The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-07-11

eness. In Toledo 1 have instructed the
policemen to try to help men when they
are in danger of making mistakes; to
lessen the number of occasions for max
ing arrests. The law ought not to be
personified by policeman with club
in his hand, and our policemen there
don't carry clubs now"
Such are the principles enunciated
by s. M. Jones, mavor Of Toledo, Ohio,
and they prove him to be both patriot
and just, good, honest citizen, who
has the welfare of the entire people at
heart.
How rare and refreshing it is in this
age of moneyed oligarchy, trusts and
to hear a man of his posi-
ton and ca1ibre declare himself in such
ringing tones in behalf of the down
trodden, crushed prOletariat.
/ Ever since the close of the civil war
the moneyed power has been encrOach |
ing step by step on the rights of the |
people, until at last they got entire c0n-
troll of the three branches of the g0Yssl
ernment-the executive, the Legislative
and the Judiciary; and as resultssi IT
couldn't very we'll be otherwise, the |
people find themselves in a serfdom
just as CALLING as the people of Siberia
itself. 1.-THE moneyed power-was,
or seemed to be, satisfied to have con-
gress pass laws at their behest aud the
president execute them at their dicta-
ton. 1t remained however, for the
stuffed prophet of Gray Gables, the ex
hangman of Erie county, the plant
tool of Wall Street, to inaugurate gov
eminent by injunction; to usurp the
authority of state governors. by pouring
United States troops into Illinois and
other states, he having about as much
right to do SO as he had to send them
into Mexico or Canada, thereby effect
ually crushing and stamping out what
ever modicum of rights the toiling mill
lions possessed. And all this he did at
the mot d'ordre of Duke Pullman. and
fellow millionaires.
No wonder miserable serfs will get
intoxicated, and endeav0r to forget
their CALLING slavery, at least for the
time being; but there are not wanting,
nor never will be, creatures such as you
when invested with a little brief
authority, to consign them to prison
for doing SO. Perhaps you aim to curry
plutocratic favor by such methods.
Never mind, Mr.. Mayor, new day i;
about to dawn when the serfs will e.
mancipate themselves. You or may
not live to see it, but it is coming new
ertheless, when the diabolical social
system that enslaves us shall be des-
.trOyed, when the degraded mass of
mankind will assert itself. when the
days of Rockefeller and the Wander
bilts will have an end. 1t will doubt
less require RObespiere and JacObin
Club to accomplish the desired result;
| for nothing short of few hundred
| plutocrat heads rolling into saw-dust
baskets will accomplish the desired re-
suit; afterwards the late Edward
Bellamy's dream may be realized.
Who knows?
Hoping. Mr.. Mayor, you have greatly
enjoyed the glorious Fourth, even
though your victims, alas! could hardly
do so. remain yours, ETC.,
E. j. REILLY.
| Yesterday morning man far past
the prime of life came into our office
and requested the publication of the
above open letter to the mayor. The
mans clothes we're ragged and torn
and his beard unkempt but he had in
spite of all, the appearance of man of
brains and intellect. Rather, one
might say, there fingered about him a
memory of brains and intellect. We
do not know his past but the literary
style of the above letter shows that he
has had good education and many
elements of refinement.
To US he was the saddest possible
specimen of American manhood. On
Sunday we saw two dusty, begrimed
buns tumble off the rear of the fast
mail at Arion. One look at their faces
told why they were there however.
They were poor, deformed creatures fit
only for some Home for the Feeble
Minded. No such excuse was written
on this mans cOuntenance. His face
told simply of man who had spent his
life in wronging himself and who now
expects society to reinstate to him the
manhood and the opportunities he has
thrown away. He would make an ideal
populist, he is sort of William ].
Bryan carried to the ultimate deglee.
He would defy the laws of society and
expect society to condone his fault. He
has the same Bryanistic howl against
the 'money power" He would paw
his moral indebtedness in the same sort
of cheap coin that Bryan offers to pay
the financial debts of the people. He is a
dangerous man-so is Bryan.
Mind we do not say Mr.. Bryan is a
,, bum or that he is no better than the
recent inmate of our county Jail. But
we do maintain that it is the doc
trine of Bryan which furnishes excuse
for inst such people as this bum, who
see in the effort of society to protect
itself, nothing but tyranny and who
feel that his own failure is not due to