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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE; AUGUST 31, 1913.
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An Impression of William Jennings Bryan
(Oopyrisht, 1913. by Franlc O. Carpenter.)
..ASTUNtlTOH. At. 341 want
to Ktra too iu Impression of
Mr. W. J, Bryan, not of Mr.
Bryan, tba premier of thU
administration, who la to steer
our chip of stato orer the
tarbolent reaa of International diplomacy,
nor of Mr. Bryan, tho silver-tonjrucd lec
turer, who aways his audiences by hla
rounded periods and melodious voice, nor
of Mr. Bryan, tho politician, tho blessed
asd tbo damned of two zrcat political
parties; but rather of William J. Bryan,
tho man, away from tho department,
away from tho platform, outside hie
Editorial sanctum, facs to faceand I
might almost aay, heart to heart In hla
own home. I havo known Itr, Bryan
casually for many years. I met him
when ho first cam a to congress, at the
gjo of to, now almost a quarter of a
century ago. I sat beside him as a fellow
newspaper correspondent six years later
at the St, tiOUis convention when McKln
ty was nominated, and was aatoundod
two weeks later to see htm nominated
as the democratic candidate for tho pres
idency, at tho close of that wonderful
tpcech which ended with the now his
toric phrase: "You shall not press down
upon the brow of labor this crown of
thorns, you shall not crucify mankind
upon a cross of gold."
Neither Unto Nor Hoofs.
I ha.Te had many glimpses of Mr. Bryan
since then, and, looker-on In Vienna as
I am, I have never been able to regard
Mm as the saint and only possible savior
of hla country, In which light he la viewed
by many of his party, nor as possessing
the hoofs and horns of our national de
struction bo graphically cartooned by
the artists of the opposition. At times he
has seemed to be a demagogue, at other
times an honest patriot, but always Inter
esting. So much In the way of my pre
conceptions. And now for the Impression. It is
merely that of an evening spent with
Mr. Bryan, alone, In his little den of tv
library at Calumet place. The secretary
of state lives a mllo and a half attay
from the White House on the nolalits
which overlook Washington, lying as It
does In a llttlo basin on the banks of the
Potomac, lils house Is the stone man
sion, bought as .a speculation by John
Sbbrman, sold by him to John A, hognu
for $20,009 and remodeled by the latter
and his wife as a comfortable home. It
stands right on the edge of a bluff, with
the capltol. the -monument, the xllvery
river and the emerald hills of Virginia
plainly In view. It has a long poich,
openliur out from a hall so wide that ft.
hay wagon could be driven through with
out grazing the paper. On each side of
this hall are parlors carpoted with ori
ental rugs and furnished with old ma
hogany, while upon the walls anl sput
tered here and there about the rooms
are curios gathered by Mr. and Mrs.
Bryan from the four quarters of tho
world.
Ia Mr. Bryan's Sea.
Passing through the parlors at tlie
right, you reach the den of the secre
tary, a little library at the back af the
house, In which. Wore a walnut desk
about three feet wide ana five feet long,
he does rnuca ot Ms literary work. The
library. is hung wKa yariraHa of Wash
ington, Jeffersen, Jacksoa and Lincoln.
It ia walled with books, aad It has tnaay
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FAMOUS ACTRESS LOSES 70 LBS. OF FAT
Texas Guinan, Star of the "Passing Show" Company, Offers Her Own
Marvelous New Treatment to Fat Folks
NEW TREATMENT GIVES ELEGANCE OF FIGURE AND STARTLING RESULTS QUICKLY
If You Ard Fat and Want to Be Thin, You Can Reduce as Many Pounds as You
Desire By This Astonishing New Method
3$rrAt st'fth4 Mc7& Amsnd-
fcasr been developed and refined by hla
taste for poetry and good literature. lie
has always had his book loves and favor
ite poems. Among tho hitter are thoso
of William Cullen Bryant, with whom
ho first bttcamo acquulntod, through a
prise copy of tbo poems which ho re
ceived for making tho best oration In a
com pi tl tiro contest whtlo ha was a Junior.
