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THfc. CROSS OF GOLD.
A Clergyman Defends Mr. Bry
an’s Use of the Famous
Metaphor.
One of the bravest and best sermons
preached for many a day is that of the
Rev. Thomas Hines, rector of Holy Trin
ity church, Manistee, Mich., in :uiswer
to the false and stupid charges of blas
phemy brought against William J. Bry
an fßr the metaphor he used in his great
speech about the “crown of thorns.”
Follow ing is the sermon of Mr. Hines:
And when they had platted a crown of
thorns tin y put it upon his head. And they
crucified him and parted his garments, cast
ing lots.—Matthew xxvii. 27-35.
The religious and secular press,
preachers and politicians, are condemn
ing W. J. Bryan, tho Democratic-Pop
ulist free silver candidate for the pres
idency, because he said in his speech at
the Chicago convention : “You shalinot
press dewn upon the brow of labor this
crown of thorns. Yon shall not crucify
mankind upon across of gold.” Because
of this language Mr. Bryan is charged
with tho sins of irreverence and blas
phemy. He is accused of mixing up sa
cred and solemn things with thing secu
lar and political. The religious world
professes to stand aghast, and old line
party politicians, the paid attorneys of
soulless corporations, trusts and com
bines and editors of only paity organs,
which have sold their brains and col
umns for gold—betrayed their trust,
like Judas, for a bribe—pretend to be
shocked at the thought. But there are
certain things which wo must bear in
mind.
First, that Bryan is a member of the
Presbyterian church, one of tire most
conservative and orthodox bodies, and
which has great reverence for the Bible
as tho inspired word of Cod, hence he
would not intentionally be profane.
Second, that while the Bible teaches
and I most earnestly believe that Jesus
Christ was the sou. cf God, yet he was
crucified not ns the sen of God, but us
the son of man. His divine nature was
not crucified on Calvary, but his human
nature only, it was not God who died
on tho cross, but only a man. Hence
that terrible and heartrending cry which
he uttered in his death agony: “My
God! Mv God! Why hast thou forsaken
me?”
Then that crown cf thorns was placed
upon the brow of Christ, and he was
nailed (o the tree and crucified upon the
cross to death for v<hat ? You say as a
punishment. Yes, but as a puuishment
for what? You may answer for man’s
sin, because it was necessary to redeem
tho world. This I deny. There is not a
line anywhere in the Bible which teach
es snch a monstrous doctrine. If this
was true, then tho murderers of Christ
were only doing God’s will. They were
the instruments of tho world’s redemp
tion and deserve a vote of thanks from
all redeemed humanity and re
ward in the world to come, while Judas
and Pilate were saints of the highest
order whom we should love and honor.
But then what becomes of Christ’s
words concerning tho treachery of Ju
das, “It would hnve been good for that
naan if ho had never been born?” and
his prayer for his murderers when dy
ing upon tho cross, “Bather, forgive
them, for they know not what they do?”
What, then, did at. Peter mean when ho
charged the Jews with the murder of
Christ and exhorted them to repent for
this sin in order to escape the wrath of
God and wiu heaven? Christ came into
the world to redeem it, but not by death
upon tho cross. The crown of thorns,
the scourging, the insults and mockery
and death by crucifixion were not in ac
cord with the will of God, but the work
of vile, brutal and wicked men.
Then why was Christ crowned with
thorns and crucified? It was but a few
days before that the whole city hud bid
him welcome into Jerusalem with
shouts of joy. If wo read a few chapters
beforo the account of the crucifixion,
we shall see tho reason. It was because
he had preached the fatherhood of God,
the universal brotherhood of man, de
nounced every form of usury, legalized
robbery and wrong; defied the money
power, calif and the rich oppressors of the
poor a lot of tombstones, beautiful to
the eye, but inwardly full cf rottenness
and corruption, and said that it was
“easier ior a camel, to go through the
eye of a needle than for a rich man to
enter heaven.” Recalled them a den of
vipers and a lot of hypocrites, and asked
them this startling question, “How can
you escape tho damnation cf hell?” He
insulted tho national bankers in tl.o
temple, kicked over the tables of money,
accused them of being a lot of thieves,
and with a whip lashed tho rascals se
verely and in fiery wrath drove them
out into tho street. Ho wonder that we
read that the money power and rich
aristocrats plotted for his death, bribed
Judas to betray him, arrest him, charg
ed him with awful crimes of treason
against the government and blasphemy
against God. Upon these charges Christ
was condemned, crowned with thorns
and crucified. He was murdered, not t.y
infidels and heathens, but by the rich
aristocratio church members of his day,
the prients and leaders in the church.
