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I I " n 1 i I fit I i k; ft1! 3' Ms- ft 1 '' I t f. 12 The Commoner. VOLUME 1J, NUMBEtf Mr. Bryan in North Carolina Editorial In tho ltalolgh Nowb and Obflorvor: That was a mngnlflcont audionco that greeted Mr. Bryan In tho auditorium last night. It Beomod that all tho city wan thoro tho mon and women, youths and maidens, and ambltlouH boyH, who wished to hoar tho Nobraskan, and thero woro many who had como from a dlBtanco to hear him. Mr. Bryan was In flno shape. Ho novor looked better or spoke with moro easo. Tho Hstoner In tho ro motost cornor of tho building could hear him oaslly. Ho was tho niastor of tho groat assomblago from tho first wordH, well modulated, until ho closod with an oloquont consecra tion of his powers to tho sorvlco of his country that evoked spontaneous and enthusiastic applause. Governor Aycock'B introduction was almost as good as Bryan's ora tion, and ho rocolvod an ovation hoarty and sincere whon ho was pro Bontod by Mayor Johnson. Thoro was nothing fulsomo in his introduction.. It was in oxcollent taste and whottod tho appetite for tho speech that followed. Uo wisely gavo him self time to dotall Bryan's great con tribution to the early fights for real tariff reduction, and enumerated his own woll known sound views on tho tariff tho prlnclplo upon which tho democrats won in 1892, and tho only sound tariff prlnclplo that will best Illustrate tho fundamental demo cratic doctrlno of hostility to special prlvilogo. Mr. Bryan's Bpoech was a master pleco. "A groat speech," declared Governor KItchln. "A wonderful oration, full of uplift," said Gover nor Aycock. "Tho speech of a great 1 statesman," said Chief Justice Walter Clark. Similar expressions were heard on every hand. No report can do it justice. It delighted his hear ers, who were surprised at its close that ho had been speaking nearly two i hours. Mr. Bryan's speeches make bettor men and bettor citizens. Raleigh has heard him several times before, and always with more pleasure and appreciation. Orator, statesman, wlso prophet may he livo long to preach optimism and load tho way to bettor things. . T-TnmMwlln1aiT1Mt11fnra. n 1 (wmn-mMg, mi TVlf TVUfl ''. iw noma of ! ,. .if .. V"i,a n,r Information nlmut i bait Hirer alley. Quailor million ncrcs, nl ml m, oltriu IrulU Finest boII, wntur utid cllmnto, Juwil Inrni locnt on. I Want HUh'Olnie SaUoman to net bi Of iif rl Arentt (or tho talootiiiy FIAlllDALAXD. Roox pcrlenconocoisarr. NocsplUlro quired. Ocxxl mn earn $100 to fcOOwooMj KlilollneinenMilly makof'O to 8200 vrMy. Send tot"Ctnjt(U'ntlal Vtrculnr to aintralAoentc,"nCllclllno .Hamuli." Doth tree. ' K. O. IIOW15 707 ll.rlfor.1 lit.!., fltlCAOO ANYT1IIHG WHATSOEVER Tht you could do, It ou were In Waslilniiton and knew how, you limy do through this Iluicau at small cost. Address! 60VI RNMENMNF0RMA1I0N BUREAU, Look llox ne:t, YVuitlilnuton, l. c. 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IjS. la, oorery I. uaturaf. so no' tutxhir LTL' ?LlV I RIAL Of PLAPAOScWnVi"0 oupoa and malt TODAY. lddrM- ' Wrlto nainooa PLAPAO UB0RAT0RIES, Block 64 SL Louis, Mi Kasbq ,,, Orrih WII2 . m9 Addroas "" bnn rroo Trial TUpao THE 1JIG BRYAN MEETING From tho nows columns of the ltalolgh News and Observer: The demonstration as Governor Aycock arose to present Mr. Bryan was big enough for tho great visitor himself. It was tho kind of enthusiasm that has markod Ills appoaranre every where ho has over spoken, one would have thought from the conduct of tho crowd that it camo with no other purpose than to hear North Caro lina's great orator and commoner. In part Governor Aycock said: "Ladies and Gentlemen: It has novor been my custom in presenting a speaker to an audience to indulge In eulogy. If a speaker needs it, he does not desorvo it, and if he de serves it, he does not need it. I shall not depart tonight from the wholesome rule, but conceive it to be entirely fitting in presenting to you one who is known to us and all civilized peoples of the earth" alike as the foremost orator of this genera- tohim 8ny a fQW WrdS in reference "My first knowledge of Mr. Bryan is a public man was when as a youns congressman ho electrified the house of representatives and attracted the ffiV th8KPplo of the entire fSm in!tat.es.b3r a spcech on the vmf'n ","lnlnan that dark subject of d?Prr ? ?alon and a wealth of diction which