The sun., 1900-10-05
A CAP THAT FITS.
DANIEL WEBSTER FoREsAW BRYAN
AND BRYANlSM.

Denounced Them sixty-six Years
Ago ns the aPoor Mans Curse"-No
Natural Hatred Between the Poor
and the Rich.
,ixty-six years ago, on Jan. 81, 1884,
,nel Webster stood up in the United
.ates senate and denounced the dem
sogsm of his day in words which tit
the present crisis precisely. He said:
s'Sir, l see, in those vehicles which
carry to tile people sentiments from
high places, plain declarations that the
present controversy is but a strife be-
tween one part of the community and
another | hear it boasteu as the u,
falling security, the solid ground never
to be shaken, on which recent meas-
ures rest, that the poor naturally hate
the rich. | know that, under the cover
of the roofs of the capitol, within the
last 24 hours, among men sent here to
devise means for the public safety and
public good. it has been yaunted forth,
as matter Of boast and triumph, that
one cause existed powerful enough to
support everything and to defend
everything; and that was the natural
hatred of the poor to the rich.
"Sir. | pronounce the author of such
sentiments TO be guilty of attempting
a detestable fraud on the community;
q double fraud; Il fraud which is to
cheat men out of their property and
out of the earnings of their labor by
first cheating them out of their under
standings.
1.-THE natural hatred of the poor to
the richr Sir, it shall not be till the
last moment of my existence, it shall
be only when am drawn to the verge
of oblivion, when l shall cease to have
respect or affection for anything on
earth. that | will believe the people of
the United States capable of being eff
fectually deluded, cajoled and driven
about in herds by such abominable
frauds as this. If they shall sink to
that point. if they SO far cease to be
men-thinking men, intelligent men
as to yield to such prctenses and such
clamor, they will be slaves already
slaves to their own passions. slaves to
the fraud and lSuayery Of pretended
friends. They will deseryc't to be blot
ted out Of all the records Of freedom.
They ought not to dish0nnr the cause
of self government by attempting any
longer to exercise il; they ought to
keep their unworthy hands entirely off
from the cause Of Republican liberty il
they are capable Of being the victims
of artificcs so shallow of tricks SO
stale, so threadbare, 50 often practiced,
SO much worn out. on serfs and slaves
4 Monstrous DeIusion.
"Thc natural hatred of the poor
against the richr The danger of q
1aoncyed aristocracy! a power as
great ana dangerous as that resisted
by the Revolution" a call to a new
Declaration of Independence" Sir,
admonish the people against the OBJ
ject of outcries like these. ] admon
ish every industrious laborer in th'
country to be on his guard against sucl
delusion. tell him the attempt is t
play off his passions against his inter
ests and to prevail on him in the nam,
of liberty to destroy all the fruits o
liberty in the name Of patriotism, t
iniure and aflict his country and il
the name cf his own independence t
destroy that very independence am
make him Il hcggar aud slave. LA
he dollar? He IS advised to do tina
which will destroy half its value lla
he hands to labor? Let him rathe
fold them and sit still than be pGshe
on by fraud aud artilice to suppol
measures which will render his labo
useless and hopeless.
Lnbor'S Great Safeguard.
Z "Sr the very man OF all others VIII
mas the deepest interest in 4 sound cui
renc, ana who suffers most by mi.
.cbieyot & legislation in money matter
is fine N. ii who earns his daily brea
nv his dmy tell. preyins on nohod,
he becomes the prey Of all. Ills prol
erty Is in lis hands. Ills reliance. hi
f,ina. his productive freehold. His all,
his Tabor. Whothcr N works GA ltis oW
small capital OF anotlhafa ~ LYING
r.till earned hy his indusllT, Ahd Vile
+hp money of the country becomes d'
nraniotpd and debascd. whether it I
adnIterated coin or paper without ere,
u +hor industry is robbed Of its y
ward lie then labors for z coHHtl
whose laws cheat him out Of his bfea
l would say to every oWaet q eNei
0rarter section of land ii the west,
would say to every man IN the ea
who follows his own plow and g cvel
mechanic. artisan anG laborcr IN evel
CITY in the country; would say 70 &
ery man everywhere who wishes
honest means to gain an honest llNlh
Beware of wolves in Sleeps clothin
whoever attempts, under Whitley
popular cry, to shake the stability
the public currency. bring on distre
in money matters and drive the cou
try into the use of paper money. STA