It was those who clamored bo loudly for
his blood and cried out: “Away with
him 1 Cruoify him 1 He is not fit to live. ’ ’
The same element in the church today
would crucify Christ again should he
return to earth. If not actually, yet
they would crucify him with vijc words.
denunciation, bitter epithets, the boy
cott and proscription.
Human nature is still the same as of
old. The logical descendants of Christ’s
murderers bring the same charges
agaiust Bryan aud the free silver mu
aud all reformers as the Jews did
agaiDSt Christ. They charge us with be
ing traitors to the government and blas
phemous against God. They.try to stir
up the ignorant rabble against Bryan
and call loudly for his political death.
/ne truth is that tho past 25 years the
money power has “pressed down a
crown of thorns upon the brow of labor,
and crucified it upon a cross of gold.”
Asa result, vast multitudes have died
of starvation, many committed suicide
to escape a slow, lingering death upon
the cross of poverty, while many more
have died by inches, lacking food, med
ical care, pure air and the common ne
cessities of life. They died upon the
cross of gold, with the crown of thorn
pressing down upon their brow. Mr.
Bryan stated only the truth. His words
were an inspiration from heaven. The
Son of Man is being crucified today upon
the cross of gold, with the crown of
thorns pressing down upon his brow, in
the person of his brothers, the sons of
men.
Judas was bribed to betray Christ to
death by the money power. So multi
tudes believe that Cleveland, Carlisle,
Sherman and others have been bribed
by tho goldbngs, the Rothschilds and
Morgans and their allies, to betray the
people into tho hands of their enemies
for crucifixion.
As Christ died upon the cross the
bloody rabble mock, and jeer, and scoff,
and insult him with drugged wine. So
today capital, which has robbed labor
of the fruit of its toil, stolen the prod
ucts of his labor, rolling iu wealth
while labor writhes in poverty and suf
fering, offers the workingman a few
soup bones, crusts and secondhand
clothing or dances for charity, thus
mocking and insulting its victims
while they suffer, groan and die upon
the cross beneath the crown of thorns.
Christ was crucified between two
thieves, as though he was the greatest
rascal of the three, uplifted between
heaven and earth, as though he was not
fit for either world. So the working
man has been crucified for years be
tween two robbers of the people—the
tariff and the single gold standard.
Wh.en Christ was crucified, his mur
derers gambled for his clothing and di
vided it between them. So while labor
is being crucified the murderers divirle
its clothing, as they gamble in the ne
cessities of life, rob the workingman
and his family of decent clothing and
leave them in rags and tatters.
But as Christ dies upon the cross
with the crown of thorns upon his head
nature revolts at the sight and enters
its protest amid great convulsions in
splitting rooks, rending earth, bursting
graves and the darkened sun. So labor
has been crucified by capital amid con
vulsions and protests in the way of
strikes, riots, blood shedding and the
boycott. And today this whole land is
convulsed from center to circumference
and is in the midst of a political revolu
tion and upheaval over the pending
election,
When Christ died upon the cross all
his enemies rejoiced over his death. But
wait. On the morning of the third day
he rose in triumph fiom the dead aud
overcame all his foes, and then ascended
up to heaven and sat down upon his
throne iu glory. So the cause of labor
has been crucified to death amid the re
joicing of tho money power. But wait.
It is rising from the dead. It is burst
ing the tomb and breaking the barriers
of death and will spoil the powers of
hell and ascend and sit down upon the
throne of its glory and possess and en
joy its own again. Corporate greed has
“pressed down upon the brow of labor
a crown of thorns and crucified it upon a
cross of gold,” but it will rise from the
dead and live again.
