Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-14
A STRENUOUS DAY FOR
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.
Three Speeches Are Made by Him Before
Large Audiences. and Reception
at the Club House.

have its ideals, and we are far enough
from the election to admit there is room
| in all the parties for the raising of the
party ideal How can a person most
aid his party? Let us suppose that one
is passionately devoted to his party and
anxious to render it the maximum of
service; how can he render this service
BY raising the ideal of his party. If a
young man asks me how he can make
fortune in one day, cannot tell him
Ii he asks me how to become rich in a
year. | know not what TO answer him,
but | can tell HIM that if he will locate
IN any community and for twenty five
years, live an honest life, an industrious
life, useful life, he will make friends
and fasten them to him with hooks of
steel; he will make his impress upon
the community and the chances are
many to one that before the quarter of
a century has elapsed his fellows will
call upon him to act for them and to
represent them in important matters.
And if you ask me how you can win
an election this year, do not know.
If you ask me how we can ensure vic
tory four years from now, / cannot tell,
but | do know that the party which has
the highest ideals and that strives most
earnestly to realize its ideals will ulti-
mately dominate this country and
make its impress upon the history of
the nation. AS it is more important
that the young man shall know how to
build character and to win permanent
success than that he shall know how to
become rich in one day, so it is more
important that we shall know how to
contribute to the permanent influence
of party than it is that we be able to
win temporary victory or distribute
the spoils of Office after successful
campaign.
Not only must the party have an
ideal, but the nation must also have an
ideal, and it is the ideal of this nation
that has made it known thro'out the
lands who do not know our population
or the number of acres under our flag.
You will find people who do not know
how many cattle we raise or how much
corn or cotton we export, but you will
not find people anywhere who have not
some conception of nations ideal This
ideal has been "a shining light out into
all the world and its rays have illumin-
ated the shores of every land. We
boasted of this ideal in the past, and it
must not be lowered now. We followed
this ideal in dealing with Cuba. 1t was
my good fortune to be in Cuba on the
day when the formal transfer took
place, and | never was more proud
of my nation in my life than / was on
the Goth day of May, 1902, when this
great republic rose superior TO great
temptation, recognized the inalienable
rights of Cuba and secured to them the
fruits of victory for which they had
struggled and sacrificed for more than
a generation. We hauled down the
flag. it is true, and in its place they
raised the flag of the Cuban republic,
but when we lowered the flag we raised
it higher than it ever had been before,
and when we brought it away we left it
enshrined in the hearts of graceful
people.
Is it the desire of any simply to make
our flag feared? Let us rather make it
loved by every human being. Instead
of having people bow before it, let us
have them turn their face toward it and
thank God that there is one flag that
stands for human rights and for the
doctrine of self -governmente everywhere.
There are some who say that we must
now have the largest navy in the world
in order to terrorize other nations, and
make them respect us. But if we make
our navy the largest in the world, other
nations will increase their navies be-
cause we increased ours, and then we
will have to increase ours again, be-
cause they will hare increased theirs,
and they will have to increase theirs
again because we have increased ours
and there is no limit to this rivalry, but
the limit of the power of the people to
bear the burdens of taxation. There is
better, safer aud less expensive
plan. Instead of trying to make our
navy the largest in the world, let us try
to make our government the best gov
ernment on earth. Instead of trying to
make our flag float everywhere, let us
make it stand for justice wherever it
| floats-for justice between man and
man, for justice between nation and ma
ton, and for humanity always. And
then the people of the world will learn
to know and revere that flag because it
will be their protection as well as ours
And then if any king raises his hand
against our flag, the oppressed people of
his own land will rise up and say to him
Hands elf That flag stands for our
rights as well as the rights of the Ameri-
can PEOPLE," 1t is possible to make
our flag represent such an ideal. We
shall not fulfill our great mission, we
shall not live up to our high duty unless
we present to the world the highest
ideals in individual life, in domestic
life, in business life, in professional life,
in political life-and the highest nation
ideal that the world has ever known.
At the close of the lecture at the opera
house, Mr.. Bryan was taken directly to
Castle hall, where the democrats had
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