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NOVEMBER 8, 1S12
B B. Brown, Weston, Mo ;..;... .50
A. T. Hill, Tamaha, Okla 1.00
H. K. Aston, Tamaha, Okla 1.00
J. C. Rumley, Tamaha, Okla ' .25
J. A. Upcliurch, Tamaha, Okla , .25
J. O. Davis, Tamaha, Okla .25
J. C. Terrell, Tamaha, Okla .25
W. J. Brock, Tamaha, Okla 25
H. Williamson, Tamaha, Okla 25
Waco Rogers, Tamaha, Okla 25
G. L. Wadley, Tamaha, Okla ' 1.00
W. N. Hopkins, Tamaha, Okla 25
A. J. Robinson, Tamaha, Okla 25
J. H. Hiser, Tamaha, Okla 50
W. A. Smith, Tamaha, Okla "... .50
D. R. Roller, Tamaha, Okla 50
T. H. Hall, Tamaha, Okla 25
S. E. Farr, Tamaha, Okla 1.00
W. H. Hoppes, Tamaha, Okla 50
G. G. Beller, Tamaha, Okla 50
Sam McDannel, Tamaha, Okla 1.00
J. M. Baker, Tamaha, Okla .50
D. P. Barbors, Tamaha, Okla 50
C. E. Boger, Tamaha, Okla .-. 1.00
R. S. Heitzman, Box 412, David City,
Neb 1.00
C. T. Ayres, Osceola, la .80
James Synnamon, Weston, Mo 1.00
F. A. Banks, Fairview, Kan 4.40
0. E. Whitaker, Red Oak, la 1.00
W. J. Baugh, Jesse, Okla 1.00
Ed. Franen, Finley, Wash 1.00
W. A. King, Finley, Wash 2.00
W. F. Sloan, Camp Crook, S. D 1.00
Chas. L. Garnett, Columbus, Miss 1.00
M. L. Allison, Klamath Falls, Ore 1.00
Joe D. Miller, R. F. D. 1, Middlefleld, O. 1.00
S. B. Liston, 24 So. Rockwell Ave., Ter
rell, Tex 1.00
Geo. A. Brandon, Canyon City, Tex.... 1.00
S. E. Griffin, Canyon City, Tex 1.00
1. L. Hunt, Canyon City, Tex 1.00
S. C. Whitman, Canyon City, Tex 1.00
Wm. Willard, Canyon City, Tex 1.00
W. C. Baird, Canyon City, Tex 1.00
J, R. Cullura, Canyon City, Tex 1.00
W. J. Flesh er, Canyon City, Tex 1.00
Pat Thompson, Canyon City, Tex 1.00
Worth A. Jennings, Canyon City, Tex. . . 1.00
A. N. Henson, Canyon City, Tex .1.00
M. P. Garner, Canyon City, Tex. ....... 1.00
R..E. Baird, Canyon City, Tex-.. 1.00
C. W. Warwick, Canyon City, Tex 1.00
"Cash," Canyon City, Tex 1.00
D. M. Stewart, Canyon City, Tex 1.00
C. M. Wilson, Canyon City, Tex 1.00
W. T. Moreland, Canyon City, Tex 1.00
L. S. Maloney, Canyon City, Tex 1.00
W. G. Word, Canyon City, Tex 1.00
L. T. Lester, Canyon City, Tex 1.00
C. R. McAfee, Canyon City, Tex 1.00
H. F. McNeill, Canyon City, Tex 1.00
W. H. Gutherie, Myrtle, Wasli 1.00
J. P. G. Henderson, Corvallis, Ore 1.00
J. G. Gourley, Corvallis, Ore 1.00
L. R. Seely, Corvallis, Ore 1.00
J. C. Mann, Corvallis, Ore 1.00
E. B. Henderson, Corvallis, Ore 1.00
J. A. Tadlock, Corvallis, Ore 1.00
I. C. Wright, 579 Lincoln Ave., Detroit,
Mich 1.00
J. S. Saxton, Lambertville, Mich 1.00
A. J. Eden, Cunningham, Wash 1.00
C. H. R. Thomas, Seneca, 111 1.00
Wm. Purtle, York, Ala 1.00
C. L. Wilson, Saranac, Mich 5.00
J. W. Evans, Arapahoe, Neb 1.00
C. M. Evans, Arapahoe, Neb 1.00
Ambrosio Sandoval, William, Ariz . 2.00
Louis A. Baker, R. 4, Box 36, Lincoln,
Illinois . . 3.00
J. B. Chastian, Haney, Okla 5.00
W. T. Grant, Bonnieville, Ky . . . 5.00
A. I. Kerr, Clayville, Va 5.00
Mrs. Wm. T. Bell, Lake Providence, La. 5.00
J. T. Aldridge, Webb City, Mo 1.00
J. C. Laport, Shannon City, la 1.00
Jno. C. Grabe, 527 No. Ave., Wilkins-
mirg, Pa 25.00
John I. Van Meter, Chilllcothe, 0 5.00
Louis M. Day, Chilllcothe, 0 2.00
George Welslogel, Chilllcothe, 0 5.00
Silas F. Garrett, Chilllcothe, 0 5.00
L. A. Sears, Chilllcothe, 0 10.00
John H. Blacker, Chillicothe, 0 5.00
E. B. Howard, Ames, la 1.00
Joseph M. Epler, Peru, Neb 3.50
Jas. F. Davis, Storm Lake, la 40
A. H. Green, 1107 Jackson St., Monroe,
Louisiana 1.00
P. A- Reddy, Houghton, N. Y 80
Dr. R. E. L. Miller, Front Royal, Va. . 1.00
Earl A. Shaver, R. 2, Rock Port, Mo. . . . 1.00
Rv. A. Kean, Shelby, Va , 1.00
Wesley Coleman, Goodland, Kan 1.00
