Warren sheaf., 1900-10-11
WEBSTER KNEW RRYAy.s TYPE
OF DENIAGOGUEY.
The Statesman Denounced 1t In the.
Senate Sfxty-fOur Years AEO

The Statesman Denounced 1t In the
Senate sixty-four Years Ago. IN.
Democrats and Republicans Of the
present generation alike revere and re-
respect Daniel Webster. He was one OF
the greatest statesme n produced by this
or any other country. Mr.. Bryan is
fond OF quoting from Abraham Lincoln,
another Of Americas greatest states
men, and, in his eagerness, he has
sometimes garbIed HIS quotations. too.
For a change, he might try a quotation
or two from Webster, for example, from
his great speech in the United States
senate on Jan. 81, 1884, The Natural
Hatred Of the Poor to the Rich Six
tty-four years ago Daniel Webster.
stood up In the senate and denounced
the demagogism OF his day in words
which fit the present crisis precisely.
Daniel Webster addressed the senate
as follows: t.ss u, 81 I: Us .s A zts.
Sir: see, in those vehicles which
carry to the 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 boasted as the un-
railing security, the solid ground, never
to be shaken that the poor naturally
hate the rich. I know that within the
last twenty-four hours among men
sent here to devise means for the pub.
lte safety and the public good, 1t has
been vaunted 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
I the, rich. i $@.fSs .s ll5 III 4. t
Sir. I pronounce the author of such
sentiments to be guilty Of attempting q
detestable fraud on the community; a
double fraud; a 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 liberty.
| $%"The natural hatred Of the poor to the
| rich!"s 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 shall cease to have re-
spect or affection for anything on earth
that will believe the people Of the
United States capable of being effectu-
ally deluded. fcajoled and driven about
in herds. by such abominable frauds as
this. II they shall sink to that point. IL
they shall so far cease to be men,
thinking men, intelligent men, as to
yield to such pretenses and such clam
or, they will be slaves already slaves
TO their own passions, slaves to the
fraud and knavery Of pretended friends.
The natural hatred Of the poor
against the richv THE danger OF =
moneyed; aristocracy!' "A power as
great and dangerous as that resisted by
the Revolution!' A call to a new De-
tclaration of Independence!' Sir, I adj
Imonish, the people against the object
Of eutcries like these. ] admonish sev-
/ Iery Industrious laborer in the country
to be on his guard against such delu-
sion. I tell him the attempt Is to play
off his passions against his interests.
and to prevail on him, in the name -Of
liberty, in the name Of patriotism, to
injure and afflcit his country; and, in
the name Of his own independence. to
make him a beggar and slave. Has
he a dollar? He Is advised to do that
which will destroy half its value. Has
he hands to labor? Let him rather fold
them, and sit still, than be pushed on,
by fraud and artifice, to support meas
ures which will render, his labor use-
less and hopeless
Porto Rican Trade Grows.
Four months operations Of the Porto
Rican tariff law show an increase OF
more than 100 per cent In our exports
to that island as compared with the
corresponding months Of 1S99 and more
l o. -3Ln-7.