Ko thought so much of this book that he
gave it to Mrs. Bryan when he-was court
ing hor. One of the poems In it whlsh
ha Hkod beat Is tho "Ode to a Water
Fowl," one verso of which he emoted dur
ing our conversation. Thin versa is:
Ko who from sono to sono
Ouldos throUKh tha boundless sky thy
certain flight.
In the long way that I must tread alone,
Will lead my stops bright.
Another of his favorite verses along
tho line of human duty Is of a similar
oharocter. This Is from a poem written
by tho Iter. V. S. Browning, at reads:
I do not know
Where falls the seed that I have tried to
sow
With greatest care:
But I shall know
The meaning of each waiting hour be
low Sometime, somewhere.
Di Rlnlit and Don't Worry.
Along this line of thought comes a re
mark which Mr. Bryan made when I
asked as to his work and whether the
demon of worry ever kept him awako at
night. He replied;
"I do not worry. I do the best I can
and leave the results to the future. I
don't believe In basing one's decision on
tho. possible results. The only question
to be considered Is as to whether the act
Is right or roL If It Is right It should
be performed irrespective of results. Be
sides you cannot prophesy as to results.
. It is mora Important that you should do
which tha secretary sat In comfortable the right than that you should regard the
negtlgo as he chatted wHa me. He was consequences. God has given every one
dressed In black wtta a coat of silk pop- tho ability to know tha right, and I fee-
Hn and unbuttoned vest, which showed a novo he should act according to that
wide exsanse e white shirt. Ills man- ability and leave tho results to take care
ners were a easy as bis clothes and hla f themselves. The man who does that
nerronal macneilsm was such that I need not worry,'
rm to thai interview tired and went "Is It ever right to do wrong?"
away rested and fresh as a daisy. In- "No, It is not right to do wrong. The
deed, this was to me one of the remark- man who comes to such a conclusion
ablofeatures ot tho evening. I had must be measuring tne consequences, ana
k. tfttiliMi to do another Mc "Ia that not a good principle to build a
t MMi,r thn I life or a nation ont"
F rfr . . . . . I rt K-n-a It la tlii. lir1il Arlnntnle.1
Z"T ;:,.r ;.7U., Mr. Bryan. "No pnnclple Is fit for tlt
wanted to postpTno appointment, but gliding of a life I. jt Ot for th.
dared not risk doing so. Noverthsles.. Ku"d!n ' ...M0,-1!
that tired feeling seemed to disappear ""'".r"""
ZZZ, . "But that is not the geneml Idea of
. -n - - - " I .niK.. w.
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ml. i.i.h.jh. ma. Mn af in. .iir I - ? -
ar drie;;u anaanT; U wm I 'y and the right should be synony-
s. ln&M.l.. Kill rfttllAl
t,t .hi,l hl. thine and that ' "Ui. Mr. uryan. a Boou many pcoino
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As Texas Oulnau had to perform at tho
mnt'nec It seemed the easiest thing ln the
world to arrange an Interview without
consulting her. The vigilant stage door
keeper was easily passed. Tho dressing
room was hospitably turned open by a
maid, and then well. Mlts Qulnan, that
Is. what Is lett of her, appeared.
"So you nave come to learn the story
of my weight reduction, havo your' said
Texan In her breezy style, with her glori
ous counlnance beaming in smiles at her
supreme gladness, realizing how appreci
ative tho world was ln bestowlnsr admira
tion and applause upon her, all on account
of the new glory of hor form
iVhlcu Bhe transformed almost
as :f bv majrla with her1 own
marvelous new treatment.
'While you are not going to
get away with my secret,' said
Texas. "It Is true that my sev
enty pounds of weight reduction
was brought about wltli
my own delightful treat
ment, uut it cost mo a
pretty aum or money to
earn of 1L and I am not
clvlnir my secret of how
1 lost my weljjht free to
reporters, nut i nava
written a book telling
all about this wondrous
new treatment which,
rescued me from the
thralldom of fat. This
book has Just come off
tne press ana is otierea
freo to fat burdened
men and women, as I.
early learned in life that
the only way to Enow
happiness was to give
It to others, and if by lettUatt
tne world know of this harmless.
ulck method of -reducing weignt
. can do a great good, then I
will feel that I have not lived
In vftln
"But won't you Klve me an lnKiinc or
Its component parts? Just a suggestion as
to wnat it is, or win i nave 10 oe content
to read your freo book telling all about
It?" .. . .