W. J. Bryan, the Christian gentleman,
tho honest man, the American patriot,
the redeemer of labor, the people’s can
didate for Ihe presidency of these United
States, will bo elected by tho people,
will overthrow the combined forces of
tho gold power and restore to the people
their long lost rights. May heaven bless
.and defend him, overthrow his enemies
and help us all to do our duty. We want
no crown of thorns nor cross of gold.
Greed, Take Warning.
Greed, you made ouo mistake when
tariffs wero reduced and the rich man’s
income taxed, You saw you must empty
the treasury to get your tariff back. The
tax on the rich man’s income was de
clared void, and to give emphasis that
your position was straight, you cor
nered gold, when, lo! like a sunburst of
truth it flashed upon the minds of the
people that your crowning crime, before
which all others pale, was consummated
when like a thief in the night you mur
dered silver as redemption money in the
house of her friends and doubled the
value of the rich man’s dollar and tho
poor man’s debt; when, like the bat of
Indian brakes, whose pinions fan the
wound it makes, you sucked the white
silver blood from the veins and arteries
of commerco that you might gorge your
self on gold. When a good farm will
hardly pay expenses, when we see
wealth massed in mountain piles, the
rich getting richer, tho poor poorer, it
is time to call a halt and take our bear
ings. .Farmers, greed tells us' there is
plenty of money if we can give security.
We answer it is no trick to get in debt,
but it is bow to pay what we owe iu
greed’s 200 cent gold dollar.—William
M. Clow in Joliet News.
What Cowards!
If McKinley is elected this fall, it will
be owing to the cowardly disposition to
put off the evil hour. Republican speak
ers all over the country are telling what
disasters the banks will bring on the
people if Bryan wins, and while it is
plain that the conditions will keep get
ting worse and that the crisis must be
met some day there are people who
want to put it off a few years and let
their children fight it out when the vic
tory can only bo won with bullets. Oh,
what cowards! —Chicago Express.
Without Force of Arms.
Without making war upon us Great
Britain aud the Latin union, by de
monetizing silver, throttled oue of the
largest material interests of America as
completely as if they had conquered the
country and put down the silver indus
try by force of arms.—St. Louis Post-
Pi spatch.
GETTING SERIOUS.
Government Ownership of Railways Nec
essary to Avoid a Monarchy.
The actions of the railroad com
panies during this campaign ought cer
tainly to convince the unbelieving that
government ownership is a dire necessi
ty. Railroads, in a injunction with com
bines, baiiks and plutocracy in general,
are becoming more a:id more aggressive
in their tyrannical operations than ever
before, and their reckless coercive meth
ods and intimidation process promulgat
ed to cow and quail employees into sup
porting the gold standard is enough to
appal civilization and threatens the
overthrow of free government and the
substitution of a despotic and autocratic
monarchical form of state.
Goldbug orators flood the country,
aud by prearrangement hold meetings
where railroad employees are forced to
assemble or jeopardize their positions.
They are tabulated like sheep to the
slaughter, to be absent from the se
lected meeting means to look for a job.
They are furnished blank applications
to join railroad leagues tor sound mon
ey, and to refuse to join means dis
charge and blacklist. The majority of
them have families to support, and
with possible starvation staring at
them they >vill submit to a great deal
rather than be thrown out of employ
ment and be forever denied the privilege
of working at their calling again. Cir
culars are mailed to employees all along
the lines asking an expression on the
silver question. Each employee from a
section hand up is entered on the “ledg
er,” and should an adverse answer
come or no reply at all the name is
checked, and the railroad officials do
the rest. Notices are posted in railroad
shops to the effect that if free silver is
adopted the men will only receive half
pay and part of them be discharged out
right. Tho most audacious, determined
and daring schemes are propagated to
perplex and bewilder tho already
crushed and spiritless men, who dare
not proclaim to the world that their life
is their own. Tho conduct of these plu
tocratic monstrosities is the most vile
and hideous pollution of American free
dom that has ever been flaunted in the
faces of a chivalrous population. They
coerce work people, curb legislation, de
file society, provoke riots, bribe officials
and menace the peace of (he country,
add injury to insult and secure the
services of the military at the slightest
resentment on the part of the people.
They dictato decisions to courts aud
their will is law whether constitutional
or not, and on demand any citizen who
has hoisted the flag of defiance goes to
jail and swelters in a filthy dungeon,
while his taxes go to support the insti
tution that oppresses him instead of
protecting him.
