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been out ot that party since 1908, with the So
cialist party and the Non-partisan league, Thero
is , chance for real Democrats to organize a
Democratic party. If that is undertaken I am
in on the deal. Democracy in industry must he
art Isbuo and the strict enforcement of the pro
hibition law, There is going to bo a desper
ate effort to put tho country wet' again. If you
have proposed anything now send me a copy
of Tho Commoner that it is .published in. Wash
ington is ripe for something, but no more Wil
son.
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A Missouri t)emocrat:7A man of ordmary
capacities who -has imbibed and believes' inthe
eternal principles that rule tho universe, who
has in his youth been trained to a particular
political creed; who through experience found,
that tho activities of his party are antagonistic ',
to those principles; that it la non-progressive
and notoriously corrupt; tha't tho opposition
party is in methods nearly indentical; when, '
quoting President Wilson, "he has come him
self)" ho has a reasonable excuse fpr adhering
to his party for his judgment tells him a change
to tho opposition 01 a negligent attitude would
bo simple folly. Alternating from one-party to
the other is like swapping -dollars, it not being
productive of gain.
-The "great moral majorityof Democracy
seeking justice in government restores to na
tional power a party, notorious in recent history
for legislative high crimes; a party resurrected
from tho political junk-heap to which it had been
rocohtly consigned, No doubt this moral element
regard it as intelligent action and are enjoying
a degree of satisfaction over results. The time
is not remote When they Will Bend it jjaclc to
its' proper place and again enthrone Democracy.
It this process in popular government is intel
ligent, wo have been given a wrong interpre
tation of the word.
It seems almost a certainty that reform in
government is an illusion. Action at tho polls
is dominated by a spirit of revenge. .Sovereign
fcpowfir is delegated to men whose reputations,
are tarnished and men of sterling qualities and
unblemished character are left in the discard.
Ttoege men intrusted with power show little
if any interest In tho genornl welfare, but c,e
, roto themselves and their Salaried time, to legis
lation obstructive to roform and advantageous
So menacing Interests, However vo may re
gret it, tho truth confronts us that the voters
sacrifice the best mon and the besthought of
the nation to gratify partisan "prejudice
and, mad opinion. V. -
The idea of reform coming from Republican
administrations is too absurd to entertain. No
well informed person oif intelligent mind will
consider it longer than to discard $t as an im
possibility. ' The Progressives tried it and their
ignominious defeat by the Roosevelt clique was
a composite of disloyalty, betrayed trust, sacri
ficed principles and vilest expediency.
The. foregoing Is one view of the performance
of the "groat moral majority," As opinions
differ let us in justice view the situation from
another angle. Party control had passed to the
destructive element in the' party and its
dethronement was a duty demanding im
mediate action. Unfortunately there wag no
moans of redress other than the restoration of
the Republican dynastya nasy proceeding-
to national power, which' was done. The head
of the viper was crushed by the heel of indig
nant sovereignty. Was it a wise course? Most
emphatically YES. It relieved the party of an .
incubus and yanked it from tho rim of hell, We
may imagine It" a consummation of a scheme
of Rdme invisible power designed to regenerate
Democracy,
- The only sane course' now is a return to
Bryanjsm, It is the best political creed yetN
presented to humanity . It conforms to the In
exorable laws that rule the universe and there
fore insures harmony. It guarantees ..right-,
eons government and approximative peaco and is
the Only fcplitical creed that bears the endorse
ment of Divinity. Rally, men and women. Rally
to the Bryan standard on which is inscribed,
"The rights of mart."
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FINDING OVT :
The York Democrat is nipping at Mr. Bryan's
heels againrrfcn&JftU because Mr. Bryan did .not
puitQff his coat and take' the stump for, a certain
N man by the namci of Cox. The Democrat'hasprevi-
-nusly told- .us that. Bryau'a influence , didn't
a'mount to. much. That rtho party didn't need
him, Just what tho logic is that now holds
him, responsible for a condition because of his
Withdrawal from an active participation in tho
light, is problematical Facts' are, -that tho Anti-,
Bryanitest have, now' discovered just how power
ful they aro without Bryan and it makes them
mighty wrathy to find it out. Blue Hill, Neb.,
Lqader.
A CAMPAIGN WITHOUT BRYN
To tho Editor of Tho. New York Times; The
familiar abuse and villiflcation of Bryan hav
begun again and it seems to infer that it is en
gendered in part by rage because a campaign
with Bryan silent appears to bo less of a Demo
cratic success than a campaign with Bryan on
the stump. An editorial-in The Times of Nov. 5
contains this statement;
-"Triumph under another, loader is painful to
him. He never contributes to it."
Could Wilson 'have beori nominated at Balti
more in 1912 without Bryan? Never in fhe
worjd.
, 'Could Wilson have Mb eon re-elected in 1910
without tho support on tho stump given by
Bryan! 7ev6r in the world.
0 Ono of the Now York newspapers was willing
to chronicle the fact in its editorial columns af
ter the election of 1916 that the states where
Mr. Wilson got his electoral votes wero tho states
whore Mr. Bryan did his -campaigning and it
has seemecUo mo, that the general. understanding
throughout the country has been that We are
indebted to Bryun for having had Wilson as
President.
The hymn of hate against Bryan will still
be sung as a matter of course, but if the ele
ment of misrepresentation and misstatement
could be reduced it would help a little.
., ., JOmTH: JAMES.
. Urban a, Ohio, Nov. 7, 1920. ' .