That's it exactly," nam Texas, - oui
I don't mind telling you what the treat
ment la nnt. it dona not consist of in
ternal drugs or medicine; thero Is nothltiR
to take internally. Neither is there any
piwc colore a campnor water, or wormicss,
harmful stuff to rub on tho body. Thero
Is no sweating, no bandages, no Turkish
baths. Tho treatment does not consist of
a single exorcise or physical culture of
any description, xnere is no oiex. inu
may absolutely eat all the food they de
sire of any kind, and go right on reducing
Wltnout aepnving inemseives in any via.).
"Thero ore no enemas or flushing of the
colon, no harmful massaging, no sweat-
said
.Li Tl "im." .v.: i,i-i,.l definition degrades diplomacy to the level
tU for what-nots for & "f""? h? ,'hJ PoMey and the
M km bew tka secretary of UU W" polluy "la!!ltir ,tatul " tho .b'sl
saa4t M to Htem. I yreferr to talis "i"'
oC tiiwa MTSonal. moral and ethical, Xaarrtr in relltles.
nktHcr thaa politics. Am-so I brought "Then you belUve "n honest pottlcsr'
u such MAt-t-efa h education, oratory, 'There la no other kind of illtlca
character bttMtac and getting on in tha that last," said Mr. Uryan. "Morality
world. We chSiMt. of travel in many is the only foundatloa for the building
ooub4ec ana t Strang religions, and of a man or a nation. Z made a search
ot Christianity as tha best of tho lot, I along that lint Slag day. The subject
wanted to know something about tho was brought ua by the man v--ho spoke
Bryans and about Mr. Bryan himself, before roe. lie made rather a humorous
and how ho came to be what bo Is. lie referonco -to my idea of friendship versus
was a llttlo chary In discussing such the batUeshlpT and rather challenged the
matters. Nevertheless I got him to taut- doctrine I had set forth la rvgard to it
lng and he save roe much In the present jn my reply I showed that history was
and a little blomrapbyi-or I might say I strewn with the wrecks ot naUjna which
autobiography-tor It waa written by Mrs. had proclaimed their Immortality when
Bryan, with whom ssr, uryan is one. they were at the senlth of their ri wer.
I will let Ws words and her manuscript and .that no amount of physical force
unite in tiring soma blU ot tho story. I couia maintain any nation it It vr
ills Boyhood Home. corrupt morally. I closed by uOllng at
The secretary told me he was the I tontlon to the scene of Christ betora
fourth of nine children, that be was born Pilate, saying that Pilate ntpruented the
in Salem, X1L, where Ma father came ln great force ot that day. and the greatest
a wagon from the toot of the Blue lUdge I then apparently victorious. Tue un
mountains, not far from Culpeper, Va, armed Nazareno apparently submitted! to
Tha Bryans wera comparatively poor and fclm, but from that time the Roman
his father worked on tba farm ana power waned. In a few centuries its
taught school while bo was getting his legions wera gone and its arm tacamo.
own education. Ha graduated at uo I paralysed, whereas tne power dt the
Kendree coUeg and waa a member of I right, that ot the Naxarene, gtw, aud
tho legislature and a Judge before he I it has been growing to this day. It ia
made an unsuccessful campaign for con-1 said somewhere that you can build your
gress In VsK. Tho elder Bry&n waa capitals as high as thoky, t ut If they
thrifty, and he owned something llko BCOjrcat upon injustice, tho julsf a wiman
acres ot Illinois land. Ho believed in I will beat them down. I do nut believe In
education and tha boy bad axcoUent I a mad rivalry with tha old world In tbo
schooling. Ilia mother taught hla tot building" of battleships. .1 do not think
read, 'and his first speeches wera made I that the only way ito preserve peace Is to
standing on the kitchen table whera ha I make ready tor vrar that we may never
spoke th-Isssons sua wade him com-1 have. That is a barbarous doctrine.
