New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-03-22
BRY AN SAGE o. HOPE
Orator Of the Platte Greeted by More Than
Half Thousand People
FINDS HIcHIDEAL IN PURE POLITICS
Great Orator Makes Himself Popular by His
Thoroughly Democratic Ways.

The Value of an Ideal as#por-
trayed by Hon. Vim. j Bryan in his
lecture at Turner theatre Thursday
evening attracted a large audience
tie largest without exception that has
ever gathered in that large hall, and
the strange thing about it's the fact
that more than half Of the audience
was from out of the city.
Mr.. Bryan was introduced by r. W.:
Johnson and upon rising to begin his
address was created with a storm of
applause. The people were waiting to
hear the man who has made himself
famous from one end of this country
to the other.
Alter good-natured ssjolly. about
being glad to visit the home Of the
Hon. John Lind, a personal friend of
the speaker, and a few remarks upon
the present governor of the state, he
entered upon his discourse.
| An ideal is above price, he said.
lit means the difference between sue
cess and failure-the difference between
a noble life and a disgraceful career,
and it sometimes means the difference
between life and death.
81 have known laboring men who,
working for wages, have been able to
support themselves, acquire library
and become acquainted with the phi
losophers, orators and historians Of
the world and many Of them have laid
aside enough to crafty their ambition
for college course. What enables
them to resist temptation and press
! forward to the contamination of a high
purpose? It is their ideal Of life. As
/ have gone through the country 1
have found here and there young men
sometimes the sons of farmers, some
times the sons of mechanics, some
times the sons of merchants, sometimes
the sons of professional men-yOung
men who have one characteristic in
common, namely, that they have been
preparing for service. They have
learned that service is the measure of
greatness; and though they have not
always known just what line of work
they SWere to follow, they have been
preparing themselves for service, and
theywillbe ready when the opportunity
comes.
"What we need today is an ideal of
life that will make people as anxious
to render full service as they are to
draw full pay an ideal that will make
them measure life by what they bestow
upon their fellows not by what they
receive.
IF a young man asks me how he
can make fortune in a day, cannot
tell him. IF he asks how he can be-.
come rich in a year, know not what
to answer him, but I can tell him that
if he will locate in any community and
for twenty-five years live an honest
life, an industrious life, a 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 be
fore the quarter Of century has elapsed
his fellows will call upon him to act
for them and to represent them in i'm
.portant matters. =
B Getting into politics Mr.. Bryan IA 5: :
Take the demand for the election of
senator's by the people: upon what
does it rest? Upon the belief that the
people have the right to and capacity
for government. This reform S sure
to come, because the people believe in
self-government, and they will time
insist upon making the government
conform to their belief.
The initiative and referendum in
5volye the same princi pies. The initia-
tive describes the process by which