The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07
TACILlATING COURSE ONLY
FAILS TO INVITE RECRUITS
Says Beers Have Given to Every Re-
public a Feeling of Security BY
Their Brave Fight In
South Africa.

Wooster, Ohio, January 6.-The Hon.
William j. Bryan spoke here tonight at
the jackson day banquet, which was
held this afternoon at his suggestion In
order that he might keep engagements at
New Haven and Boston later in the week.
His subject was "Steadfastness," and he
spoke in part as follows:
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 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 single drop of anything to win
blood When Nicholas Biddle 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 coun-
try and he then began his war against
Biddle and his bank, which resulted in
the overthrow of that great financier and
the institution which he so automatically
dies influence, if antagonzed, would de-
feat the Democratic party, but Jackson
saw in 1t 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 overthrew 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 encourage
ment for the work. which lies before
u.s. Today the Democratic party needs to
learn from 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 to be right is the best way to
insure success.
"A party must have principles or it
can have no claim upon public confidence,
and how can it commend it's principles
better than by standing by them? Who
will have faith in the creed in exchange
for the promise of PATRONAGE A hating,
vacillating course. not only fails to invite
recruits, but it alienates and drives away
veterans.
Money Power Not Omnipotent.
"Who says that the money power is
omnipotent and that the Democratic
party must comprise with 1t or surrender
to it? Not until human nature is entire
ly changed can the financiers be intrust-
ed with the guardianship of the produc-
ers of wealth. not until greed becomes
lust can the money changers construct
q system for themselves which will be
fair to anyone else. A top can be bal
anced 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 up
right only so long as it can be kept
whiring; the collapse will come when the
speed is slackened.
'"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 hope
less struggle for independence, but those
who can measure the mighty influence
of great deeds know that the sturdy
Dutchman of South Africa have already
conferred upon the world a benefit that
cannot be measured by money
Their valor has brought greater secur-
ity 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 Eng
land has been compelled to employ more
than 100000 soldiers to subjugate less than
25,000 men in arms-the fact that Eng
land has expended more than $1,000 per
Boer-The per capita wealth of the Uni
ted States-and has neither been able
to purchase them nor kill them-these
facts are immeasurably valuable to peo-
pie everywhere who want free govern
ment for themselves and are content that
others should enjoy 1t also.
$50 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
according to Jeffersonian maxim. equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none.