inlt to memory, Sbe brought tha boy I is brutal and unchristian. It belongs to
up in -tho way he should go. Ho was i the darkness and not to tha dawn."
only 14 when he Joined tba church, and I Uauktad'a Natural State
be Ma. been a good Presbyterian from I "But Is not war tha natural stato -of
tJt 7 ts tliSs- 6om of hU Uaturas manldRdr'
aa sxaaUact sermons and "bad at beea "No. The natural state ot mankind
esilea" fe would have been greater as should be peaco snd brotherly love. You
a 9&Br, X-venture, that-ba has been could not love God if you thought lis, so
as a poHtlcal orator. made you 'that you must kill someone
v.i.. .f Eiarrtion. occasionally to prevent degeneration. All
A part cur conversation related to the progress that man has made has been
education. Jr, Bryan took an academic through tbo law of love, rather than
t .uj ui studied the classic through tho law of hate, Some people
He thinks bis utndy of Latin and Crock talk ot evolution and preach the Ear-
.it nut benefit to him. and he says winlan theory, i do not believe in It
that tk msBtal dlsoinllna ha recrlved I The Parwlnlan theory is based upon tbo
fran ounalry has helned hlru In bis law of hate. It preaches the survival of
public data and argumcnUUvo work, the fittest by which the strong kill off
Have ln the law of love, and that God
created man. Tou may call It a miracle,
but, tha world Is full of miracles. Indeed,
almost everything Is a miracle. Take any
plant and try to explain It How does
It grow? Where does It gat 1U fruit?
Its colorT Look at tha seed. Tea can
not explain It Then why try to explain
manT Take an aggl It la a mlraola. 8t
It under a hen and In three weeks she
wlH bring forth what man could not find
in it You can cat tha agg, but you can
not explain It Take water, fire or any
thing ln nature! The world is full of
miracles. Then why refuse te think that
the Lord worked In any ether but a
miraculous way ln or eating that greatest
miracle, manT Ko, the natural stato of
mankind Is love, and love means service.
The duty of the nation is to serve, I be
lieve that our destiny among the nations
is to render service. We have already
dono much. We have given the world
better Ideals and education. In social Ufa,
ln government and ln religion. -We aro
trying to lnculcato the doctrine of peace,
and wo hope that President Wuson'a
peace plan will tend toward tha dolus
away of war and the promotion ot inter
national friendship and love."
Hovr He Talks.
I despair ot giving you the impression
that Mr. Bryan's conversation makes
upon one with whom ha talks face to
face. Ills countenance ts like a bene
diction, and his volco I so mellow and
sweet The sentences acme forth so
beautifully roUaded that they make you
think of a copper-plate engraving. At
one point ln tho conversation X involun
tarily said:
"You certainly can say things beauti
fully."
I do not like that word beautiful.'
replied Mr. Bryan. "I would rathor have
you say that speak forcibly and
clearly. X think clearness of statement
is the most Important thing in oratory,
and it ts that at which I have always
aimed, and tried to attain. 1 remember
ot making a speech upon tha tariff v now
mora than twenty years ago, at the close
ot which a man came up and said: "Mr.
Dryan. I have been anxious to hear you.
You are not as eloquent as I have ex
pected, but you made that subject
clear as It could be made.' At the same
meeting another man sold: 'Why, a man
could understand that speech if he 'could
not read or wrlu.' X consider those'two
remarks a greater compliment i than any.
I could have bad as to elegance of die-
uon.
"When did you first realise that clear-.
ness was. the chief element' of successful
oratory T"
' Just Hatural Orator.