The Commoner
Wm. H. Hamlott, Aldorson, W. Va 1.00
R. Terry, Coleville, Cal 2.00
Chas. Wescott, Camden, N. J 1.00
John Cunningham, Valparaiso, Nob.... 5.00
Mario S. Binary, Osceola, la 1.00
Arthur Bronnan, Cordova, Neb 3.00
Alfred Mortenson, Cordova, Neb 1.00
F P. Michelson, Cordova, Neb t . 1.00
Lawrence Reilly, Stanhope, la 5.00
T. B. Drum, Sedgewlckvillo, Mo 6.00
A, H. Shickley, Lancaster, Pa 2.00
A. Janney, R. 6, Martinsburg, W. Va. . . 2.00
Will Roberts, Blue Mounds, Wis 1.00
John C. Balentine, Pekin, Ind 50
N. L. Fritts, Waldo, Kau 1.00
Chas. W. Marshall, Box 303, Harbor
Beach, Mich .25
C. J. Southard, 24th & N St., So. Omaha,
Neb 1.00
Total $791.80
Correction: One of two contributions sent by
Rev. G. W. Damon, Curlew, Neb., In Issuo of
October 11, should have been $2 instead of $1.
THE CHILDREN'S LEGACY
I have given you a few evidences of growtli
that encourage men to believe that bettor times
are coming for those who want purity In politics
and a government responsive to the will of tho
people; and now lot mo give you what I regard
as even a more encouraging sign; that is, tho
activity of tho well-to-do men on the people's
side of these questions, for theso reforms havo
generally heretofore found their advocacy
among the poor people. I regard it as a splendid
sign that men of independent means, men who
have no fear for themselves or for thoir own
positions, are beginning to recognize that thero
is something in this world more important than
tho making of monoy, and that these men are
beginning to give to these questions tho benefit
of their business experience and of their brain.
In the last fow years I have been gratified be
yond measure to havo men of means come to
me and tell me of their interest in theso re
forms, altruistic interest, if you please, unselfish
interest; men not seeking public office; men
asking for nothing in the way of favors from the
government, but men who recognize that this
government must be better than it has been if
we aro to leave tho legacy we ought to Joavo
to our childron.
I am glad, my friends, to flnd this Increasing
number, and I want to look upon those ques
tions as these men do, for I am in an indepen
dent position. My poverty was overestimated
when they called me poor just as my wealth is
overestimated now, when they call mo rich. I
was never so poor that I could not have every
thing I needed, and my wants are 'as simple
now and my tastes as modest as when I was
a struggling young lawyer and my wife and I
were doing our work together. I havo no fear
about my Income, no doubt that I can take care
of myself, no doubt that I can leave my chil
dren as much as I think I ought to leavo them.
I do not' believe in leaving childron much. I
am glad ray father did not leave mo much,
for if I had grown up in anticipation of
a fortune I would not havo developed the In
dustry that I did develop when I found that
I had to make my own living. I do not want
my children to bo spoiled by tho expectation of
a great deal of money; I shall bo able to leave
them enough.
Why should a man want to leave only money
to his children? If you leave money it may
take tho wings of the morning and fly away.
You must leave your children something better
than money. There is a growing class In this
country, an Increasing number of our citizens
who recognize that the best legacy a father can
leave to his children is not fortune but a govern
ment that will protect his children in their
enjoyment of life, liberty and tho pursuit of hap
piness, and guarantee to them a fair share of
tho proceeds of their own toll.
