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VOLUME G, NUMBER 6
SOME OF THE "DREAMERS" OF HISTORY
Following is an abstract of Mr. Bryan's tariff rAfnm, t ..' -., , . . VJl, J
speccn on "Dreams" delivered at Lincoln just
before the close of the campaign:
. Senator Beveridge, in his speech in this
cl.ty, paid the compliment of calling me a dreamer.
It did not Impress me at first, although I appre
ciated the kindly tone in which this distinguished
reRresenative of the republican party had spoken
oft me A few days afterwards Gov. Cummins
of. Iowa called me a dreamer. Then I sat up and
took notice. Not long after that Speaker Can
non called me a dreamer. This made the matter
look serious. And then Gov. Hanley of Indiana
followed and brought the same accusation against
me. With these four wi nesses testifying against
me I might find it difficult to escape conviction,
and. I have decided to plead guilty and justify.
Finding that I could not escape the charge, I
began to look up the subject of dreams and to
inquire of the dreamer's position in history.
Philosophers toll us that the dream of today
is the reality of tomorrow, and a poet has gone
oven farther and declared :
"The dreamer lives forever and
The toiler dies in a day."
v But it is not safe to build an argument upon
a, .poem, for poets sometimes take license with
truth as with language. I have greater faith in
the. bible than I have in a poem, and therefore
I went to, the bible as I am Wont to do. If I quote
democratic authority the republicans attack my
authority, and sometimes . they keep rae busy de
fending the democrats quoted, but when I quote
the bible I leave them to fight it out with my
authority. The bible tells us of dreamers, the
most prominent among them being Joseph. His
brothers were angered by his dreams, and when
his father sent him out into the plains of
Dothan, his brothers plotted to kill him. They
did sell him to some merchants, who carried him
into Egypt, and they reported to his father that
he had been killed by a wild beast. Yes, Joseph
the dreamer was put out of the way as many
SSiers have ,b5e? since' bitt after awnie bis
cornofShTm? g dWn lnt Egypt and get
tT?? democratic party is something like Jo-
SSLi p?eSL Jt has nad its Meatus; its
enemies have plotted against it, and now if is
SH lo ir?Is,u the corn to those who have
fought it and tried to put it out of the way.
The democratic party has contained many
dreamers during the last hundred years. Tn fact;
it was founded by a dreamer, Jefferson, and de
fended by Jackson, who was something of a
dreamer. Jefferson's mind was filled with a
HfS,? a sfe"-Soveto People, and his whole
& ffl?0 En attempt t0 malce the dream
IS i ir dranr was reduced to writing in
the 'Declaration of Independence, and it breathes
HersUagw M ?! 'letters aild doSSSS
He saw in the future a government resting unon
the consent of the governed, strong aUse t
was loved and loved because it was good That
dIam B ?eing reallzed In thin country for the
ZZ I8 i mf ke ur government more Jef
fersonian by bringing it more and more completely
under the control of the voters. The eXt to
S?SlS! ?leCtin f Unit-ed States senators bv
the: people is an effort toward the realization of
Jefferson's dream. The effort to subsOtu te the
5S iYrr prfiniarv or the boss-ridden convention is
an effort to realize Jefferson's dream
try in l ?? Cuntry but every coun
J Jefferson
Fn ePverySclvIiri' and ,there is S a 'part?
LS ?Lvilized or semi-civilized country. The
friends of plutocrTcy we 3? ftS7 and the
the earth. a11 aIsaPPeared from
' the.fadyTavs dS?f?SSUo dreamers confln to
partrd'rvis rajis 'itr cratic
brought into harmonv wm, Ji States senate
tives by more ZTfifl f Psenta-
Tho democratic party hasen dredmlng of
Swi ?: K2 "?". ?lnt the
...4 vt UIiiU Lanir scnedules and the
UnTnf fLWhlGhey haVG CaUSed lQ " tfistribu.
I i?nnf 5 WGalth Created; Th,s dreai taking
tnZ'rZd eve7 ear finds more advocates of
said thnf S A,iGW aso the republicans
fnflf ath(: farIff must be maintained until tho
infant industries could get upon their 'feet but
the infants are not only standing" Upon their feet
but walk over everybody else's fdet, so that argu
SS? f aS d sfPPeared- Afterwards we were told
thht the tariff must be maintained for the benefit
of adult industries to enable them to pay good
wages but now we are exporting; some five hun
dred millions of manufactured goods a year and
competing in foreign markets with no tariff to
musM een'n" Can nbt be tended thaf we
must keep a fifty per cent tariff In order to keep
outsiders from running our own factories out of
fl Hrl ThG nly W" now is that
separatefy. S mUSt haUg together or hanS
f.0The (1!nocrats bave been dreaming upon the
"emQ SS?i and thelF ViSin 0f industrial
sys em resting upon competition and protecting
each individual in the enjoyment of his rights
and opportunities is about to be reaHzed At
Urst the republican leaders denied that there
wer SJ,trit!- Th,Cn they Insiated ttrt the e
X, trusts and bad trusts. Now they ad
mit that the trusts are bad but they only promise
to regulate and control while the democrats in
Snnn11 annihila"on of the principle of private
STSl.?l!ery day tte absurdIty of regulatfon
aL au reniedy becomes more apparent, and it will
not be long before the democratic 'vision will be
the vision of the whole people.