'I do not know. X suppose It naturally
came through my study of my audiences
in ray long carter as a speaker, X have
been speaking mora or less all my life,
1 do not believe that the orator Is born
rather than self-made. BlrUi ls but the
smallest part of hla equipment Good
speaking comes from study, hard ' work
and' practice. You have got to know
what you are talking about and you must
mean what you say. If-you do not know
a thing you cannot tell ' It atid lfyoa
do not believe it and feel It In your heart
you cannot make anybody else tel or
believe It Yqu must, state thlnjs, clearly
In order to havo -men understand you,
and" next to clearness of statements you
neea-conciseness oi statements; that Is,
of saying muoh In a few., words,
I here asked whether originality was
not prime essential in speaking, saying
that man 'must havo 'new ideas1 in order
to impress the public
"Well, as to that" replied Mr. Bryan,
"there ore not many Ideas that he of the
present time can claim as absolute our
own. Mankind has done a lot of thinking
since the creation, and It your will trace
your concepts back to the beginning you
will find the germs of most of them
somewhere or other. The number of really
ber of applications of an Idea Is Infinite.
A large part of the oratory ot the present
Is the application of the wisdom of the
past to the conditions of the present"
Record for AH Time.
i As we talked about oratory I referred
to the many speeches Mr. Bryan had
made, showing him a .statement that he
had made 699 speeches la 1898 and ad-
HXSS TEXAS SUXSAST.
God's masterpiece and the most fasci
nating actress in America.
lng garments to wear, no immersing your-
Mlf In hot baths with the tub filled WIM nnmmnra. M
obesity water or epsonx salts, nor does After the first three days
it include any medical concoction of any ginning to leave me. My reduction grew
"My success In reducing my own fat
protes that Chora In lio Uch word tut
lalL' 1 simply wouiU not bo resigned to
my fate, ana nltnougn ovcryunu said
"lexuv, tneru in no Wi.. out of your dl
leii'.riM,' and told me that no fat reduc
ing ttpocuUlst could itauLc' 'my ve-flit. t
ueieriiiitieU not to nri up in despair,
with tho rcduK that T utmolutely con
quered my fat. My new, great book on
obesity, which give tuu i.urucuiars of
my simple, safe, quick, haimtcsa fat re
ducing treatment, Is now ready and will
bo sent free to all who wlan to reduce
their weight and number ot wounds."
now treatment Is calming Hmong the in-
unun 1 1 li'iiun a 11 .mikji ifuinnn . ui Dm i ,
world's most famous dancer. La PeU;e
Adelaide, says; 'near miss Oulnau; Let
me congratulate you upon tlie nigh ex
cellence of your remarkable no'.v obesity
treatment wh ch 1 find reduces me na
rapidly as I desire. Sincerely. Adelaide
Other letters of praise and gratitude tun
tWililfi 'II IU UUIUHI4 IllIll IUI IKIIfcr,.
of the country from those" who have re' v
uucea wun ncr successiui treatment.
LouJbo Brunette, the Quaker maid, ono ot
tho earth's greatest beauties, states she
lost 10 pounds tho first week with this
astonishing now treatment. It Is said,
this remarkable treatment Is not unlike
the treatment usod by tho court ladles
and famous actresses ot tbo Old World,
who have been using a similar remedy
throughout Europe, nrid tho remarkable
thing is that Texas Qulnan is the first to
Introduce It In America. Her free book,
which is now ready for distribution,
should bo requested by alt who deelie
quick reduction. It is written In a fasci
nating style. It explains how, by her
treatment Texas Guinan. who Is acknowl
edged America's most successful star, re
duced her own weight seventy pounds,
and conquered the monster FAT.
This glorious llttlo woman In doing her
utmost to benefit fat men and women,
who ore ln need of a perfect home treat
ment Everything will bo sent to you In
a perfectly plain package so that In your
own room, away from all prying eyes,
you may plan to reduce your weight at
once. Miss Qulnan wants to help all who
ore burdened with superfluous fat, and
tliftrAhv mnlt-A HfA nvnllv wnrtll TvhllA.
