CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1900-10-25
WEBSTER on BRYAN.
A LONG RANGE SHOT THAT HITS
THE MARK.

THE MARK.
The Great Expounder Of the ConstItu-
ton Gave His Opinion Of Orators
Who Call Poor Men Slaves Of the
Money Power and Invoke the Dan
ger Of Moneyed Aristocracy.
On january 31st. 1884, Daniel Web
ster opened with the following words
an address to the United States
Senate:
Sir, / see, In those articles which
carry to the people sentiments from
high places, plain declarations that the
present controversy Is but strife be-
tween one part OF the community and
another. i hear 1t boasted as the un-
failing security. the selid ground, never
TO be shaken. on which recent
measures rest. that the poor naturally
hate the rich"
III this speech as whole were pub
lished to-day without credit to Web
ster, it would he difficult for the casual
reader to avoid believing that ii was
delivered during the present campaign
by some vigorous foe of William j.
Bryan Sir" continued the great
Statesman. Il pronounce the author Of.
such sentiments to be guilty of at
tempting Il destesiabIe fraud on the
community: double fraud; fraud
which is 10 cheat men out of their prop.
erty and out of the earnings OF their
labor, by first cheating them out of
their understandings
Mr.. Bryan would be justified in re-
gardlng this as a personal attack upon
him. Moreover, his newspaper and his
champions who are striving to excite
class hatred would brand the following
as declaration uttered by an agent of
Mark Hanna in defense of the trusts:
THE natural hatred OF the poor to
richw Sir, ii shall not be till the last
moment of my existence, 1t shall be
only when am drawn 10 the verge of
oblivion. when shall cease to have re-
spect of affection for anything on
earth. that l will believe the people of
the United Sfntes capable of being ef-
fecfuslly deluded- cajoled and driven
frauds as this. II they shall sink to
that point, IL they SO far cease to be
men. thinking men. intelligent men.
as TO yield to such pretenses and such
clamor. they will be slaves already:
slaves to their own passions, slaves TO
the fraud and knavery OF pretended
! friends They viii deserve TO be blot
ted out of all the records OF freedom:
they ought NOT to dishonor the cause of
self government by attempting any
longer to exercise il: they ought to keep
their unworthy hands entirely of from
the cause of Republican liberty. if they
are capable OF being the .ctins OF
artifices so shallow. of tricks so stale.
so fhreadbare. so often prscticed. so
much worn out ON serfs and slaves
II is not 10 he supposed that Webster
was conscious sixfy-six years ago of
the fact that he was making a speech
that would be suited precisely TO the
| crisis OF 1900. Yet here is q paragraph
which Is practically n reply to William
]. Bryan's latest speeches against the
money power
The natural hatred OF the poor
against the rich,-- THE danger of
a moDeyed arisfocracy" "A power as
| great ana dangerous as that resisted by
| the revolution ~ call to new
declaration OF independencer' Sir. 1
admonIsh the people against the object
every industrious lai,orer in the coun-
Try 10 be ON his guard against such
| delusion. tell him the attempt is to
| play of his passions against his inter
ests. and TO prevail on him in the name
1 of liberty to destroy all the fruits of
| liberty. in the name OF patriotism to
| injune and afiiict his country. and in
| the ilame of his own Independence to
destroy that very Independence and
make him beggnr and a slave. Has
he n dollar: He is advised to do that
which viii destroy half its value. Has
he hands TO labor; Let him rather fold
| them and sit still than he pushed on by
| fraud and artifice To support measures
which viii. render his labor useless and
hopeless
Nothing that has been said by Repub-
lican orators in the present campaign
unmasks morc clearly the sballowness
and unworthiness of William j.
Bryan's attitude than the closing pas
sage of this speech. which has all the
| force to-day that II had In the sos.
| when other demagogues were en-
| deavoring to create the belief that the
country was rapidly passing under the
domination Of plutocrats.
"Whoever.- said Webster. has the
| wickcdness to conceive and the hardi-
hood to avow n purpose to break down
, what has been found in forty years
experience essential to the protection
| OF all interests. by arraying one class
| against the other. and hy acting on
such principle as that the poor al
ways hate the rich. shows himself the
reckless enemy of all. An enemy TO
his whole country. to all classes and to
every man in II. he deserves TO be
marked especially as the poor mans
curse"