T1!6 democatIc Party has had its dreams on
the labor question. Seeing the conflict between
employers and employes, with the strike as Tthe
SSion'!?6?' thQ workinsamm it has had a
vision of arbitration which. will not only secure
justice but establish friendship between employe?
and rS JS18 5 diSgrace to our civilSon
and a reproach to the party in power that the
laboring,.jnan must starve his wife and children
by a prolonged strike in order to secure an im
provement in wages or conditions of labor. The
president has caught something of the democratic
hn? wJJJ6 led .nf, COal strike by arbitration,
but his party has failed to adopt the principle
Even the president has not yet come up to the
democratic vision on the subject of government
tlnJnfSn'nH,e IS,stin wilIing thafXwSE
nL an,Suld be denied tne right of trial by
jury-a right so sacred that, it can not be taken
from a convicted thief.
w or1mi?reihan a decade the democratic party
and S3S dr,lream f effective rate legislation,
tionh? ieam ha, been written into three na
hTf0' We are gratified that we were
.dlnUr?isla Platfor declaration for the
which too? ?b hG fd n W Platform
thfi Kof , ? the demcratc ,drean?ers In
manv of tb?d supported him when
Sfanrt tSSJfPUbl,lcan leaders.were bushwack
lng and throwing obstacles in the way. It wag
Sill in0?' "Bf" Tillman' & Th"
wanted to Vfpnft WUe" the republican leaders
wanted to defeat it, and democrats supported tho
Folfefto "o? w?tS f.tllat republican dreame? La-
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popular republican leaders-is t hla Sonffi
of democratic dreams, although he has onlv adonS
ed a few of them and these only In part It is
an evidence of democratic sincerity that thev
have supported a president of the opposite nnrtv
oirpSeS8 repubiicans ha- ssa ps
ors fnVepartHamiltt SOme drea"
aristocratfc governmental that vl JnSln f an
bodied in a form of covflrnm Jf V?l?n was ern"
to have adopted. ortuaTe1v i7hiCh he sout
and every year carrKtt ,fc was rejected,
ideas of Hllto2dMnStoaTJg: th
Jefferson. Llncolii to . j t0 the ldei3 Of
his Inspiration in ImJS f ,h? tma
monts -no longer hav ?Sv.i??d "nco"'s argti
leaders. J. e welgIlt Wltu. repnbliean
dreams? XTL ? recent
at the ta -SSSUSaK,?
year shows the costliness of the experiment m
colonialism; every year brings us nearer ?n J
democratic position, which Is the American no ,
tion, namely-that the right of the - pj Lf t
self-government must be recognized as he r kh
SIS6 UbanS t0 sel-?overnment has been reco,
nized. Every year makes it more evident that Jl
should have promised independence at thevi!
beginning and that we must ultimately proK
it the sooner, the better. iomise
llo,The Jemocratic party even now has a dream
that must, sooner or later commend itself to ffi
thinking people of the country, it is a vis on
of a government brought into harmony with di.
vine will. God's plan is to suit the reward to
the intelligent effort, but the republin par -has
reversed "that law-that tb -se who toie
the longest and the hardest have the least to
show for it while those who through the favor'
Itfam of government lay tribute upon the masse,
are growing rich by leaps and bounds. Tho
president cries out in alarm that the swollen
fortunes must not descend to posterity, and ha
suggests an inheritance tax as a means of makin"
the possessors of these fortunes disgorge While
an inheritance tax will be some improvement,
the democratic plan is better sMll. Instead of be'
ing content to secure a part of the plunder when
the plunderer dies, the democratic party pro
poses to withdraw the taxing power from private
hands and to destroy monopoly. When equal
opportunities are open to all and when no oca
can grow rich by cunningly defrauding his neigh
bor, no man can grow rich enough to make ids
fortune a menace to the country. When each
one is confined to the reward which he can earn
by giving society an equivalent service, the men
ace of predatory wealth will be removed and
justice established. This is a democratic dream,
rhis is the democratic dream of a government
administered according to the doctrine of equal
rights to all and special privileges to none.
Even republicans .must see that history is
vindicating democratic dreams. Republicans, will
you jpin with us in the effort to realize the great
est of all political dreams and help to make this
government what It should be, a government of
the people, by the people and for the people?
NEED TO BE AROUSED
The recent disaster to an electric train near
Atlantic City has had the usual result. First a
general outcry, "Place the responsibility," and
then a speedy return to the apathy that marks
our consideration of these fearful disasters. "We
have grown deplorahly accustomed to these ac
cidents," declares the Brooklyn Eagle. We read
of a terrible accident and shudder as' we read,
then lay the paper aside, and forget all about it.
More people are killed in. railroad accidents in
one year in America than were killed in any
single battle during the civil war. We would
be shocked beyond compare to read of a pitched
battle on American soil in which 7,000" men were
killed and 15,000 injured, yet we give no heed to
the fact that the railroads of the country kill
and wound that many. every year; 'For the three
months ending June 30 there were 3,103 railroad
accidents in the United States an average of
one an hour. Ah average of more than twenty
people are killed and 100 seriously maimed in
railroad accidents every day in the year, but
Spdw?..? nly sDasniodic protests against this
and nunich a?ghter' "Place the responsibility"
wav Zl th0Bl resPnsible. That Is the only
m-evpnf ?!5Se ?flnnl,fl'- Make it cheaper to
prevent accidents than it Is to sacrifice human
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VICTIM OF SPELLING REFORM
sevJeJnSelling reforn" idea seems to have
its abVlifv n P0l2t?' Jhe latest Dnb revealed ,s
bL? i i f ? dfletective- A Maryland man has
"Blmnmi-TiiS' PP,rjury on the evidence of his
t w l116111:8; In a letter he flad tried
We ,,nlf Wr ;Pbably" and. the effort was
2LS S; n .trial he was, asked to write
anli nwitenc!? Ia WhIch the- yrd appeared,
had written it In tne letter. He was convicted,
fllf Ctim of ?Wified spellirig'Wprobably the
?S ?0 Slnce ,St a? tounched-r-it would seem
that this man is entitled to some consideration
and sympathy from Mr. Carnegie, if not, indeed,
a "hero, medal,"
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