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The Commoner
VOL'. 14, NO. 5
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A BRYAN BIRTHDAY SPEECH
Synopsis of W. R. Crabtreo's ad
dress at Bryan's birthday banquet at
Chattanooga, Tenn., March 19, 1914:
It is astonishing how opinions
change. In our youth while the
memory of the suffering and humili
ation of reconstruction was fresh in
our minds, we thought of Abraham
Lincoln as the incarnation of all that
was vicious and intolerant and wrong
in politics and government. As a
boy I thought that Lincoln had horns
and a tail and cloven hoofs. With
the passing of time and prejudice,
and with broader knowledge of the
man and his motives and work, wo
have learned to look upon him in a
different light. We know now that
ho was a leader for right In the
eternal struggle between right and
wrong. We know that he was kind
ly and tolerant and good, and we be
lieve if his life had been spared, our
country would not have suffered the
degradation and horror of recon
struction. So with the great man we honor
tonight. During the campaign of
189G, and later, many of you who
are present here, looked upon him
as a demagogue and the incarnation
of all that was destructive and de
moralizing and wrong in our politics.
But as you have seen his stand for
principle; as you have seen him
sacrifice ambition by preachinc tho
gospel of righteousness ahead of pub
lic sentiment; as your knowledge of
the man has grown, and, perhaps, as
your own conscience has been quick
ened, you now acknowledge that he
Is right in most of the contentions;
that he is sincere and that he is the
highest type of that class of public
men, who place duty above pleasure,
and justice above expediency.
There is a lesson in our meeting
here tonight to celebrate the birth-
uay ol tins llv:ng man.
others have held more exalted
offices.
Others have been more often vic
torious. Others are as gifted Intellectually
Others walk as uprightly and are
governed by as high moral ideals.
Others have perhaps equal oratori
cal ability.
But we have never met to thus
honor these others.
In my opinion, Mr. Bryan is loved
and honored here and elsewhere
more than others not so much so on
,mf nf hin hich character
great abilities, as on account of the
universal recognition of his lea-dor-ship
of democracy in the world-wide
struggle as old as history between
democracy and plutooracy.
He is great because as the cham
pion of the people ne aas aiwayo
stood as a stone wall against the en
woM,mnnfR nf the nowerful and
selfish few.
It is for this reason that his fame
as an advocate of the rights of
humanity extends to the uttermost
parts of the world wherever the en
durance of the inequalities of life has
stirred the oppressed to a deBire to
live and breathe and think as men.
No one holds a brief to speak for
Mr. Bryan, but It may be interesting
to speculate a little as to what his
position would be upon some of the
problems in state government in
Tennessee, if he were a citizen of
Tennessee.
We know his principles and record,
and with this knowledge it cannot be
presumptuous for us to say what we
think he would favor and oppose in
the way of reforms, and In the cor
rection of evils in our state.
We know he stands always for
genuine democracy the rule of the
people. He would favor in Tennes
see a primary law that would insure
fair and free expression in the selec
tion of party candidates. He would
oppose the old time boss controlled
mass conventions for nominations;
he would favor the prohibition of
campaign contributions from corpo
rations and private interests that
thus seek to control party action.
He would oppose the participation
of these corporations and interests
through their paid attorneys and rep
resentatives in party affairs and government.
He would favor a public service
commission in Tennessee with abso
lute authority to regulate rates and
service, and prevent the issuance of
watered stocks and bonds.
He would oppose the powerful
lobby maintained by those interests
to prevent such legislation.
He would favor the elimination
from politics and government of the
predatory interests and prevent them
from using the party machinery and
the powers of the party for private
purpose.
He would destroy the influence of
privilege seeking corporations, in
our party in Tennessee, just as he
destroyed the influence of the Mor
gans and Ryans and Belmonts and
Murphys, in our last national demo
cratic convention.
He would be the enemy of such
schemes as are now being hatched
behind closed doors and in secret con
ferences by would-be bosses in Ten
nessee. In a word we know Mr. Bryan
would be governed by principle and
not by policy, that he would favor
right and oppose wrong in whatever
shape it developed itself in Tennessee
pitied too. On festive occasions they
aro dragged around a room to the ac
companiment , of' the most hellish
music."
Another interesting paragraph is
from the pen of a Chinese who had
just returned from a tour of Europe
and North America. He wrote to a
relative as follows:
"You cannot civilize these foreign
devils.. They are beyond redemption.
They will live for weeks and months
without touching a mouthful of rice,
but they eat the hesh of bullocks and
sheep in enormous quantities. That
Is why they smell so badly. They
smell like sheep themselves. Every
day they take a bath to rid them
selves of their disagreeable odors,
but they do not succeed. Nor do
they eat the;r meat cooked in small
pieces. It is carried into the room in
large chunks, often half raw, and
they cut and slash and tear it apart.
They eat with knives and prongs. It
makes a civilized being perfectly
nervous.' One fancies himself In the
presence of sword-swallowers. They
even sit down at the same table with
women, and the latter are served
first, reversing the order of nature."
and
AS CHINA SEES THE WHITES
In his book, "The Chinese Revolu
tion, Arthur J. Brown reprints a
paragraph written by a Chinese who
imu seen mucn of Europeans
North Americans at Shanghai.
we are always told that the
countries of the foreign devils are
grad and rich," the Chinese ob
served, "but that cannot be true else
what do they all come here for?
xuojr jump urounci ana kick balls
as if they wore paid to do It. Again
you find thjm making long tramps
,uu t t-uuuu-y; uut mat is probab
ly a religious duty, for when they
wave sticks in the air nobody knows
why They have no sense of dignity
for they may be found walking with
women. Yet the women are to be
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