Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-10-20
WEBSTER KNEW BRYAN'S TYPE
OF DEMAGOGUEY.
The Statesman Denounced 1t In the.
senate Sixty-four Years Ago.

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The Statesman Denounced 1t In the
Senate Sixty-four Years Ago.
Democrats and Republicans of the
nrasent generation alike revere and re-
respect Daniel Webster. He was one of
tha greatest statesmen 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 garbled his quotations, too.
For a change, he might try 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.
ty-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:
"Sir: L 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. I hear it boasted as the I'M
failing 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
lie safety and the public good, it has
been Wanted 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. 1 pronounce the author of such
sentiments to be guilty of attempting
detestable fraud on the community;
double fraud 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!' Sir, it shall not be till the last
moment of my existence-it shall be
only when I am drawn to the verge Of
oblivion, when I shall cease to have re-
spect or affection for anything on earth
that I will believe the people of the
United States capable of being effectu-
ally de1uded, cajoled and driven about
in herds, by such abominable frauds as
ILLS. Ii IHSy Shall SILK W lHdI 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 rich! The danger of "a
moneyed aristocracy! "A power as
great and dangerous as that resisted by
the Revolution! A call to new De
claration of Independence Sir, 1 ad-
monish the people against the objec
of outcries like these. I admonish ev-
cry Industrious laborer in the country
to be on his guard against such deIu
sion. I tell him the attempt is to play
off his passions against his interests
and to prevail on him, in the name o
liberty, in the name of patriotism, to
injure and afficit his country; and, in
the name of his own independence. to
make him a beggar and slave. Has
he dollar? He is advised to do tha'
which will destroy half it's value. He's
he hands to labor? Let him rather fold
them, and sit still, than be pushed on
by fraud and artif1ce, to support meas
ures which will render his labor use
less and hopeless"