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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.
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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
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