Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1900 — DANIEL WEBSTER’S WARNING TO TIE POOR. [ARTICLE]

DANIEL WEBSTER’S WARNING TO TIE POOR.

Only Ddnagofueg Will Try to Incite a Contest of Money. I see in those vehicles which carry to the people sentiments from high places, plain declarations that the present controversy is but a strife between one part of the community and another. I hear it boasted that the poor hate the rich. I know that under the cover of the roofs of the capital within the last twentyfour hours, among men sent here to devise means for the public safety and tha public good, it has been vaunted forth as a matter of honsr arid triumph that one cause existed powerful enough to supjrort everything and to defend everything: and that was the natural hatred of the poor to the rich. I pronounce the author of such sentiments to be guilty of attempting a detestable fraud on the community; a double fraud; a fraud which is to cheat men of their property, and out of the earnings of their labor by first cheating them out of their understanding. The natural hutred of the poor for the rich! It shall not be until the last momenJKdf my existence that I will believe * the people of the United States capable of being effectually deluded, eajoled and driven about in herds by sneh abominable • frauds as this. * * I admonish the people against the object of outcries like th is. I admonish every industrious laborer in the country to be on his guard against such a delusion. I tell him the attempt is to play off his passion* against his interests and to prevail on bint in the name of liberty to injure and afflict his country and in the name of independence to destroy that independence and to make him a Is-ggar and a slave. —Daniel Webster in the United State* Senate, Jan. 31, 1834.