The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-10
MIR. BRYAN'S PROPHECY Full
FILLED BY MIR. ROOSEVELT.

The history of the world is full
of incidents showing that the men
who first promulgate great principles
are rarely permitted to put them in
practical operation. In English poll
| tics, the history of the Liberal party
| has been that, after it had educated
the people up to the point of demand
| ing some great reform, the Tory par
| ty would adopt the popular policy as
| it's own, after vainly trying for years
/ to stem the popular tide.
| In 1900, when the question of i'm
perialism was foremost in American
| politics, the Republican leaders de-
| ton, they defended colonialism and
sneered at the doctrines of the Dec
laration of independence, and made
war and conquest and commercial
supremacy the trinity of all political
good. Against that doctrine, upheld
mainly by Mr.. Roosevelt who was the
apostle of the big Stick" and spoke
for Greater America as a world power
in the same sense that England is a
| world-power, Mr.. Bryan spoke with
an eloquence and power that would
have been needed in any decade when
the people were not money mad. The
good times that the discovery of
gold in Alaska and wars had brought
to America, were all credited to the
Mckinley administration, and the vo-
f,,,t b
doctrine that is now receiving the
plaudits of the world-the settlement
of 1.-The worlds disputes" by arbitra-
tion<under the leadership of this gov
eminent.
Mr.. Roosevelt, in his message to
Congress in last December gave utter
ance to this barbarous doctrine:
; IF the great civilized nations of
the present day should completely dis
arm, the result would mean an i'm
mediate recrudesence of barbarism in
one form or another"
Over against that doctrine and the
Big Stick utterances of Mr.. Roosevelt,
let us place his act in mediating to
end the war between Russia and
Japan. The world received his Big
Stick declarations with regret; the
world has been enthusiastic in support
of his practical carrying out of the
mission of this Republic as prophe-
sled by Mr.. Bryan when he accepted
the nomination for the Presidency in
1900 in his wonderful speech at In
dianapolis. Upon that occasion, Mr..
Bryan said:
Il can conceive of national des-
tiny surprising the slories of the pres
ent and the pasta destiny which
meets the responsibilities of today and
measures up to the possibilities of
the future. Behold republic, rest
ing securely upon the foundation
stones quarried by revolutionary pa
triots from the mountain of eternal
truth-a republic applying in practice
and proclaiming to the world the self
evident proposition that all men are
created equal; that they are endowed
with inalienable rights; that govern
ments are instituted among men to
secure these rights and that govern
ments derive their just powers from
the consent of the governed Behold
a republic in which civil and religious
liberty stimulate all to earnest endeav-
or and in which the law restraints
injury-a republic in which every citi-
zen is sovereign, but in which no
one cares tO. wear a crown. Behold
a republic standing erect while en-
pires all around are bowed beneath
the weight of their own ornaments
"a republic whose flag is loved while
other flags are only feared. Behold
a republic increasing in population, in
wealth, in strength and in influence,
10 DrOhIPn1S
Fastening the coming of an universal
brotherhOod-a republic which shakes
thrones and diSSolves ariStorcracies by
its silent example and gives light and
inspiration to those who sit in dark
ness. Behold a republic gradually
but surely becoming a supreme moral
factor in the worlds progress and
the accepted arbiter of the world S
disputes republic whose history,
like the path of the just, is as the
SHINING light that Shineth, more and
more unto the perfect day"
, 1t was not given to MI. Bryan to
personally have a ',~~d in fulfilling
his prophecy, but all lovers of the
Republic of Peace rejoice that Mr.
Roosevelt has brought new honor to
the Republic by policy in keeping
thrones and dissolves aristocracies by
with Bryan's glorious prophecy. Let us
unbroken policy whereby this Repub-
/; lie is gradually h".\ surely becoming
, supreme moral factor =, the world s
progress and the accented arbiter of
the worlds disputes Republic
whose history, like the path of the
just, is as the shining light that
Shinath more and more unto the Der-
feet day
WHEN RUSSIA WAS A FRIEND.