The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-04-20
QUALITY OF BRYANS' STATE
MANSHIP.

What contrast there Is between I1ar~
rison's address before the students OF
Michigan University and that Of Bryan
at the banquet of the Jefferson Club at
Milwaukee on Thursday night last The
calm, dignitied utterances OF the ex-pres1-
lent donot arouse emotional enthusiasm.
They were not gifen expression for TINS
purpose They We're addressed to young
men who will aid III shaping the destiny
of the nation and they bore the stamp of
intellectualism They were dispassion-
ate and not designed to furnish an oppor-
tlnity for oratory. What the ex-presl-
lent said was so fraught with wisdom.
50 tense with the burden of thought that
the man was forgotten IN the intellectual
pleasure given in the lesson he taught.
Every sentence was principle to guide
in the study Of political economy. 1t
was an appeal to intellect and con
science, not tainted with prejudice and
wholly free from Misrepresentation or
passion.
Listen to Bryan Sound the following
for craftsmanship or the culture OF pro-
found thought and carefully scrutinize
the lead for Indications
You tell me we cannot win. Who
knows what will win? Who can tell
how the people will be ON any given
Who has the future IN his
graspY You cannot tell how people will
vote when you start ont to catch their
votes, = = = Ny friends, it takes more
than handful Of bankers organized in
a clearing house in England to settle
questions in the United States.
I'VE could not put a tax on income and
we had to look around and put tax on
any old thing that we could.
These are gems of shallowness address
ed to an intelligent audience. In ordln- ,
airy conversation the man who uses the |
expression any old thing is conscious |
Of slight trespass on propriety. How
glorious the slangy expression would /
sound in Lincoln's Gettysburg Grafton!
And think of the comprehensive grasp /
of the situation which made possible this |
of genius who can brag
about the discovery of gold i'll Alaska?
Not the man who believed in the gold
standard in 1896 because they thought /
there was gold enough then i'll the world /
and if there was gold enough then they
have got no right to be proud now; but /
we who wanted more money, have a
right to talk because we not only want /
more silver but we are willing to have /.
more gold.
This argument is strikingly appropri- |
ate to the season when the small boy |.
searches for dry, sunny spots to shoot !
his marbles with noisy demonstration of I
his own right when in opposition to the
of his opponent. 1t Is the 7
season of marble playing and the boyish /
which is an accompaniment
of the sport.
When one compares Roosevelts adj
dress before the Harrison club of Chi
cago with that of Bryan in Milwaukee !
their words make clear the difference Ill
the character of the men. Roosevelt Is |
a man of action. He and Bryan are
about the same age, but Roosevelt has
left his impress on his time and has been
IA factor in the progress of the country
These men came into friendly competi-
ton in the line of accepting similar du-
ties during the war with Srain. Roose
welt made history. BRYAN never reached
the seat Of war Not his fault; but it
was Roosevelt's energy and determined
purpose which pushed him to the front
Their speeches are characteristic of the
men and enable one to perceive the fun
damental difference of character between
the man of action and the man of blus-
ter and pretension.