have made the speech last until this day as one of he best which has ever been de livered. That speech showed to th !n?ZlClU??Ph a n o sieved nAfiw.li, x , masses and did not believe in tho privilege of the classes. There was then aid is now much misconception with reference to the tariff. Possibly half of the American people believe that the government of the United States has the right under the the constitution to lovy taxes not for the purpose of securing revenue for the necessary 1ml fw i0U ?f the government; but with the solo end of conferring benefit upon certain members of the population Rmmemi i ?. . call tag Mr. BryanV speechon "tMs subject enforced the idea that 111 citizens of the United State? ought to stand equal bofore the lav that ho rights of all were the same and that no man under our form of government Is entitled to special privilege Ho advocated this idea is a principle and pointed out that Is 1 policy tho principle would workout a fine result. Those who had grown strong rich and powerful undf the ?wtl0n l laws specially fa?or ng nmtWer ? ?i8Pleased with the speech and insisted that ho was seeking to destroy industry. They were then and are now incapable of distinguish, ing between a right and a privilege Mr. Bryan would take no right away from any man however powerful and rich ho may bo: Ho makes no war faro upon wealth., He believes in industry and economy. Ho believes in prudonco and right living. He bol loves in laying up during tho sun shiny day something for the rain which is certain to come. He stands for property "rights, but ho denies that special privilege can hide itself under anv claim of right in a free country proclaiming tho equality of all the people. Wo next see Mr. Bryan at tho Chi cago convention in 189G, battling again for the rights of tho masses against tho privileges of tho classes. That was a world-famous fight. It brought him to the knowledge of all reading men throughout the world. His speech on that occasion placed him easily in the front of tho notable orators of that day. It procured for him the nomination of his party for the presidency. Then came the tre mendous campaign of that year the campaign which attached to him with a devoted love which has never been shaken, a large part of the American people and won for hini tho admiration and respect of all those who differed from him. Crowds hung upon his every word wherever he spoke and multitudes gathered in tho great cities to look into his in spiring face when even they were so far away as not to be able to hear the rich tones of ' his magnificent voice. It was in that campaign that we heard him proclaiming that the need of business was for more money, and we heard him 'insisting that with more money industry would bound forward with a mighty step; that agriculture and manufacture, trans portation and commerce would feel the impelling power of rising prices; that labor would be more richly re warded and capital win larger profits. We heard his adversaries insisting that what tho country wanted was not more money but more confidence; that with a return to sanity and con servatism, with the restoration of. confidence by letting existing condi tions continue, business would be re stored and prosperity distill aa a gentle dew. Tho election came and by the use of enormous sums of money, by intimidation, by corrup tion, by ballot box stuffing and falBe counting, Mr. Bryan waB defeated. The gold standard was adopted and government did all it could do to prevent any increase in the amount of money of the world. Despite of government, in the face of the efforts of the privileged classes, enterprise discovered the gold fields of Africa, the frozen Klondike yielded to the heat or men's eagerness for gold, the chemists discovered new processes by which gold could -be separated from the baser metals in a cheaper fashion than wver' before. All the earth be gan to open its stored gold and it began to pour into the channels of commerce first in small revulets then in larger streams, until it ran through the industrial channels with a mighty swoep of power, raising prices, stimulating enterprise, caus ing invention, heartening the de pressed, inspiring the eager, awaken ing the dormant powers of all the people of the earth, until a wavo of prosperity spread over the world so great and so wonderful that Mr Bryan's adversaries in the Massachu