I welcome, therefore, as allies in the great
fight that wo have before us, not only tho poor
who havo felt tho pressure of bad laws, but
also those well-to-do people whose hearts beat
in sympathy with the hearts of the struggling
masses; and I am glad to havo these two classes
stand side by side and fight shoulder to shoulder.
The fact that they aro doing it In Increasing
number is evidence of the truth of what Dumas
wroto thirteen years ago and Tolstoy ten years
ago. They declared the coming of an era of
brotherhood.
I rejoice that I havo lived to see this day
when men of means are recognizing that the
poor man Is" made in tho iniago of tho same God
whose lma'ge the wefl-'to-db man wears; that
theso men aro recognizing that tho poor maa
loves his childron as much as tho rich man
loves his children. This recognition of kinship
will enable us to solve theao questions In tho
spirit of brotherly lovo and, Bolvtng thom, glvo
an Impetus to progress and civilization. From
a speech delivered by Mr. Bryan at a banquet
given by Peoples' Lobby, Nowark, N. J May
5, 1907.
DllICAMHItS
In Novembor, 1906, Mr. Bryan dcllvored an
address In Lincoln from which tho following
is taken:
It Is tho fale of Uiobo who stand In a position
of leadership to rocolve credit which really be
longs to their co-workers. Even tho enemies
of a public man exaggerate tho Importance of
his work without of courao intending It. I havo
recently been a victim of this exaggeration.
Sonator Bovorldge, of Indiana, made a speech
before tho Republican club of Lincoln nnd In
it he paid mo somo compliments, but ho said
that I was merely a droamor whllo President
Hoosovolt did things. I did not pay much atten
tion to tho title which ho gavo mo until I rend
shortly afterwards that Spoakor Cannon called
mo a dreamer; then Governor Cummins called
mo a dreamer and then Governor Hanloy of
Indiana did also; and I saw that I could not
expect acquittal with four such witnesses against
mo, and so I decldod to pload guilty and Justify.
I went to the BIblo for authority, as I am In
the habit of doing, for I have never found any
other book which contains so much truth or In
which truth Is so well expressed; and then, too,
thero Is another reason why I quote scripture.
When I quote democratic authority, tho republi
cans attack my authority and thoy keep mo so
busy defending the men from whom I quote that
I do not havo time to do the work I want to do,
but when I quote scrlpturo and they attack my
authority, I can let them fight it out with tho
Bible whllo I go on about my business.
Tho BIblo tells of droamorB, and among tho
most conspicuous was Joseph. , Ho told his
dreams to IiIb brothers and his brothors hated
him because of his dreams. And one day whon
his father sent him out where his brothors were
keeping thoir flocks In Dothan, thoy saw him
coming afar off and said, "Behold, tho droamor
comoth." Thoy plotted to kill him and ho Is
not tho only droamor who has been plotted
against In this old world. But finally thoy de
cided that Instead of killing him thoy would
put him down In a pit, but somo merchants
passing that way, tho brothors decided to sell
him to tho merchants, and tho merchants car
ried Joseph down into Egypt. Tho brothors de
ceived their father nnd made him think tho wild
boasts had devoured his son. Time went on and
tho brothers had almost forgotton tho dreamer
Joseph. But a famine camo yes, a famine
and then they had to go down into Egypt an.d
buy corn, and whon thoy got thero, thoy found
the dreamer and he had tho corn. So I decided
that It was not so bad after all for ono to bo a
dreamer if ono has the corn. But tho more I
thought of the dreamer's place in history, the
less I felt entitled to tho distinction.
John Boylo O'Reilly says that
The dreamer lives forever,
While the toller dies in a day.
And is It not true?
In traveling through Europe you find groat
cathedrals, and back of each there was a
dreamer. An architect had a vision of a temple
of worship and he put that vision upon paper.
Then the builders began, and thoy laid stone
upon stone and brick upon brick until finally
tho temple was completed completed some
times centuries after the dreamer's death. And
people now travel from all corners of the world
to look upon tho temple, and the name of tho
dreamer Is known while tho names of the tollers
aro forgotten.
No, I can not claim a place among the dream
ors, but there has been a great dreamer In tho
realm of statesmanship Thomas Jefferson. Ho
saw a nation bowed beneath oppression and ho
had a vision of a self-governing people among
whom every citizen was a sovereign, and where
no ono dared or cared to wear a crown. Ho
put his visfon upon paper and for more than a
century multitudes havo been building. They
are building at this temple in every nation;
some day it will be completed and then tho
people of all tho world will find protection be
neath its roof and security within its walls. I
shall be content if, when my days are numbered,
it can be truthfully said of me that with such
ability as I possessed and whenever opportunity
offered I labored faithfully with the multitude to
build this building higher In my time.
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