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Innry work q Ilonry George Thirty
years ngo la tho publication of his
groat book, "Progress and Povorty,"
Honry Goorgo completely exposed tho
ovils which follow the extension of
properly rights to land. Twenty-five
years ago ho visited England and
thqro, by his speeches and writings,
scattered tho seod which today Is
"blossoming in political action. Eng
land today is a great field which has
been "plowed by a book and sowed
with tho seed df a great thought."
Not a speaker nor a writer in tho
last campaign thoro but drew on
Honry Goorgo for ovory argument he
mado against protection and land
lordism. There 1b not an argument
horo that I am not indebted to him
for. Ills writings are an inexhausti
ble arsenal from which tho earnest
reformer can draw not only his most
offoctlvo weapons, but an inspiration
that will enablo him to go out against
tho hosts of privilege with tho confi
dence which animates and sustains
tho man who fights for justice; with
tho knowlodgo that in tho end right
will triumph over might, and with
tho personal satisfaction that comes
to a man who haB done what ho could
In his lifetime to leave the world a
little better than ho found it.
As in England, so in America. Wo
speak the samo language and live
under tho samo laws, customs and
institutions as Englishmen. Already
wo have begun to talk about con
servation of our natural resourcos,
and I look forward hopefully to tho
timo when we will find that the true
conservation of our natural resources,
and of our natural rights too, will be
bost secured by tho abolition of an
other taxes and a tax on land values
equal to the whole annual rent.
MR. BRYAN A.T BLOOMINGTON
This was' Bryan day at "tfie Chau
tauqua as , any American citizen
might know who saw the mammoth
crowd gathered in tho big pavilion
and overflowing around tho outside,
and who observed with what atten
tion they wero all listening to the
speaker and devouring his every re
mark with avidity. The great Ne
braskan apparently has all his old
magnetism, his beautiful word paint
ing, his crystallized nuggets of phil
osophy and his shining figures of
speech when once the man who has
three times been the candidate of
the democratic party for president,
began to speak, a hush fell over tho
big audience. They stirred scarcely
more than a copse pf greenwood in
tho summer breeze, and hung upon
his every word.
But it was quite a different theme,
that Mr. Bryan discussed in all his
gift of oratory than it was when he
came here fourteen year3 ago when
his whole soul rang vibrant with tho
plea for sufllcient money with which
to do tho business of tho country. It
was different than when he was hero
four years later with tho samo domi
nant idea, but elaborately modified,
but still overpowering in its force
and idealism; dlfforent from that
time when ho awakened the people
of tho country to tho imponding
dangers of imperialism, and vastly
different from "when he came to tell
in interesting fashion of tho charac
teristics of other peoples and other
nations whoin ho had met on his
famous trip around tho world. Yet
through it all there ran a lode of
tho pure stuff, a pay-streak that in
dicated the crystalization of his years
of thought, study and mingling with
tho front ranks of those who do
things; thoughts which have to do
with the nation und its welfare, and
which has grown out of contact with
tho people who make and unmake
those things.
Mr. Bryan's reception In Bloom
ington was something after tho usual
greeting that has always been ex
tended the Nebraskan by tho people
of central Illinois. Though differ
ing in ideas, perhaps, republican,
democrat, prohibition, socialist, has
never failed to see and greet this
distinguished visitor, to give him re
spoctful audience and to weigh with
consideration all ho had to say. Tho
timo is not at present so keenly
on edge as when In tho past Mr.
Bryan has visited Bloomlngton but
yet there was the samo old group
of radiant races behind which were
people of all classes of all political
religious and sociological beliefs anx
ious to grasp the hand of the former
senator from Nebraska and hear his
dissertation in words which always
rang true with conviction and sin
cerity. So it was today. It had been an
nounced that Mr. Bryan would aT
rlve in Bloomington on the noon
train from the north, and the recep
tion committee, together with many
other citizens wero at the union
depot to meet him. The train was
late, and the time was short. There
fore tho public reception at the Illi
nois hotel lasted but a quarter of
an hour, when Mr. Bryan and the
committee were escorted to the Chau
tauqua, where the Nebraskan ap
peared upon the platform Immediate
ly and began his address. A great
crowd had already preceded him
there, but more followed in his wake,
and others came continuously during
his speech.
