Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-13
DEMOCRAT DEPLIES
TO IAN ARIST0CRAT."
He yehcmently Protests That the
Latter Has No Claim Upon Ameri-

ne NGAGlUCMl4
Latter Has NO Claim Upon Ameri-
can Citizenship.
Philadelphia Times
To the Editor of The Times.
In answer to IAN Aristocrat," who
has SO ably set forth the policy OF the
present Republican administration, !
would like to say to him. You have
misnamed yourself. You are not an
aristrocrat, for there is not one aristo-
cratic idea expressed in your letter to
The Times. You should have signed
yourself "A Would-Be Autocrat.' which
would have approached nearer the real
meaning you wish to convey, but even
that does not give the true impression.
In fact l cannot find words in the Eng
lish language to express my scorn and
contempt for you. You, who from your
very idea, are not and car be
what you have signed yourself. have
censured The Times for its change OF
policy. Surely your understanding must
be dwarfed that you cannot see that the
protest of a man who does not know
what he is, cannot amount to any
thing.
You say. There is a distinction be-
tween the people of this country. as OF
all Countries
Unknowingly you have spoken a
great truth. for the difference between
yourself and the class Of people to which
Won imagine you belong is indeed dis
tinct. AS to your false impression OF
the French Commune and its causes,
would advise you to read history, and
read It we'll. You call the plea of The
Times that the few are getting opulent
at the expense of the many, transparent.
Indeed it is. for all can see into it II
they will but look. The few are get
ting what the many should have.
Heaven has willed it that some men
must be ignorant and poor. Heaven
has willed it that some people shall
have more of this worlds goods then
others, but Heaven has not willed that
any mar shall be the slave of another,
and truly neither the Constitution of
the United States nor the Declaration Of
independence can make 1t different.
You have no slaves, and you lie when
you say you have. Those who are so
unfortunate as to have fallen into your
clutches could not have had a worse
fate befall them. No matter how poor
they are nor how humble, they were
not born for slaves and you have no
right to say sc in this great free
try Of ours. 1t is such men as you who
are trying to pull the Constitution to
pieces. 1t is such men as you who will
bring on the terrible conflict you speak
of. And it is such men as you who are
in power to-day and have shown them
selves to be as unfit for their positions
in life as you have shown yourself to
be in yours.
You say if these servants of yours
vote for Mr.. Bryan you will discharge
them. Here you express exactly what
all the great trusts and corporations
are doing. You are exercising the ours.
of modern times. Indeed, it woeld be
a waste of time for such a miserable
creature as yourself to go into even one
detail, however small, as to your opin-
ions of men. yes, men, every one of
them, who support Mr.. Bryan.
You say that you think there is
enough money in the country to buy
the American vote. The vote may have
been bought in 1896, but let me tell you
my poor misplaced-in-your-walk-in
iiic Cicdlult, Iue1e is not enough money
in the whole world this time, and Mr.
Bryan, not Mckinley, will be elected
this November by a very large plural
ity.
You and all the rest like you includ-
ing Mark Hanna, make the mistake Of
your lives when you imagine that the
common people have no rights. From
the beginning of the world they did
have rights, and again l say to you,
read history and read it well. When
Russia abolished serfdom did they fall
to killing each other? No. Then why
do you make the false statement that
whenever a monarch gave his people
some. new liberty they fell fighting.
You are like the rest of your kind
bigoted, gold, hungry, selfish, not one
grain of good will to your fellcwman
IN you and impossible to argue with,
and in the end your W enemy.
YOU attack upon the Constitution of
the United States is treason to our coun-
try. do not say your country, for any
ont who will express such an opinion
of it is not fit to be a citizen.
]. BAKER KUNKEL.
1890 Walnut street, West PHILADELPHIA.
October nth 1Q0n