It is war to the knife and knife to the
hilt. Plutocracy means for gold to win
aud corporations rule or strike tho coun
try a blow that will sot upon the throne
in Washington some minion of Wall
street who will govern the tagged work
people of America with an iron iiand of
treachery and cruelty, tho extent of
which is only equaled iu Siberia. The
railroads and other corporations have
the government at their backs and tho
army and navy at their command, and
with the millions in their possession
will struggle hard before they will re
linquish anything that would tend to
rob them cf their power.—St. Louis
Evening Journal.
Overdoing tiio Job.
A great deal has been made of the ex
perience of a jeweler in this city who
acquired a considerable stock of cam
paign badges. They wero far more cost
ly than tho average campaign badge,
and retailed for a dollar each. The jew -
,eler reported that he sold throe times as
many of these expensive McKinley but
tons as he did of the Bryan specimens.
The organs which mention the matter
approvingly fail to see tho true signifi
cance of the incident. Tho average sup
porter of Mr. Bryan is too poor to be
able to spend a dollar for a campaign
button. Even the few cents he may ex
pend for one is au item to him. The
McKinley men, on the other hand have
all the money they want. Very expen
sive advertising space has been rented on
Broadway and covered with well paint
ed signboards warning everyone against
Bryan. These things are silent witnesses
to the riohes back of the movement for
gold monometallism. Experienced ad
vance agents of the theatrical compa
nies know how dangerous it is to over
do their billboarding and placarding.
Theater goers distrust plays that have
had to bo tremendously boomed. The
people likewise are made to wonder
why the McKinley cause must be thrust
into their faces on the streets and adver
tised like a patent medicine. If the Re
publican ticket were a circus soon to
come to town the present corner lot
sign posting would be explicable. It. is
doiug McKinley a great deal more harm
than good.—Twentieth Century.
That “Refuting” Business.
The Voice and Clevelander, that much
consolidated but obscure and discredited
organ of heelerism, announces that
Hanna is not an issue in this campaign,
aud that the allegations in regard to his
labor record have been “sufficiently re
futed. ” Bo? When were the charges re
futed, aud by whom? Peter Lynch’s af
fidavit does not contain a single line
that disproves Hanna’s hostility to labor
unions. Por the benefit of Hanna’s gang
in this city we will say that whenever
a “refuting” meeting is called there
will be persons present to give some im
portant testimony.—Cleveland Citizen.
Silver Republicans in Nebraska.
We have been asked why we do not
publish the names of Republicans who
are coming out for Bryan and free sil
ver. Simply because our paper is not
large enough. But if the friends of sil
ver will chip in and help us to pay tho
extra expense we will get out a few ad
ditional pages and give all tho names
and addresses of as many as we can
crowd in. The woods and prairies aro
full of them.—Clay Center (Neb.) Pa
triot.
PEOPLE OF THE DAY.
Patrick Tynan, the man who has been
arrested in Europe for alleged complici
ty in the recently discovered dynamite
plot to blow up Queen Victoria and the
czar, is supposed to be the same man
who was known after the Phoenix park
assassinations in Dublin as tlie mysteri
ous “No. 1” of the Irish conspirators.
Percy Patrick Joseph Tynan is his full
name- He was born in the town of
Wexford, Ireland, iu 1842. His father
was a blacksmith of limited means, but
his mother, after she had been left a
widow, contrived to send her son to the
college of a religious order near Dublin
with the intention of having him enter
the priesthood. At the age of IG, how-
P. P. J. TYNAN 1 .
ever, young Tynan left college and Mi
tered on a business career, in which ho
was fairly successful. Ho had become
quite a liuguist, having mastered Ital
ian, French, German and Russiau, and
was a close student of history and liter
ature. He fiually married the daughter
of a wealthy London' tradesman and
opened a stationery and book shop in
Kingston, Ireland. After the Phoenix
park affairs aud the confession of Carey,
the informer, Tynan gave out that he
was the “No. 1” referred to and fled to
America, where he lias lived ever since,
supporting himself by working for vari
ous newspapers.
To Succeed Senator Irby.
