The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-09-10
AT PARIS.
Mr.. Henry Sherman B0uten shows Up the
Bryan Business-Teiling Points Msde by
Vigorous Speaker.
ESPECIAL TO THE pREss.J

| Vigorous Speaker
ESPECIAL 10 THE PRESs.J
Paris, September e.-Mr. Henry Sher'
man Bouteal Of Chicago addressed large
and enthusiastic meeting here tonight.
Mr.. Boutell was received with applause,
and the many telling points he made
produced deep impression. Among
other thing MIR. Boutell saids
1t may be that there are among my
hearers some men who have been for
years honest supporters Of the Democraulc
party, but who cannot assent to the present
zens deslrous of disoharging their full
dnties are In doubt as to what course
they should ensue. Let me remind these
men OF wise statement of Thomas
Jefferson, II never submitted the whole
system OF my opinions to the creed OF
any party of men whatever in religion.
In philosophy, in politics, or in anything
| myself. Such an addiction is the last
degradation of a free snd moral agent.
If could no to 60 to heaven but with
party would net 60 there at all" Are
you, my friends, you historic Democrats.
II mag call you such, you Democrats OF
Jefferson and jackson and Cleveland,
are you capable of thinking for your
selves? Then let me ask you II you
think that heaven is the place which
you will be most likely to reach II you
throw in your lot with the trainers Of
| the Chicago platform. 1t is my oonvic-
| ton that you will fare better, not only
III the next world, bus in this, By fol.
lowing at this juncture the advice OF
the distinguished founder of your political
faith by placing, your oountry,s honor
above your party's success by voting for
Mckinley and sound money and the hon.
est payment of our honest debts.
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But there is a more serious charge
| still that at Mr.. Bryan must answer, to
which he has laid himself open in all his
| speeches. Having drawn his false pic
lures of imaginary distress, he then pro-
ceeds to divide the American people into
classes, one OF which no calls the "com-
mon people," These ara the people
whom he il trying to make believe that
they are bleeding to death. These are
the people who he says are down-trodden
and afflicted, for whom he must provide
s'oheap money! 1.-THE poor mans dol
lar, the money Of the common peo-
ple," for whom he must secure exemp-
tions in tn tax laws. people who must be
protected by tho patronizing coddling
| of paternal government. because being
com mon people, as he intimates, they
remain common people. Mr.. Bryan, In
your attempt to make degrading olaa-
sif1oation OF the people Of this repu bio
and stir up strife of Glasses, you offer
an insult to every American man and
woman which they will resent at the
polls in voice SO loud that the din of it
will ring In your ears through all eterni-
| ~ hok H. In,
try by common psople? People are men
ana women. What Ia a common man,
and, Mr.. Bryan, what ia a common
woman? When Mr.. Jefferson, whom
one OF your leaders has called the father
of Democracy, and another the greatest
Socialist, in his "Notes on q Constitu-
tion, !" limited the suffrage to taxpayers
in his mind some inohoate conception of
class Of common people, or when he
said that a national legislature elected
| by the whole people WAS lily adapted to
| pass laws for the Union or concerning
foreign relations, had that embryonic
| conception expanded into full blossom
| and when Mr. Jefferson wrote to his
friend Thomas Adams, who was about
| leaving for London, asking him to look
up the Jefferson arms In the Herald'G
| Office, and if he found that there were
| none, to purchase him q coat of arms, as
he understood that one could be bought,
| did he feel that he was q common man,
and was he trying to elevate himself
| above the common people? Where did
people, Mr.. Bryant Is peouniary income
the test Of oommonnessf Is the priest,
who has renouncod the common pleasures
and ambitions of life and devoted him
| self to administering the comforts of re-
ligion to his fellow men looking for
nothing In return but his daily susie
nance and Christian burial, is he a COM
mon MANI Are the teachers who devote
their lives to laying the foundation of
good citizenship In the hearts and minds
of our children. are they common peoplef
Is the nurse who ghortens the tedious
hours Of illness by her gentle ministra-
tions and with her ealmness and courage
aids the noble work Of the surgeon, is she
! a common woman? But there are thou
sands of priests and teachers and nurses,
yes, and lawyers and doctors and COUNT
less others who receive less money anna
ally for their services than many work
men in our factories. Yes, and there are
| thousands of workingmen leading frugal
lives, educating their children, paying
their honest taxes and cherishing an
honest ambition to raise themselves to
the highest positions of honor and trust.
| Are they common people2 Thank God,
Mr.. Bryan to the contrary notwithstand-
Ing, there are no common people under
the American flag, and II he wanps to
talk to common people he must run for
President in some other country. Here,
where the railsplitter, the tanner, the
farmer boy may become chief magis-
trats, and where the avenues to the most
exalted positions are open to all, nothing
but :dishonest, disonhor or disloyAlty
can place one man below another. and
nothing, not even coat of arms ao-
quired by the simple Jeffersonian Demo-
cratic method of purchase can raise any
man above his fellows. Mr.. Bryan, in
the sombre dripping days of early No
vember, by the waters of the Platte,
there will you sit down. You will hang
your battered trombone upon the will
lows, yes, and you. will weep when you
remember not your utter defeat, for that
you knew WAS inevitable, but that in
your mad effort to inflame the passions
and excite the prejudices of those whom
you had tried to deceive into thinking
that they were worse Off then than they
were, you had unconsoiously insulted
millions of honorable men whose selt-re-
spect and sense Of PERSONAL dignity
were above your comprehension.
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