APRIL 22, 1904.
The Commoner.
II
COMMERCIALISM
(Continued from Pago 3.)
the will I have accumulated between
twenty-five and thirty thousand dol
lars more, hut so large a part of my ac
cumulations Is tied up in a home, in
liousenold goodR and in lands that
yield but a small return, that I am still
almost entirely dependent upon my
lectures and my paper for my income.
The Commoner is accomplishiug
the purpose for which it was estab
lished. Through it I reach a large
constituency directly, and through
about 3,500 exchanges a still larger
constituency Indirectly. I have drawn
from The, Commoner about $5,000 a
year, which is not a third as much as
I would have received had I accepted
offers that came from other newspa
pers. Aside . from property, real and
personal, which I call my own, and
which I estimate., at from fifty to fifty
five thousand dollars, I have a sum in
The Commoner reserve, fund sufficient
to guarantee to the subscribers that
they will receive the paper for the
period covered by their subscription.
As the subscriptions are paid in ad
vance I have felt bound to keep this
fund large enough to protect the sub
scribers. Besides giving so large a share of
my time to public work which brings
no remuneration I have since 1896 con
tributed in money more than $32,000
to political, educational, charitable
and religious work.
This statement is made not be
cause it is pleasant to discuss my per
sonal affairs, but because I desire that
the readers of The Commoner, and
others who may be interested, shall be
able to judge the Bennett case ac
cording to the facts. Mr. Bennett
earned hismoney honestly, was thor
oughly in sympathy with the work
that I am trying to do, and he had con
fidence that the bequest which he en
deavored .to make would be used for
the advancement of principles which
he believed to be important. Whether
his faith In me was ell-founded;
whether his friendship was deserved;
whether I was worthy of the confi
dence that he expressed these must
bo proved by my conduct in the past
and by my conduct in the future. I
am satisfied that I have acted as he
would have had me act in regard to
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Cured
Through the Feet
External remedy so successful that
the makers send It FREE ON
APPROVAL to anybody.
TRY IT.
If 100,000 men and women Bufleringwlth overy
kind of rheumatism, acuto or chronic, hfcve been
cured by a harmless draft on the loot, isn't it
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Send your name to tho Magic Foot Draft Co.
ihoy have so much confidence in the merit of
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in the world they can hear oi without a contin
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with tho benefit you receive otherwise you pay
nothing you dccldt.
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The Drafts are worn on tho souls of the feet
because the entire circulatory and nervous sys
tems are most easily reached through the ex
tremely sensitive skin at this point: but they
cure rheumatism in every part of the body, to
ay cured, by drawing tho acid poisons out of
the blood through the foot pores. Write today
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AND MR. BR.YAN."
this transaction. Where I have de
viated from the path marked out by
him it has been against myself rather
than in favor of myself. He intended
that I should decide whether I would
use the money or distribute it I
have left that question to be decided
by his widow. Whether at any point
in this entire transaction my conduct
has been open to criticism from a
moral standpoint is a question which
I willingly submit to political enemies
as well as to political friends, for a
moral question cannot be decided by
political bias or upon political
grounds. The only decision thus far
rendered upon the moral points in
the case was rendered by a republican
judge, and that decision was emphat
ically in my favor. When the couit
rejected the sealed letter and refused
the intrdduction of further testi
mony, that branch of the case was ap
pealed to the supreme court, and I
immediately asked fcy the trial of the
case in which undue influence was
charged. The attorney for the widow
and heirs asked for a postponement
of the case on the ground that that
case might be affected by the supremo
court decision on the legal point, and
I consented to the postponement only
on condition that the records sho.ild
affirmatively show that I was ready
and anxious to proceed with the trial.
That case involves the $30,000 to be
distributed for educational purposes
as well as the $50,000.
There is still another question to
be considered a question raised by
another suit namely, whether as a
matter of equity the sealed lettei,
taken in connection with the Will,
should be construed. as establishing a
trust This question remains to be
tried.
And now, if the readers of The
Commoner will forgive this reference
to personal matters, I shall spare them
any further mention of ihe Benuclt
will case until .there "Is a decision to
report.
"COMMERCIALISM AND MR.
BRYAN."
In tho current issue of The Com
moner William Jennings Bryan pub
lishes a diatribe against the trusts,
which are, he argues, undermining the
very government itself to satisfy their
greed. "The public conscience," lie
says, "has been, stupefied by commer
cialism until the grossest offenses
against liberty and good government
do not awaken the protest that ought
'to be made against even trivial de
partures from the path of rectitude. '
It is not .defending the trusts to
point out that Mr. Bryan s words come
with poor grace from his mouth, when
he puts the emphasis on avarice and
greed and "trivial departures from
the path of rectitude." He is evtn
now engaged in an enterprise which
other people are tempted to character
ize in language akin to his own.
Here are the facts as they appear
from court proceedings. Philo S. Ben
nett, a friend of Mr. Bryan's and an
enthusiast for free silver, decided lo
leave Mr. Bryan $50,000 by will to pro
mote the work for the cause. Mr.
Bryan, although a beneficiary, drew
up the will himself. Had he phrased
the bequest in direct terms all miglit
have been smooth sailing. Instead
he chose the indirect, form of a secret
letter, not formally part of the wiil,
which specified what use was to be
made of the money, and from the text
of this letter it now appears the mon
ey was to go-to Mr. Bryan's heirs in
the event of his own death. Mr. Bry
an eagerly pushes his claim in the
courts, and now that the letter has
been held to be no legal part of the
will he is carrying an appeal to the
higher courts.
Mr. Bryan's right to seek for the
payment of tho bequest will not be
auestioned by anyone not even by
those who most clearly feel the Indel- j
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Icacy of his drawing such a will him
self, and of his drawing it in the, eva
sive way he chose. But neither can,
in most instances, the "legal rights-'
of the trust builders, whose greed Mr.
Bryan so loudly denounces, be called
in question.
The public conscience "stupefied by
commercialism" may need awakening,
but Mr. Bryan would do well to stop
off his own garment of commercialism
before he poses again as a wakener.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Crazy Map.
New England is the center of Insan
ity, according to a map made by Dr.
William White, superintendent of the
government hospital for the insane. In
those called crazy by tneir menus
sane. The next craziest states are
New York and Pennsylvania, in the'
eastern part of the country. Their
population has one crazy person In
every 424. Maryland stands a little
higher in the scale of saneness. Her
ratio is one of 610, which also applies
to Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio,
Kentucky, Tennessee and a few others.
The states in the western half of
the Mississippi basin are still higher
in the scale, their ratio being one in
every 925, while the Rocky mountain
states are the sanest of all, their pop
ulation having only one insane person'
In every 1,2G3. But over the other
side of the Rockies, including all of
the Pacific coast states, there is a de
cided falling off Jn the sane average.
Those states have almost as manv In
sane persons as New England.
In the extreme south the highest av
erage of saneness nrevails. Verv few
persons go crazy in the south.
Dr. White, in his odd map, includes
only those who have been pronounced
deranged by insanity experts. All
those called crazy by their friends
and acquaintances are omitted. What
the insanity figures would be if the
unprofessional opinions were used as
a basis is a question difllcult to an
swer. Buffalo Times.
Reaik Folly of Thibetans.
The Thibetans are queer fellows net
to understand that they are being ben
evolently assimilated by those British,
machine guns. They actually defend
their country against an invader! That
is what comes from not being in touch
with the world. Springfield Republican.
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