Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-24

 10 the public To this end the list of speakers was made as notable as possible and the league was able to sul general to London and now mayor of Boston, as presiding officer, and William J. Bryan, twice democratic presidential candidate, Edward M.- Shepard of New York. recent demo- cratic candidate for mayor of that city, and Senator Carnack of Tennessee, one of the leading democrats of the up- per branch of the national legislature, to make addresses. MI Bryan spoke as follows:
 In view of the numerous harmony dinners, and the discord they have created. it may not be out of place to consider the basis of harmony. The word harmony is euphonious, and the idea which it conveys is delight ful one. Harmony: How it soothes the ear and calls up visions of peace and love and joy. Harmony, whether among the heavenly bodies whose movements make the music of the spheres Or among bodies terrestrial with, their conflicting interests and varykngH moods, who can s resist it's
 
 is but synonym for order, anC is not the result of chance but a product of fEexorable law. The musician must learn the scale and properly arrange the notes, or harmony, no matter how earnestly wooed, can never be won.
 Harmony in government is likewise the result of fixed and unchangeable rules. Jefferson states two of these in the will of the majority and fre- 1uent elections-the second aids the first by giving hope of remedy from present ills, however grievious. If he were living to-day his observation would probably suggest a third rule, namely, the entertainment of the will of the majority by methods so direct, so fair and so honest that the minority cannot doubt that will has been actual ly expressed.
 Jefferson also laid down the rules by which, and by which alone, real harmony can be secured within a party. I say real harmony for that harmony cannot be considered worthy of the name which, like the harmony temporarily existing between the con- fidence man and his victim, is pur- pose1y employed for deception and in- jury.
 The great founder of the democratic party whose profound philosophy sounded all the depths of human nature and measured the height and breadth of human government, not long before the end of his eventful life said in a letter to MT Lee that there were but two permanent parties, the aristocrat- ic and the democratic that those two parties existed in every country, and 4o think. speak and write these parties would become apparent. With the aristocratic party he classed 'sthose who fear and distrust the people and wish to draw all power from them into the hands of the higher classes" With the democratic party he classed ssthose who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, though not the most wise, depository of the public inter- ests.o Every well informed student of history will recognize this distinc sion Tn every community you can draw line separating the aristocrat from the democrat. It will not be perpendicular line, nor will it be a horizontal one. it will not separate those of iIIustrious lineage from those of humble birth; it will not separate the rich from the poor; it will not be along lines of vocation or occupation; but it will separate those with the tastes. spirit, assumption and tradi- tions of the aristoeracy" from those who "believe in a government control He'd by the people and favor political and legal equality"
 Jefferson was born of refined and well-to-do parents, he was even rich for one of that period and he was edu- cated far above the most of his asso- ciates; he was lawyer and his social connections were favorable to aristo- cratic ideas, but he was democrat. believed in the brotherhood of man; he asked for no privileges that could not be granted to all; he claimed no rights that all did not enjoy, and he sought for himself no governmental care that he did not demand for others. He believed in the rule of the people, an their capacity for elf-government. and in their right to the control of their own affairs He did not doubt that they would make mistakes. but he knew that they would bear punish ment for their own mistakes with more scomplacency than they would endure