave maker has him.
self become the government. | do not
denounce him as an individual: he is
the incarnation of monopoly.
''What does this new social democ-
racy' of Chicago mean? 1t means
that the people are being driven back
to barbarism. The bees have made
the honey, and now they are volun-
tarily leaving the hive and striking for
the woods to- better their condition.
Siberia has become a social ideal to
the American unemployed.
..The dry rot of degeneracy has be-
gun in this republic. In this fair
month of June, when all the birds are
merriest and all the flowers are bloom
ing, young men and young women are
committing suicide and staining the
green grass with their blood.
stEvery newspaper IS a. record OF
murder and disaster and death. Ev-
cry day there are holdups and assassi-
nations, and hellish assaults on little
girls. Surely then, this is no time fol-
private squabbles and hair splitting
and moral laziness. If you have suf
fered a personal wrong, think of Che
nations wrongs and forget your own
If you have a, private aff1iction, sink il
in the SORROWS of the race.
1.-THE last ecclesiastic shall bury The
last nhonopolist; and Pierpont Morgan
shall be regarded az we today regare
Kidd or Jesse James. There'n come {
time some day when this shall come tt
pass. The war between the money
: power and the people will seem as IN
zeal as the war between the first set.
tiers and the Indians.
Conservatives will declare tina
everybody knew monopolies wouIt
have to be taken by the people; ant