The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-12
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Rev. Herbert Casson Startles His
CONGREGATION at Lynr, Mass.

OOuSESSALAOu at Ay1Gs AA5S.
Boston, July 12.-Rev. Herbert N.
Casson, in the pulpit of his church in
Lynn, preached a Temarla bic sermon in
which he denounced Mark Hanna in
Scathing terms. He said in part:
1.-THE present question is not which re-
form shall come first but whether we
shall have any reform at all.
I'VE are at present a defeated, thrash
ed, thrown down nation of peaSantry.
We have no longer social problem; it
is now struggle for life. 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 American
people. The Industrial question at pres
ent isb now how to get the full reward of
your labor, but how to get any kind of a
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 possible,
so long as monOpOlies exist.
IF we pass city law in favor of the
masses it is vetoed by the state; if we
congress and the senate, and. towering
above all, stand the president and the
OnlnipOtent supreme court.
Every department of government is
man who was only a nightmare a year
ago is now horrid fact The most in
famous labor crusher in the country IS
in power. Everything yields to his
whip. He Is master of a rabbit con-
gress, a grounding senate and a saw
dust president. The lking-nalxer and
slave-malxer has himself become the
government. 1 do not denounce him as
an individual; he is the incarnation of
monopoly.
What does this new social demo-
crazy of Chicago mean? 1t means that
the people are being driven back to bar
barism. The bees have made the honey,
and row they are voluntarily leaving
the hive and striking for the woods to
better their condition. Siberia has be-
come social ideal to the American I'M
employed.
1.-The dry rot of degeneracy has begun
in this republic. In this fair month of
June, when all the birds are merriest
and all the flowers are blooming, young
men and young women are committing
suicide and staining the green grass
with their blood.
Every newspaper is a record of muir
der and disaster and death. Every day
there are hold-upS and ASA ssina tons,
and hellish assaults on little girls. Sure
ly then, this is no time for private
squabb1es and hair splitting and moral
laziness. If you have suffered a per-
sonal wrong, think of the nations
wrongs and forget your own. If you
have a private aff1iction, sink 1T in the
sorrows of the race.
1.-The last ecclesiastic shall bury the
last monoplist; and Pierpont Morgan
shall be regarded as we today regard
Kidd OF Jesse James. There'n come a
time some day when this shall come to
pass. The war between the money pow
er and the people will seem as unreal
as the war between the first settlers
and the Indians.
conservatives will declare that ev-
erybody knew monopolies would have to
be taken by the people; and little child
rem will listen with horror and amaze
ment to their grandfath theirs stories
about these savage times