When Mr. Bryan stepped out upon
the platform the assemblage gave
the Chautauqua salute, the wholo
gathering breaking simultaneously
into a fluttering sea of white, as the
hundreds of handkerchiefs were
waved for a moment. Bloomington
(111.) Daily Bulletin.
THE REFORMER
Workmen wrought on a Building
Should stand to the end of time
Deep they laid its foundations
Under the rifting rime;
Down to tho core of the planet
They fashioned the earth anew
Said unto each tho Foreman,
"See to the thing ye do!"
Craftsmen In stone and timber,
Artists in glass and steel
Wrought at the knitting fabric,
Each with eager zeal;
Chiseled and hammered and fash
ioned, Each as his orders ran,
Saying "-This will I finish,
A deed befitting tho Plan!" i
them to base its claims for a follow
ing. This journal would strongly
recommend that every reader of F., S,
& H. have in his home one or more
of the above-named magazines or pa
pers in order that he may got tho
people's side concerning questions at
issue before the public. Farm,
Stock and Home, Minneapolis.
The
A WARNING
recent publication of tho
Came another, a stranger;
Tools of tho craft he bore,
Smote and chiseled the columns
Gouging them to the core;
Hewing, and cutting, and planing,
Hurling the chips aside,
Lifting the lintels higher,
Making the windows wide.
Straight they went to the Foreman:
"Listen! We wrought: there came
One with the tools of a Builder,
Bearing our sign and name,
Marring the work we have finished;
Riving it, base and crown!
This is no Craftsman, but anarch;
Ho teareth the Building down!"
Soothe was the Foreman's answer;
"Naught worth he cuts away:
He also doeth my bidding
How goes your work today?"
Back to their labor faring
They heard the rending saw,
And wondered much at the Fore
man More at the Foreman's law.
Finished, the scaffolds falling,
Stood in its strength sublime
The Building framed by the Craftsmen
To stand till the end of time,
High was the dome above It;
Deep wero its halls and wide;
Flooding each nave and transept
The Day's unceasing tide.
Then lo! 'neath the lifted lintels
The sons of the Builders passed,
And told of the mighty Craftsman,
And how nis deed should last;
For as, through the widened windows
The Light of the Ages ran,
They knew that his smiting hammer
Had finished the Foreman's Plan.
h Hugh J. Hughes in the Farm,
Stock and Home.
memoirs of a celebrated English uni
versity professor, Oscar Browning,
recalls a famous epigram said to bo
one of the most admirable ever com
posed. It was perpetrated by a brilliant
pupil, J. K. Stephen, upon the pro
fessor, who was somewhat inclined
to corpulency.
O. B., oh be obedient
To nature's stern decrees;
For tho you be but one O. B.,
You may be too obese!
Youth's Companion.
HIS ANCESTRY
King Edward was very fond of his
eldest grandson, and liked talking to
him. . When the little prince was
eleven his grandfather asked him
what he was studying in his history
lesson, and was told, "Oh, all about
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"Who waB Perkin Warbeck?" and
the lad replied, "He pretended that
he was the son. of a king. But he
wasn't; he was the son of respectablo
parents." Tit-Bits.
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SPEAKING OF MAGAZINES
It is notoriously difficult to get the
facts concerning vital political and
social problems from the columns of
the daily press. In the front rank
of those journals which are genuine
ly progressive in character are
Twentieth Century and The Public,
both fearlessly edited on a platform
of fundamental democracy. The
American Magazine deals with public
questions in a more popular, journal
istic manner, but from the viewpoint
of the common man. Success and
Tho Independent are also taking a
clean-cut stand for the man above
the dollar. Collier's and the Outlook
are usually, but not always, progres
sive in attitude. Hampton's has
been doing good work, and so has
Everybody's. These are all non-partisan
in character.
'Among partisan papers that deal
at first hand with today's needs are
LaFollette's (rep.), The Commoner
(dem.), Springfield Republican,
Social Democratic Herald (soc.)
These, and possibly others that might
bo named, as the Appeal to Reason
(soc), and Jeffersonian (pop.), or
San Francisco Star (dem.), deal with
political phases of our present prob
lems In a clear and earnest manner,
each alike endeavoring to place the
facts before tho people, and upon
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