General Joseph 11. Earle, who is to
succeed J. L. M. Irby as a representa
tive of South Carolina in the United
States senate, has been for more than a
score of years one of the prominent
Democratic leaders in his state. He is a
fix silver man, hut is not identified
with either faction of his state party.
General Earle was born in Greenville,
S. C., iii 1847. He left school in 18(14
to enter the Confederate army and
served for the rest of the war in Kemp-
GENERAL JOSEPH H. EARLE.
er’s artillery. Aftor giving up his sword
he tvent back to Greenville and took a
course at the university. Then he spent
several years teaching school aud study
ing law. He was admitted to the bar iu
1870 and has practiced his profession at
odd times ever since. In 1878 he became
active in politics and was elected to the
state legislature, serving until 1880. In
1882 he was elected to tho state senate,
but before bin term had expired he was
elected attorney general of the state. In
1890 he made an unsuccessful canvass
for governor against Benjamin R. Till
man. In 1894 General Earle wns made
circuit judge and still holds that office.
Maine’s Governor Elect.
Lewellyu Powers, tho Republican
governor elect of Maine, is a wealthy
lawyer aud the owner of extensive tim
ber lands. He was born in Pittsfield,
Somerset county. Me. He was a student
at Colby university, but left before
graduating to go to Albany, where lie
studied law and was admitted to the
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LEWELLTN POWERS.
bar. Soon after this lie returned to
Maine and began the practice of his
profession in Houlton, of which town
he has ever since been a citizen, with
the exception of a few years spent in
Boston and Brookline, Mass. Besides
filling several minor offices lie has
served several terms in the state legisla
ture, was once speaker of the house and
has served one term as a congressman.
Tho punishment, suffered by the wise
who refuse to take part in the govern
ment is to live under the government
of bad men. —Plato.
THE CRIME GF 1 7*3 SEALED.
Mr. Gorham, Secretary of Senate at
tlie Time, Malr.es a Statement.
Ex-Governor Charles P. Johnson cre
ated a decided sensation at the Bryru
meeting in the auditorium, St. Lov’s,
when he read a letter from Colonel
George C. Gorham cf Washington, who
was secretary of tho senate in 1878,
when the criminal demonetization bill
was stealtiiily put through. Colonel
Gorham has been a Republican all of
his long life and was high iu the
councils of his party when lie was in
active politics. His letter openly charges
Senator Sherman of Ohio with having
deliberately deceived his fellow senators
iu order to have the crime consummated.
His words are these:
‘ ‘From tlie record, which I have faith
fully reproduced, it is impossible to
reach any other conclusion than that
the confidence of the house was abused
by Mr. Hooper, that the confidence of
tho senate was abused by Mr.'Gherman
and that by their joint efforts the most
important piece cf legislation of the
ceutuiy was carried through congress
by stealth, and the double standard,
which had existed by tne will of the
people for more than 80 years, was
taken away from them without their
consent or knowledge, in the interest of
aliens, by the manipulations described.
The men who did this work did it fur
tively and fraudulently, because they
knew if submitted either.to the peonlc
or to congress its overwhelming defeat
would have been insured. ’ ’
Colonel Gorham’s letter is an ex
haustive one, hut it is filled with some
startling facts taken from the records
of the senate and houte. He points out
that Senator Sherman made three at
tacks upon the double standard before
ho accomplished I:i3 foul purpose by
stealth.
Wliat Lincoln Feared#
At tho close of tho war the prophetic
soul of Lincoln expressed itself in a let
ter to a friend in Illinois thus: “Yes,
we may well rejoice that this cruel war
has come to a close. The host blood of
tho flower of Americau youth lias been
freely offered on ovr country’s altar in
order that our nation might live. But I
see in the near future a crisis arising
that unnerves mo and causes me to trou
ble for the welfare of my country. Asa
result of tho war corporations have been
enthroned and an era of corruption in
high places will follow. The money
power of this country will endeavor to
prolong its reign by working on the
prejudices of the people until this re
public will be destroyed. God grant
that my fears may prove groundless. ”
Precaution August Poisons.
Poisonous liniments and liquids
Bliould be kopt in bottles with a rough
surface outside, bo that they can be
known at once by the touch. Attention
to this simple rule bi the means of
preventing serious accidents. They
ihonld also not be kept near other bot
tles.