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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 ‘dplpk rajg§|f ' \ pw 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.