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The Commoner.
VOLUME 8, NUMBER 1G
14
MR. BRYAN TO NEWSPAPER MEN
A joint banquet of tho Associated
Press and tho American Newspaper
Publishers' Association was given in
Now York City on tho ovoning of
April 22, six hundred editors and
publishers being present. An As-
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Jefferson's Bible
The Life and Morals of
JESUS OF NAZARETH
Extracted Tcxtually from the Gojpcla, together with
companion of hit doctrine with thoie of others.
By THOMAS JEFFERSON
Jeffcreon' million vrai leadership. Without
aa effort on hit part expression from hla iipi
that from other raen'a would scarcely have at
tracted notice, became thenceforth axiom,
creed, and gathcring-cric of treat masses of hla
countrymen. Henw S. Randall.
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IXASfX W. WILLIAMS CO,, 1080 Taylor Bt, Chicago.
sociated Prcs3 dispatch referring to
tills dinner says: "Every state and
territory in the United States was
represented by those who have earn
ed distinction in the newspaper pro
fession, and their guests Included
W. J. Bryan, United States Sen
ator Philander C. Knox, of Pennsyl
vania, and others of public Influence.
At tho president's table were Gener
al C. II. Taylor, of tho Boston Globe,
tho toastmaster; Herman Riddor,
editor and publisher of the New
York Staats Zeltung and president
of tho American Publishers' Asso
ciation; Frank B. Noyes of the Chi
cago Record-Herald, president of tho
Associated Press; Senator Knox,
Bryan, Bishop Frederick Burgess of
tho Episcopal diocese of Long Is
land; Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of the
Free Synogogue, Patrick Francis
Murphy, officials of the two organi
zations and others.
Bryan, who had received a cor
dial greeting when ho entered the
dining hall, was given another kind
ly expression as he rose to speak.
Ho spoke for somo moments in a hu
morous line of thought, replying in
kind to earlier sallies at his expense.
He then said:
"Tho Associated Press is a very
important factor in the spread of
that information which is necessary
for tho formation of opinion; and In
casting1 about for a subject nothing
more appropriate has occurred to me
than the Bible passage: 'Know the
truth and the truth shall make you
free.'
"It should be the purpose of the
Associated Press to convey to its nu
merous subscribers the unbiased, un
colored truth. I realize that this
is extremely difficult and that with
even the best of intentions those
who report interviews, conventions
and events will unintentionally in
ject their own opinions, and yet ab
solute impartiality must bo the ideal
at which the Associated Press aims.
You furnish news to republican pa
pers, democratic papers, papers iden
tified with other parties and to in
dependent papers, and the readers
of theso Associated Press reports re
present every phase of opinion.
"Your association is not a party
organ. It does not do educational
work; it is not the champion of any
cause or tho advocate of any man.
"I tako this opportunity to express
my appreciation of the treatment
that has been accorded me. Through
the Associated Press I have been
able to get my ideas and my argu
ments before the readers of the re
publican papers, and I have been
less concernod about the editorial
nmnmnnta rf vannMlnnn rariwa Voti
about tho correctness of the news re
port.
"Tho metropolitan newspaper is
becoming more and more a business
b enterprise, and less and less a
political organ. The advertising
columns of the big papers are non
political, and whore tho circulation
is large tho readers are so divided
politically that the paper is, by this
very fact, restrained from aggressive
partisanship.
"In view of this tendency in mod
ern journalism it seems to mo that
the time is ripe for an experiment.
It is much easier for a paper to bo
bipartisan than not non-partisan;
that is, easer to represent both sides
than to discuss public questions
without talcing either side.
"If, for instance, a big metropoli
tan newspaper wants to become real
ly independent, why should it not
employ a representative of each of
tho parties to furnish signed editor
ials on political questions? Such a
paper would appeal to all parties,
and especially to thoso who are anx
ious to know both Bides of every
public question.
"Such an editorial policy would
bo entirely in harmony with tho
news service which tho Associated
Press was organized to give; and for
that reason I present tho suggestion
at this banquet."
Bryan had something to say also
upon tho tariff, and continued:
"For a time while I was arguing
tariff reform, I found mighty little
support among tho newspaper fra
ternity. I found after a while that
I was too general; that to get the
newspaper men with mo I must be
specific, and so I went to my good
friend, our German brother" (point
ing to Ridder) "and I asked him
what I could do to be sure of the un
animous support of the newspaper
fraternity in my advocacy of tariff
reform. He said:
" 'Pulp,' and I look it up and
for the first time in my lfe I found
myself on the side of the majority."
