Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-28
BRYAN'S HIGHEST IDEAL
Noted Nebraskan Says T Thought
 Will Rule the World.
rpRvID SPEECH SWAPS LONDON.

VrAGOTy OK tnS GreaI OOzmm0nST Captivates the Large Audience at
 the Thanksgiving Dinner of the American Society = London Times Pays Unusual Compliment by Re- porting Him Verbatim. At the American society's Thanksgiv- ing day dinner at the Hotel Cecil, Lon- don, William Jennings Bryan captured a large audience which was at first in- clined to be cold if not hostile, says
 special cable to the New York Amer
 jean. Before he had spoken a hundred words even the critical Choate, a mas 1 ter. of after dinner oratory, was so 1 moved by MT. Bryan's impassioned elo- 1 quence that he applauded enthusiastic ally, while the Duke of Marlborough
 sat spellbound under MT. Bryan's elo- quence, applauding heartily the speak 1 CTS noble peroration.
 The LonHon Times pays MT. Bryan 1 the unusual compliment of reporting him verbatim.
 l MT. Bryan, after thanking MT. Choate l for his many courtesies and paying a l gallant tribute to the beauty of Eng" l lishwomen, whom he said he could not l distinguish from American girls, said: '"This society celebrates two occasions --the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving
 day. On the Fourth we celebrate our l independence; on Thanksgiving day we
 acknowledge our dependence. On the
 Fourth of July the eagle seems little larger than on any other day, and its 1 scream may grate more harshly on the foreigner than at any other time, but 1 today we turn with reverence and ac-
 knowledge our gratitude for those blessings that have come to our coun- 1 try without thought of any aid from human beings.
 "On this occasion we may well re- ] member that we but build upon foun- datiOns that have already been laid for
 us. All our natural resources were the l gift of him to whom we bow in grati- tude tonight. If we show any great de- velopment of industry we must not for 1 get that every nation in Europe has 1 sent us its trained artisans. If we have 1 intellectually advanced we must not 1 forget that those who have crossed the l Atlantic and cast their lot with us l brought their intelligence and aspira- tions for learning from Europe. The. free speech which we prize so highly 1 is not of American origin.
 Since have been here have been 1 profoundly impressed with the part l Englishmen have taken in advancing 1 the right of free speech. And before l 1 came here an Englishman challenged my admiration because of his deter imitation to make his opinion known
 when he had an opinion he thought he ought to give to the world When I 1 visited the Bank of England, was l grateful that, knowing my sentiments
 on the money question and the tariff,
 was not driven away. I have admired the moral courage and manliness of
 those Englishmen who have dared, against overwhelming odds, to assert their opinions before the world.
 We sometimes feel that we possess 1 a sort of proprietary interest in the 1 principle of government set forth in 1 our Declaration of Independence, yet 1 the principle therein set forth was not 1 the invention of an American mind. 1 Thomas Jefferson expressed it in felic- l itous language and put 1t into perma- l nent form, but the principle had been l felt and thought by men before. The l doctrine that men were created equal
 and endowed with unalienable rights 1 and that governments derived their just powers from the consent of the gov 1 erned was not invented tn the United l States of America It did not come l from an American mind; it did not come So much from any mind as it was an emanation of the human heart. It 1 had been in the hearts of men for ages
 before Columbus turned the prov of 1 his vessel westward, before the barons 1 wrested the Magma Charta from King l John. Before Homer sang that senti- ment had nestled in the heart of man
 and nerved him to resist the oppressor.
 That sentiment was not even Of human origin.
 Our own great Lincoln declared it in l the toast, God himself, who implanted in every human heart the love of lib-
 erty' When God created man, when
 he gave him life, he linked with life
 the love of liberty. We have received l great blessings from God and from all
 the world, and we cannot make ade- l Quate return to those from whom we l nave TcC0lNCu LuOSC 9ALLS. AL 3o HUI HI
 our power to repay the Father above 1 the debt we owe him nor can we make return to those who have sacrificed so
 much in the past.
 1 'We cannot make return to the gen. erations past; we must endeavor to pay
 our debt to the generation living and | that to come We must discharge our
 debt not to the dead, but to the living. "How can we discharge this debt we
 owe? Tn but one way, and that is by
 giving the world something equal in
 behalf of that we have received from
 the world. What is the greatest gift
 man can bestow upon man? Food,
 clothing. wealth? No; they are evanes- 1 cent. We must give him an ideal that
 shall be with him always, lifting him
 to a higher. plane of life, giving him a l l1S1 -oJo 41