Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-09-13
waiting for the Signal"

sion to mention in these columns some
Morris of Pueblo, Colorado. which were
filed with seditious slush and 16 to l
rant of the most absurd Colorado type.
This Morris is a wild-eyed anarchist
who grows dangerous every time the
East is mentioned and who looks I'M
der the bed for the awful Money
Power. every night when he retires. II
is charitable to assume that he is men
tally unhinged. but this kindness ne
regulates as eagerly as he would an
public and private debts. He seemed
to appreciate the attention bestowed
upon his pamphlets by the Journal al"
in writing to thank us he sent copy vi
his work Waiting for the Signal eN-
messing the hope that we would read
it and give it a little free advertising
In his letters. as in his book, the Pueblo
author is as persistent as he is mis-
taken. and as interesting as he is
ignorant of all economic and social
principles.
The book in question is compila-
ton of exploded Populistic theories in
the suise of a novel. 1t was written
inst after Bryans defeat, and read
NOW in the light of subsequent events
il is the richest thing Imaginable. All
sorts of disaster and ruin were prophe-
sled as the result of the "plutocratic'
victory, eliminating in a bloody revo-
luton overthrowing the government
and wiping New York off the earth.
This great uprising was to come May >.
1899. after the banks had all failed,
factories closed, and general suffering
prevailed as the result of Republican
rule. SO great was to be the uprising
of the common people" against the
combined forces of Mark Hanna and
Grover Cleveland, that in 1900 Bryan is
to be elected by over 100000 votes
against 1000 votes cast for Hon. I.
ID. iNt'd, tiiV fiuNVNipliN
A new constitution of which the Colo
RADIO seer gives the full text in all its
long whiskered detail, is to be adopted
by a convention in which Scion Chase
and l.. c. Bateman are to be the dele
gates from Maine.
Such is the book which the author
hopes will educate the masses out Of
the ignorance" which resulted in the
defeat of THE cause of humanity in
1896. 1t is too absurd to be in the least
entertaining. Small wonder that copies
have to be given away and people have
only a fair exposition of Populistic
principles and hopes Reason was
never allowed a place in the Morris
creed. f'alsehood and fallacy are the
foundation stones, and on such basis
the prophecies are as near the truth as
are the arguments and illustrations
used. Some may think that such a
book is dangerous and revolutionary
but not so. No sane person can read
it without laughing at the author, and
holding in greater contempt than be
fore the nonsensical mouthings of
Bryan and his stripe
Poor Morris, AS he looks over this
country. today. and sees its masses of
toilers in field and factory. happy in
the unprecedented prosperity that has
come with Republican rule, does not Il
glimmer Of light penetrate the resist
ancc of his brain? AS he sees the
great West becoming a money power
itself, financially independent of the
East, does his unreasonng hatred of
Wall street and Lambard street still
bring nightmares to his troubled sleep?
dead, and that the most frantic efforts
of its remaining devotees in 1900 will
to its corpse? Let him awaken from
his unhappy trance, breathe in some
over the glorious Colorado mountains
stop waiting and weeping. and go to
work to help the country keep the good
times that Republcanism has brought
it in spite of his party and his creed.