Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-31
BRYAN ON HARMONY.
The Former Democratic Candidate
Speaks for Union of Party.
The JenersOnian Principle HeId
Up as IN Gauge for Pres
ent-Day Demo-
Gratis.

In response to the toast, 'The Basis
of Harmony" at the New England
Democratic league dinner, given at
Boston, Thursday evening, July "a,
Hon. William j. Bryan spoke in part as
follows:
in view Of numerous harmony dinners,
and the dlscord 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 a delightful one Harmony! How 1t
soothes the ear and calls up visions of peace
and love and joy. Harmony, whether
among the heavenly bodies, whose move
ments make the music of the spheres, or
among the bodies terrestrial, with their
conflicting interests and varying moods,
VINO can resist its claims or dispute its
sway? Harmony is but a synonym for or
der, and is not the result of chance, but a
product Of memorable 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 Interchangeable rules.
Jefferson states two of these rules-name-
~, absolute acquiescence in the will of the
majority and frequent elections-the Sec
ond aids the first by giving hope of a rem
coy from present ills, however grievous.
If he were living to-day his observation
would probably suggest a third rule, name
ly, the ascertainment of the will of the
methods so direct, so fair and so honest
that the minority cannot doubt that that
Will has been actually expressed.
Jefferson also laid Town the rules by
which, and by which alone, real harmony
can be securedi within a party. ! say real
harmony, for that harmony cannot be con-
sldered worthy of the name which, like the
harmony temporarily existing between the
confidence man and his victim, is urpOse-
ly employed for deception and injury.
The great founder of the democratic
party whose profound philosophy sounded
all the depths of human nature and meas
uredI the height and breadth of human gov
eminent, not long before the end OF his
e~Venttul life, said in a letter to Mr.. Lee,
That there were but two permanent parties,
the aristocratic and the democratic; that
these two parties existed in every coun-
try, and that where there was freedom to
think, speak and write, these parties would
become apparent. With the aristocratic
party he classed those who fear and dis
trust the people and wish to draw all
power from them into the hands of the
higher classes With the democratic party
he classed those who identify themselves
with the people, have confidence in them,
cherish and consider them as the NEST
honest and safe, though not the most wise.
depository of the public interests Every
well informed student of history will rec
ognize this distinction. In every
ity you can draw a line separating the
aristocrat from the democrat. 1t will not
be a perpendicular line, nor will it be a
horizontal one; it will not separate those
OF tlOStriOuE lineage from those Df hnmhle
birth; 1t will not separate the rich from the
poor; 1t will not separate the educated from
the uneducated; it will not be along lines
of vocation or occupation; but it will sep
arate those with the tastes, spirit, as
sumption and traditions of the aristocracy'
from those who believe in a government
controlled by the people and favor political
and legal equality
Democracy of Jefferson.
Jefferson was born of refined and we'll
TODD parents; he was even rich for one Of
that PERIOD and he was educated far above
the most Of his associates; he was a lawyer
and his social connections We're favorable
to aristocratic ideas, but he was a demo-
crat. He 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
iOl lNLidlIi lOI UlIeI5. ne ptlleNeu III luo
rule of the people, in their capacity for
self-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 punishment
for their own mistakes with more COM
placency than they would endure punish
ment for the mistakes of others, and he
was certain that their errors would bs
unintentional ones. He knew that, as they
found no profit in bad laws, they would
strive to correct them and would profit
by experience. He was a friend of every
thing that helped the people, and the un-
relenting foe Of everything that injured
them. He was identified with the masses,
and considered that insofar as by inherit
ance or by his own efforts he possessed
any advantage over others, he held that
advantage as a trustee for those less for
tunate. TIL people loved him because he
first loved them. He organized a party
that has lived for more than a century, and
he so impressed his ideas upon the party
that no defeat, however overwhelming, has
been able to crush its spirit or disintegrate
it.
There can always be harmony among
democrats who have the purpose that JEFF
ferson mad and are willing to employ the
methods that Jefferson employed. There
can always be harmony among democrats
who believe in a government of the peo-
pie and are willing that all the depart
ments of the government shall be operated
by the people and for the benefit of the
people. Differences of the mind can be rec
onciled; differences of purpose cannot. Be-
tween one who is at heart an aristocrat
and one who is in reality a democrat there
is a great gulf fixed. And, it may be added,
among the aristocrats there will be found
the same division that exists among the
beasts of prey-some have the courage of
tho inn and nth erS tho plrpjpr op5 rnasb
cry of the fox, but they can hunt together
If their object is spoil, whether it be
avowed or concealed. Between those real
ly democratic in purpose there can be no
personal or permanent alienation, because
having no Interior motives, they are open
to arguments and amenable to reason; be-
Ing honest in purpose, they have confidence
in the triumph of their cause, and are con-
tent to employ honest methods. They will
neither conspire against others nor against
each other. If they make mistakes in judg-
ment, as all are liable to do, they are not
only willing, but anxious to correct their
mistakes. In politics, as in religion, there
Is an essential difference between a doubt
of the head and a doubt of the heart.
A%ristocrat vs.. Democrat.
st is impossible to secure harmony be-
tween people of opposite sympathies, and
1t is a difficult thing to change a mans
sympathies; it requires a political re-
generation to make a democrat out of an
aristocrat. 1t is a much easier task TO
show a man that the principles he has
been advocating and the policies which he
has been supporting are aristocratic in
their present effect or In their tendencies.
The republican party of to-day is aristo-
cratic in its policies and tendencies, for 1t
is controlled by a few in the interest of a
few, but there are many republicans who
remain with their party only because they
do not understand the change which has
taken place in that party within the last
few years. When the policy Of a party is
controlled by its voters, then the party
| stands for tha rrlll Of 4ha Inn inri4I- h..4