PKOUD OF HI VOTES v
Frankfort,--Noy. 13. 192a. Editor Louis
viiie Post, Louisville, Ky, Dear Sir: We do hot
agree with you in your editorial of yesterday
regarding Colonel Bryan. You ,say that he
adopted a policy during the summer and fall,
which the Democrats, who supported him threo
timest will be hard to forgive, Mr. Hitctfcock,
and others know that Mr. Bryan voted the
straight Democratic ticket in the recent elec
tion, and from the returns it seems that Is more
than thousands Of Democrats did,
No, It is not tho Democrats who voted for
Bryan three times who now object to him, but
it is tho same fellows who have holted. him
once, twice and sthree times namely, the edi
tors of the Post, the Courier-Journal, the TJmes,
ar-d even President Wilson, Bainbrldge Colby,
And' thousands too numerous to mention,
I have not only voted tor-Bryan three times,
but never scratched a Democrat in my life, and I
voice tho sentiment of thousands of: Democrats in
the rural districts of Kentucky,. when I declare
to you that?? am prouder of the three totes I
have cast for Bryan than .all -tho other votes I
have ever cast, or ever exnect to cast. Yon
very truly, MOSES R. GLENN;
The Standard Oil company of Jndfana has
just declared a strict dividend 6f 150 per cent.
This was done in order to avoid the4 payment of
income taxes on the vast profits that accrued
to the holders of stock during the patt year.
Tho supreme court has said that the profits of
profiteers could not be, touched if. instead of
money they took stock. The par value of the
stock distributed is 45 millions,- Its value -on
the stock exchange, where those who participate,
in the distribution will be tree tosolLit when
they get it, is 144 millions It will bo a rather
difficult task for those who must pay on their
$2,000 incomes to look pleasant when they ap
proach the captain's deskthis time. ; '
MIAMI AS AN EDUCATIONAL OENM3B
With his usual astute. and neighborly ability
to understand .the problems of Miami, and of
greater Miami from thep point of view of a par
ticipant in its future,.' William Jennings Bryan
. made an excellent point in a recent speech when
he stressed the necessity for the development
of this city as an educational center, It Js a
necessity so fundamental that many people over
loolc it. t .
.The life of the average family is governed
by the children of the family. That goes with
out saying. The earning capacity of the tfather,
the social activities of the mother and all the
other multifold energies of the family. aro all
directed toward getting the children ready for
life and launched in it. For that roason, next
to the employment question, that of educational
. facilities are of tho . most vital importance to
the solid, class of citizenryto which Miami hopes
to .appeal, not as a resort, but as a permanent
residence. And after-the monetary cotfsidera
tldns are settled "the question then becomes, what
about schools?
People whose children are being '. educated
in excellent schools in the north naturally hosi--tate'
to transplant them without a definite as-
- surance that they may obtain tho same things
in the same way, FamHies whose children are
sent to. boarding schools in the north often hesi
tate to come so far south because they like to
have their sons and daughters with them for the
holidays, Week end visits, and so on. "
In this situation it is quite apparent that all
Miami has to do is to attract .as many and . as
good private schoolr as possible, as well as put
ting every emphasis on enlarging and improving
our own excellent public school, system. The
practice of some northern boarding schools of
spending the winter semester. r sduth is an- a&
'mirable one, both for Miami and for themselves.
It should receive all pdwible encouragement.
Specialized . academies in music and the arts,
offering after-high-achool training, normal
school of the. type that, Mr. Bryan suggested,
in; addition to Our own highly- up-to-date kmder-
, garten training school;: all would serve to con
evince people, that, while Ifciami is a - delightful
Play-place for independent adults, it has as much
to offer to young people in tho Way of- the best
educational facilities.' . , k ? -, , , : - . .. N .? : y. -, . .
t d the other part of Mr, Bryan's suggestion,
that Miami be made an educational" center for
the whole Latin-American world, is' quite as
broad and as far seeing. Miami is the natural
northern metropolis of the Latin-American world.
Her assured future is already. indicating itself.
And the same arguments -which would appeal
to northern people for sendihg their children to
school in. Miami would also appeal to-those from
South America, with the additional advantage,
to them, of the opportunity for study in America,
with tho best obtainable cultural facilities, with
out exposure to them of the dangerous rigors
of our northern winter climate " '
-. 4With the educational advantages of Miami
developed in every ay as highly as it lfes in
our power,, freed from provincialism and.con-
vtrjbuted. to by the best teachers to be'-Zound in
the country, Miami could indeed become anedu-7
.v cational center for both north and south, which
would attract the intelligent, , cultured, sound
class of people, that class which any growing
city like Miami cannot afford to be without.'
Miami, FlaY, Herald.
.. When Mr. Bryan suggested that the verdict
of the people at the polls in November should
be given immediate effect by the resignation of
, the president, and following, that of the Vice
president after he had appointed Senator Hard
ing, as secretary of- state, he was derided, as
fathering an impossible proposition. Events have
Yishgwn that what his critics really meant was
Van improbable proposition. ;.n :. J.
When th& war wasv on and big business was
riding the top wave of prosperity it talked a
great deal about the , exactions 6f.-labor, which
.. took advantage of the; opportunity to do V lit
tle wave riding of its own, although it never
had to worry much. about. the height Of 'tho
Waters. Now-that the price level is on thede
sceniand there is danger that husiness will
have, to hQ done at a loss for a time the big
fellows are trying to ,avoid that loss by shut
ting up their factories, and threatening ,nofc .to
open them; until labor agrees to work for the
pre-war wage. Yet jaome businessmen wonder
why labor hinks it cannot get. a square deal
.and talks so radical. - ;
Those merchants who 'excused their profiteer-
. ing in war days by insisting that good bnrtfnJs9
sense dictated that they follow the market'theri
because whea prices bejfan to xome down.they
Would,hav(o to: follow ,thame market at a floss
r.fPPWi to have .allows the marketj tooutdis-
rSW3 t'rit the high prices-they still igiibte
,tobe.takonvaaconclugivji . r $ - i--.
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