The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-07
BRYAN PLEADS FOR A REVIVAL OF
THE STEADFASTNESS OF
JACKSON
PARTY MUST STAND BY RIGHT
Indirect but Earnest Appeal for the
Platform of Democracy as 1t
Stands Today, Even at
Cost of Defeat.
ANTI-MoNoPoLY BELL IS RUNG

WOOSTER, Ohio, Jan. 16.-William j.
BRYAN spoke here tonight at the Jack
son day banquet, which was held this
evening, at his suggestion in order that
he might keep enga gements at New Ha-
ven and Boston later ia the week. His
subject was "Steadfastness, and he said
in part:
Among the traits of character which
distinguished Andrew jackson, no tfalC
was more prominent or more helpful to
his country than his Steadfastness. When
he believed thing, he believed it. Where
duty led, he followed without question
ing. When he decided that anything
ought to be done. he did it, and no power
could oVerawe him. He did not have in
his veins a single drop of anything TO
win blood. When Nicholas Biddle de-
clared that through the national bank he
could make and unmake congresses,
Jackson replied that that was more power
tran any enc man ought to have IN TINS
country, and he then began his war
against Biddle and his bank, which le-
suited in the overthrow of that great
firancier and the institution which he
so automatically controlled. Others were
afraid that Biddle's influence, if antag-
onized, would defeat the Democratic par
ty, but Jackson saw in it a. menace to
his country, and he did not stop to con-
slider 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 overthrew the con-
sriracy of Catiline and saved Rome, so
Jackson overthrew the bank and saved
America. We shall observe this day IN
vain if we do not gather from the life of
Jackson inspiration and encoura cement
fof the work which lies before us. To-
day the Democratic party needs to learn
1; ON the hero of New Orleans the lesson
of SteadfaStness; it needs to learn from
him not only that to be right is more
important than to be successful, but that
n h. oil c W r.
cess.
There is a profound philosophy. as wei
as a religious truth, in the words: He
that saveth his life shall lose it," The
party that has no higher purpose than
to save its own life will die because it
deserves to die; but the party that dies,
,Il if need ed! be- for the sake Of a gleat cause
VIII live because it deserves to live.
"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 well as
the field of industry? Not until we can
gather good fruit from an evil tree, and
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.
BOcrs Cited as Examples.
'Suppose-what no one should assume
and what no one can prOVe-that stead
fast adherence to democratic principles
would result in repeated defeat-iS there
any reason why we should abandon those
principles and adopt others, or have none
at all? Those who prefer prison fare
or Servile subjects lot to the dangers
of the battlefield, may condemn the
Beers for continuing what some describe
as a hopeless struggle for independence,
but those who can measure the mighty
influence Of great deeds know that the
already conferred upon the world a bene-
fit 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 a bull
wark behind which the friends of liberty
will fight for centuries. The fact that
England has been compelled to employ
more than 100000 soldiers to subjugate
less than 5000 men in arms-the fact
that England has expended more than
$1,000 per Boer-the per capita wealth Of
the United StateS-and has neither been
able to purchase them nor kill them
these facts are immeaSurably valuable
to people everywhere who want free>gov-
ernment for themselves and are content t
that others should enjoy it 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 thar
that government Snail be administered
according to the Jeffersonian maxim.
equal rights to all and special privileges
to none