Write her at once, and learn tho an
guish she felt when her girlish beauty
started to develop to abnormal propor
tions. Read of the tears she wept when r
that monster "fat" made her realize that
she must give up her profession and fado
into oblivion. Learn how she experimen
ted, how she tried everything and, finally,
with patient effort and determination she
conauered her fat Learn of these thing
so you may Improve your own form and
destroy your own tat s
fat just rolled away.
i noucea it be-
so it will not be
longer necessary for you to suffer the
jibes and oncers of others. Remember
there is no exercising or physical culture'
nf Anv ilfcficrlnttan ln her treatment, no
doctor, and it has nothing to do with any greater and greater until finally, I was harmful massage or worthless poison body
drug store prescription o nave imeu. almost appalled witn aeugnt wnen i rea- "f
There is no formula to carry out no used the stupendous success of my ef- dally as ypu desire and go right on rap
soaps to rub on the skin: neither Is it a forts and when I awoke to the fact that Idly reducing. A most astonishing : part
religious faith cure or Christian Science i hod reduced 70 pounds of my fat with- of this fat reducing treatment Is that It
stunt It is not a vibratory electric mas- out leaving a wrinkle, and the glory of does not produce wrinkles or leave the
sage treatment mental suggestion no, my new figure and the grace and beauty skin flabby. All who have been dletlnr
and It Is not a belt or mechanical device of my curves gave me the admiration ot and starving themselves, trying to reduce
of any kind. , , the world. I enjoyed the triumph of my their weight ,and who have been tokinir
"I have tried many such fakes. I tried life and tho success of my whole career exercises and Internal baths and why
drugs, pills, capsules, harmful concoc- when my manager, Mr. Shubert on ao- have been taking Internal olid external
tlons to rub on tho body. I have tried count of my glorious new figure, made remedies should write for a copy of her
sweating and taklnsr Turkish baths, exer- me the star of the 'Passing Show,' and great . FREE book entitled "RAPID
clslng, physical culture and everything mind you. this very same manager had WEIGHT REBUCTIONITHOUT EX-' V
known to science without result and said I waa doomed to oblivion Just a short BRCISE, DIET OR INTERNAL RBML-f
without losing weight As I woe about ttmo before when I tipped the scales at DIE3," Bo that you may start to redue
to despair and give up ln disgust all fur- two hundred and fdur pounds. I was your burdensome fat as rapidly as -yo '
ther efforts to reduce my enormous crushed and bewildered when he told me desire. Simply write a brief letter or I S
weight which was two hundred arid four he could not give me a part in the 'Pass- postcard and ask for her new bopk. fj
pounds, I, by lucky accident learned of lng Show' unless I could reduce my Everything will be sent absolutely free. W
the most simple, harmless, rapid, safest enormous weight and my heart hangs So not aaad any maaay, because it la ab-
fat reducing treatment on earth. I tried heavy with the memory of the fat days aeialwty tree.
It on myself with astonishing results. My that are gone when my fat, ungainly fig- Address TXZAS 8U1KAZT, gat to 79,
friends stood aghast ln amazement mar- ure mode me realize that I was doomed Heillagsworth BaUdbtg, os Aageles,
veUng at the wondrous change in my to despair and failure. California.
cl(eOww' Un talent as an orator I aal crowd, put th weak. I actler. to. Lv saw Wcm J t UM, aUhgttgU fta swat V
dressed 860,090 people Jn U97 and had
altogether spoken to more than 8,090,000,
face to face, within the last sixteen years.
As he looked at the paper, I said: "I sup
puse .you have addressed more people
than any man who has ever Uvedt"
"Yea," I think that it likely true, was
the reply. "It Is certain that it I havo
spoken to more persona than any man
now living. X have spoken to moro than
any man now dead, because the further
back you go the fewer the crowds and
the more difficult the travel. In no pre
vious time could a man have traveled so
much as I have.
"I have been told that you have made
$50,000 a year by your lecturesT"
That is not true. I have received a
great deal, but not so much as that I
would say, however, that I have madt
more speeches for nothing .than I have
tor pay. I do not receive pay for political
speeches, and my Sunday speeches, ex
cept at chautauquas, are free. I do not
think that money making is the chief
end of man,"
But Mr. Bryan, do you think one man
can earn tSO.090 a year?"
