The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-03-10
NO.. IS
a GREAT SPEECH.

Emerson says, "There is no great or
ator who is not hero" and | believe
it. am also convinced that oratory
has not lost any of it's potency and its
charms. do not believe the world
has ever known greater orator than
w. j. Bryan. Consider the conditions
now-the spread OF knowledge-the
marvellous facilities for disseminating
news, and the disadvantages thereby
imposed upon the orators of today as
compared with the orators of Rome,
Greece and England and America up
to the middle OF the present century,
and then consider the power and intiu-
ence of Bryan over his audiences and
you are forced to admit that he is
without parallel in the worlds his,
tory. Absolutely his influence is mes-
meric;-he sways and moves the multi
tude as the gentle winds move and
bend the growing corn. | have not
seen his equal.
Would that every voter in the State
of Mississippi could have heard the
speech delivered by him to the legisla-
ture last Tuesday. Without an excep-
ception it was the greatest speech /
have ever listened to.--It was the quin-
tescepse OF good old-fashioned demo-
religion applied to new questions. un-
polluted or undiluted with this money
made patented stuff which some of our
very modern statesmen are trying to
impose upon long suffering public,
with the democratic brand on 1t.
Col Bryan literally tore the mask
from the face of the political hypocrite:
he exposed the craven purpose OF the
patriot for revenue only: he demon
strated the advantages and wisdom of
| bi-metalism-the countless dangers
and inconveniences of the republican,
financial policy; he exposed the nafa-
rious and cruel consequences which
will follow in the wake of a policy
which fosters the Trusts-the helps
lessness of labor and all the degrading,
grinding effects of poverty when the
commerce Of the world shall be con-
troed by the selfish and heartless
few:-and he denounced in brave words
and comprehensive terms the McKin-
ley brand OF expansion which will in
corporate in the body polite of this re-
public l5,G00, 900 of people who are as
Incapable of understanding the genius
of free institutions as taught in Amer-
lea, as they are of reading. t,S WISE
God Almighl, II the fl HSNS \ Aanders
tian mummy He point, herman, Gran
gers OF militacism; he dernersls of th
the atrocious and crut4r Of whom re
which would be accorde Scv OF a mill
men of the Orient by pe,ta
pet bag government, citin', ".
ample the horrors OF reconSt IN lSoi, =
the South following the war OF retJntt -
bellion. He made clear the violation
of the principle of the Declaration of
Independence involved in the policy
Of imperiali stic colonization: he appeal
ed to every instinct OF justice, fair play,
aud the right, to give the black man of
the Oriental tropics an opportunity to
enjoy that for which he has been fght-
ing for hundred years, and that for
which we fought in. the war OF the Re
belliou-IndepenG The truth
the arguments made by Colonel Brya
are u1answerable-they are self-eY
dent proposition, and he who contr(
verts them reflects upon the INTEL
gence and patriotism of his audienc
1t was indeed masteriul address, cd
rect in morals, rich in rhetoric, sou
in logic the quintescence of truth,
flower aud fruit of Right. 1t shou
} and will be, think, made the basis
the National Democratic platform.
am willing to take the speech for II
t platform, and as | have confidence
the ultimate good judgment and p1
, triotism OF the masses, believe it viii
, win. Right and justice will yet tri
umph, ,-Greenwood Commonwealth.