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Show CALAIV'-' POLITICS. Mr. Hearst is ug .jack to the politics of the ' French revolution. For more than a year before the assassination of President McKinley Mr. Hearst likened him to Louis XVI and said that next to ox-President Cleveland he was the most hated and despised man in the Western hemisphere. hemi-sphere. Conditions in this country then were lik-enod'by lik-enod'by Mr. Hearst to the conditions preceding the reign of terror in France, and anarchists were Invited to quit conspiring against the lives of small fry and to strike at the big ones. Tho morning of the day on which the President was murdered Mr. Hearst printed a cartoon of him as a negro minstrel doing a clog and a coon song in which he expressed his delight at the suffering of ' what Hearst calls "the common people." He has now renewed this kind of campaigning In an editorial in which he saya "There is always al-ways muttering among the poor and feeble. They are always dissatisfied, but they amount to little and their voices do not travel very far. There was muoh sighing, weeping, starving in France before the great revolution came. Peasants died of the plague in tens of thousands and ate each other's dead bodies. Mankind In tho mass were slaves, but the able men always found a comfortable little place at the top. The danger came, and poor fat old Louis lost his head when tho able men began to grumble. In this, country the grumbling no longer lon-ger comes merely from- the cheap, small fry that can be bought at the pollsor bought more cheap- ly later in Legislatures. You have the whole class of American bankers worrying about themselves. You have the big class of lawyors worrying about themselves. They And the great trust killing off tho small merchant and manufacturer with his myriad of lawsuits. The drummers of America, another an-other active and influential class, have had their severe dose of medicine. Push these gentlemen away from the trough as you are now doing and you will have trouble on your hands which will become be-come part of history and be written on your tombstone." This false and incendlar talk Is an Invitation to lawlessness, disorder and murder. Its falsity is proved by every man's knowledge of conditions in this country. The census figures show not a decrease in the number of people in this country engaged in gainful gain-ful vocation; but a large increase. The number of merchants increased between 1880 and 1890 38 per cent, and the number of drummers or commercial commer-cial travelers fn the same time increased 228 per cent, proving an inoreased demand for their services, ser-vices, through the activities of competitive trade. In the twenty years ending with 19Q0 the population increased 52 per cent and the number of merchants mer-chants 78 per cent. Along the whole line of occupations, occu-pations, manual, professional and mercantile, there was an increase in the number profitably employed. em-ployed. Conditions bear no more resemblance to those preceding the French revolution than Hearst bears , to a patriot and decent American. His editorial misrepresents his country and his countrymen. Yet it is characteristic of him. In public matters he thinks in the terms of lawlessness and murder. His idea3 runs to assassination. He declared his purpose in an editorial in 1901 to make people discontented, dis-contented, saying it in these terms: "You should be in as many ways as possible a breeder of discontent dis-content among the human beings around you. Then after denouncing McKinley as "An abject, weak, futile and incompetent poltroon," he continued con-tinued for weeks and months his analogies drawn from the French revolution. After the president was murdered Hearst was run to cover by universal public indignation, and did not venture out again until he emerged as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. What a spectacle is presented by the fact that he was the second choice of that party as the nominee and came near being first! Now he is growing bold in the public forgetful-ness forgetful-ness of events leading up to the assassination of McKinley and is beginning again his propaganda of discontent with murder as the remedy of the evils he pretends to see in our economic conditions. condi-tions. All this Is done with a cold heart and a deliberate de-liberate purpose, to secure for himself and his party advantage by grossly defaming his country. There are plenty of fools and featherheads, non-thrifty non-thrifty and crooked thinkers whose addle brains are tinder for his torch, arid no one need be surprised sur-prised if his tactics shall lead up to an attempt to enact another national traged -San Francisco Call. |