setts legislature seriously appointed a committee to inquire into tho cause of the rise of prices, and that com mittee wisely and truly attributed the rise in prices in largo measure to the increase of gold in the world, prov- nS i SrrebX,th.atWllai Mr' Bryan Id in 1896 that tho business of the world demands more money was the everlasting truth. When this pros perity came, republicans who had in every way sought to prevent any in crease in the supply of money, joy ously announced to the world that they were responsible for prosperity and timid democrats laughed at and sneered at as idiotic supporters of tho fallacy of tho free coinage of sil- t ver, hid their blushing faces and with ' much shame confessed that they had been misled. To him who loves jus tice, political or otherwise, it is a gratifying thing to see a principle advocated by a seer justified in his lifetime through tho particular remedy which he offered with which to correct the existing evil had been rendered unnecessary. "Wo have recently known a man to become famous for the expression of a single sentence with reference to the trusts, and that is that 'crime is personal.' Ab far back as 1896 Mr. Bryan in one of his speeches an nounced that the trusts were seek ing his defeat and added well they might because if elected he would" see to it that the promoters of these unlawful combinations should trans act business from behind prison bars. "Thrice beaten for the presidency, he lives among ub today strong, virile, patient, resting with calm cer tainty on the future, as day by day he sees the United States adopting one after another the things for whose advocacy he was denounced. Whose voice was it, pray, that first set the American people to thinking that a man was above a dollar? Who was it that persuaded the American people that the powers of the inter state commerce commission and of state corporation commissions should be extended so as to make public service corporations really respon sive to the necessities of the public use? Who was It that taught and taught and taught until all- the world understood that great business must not be an exploitation of the wealth of others into the pockets of -the ex ploiters, but must be a creation of values growing out .of preparation and study and carefulness and econ omy and honesty? Who-was itrthat hammered away at this lesson until he of the 'big stick' took it up and became a sort of conscience to the American people in their business de- -velopment? I answer unhesitatingly. William Jennings Bryan. There are some men who have thought that there is a likeness between Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Bryan, and there is. They are both progressives, but Mr. Roosevelt's progress is toward a benevolent government of the people, while Mr. Bryan's progress is toward a beneficent government by the people. Mr. Roosevelt wants to gov ern the people well. Mr. Bryan wants the people to govern wisely. And these two men are typical of the. two great parties of which each Is the most distinguished private. "The world grows and riches in crease upon the face of the Tnrih Skill and effectiveness, ?nltiaUve and nvention are creating untold wealth industry and scientific methods are prodigious y enlarging the capadt? of production. Men who run p?ivate business men who seek out the secrets of nature are doing well their work. The great need of the aeo and of the hour is men in politics and statesmen who shall find a bet ter way for the utilization of these vast products of the earth and her industries so that all mankind shall share fairly ,n them. Absorbed 11 ' we all are in our own affairs, each ?feenfr,r Ml?Self the necessaries nthe lUXUrles of llfe' each seek ing advantage for himself and his family, all of us can feel and respond to the great awakening of the mod ern world, the earnest desire to see the betterment of those who have less than we, the strong passion for ' brotherhood, the yearning ambition to do something to bless and uplift Tnllld' As Reader in this lino of thought, Mr. Bryan stands in the forefront. I present him to you as a man, a "scholar, a patriot, an al truist, an orator, I present to yoiL -Honorable William Jennings Bryant t? ''"'if M Fl'wiwiniiMmwW, TITTI I III II ll''fMl11WlllBimyitilWUiHM, ..... i rYTi-r Mi.ni.yv ti r u. i -n-ll fa b j v.. T-nTTlTlT-l !.... ...I,.,,.,,,,!, lllmi.jgj,, ,, ,,