The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07
BRYAN AT WOOSTER, 0
JACKSON DAY BANQUET HELD
 LAST NIGHT.
Was His Subject and He Contended That the Dem ocratic Party Should Continue
 in . Straight Course.

Wooster, O., Jan. 6.-The Hon. Wil- liam J. Bryan spoke here tonight at the Jackson Day banquet, which was held this evening. at his suggestion. tp order that he might keep engagements at New Haven and Boston later in the week. His subject was "Steadfastness." and he said in part:
 Among the traits of character which distinguished Andrew Jackson. no trait was more prominent or more helpful to his country than his steAdfastness. When he believed a thing. he believed it. Where duty led, he followed with out questioning. When he decided that anything ought,to be done. he did 1t, and no power could overawe him. He did not have in his veins a single drop of ''anything to win" blood. When Nicholas Riddle declared that through the national bank he could make and unmake Congresses. Jackson replied that that was more power than any one man ought to have in this country. and he then began his war against Riddle and his. bank, which resulted in the over throw of that great financier and the institution which he so automatically controlled. Others were afraid that Biddle's influence, if antagonized would defeat the Democratic party, but Jackson saw in 1t a menace to his country and he did not stop to consider what effect an attack on the bank would have on himself or on his party. He won, and we revere his name and celebrate his day.
 Benton, in reviewing Jackson's work, said that, as Cicero overthrow the con- spiracy of Cataline and saved Rome, so Jackson overthrow the bank and saved America We shall observe this day in vain if we do not gather from the life of Jackson inspiration and encouragement for the work which lies before us. To- day, the Democratic party needs to learn from the hero of New Orleans the les son of steadfastness; it needs to learn from him not only that to be right is more important than to be successful. but that to be right is the best way to insure succeRa
 "A party must have principles or 1t can have no claim upon public confidence: and how can 1t commend its principles better than by standing by them? Who will have faith in the creed of party If the party stands ready to barter away it's creed in exchange for the promise of patronage? A halting, vaciliating course not only fails to invite recruits. but 1t aIienates and drives away veterans.
 Another reason for steadfastness Is found in the fact that no one can tell
 
 courage can overcome. The bold and fearless triumph where the timid fail. The victories which live and light us on to noble deeds are the victories snatched from the jaws of defeat by intrepid spirits who preferred death to retreat.
 There is a profound philosophy, as we'll as a religious truth in the words: He that saveth his life shall lose 1t. The party that has no higher purpose IA e. Ar..rI ItA t- it deserves to die if need be, for the sake of a great cause will live because it deserves to live.
 "Who says that the money power Is omnipotent and that the Democratic party must compromise with 1t or sur render to 1t? Not until human nature Is entirely changed can the financiers be producers of wealth; not until greed be- comes just can the money changers con struct system for themselves which will be fair to anyone else. A top can he balanced upon the point only when 1t is in rapid motion. and so the great financial structure designed by Wall Street for the benefit of Wall Street will stand unright only so long as 1t can be kept whiriing; the collapse will come when the speed Is slackened.
 Who says that we cannot afford to measure strength with the great monop- olies which now arrogantly assume to control the domain of politics as we'll as the field of industry? Not until we can figs from thistles. can we expect a pri- vate monopoly to bring forth public blessings. The water that has been poured into the stocks of our great cor porations has for the most part been drawn from the agricultural regions. and the drought that is sure to follow will teach the farmer the meaning of the trust system.
 'Must. we abandon the self-evident truth that governments derive their just ed? Must we accept imperialism as an accomplished fact and join in the shout for blood and conquest? Our republic rests upon solid rock and while it's prin- ciples are revered it cannot be over thrown from within or from without, but if all parties joined together to erect an empire upon American soil, they would build upon the sand and the edi- fee could not endure. It Is a law divine in its origin, irresistible In It's force and eternal in its duration. that wrong doing ultimately destroys the wrongdoer and no nation or combination of nations is strong enough to evade or resist retri- but!ve justice.
 Hut suppose-what no one should as- sume and what no one can prove-that steadfast adherence to Democratic pril- ciplcs would result in repeated defeat. is there any reason why we should aban- don those prfnclpleS ana adopt others, or have none at all? Those who prefer prison fare. or a servile subjects lot to the dangers of the battlefield. may con- demn the Boers for continuing what some describe as a hopeless struggle for inde- pendence. but those who can measure the mighty influence of great deeds know that the sturdy Dutchmen of South Af- rica have already conferred upon the world a benefit that cannot be measured
 by money. Their valor has brought greater security to all the republics of the earth the bodies of their dead have built bulwark behind which the friends of liberty will fight for centuries. The fact that England has been compelled to employ more than 100000 soldiers to sub jugate less than 5000 men In arms-the fact that England has expended more than $1,00o per Boer-the per capita wealth of the United States-and has neither been able t. purchase them nor kill them-these facts are immeasurably valuable to people everywhere who want free government for themselves and are content that others should enjoy 1t also.
 So the Democratic party, whether in power or out of power. Is serving man kind when it stands steadfastly for. con- stitutional government and insists that that government shall be administered ToAe I