The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1906-07-26
William Jennings Bryan.

Whatever the future of William
jennings Bryan, there can be no
question of his ability to lead the
people. He is leading them now
as thoroughly as If in the heat of
presidential campaign. His lat
est speech has paragraph in it
that should go the rounds of the
common men, so rich is 1T in mean
ing. The first part was this:
"The English language has be-
come the vehicle for the convey
ance of governmental truth, even
more than for the spread of gen
eral information; for beginning
with Magma Charta and continu-
ing through the era of the Ameri-
can revolution and the declaration
of independence down to the pres
ent, no language has been SO much
employed for the propagation of
that theory of government which
traces governmental authority to
the consent of the governed"
The proof of this Illuminating
statement Is found in a single fact
that the language of the French
republic has not yet been able to
express for the people the precise
meaning of liberty. The French
have republic in which absolu-
tism beats it's victims flat to the
ground. The government itself
has more power and exercises it
more cruelty than the sultan of
Turkey. Bureaucracy and faction
are the rulers in what is called
constitutional Europe.
The second part of the para
graph is this:
"The idea that man possesses
rights, which the state did not
give and which the state cannot
take away, tho it may deny them,
has made millions of human beings
stand erect and claim their God
given inheritance.
They should be written down,
these inalienable rights of men,
conned by the child from his first
reasonable year up, studied by the
adults often, and placed in letters
of gold on the chief building of
every hamlet and town, lest We
forget. What are they2
The right to life is the first, and
to labor, and heretofore
again to the fruits of labor. This
right condemns to disgrace, and
to death, its invaders
the robbers of opportunity, of
wages, of necessities; the prison
ers misnamed adulterators of food
the yeEdo of murderous drugs.
The right to liberty is the sec
ond inalienable right of man; not
the liberty of sinner, but of the
child of God; not the liberty of
the anarchist, but of the moral
agent; not the liberty of the pirate,
Gat of the member of society.
This right condemns to disgrace,
and sometimes to death, the in
vaders of political freedom, JUS
tice and government the bribers
Of judges, Legislators, officers of
the law.
The right to holiness is the
third, which means free union
with God.
The right to the eternal life is
the fourth, which is the sole end
of man.
These two rights rur together
and give man freedom of religious
belief. He is not made for this
world alone, but for eternity; and
everything which invades his
knowledge, his love, his pursuit of
the spiritual and the eternal, is
worse than treason to the state or
murder to the individual.
IL is these inalienable rights
which France has attacked at
home, England in forlorn India,
the trusts in America, and the
money power everywhere. Mr..
Bryan's voice thunders them oyer
the cable at the very moment when
they are most outraged. Truly
he is leader of men.