RAILWAY MAIL OARS
It is a satisfaction to nearly
everybody to say, "I told you so."
The railway postoffice has long been
urging that steel cars, of the strong
est construction possible, should be
used to transport tho United States
mails and the men employed in its
charge. From the very first trials
of steel construction, when it prom
ised a practical assistance in protect
ing the lives of railway, postal clerks,
we have encouraged and urged ac
tion toward the strongest possible
postal cars and have heartily com-
menaea every roaa wnicn nas ap
peared alive to the need of the best
protection for the clerks.
A recent wreck on the Southern
railway near Johnson City, Tenn., is
a live example of what a properly
constructed car will do for its occu
pants. On July 14, last, the east
bound vestibuled train 42, while run
ning at a rate of forty miles an hour,
collided with a switch engine. In
the collision the locomotive, postal
car, baggage car, and a second class
coach were derailed. While th
clerks on duty were painfully bruisod
their Injuries were not serious and
their lives were without doubt saved
mroiign tne exceptionally strong con
struction of their car.
This strong car, however, proved
most disastrous to the second class
coach, for tho latter was completely
telescoped and six of its occunanta
killed outright and fifteen seriously
injured. Tho coach was of light con
struction, very much like the postal
cars provided in past years, until agi
tation has brought about a prohibi
tion of such flimsy work for new
cars.
In view of such certain protection
to the clerks by means of strong
cars how can any railroad manage
ment conscientiously send out old
and rotten postal cars? It is small
wonder that several clerks on the
Portland and San Francisco It. P. O.
are up m arms, if their car is in the
CnditNIon charsed. The Portland
(Ore.) Oregoniau of July 27. 1907
says: '
"Uncle Sam is threatened with a
strike on the part of some of the
railway mail clerks. Because, they
say, car number 5243, on the run
between Portland and San Francisco
is so worn out that a hole can be
kicked through the side or through
tho floor with the too of one's shoe,
the seventeen mail clerks who have
to ride on it during the course of
the run have nrenared nn niHmnfnm
which is being passed around among'
Kom lui- signatures, when all have
signed it, it will be given to F. E
Whitney, the chief clerk, and by him
transmitted to the Southern Pacific
company.
"This car has long been the sub
ject of complaint from the mail
clerks. It has been on the run be
tween here nnd San Francisco for
at least sixteen years, and has be
come so dilapidated and out of re
pair that it is a standing joke among
the railway men. There are four
cars on this run, and all four are
said to be out of repair. This par
ticular car, about which tho present
complaint is made, was transferred to
this run from somo other part of
the country, and has seen active ser
vice ever since, and at the present
time is so rickety that it is a menaco
to life for the clerks who are obliged
to work in it.
"It is stated that recently the roof
of the car became loosened and a
force of five men were put on it to
nail it down. The wood is so rot
ten, however, it is said that the nails
pulled out almost as soon as they
were put in, and now the roof is
again flying loose. One of the mail
clerks, who weighs 200 pounds, was
seated in a chair in the car, when the
legs of the chair poked through tho
floor. At another time one of the
clerks wished to put a screw in the
wall, but the wood was so soft that
the screw would not stick. It is
said that a man on the outside can
kick at the outer shell till he has
a hole in it, and then the inside lin
ing is so rotten that a slight pres
sure of the toe of his shoe is enough
to pierce it. Recently a nolo was
pierced in the floor of the car, and
to patch this a soapbox cover was
nailed over the aperture.
"A position in a mail car is at
best dangerous, say the mail clerks,
and to put this worn-out car back
of the heavy engines and in front
of the new baggage cars that the
Southern Pacific runs is almost crim
inal, they declare. Some of the new
baggage cars are of steel, and they
are wondering what show this mail
car would have in case of a wreck
or a sudden stop.
"For all of these reasons the mail
clerks on the run have decided that
they do not care to jeopardize their
lives and so have prepared the ulti
matum announcing their intention of
refusing to go out In car No.' 5243
after August 15. They hope to line
up all' of the seventeen men who
rme in tne car by the first of tho
month, at which time the ultimatum
will be sent in, and if after the fif
teen days allowed the railroad com
pany to replace this car, It still re
mains on the run, they say that they
will stick by their agreement if it
costs them their jobs."
If this car is even half as bad as
charged, it is nothing short of crim
inal for the railroad management to
continue it in service. A letter re
ceived from a prominent Sixth divi
sion clerk states that the car he per-
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