The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-24

Then he went On to express his pleasure
at beng able to address a North Carolina
audience on something besides politics,
something that tended to draW them 10
gether instead OF separating them.
Then coming to his subject. of ideals,
he said that he had found that in this
State the officials he had met seemed to
be men OF high ideals. In the absence
OF the Governor he could say that he for
one was a man who had a high ideal
tremendous applause) He had visited
the A. and NJ. College, and had found
there an institution with high ideal
and at its head man who had a high
ideal. (Applause) He was much pleased
to see that at that college so much in
ere Ssed attention was being paid to the
education of the farmers boy to till the
soil. That was one of the great needs
OF the country, to educate the farmers
boys. The farmers paid an equal share
of taxes, and should have equal oppor-
tunittes of education.
A high ideal meant the difference often
between success and failure, sometimes
even between life and death The ideal
should be high, for it is a small ideal
that is ever overtaken
ALI ideal Is permanent, therefore it is
Important that it be correct one. Plans
change. My plans have been changed by
circumstances several times. Uaughter.)
Then sometimes ambitions are thwarted
by circumstances. l have had several
ambitions, two so long ago that I have
almost forgotten them, and the last one
SO recent that l can never forget it,
uaughter) My first ambition was to be
a Baptist minister, but one day my father
fra1 10 Il
him it it was necessary TO go down into
that water to be Baptist preacher lie
SAID it was. 1 gave up the idea. Some
Republicans have said that this was
Democratic dislike for water manitesting
itself at an early age
My second ambition was to be a farm
err, and raise pumpkins, and now no doubt
a majority of the American people are
glad that | have the opportunity to de-
vote myself to that calling without in
tc1ruption. Oaughter.)
My third ambition was not what some
of you thought I was TO be a lawyer.
When I was barefooted boy ! used to
60 to the court house where my father
wis on the bench. and listen to he argu
ments, and / decided to be a lawya"
TIC show you that / had no IDEA OF
braska, because it was overwhelmingly
Republican, and strange to say thefa has
not been so much change there as on
might have thought considering the in
|telljgence of the people there. (Laughterl
got into politics by accident. My dis
trIcr was hopelessly Republican. 1 was
nominated for Congress because I hap
peped to get there just in time, and be-
cause it was thought ! could not be
elected. The Republican papers said that
my election was a confidence game played
upon young man from the country.
Mr.. Bryan dwelt upon the great impor
lance of the ideal, for it guided the whole
life. 1t makes a great deal OF differ
encc to the individual, he SAID, what his
ideal was. There was, a great deal OF
speculative spirit nowadays, the desire to
make fortune by short cuts instead of
giving something for what they get. It
was this spirit that made so many the
victims of every fraud that came along.
He spoke of the ideal of domestic life,
and said he often blushed to read of
those commercial transactions between
people of different nations called mar
lages, where q young woman with money
that she never earned bought some broken
down nobleman with title he never
earned. eff / were a woman" said he,
I'D hate to think l was 90 ugly that l.
had to pay man to marry me and take
me to some other country" fApplause).
Then there should be an ideal of busi-
ness. Unfortunately there seemed 70 be
OF late years not so much conscience in
business as there once was. There should
be just as much conscience in business
as in any thing else. The ideal of BUSH
ness should be a high one. demanding
strict integrity in all dealings.
Speaking of the ideals of lawyers, he
said there were several Some lawyers
boosted of the number of criminals they
had saved, others of other things, and
50 on. But the lawyer who was sharp in
practice finally got to a point where his
advice ceased 20 be of advantage 10 his
client. A shrewd lawyer could sometimes
trick a Judge, but that judge thereafter
could never listen to that lawyers argu-
1nent, because he was always looking for
the hole that he was trying 10 ke9p out Of
Mr.. Bryan recalled the fact that Jeffer-
son had said that in the last ANALYSIS
every nation has two parties, the demo-
cratic in the true meaning Of that term,
and the aristocratic. Many things, Mr..
Bryan considered, showed that the rule
of the people was the better form of gov
eminent Everywhere that the Austral-
ian ballot system had been voted on, the
overwhelming result was a vlndlcatlon
of the democratic idea Also wherever the
question of election of United States Sen
ators by direct vote of the people was
submitted to the people, it had been car
ried by an overwhelming majority. In
Switzerland, he said, they had the inltl-
ative and referendum and they had a gov
eminent closer to the people than any
other. When that question was first
spoken of here, continued Mr.. Bryan, cit
was laughed at, but now there IS not
State in the Union that has not got it
to some extent. There is an increasing