'Yes. And ln this I am not speaking ot
myself, but I do think that we have many
men who havo carped more than f50,080
during every year ot their working lives.
A man can honestly earn what hla ser
vices are worth to society, although ln
many cases he does not collect it Take
Thomas Jefferson. Tha service be ren
dered the world was worth more than
jat.eQ,M0 a year, although during hla last
days ha was so poor ha bad to sell his
library to congress, and his friends got
up a lottery to aid him In paying bis
debts. Abraham Lincoln earned more
than ten million a year, ana so aia ueorge
Washington and many others. In my tec
tum entitled The Price of a. Soul I
have discussed that subject X think the
standpoint of earning is of service ren
dered, and I believe that the average man
gives a fair service to society for all he
gets. Of course, there are many excep
tions and we have some who thrive on
the earnings ot others, giving nothing in
return. It' U" from some of those that I
hope we shall havo a partial equalization
through the new Income 'tax.
On 'the Income.
"But Mr. Bryan, should not that tax
include, all .Incomes the small as well as
the larger'
"I do not think so, and that for two
reasons. In the .first lace the tax upon
the smalVlncomes, would not be worth the
Collecting, because tho machinery for
collecting It would be too great. In the
second'.place the.poor man is taxed" upon
nearly everything he consumes, and in
. k. nv nmnnrtlon&tely tar
mu fvwv. v - - -
more .than the rich. We have men in
the United States who are. worth tens of
millions and who spend nevenneiess omy
a -fuw thousand dollars a year. The ex-
- . . it i ..
.mntinn, nr. tne small income cim7
v .- . ....: -t- -i
cniind. There is no.counwy; " nv.
which' levies taxes, upon Jncomes, as far
mm i know, which has not sucn xerauuu
whn I was-In congress-in liSBO, I took
rmrt ln draftlng'the Income portion ot too
.Wiion tax bllt and at that time X in
vestigated the subject X 'found' tnai smg-
lond axwnDted all incomes unuw nw,
that Prussia exempted everything under
JS5, ahd that Austria naa exemjmona m
all Incomes of and under. Many of
the ISuropean countries nave oeon wmoci'
tnir such taxea for a generation or more.
and they have them today. In England
the tax was then a little more tlian J
per cent In Prussia It was from 1 to 4
aw twt, &$ ia SwlUeriaPA ton 1 to
S per cent according to the size ot the in
come. Such taxes havo proved equitable
and profitable in adding to the revenues
ot other nations, and X doubt not they
will be so with us."
Wot a Nevr Theory.
Then the income tax la not a new
thing?"
"No. It Is not new In Europe, and It la
not now ln the United States. Wo had an
Income tax for nearly ten years during
and after the civil war, when the rat
waa from SV4 to 10 per cent and the ex
emptions ranged from J 000 to $2,000. But
as I said awhile ago, there Is practically
nothing new under the sun. The peace
plan is not new. X presented a similar
Idea ln a speech In Toklo seven years ago.
Viscount Chlndo, the Japanese ambas
sador, gave me a pamphlet the other day
which had that speech ln It I afterward
presented the same idea ln Europe at a
peace conference attended by the repres
entatives of twenty-six nations.' The same
is true ot the election ot senators by the
people. That Is an old idea. I was work
ing for that twenty-three years ago, and
tho other day X signed the proclama
tion of the seventeenth amendment to
the Constitution which makes it a law.
At that time I Invited Henry Bt George
Tucker, who was with me in the house
at the time the movement waa first agi
tated; and also William W. Rueker, the
present chairman of the committee ot the
house through which It was passed. X got
three pens and had William engraved on
one ot them. I signed my first name and
gave that to Tucker. X had Jennings en
graved on another pen. With that I
signed tho name Jennings and gave It to
Rueker. And on the third penholder I had
tha name Bryan engraved. I have kept
that pen for myself as a memento ot the
occasion. X had a fourth pen for the date,
which was given to Senator Borah."
FRANK CARPENTER.
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