Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-06
BRYAN RIGHTEOUS
But ISN'T RlL,nil ,ii1l'
SENATOR REvER!DeE SAYS NE
8RAskAN is AN iDEALlsT AND
sENTIMENTALlsT

Compares Him With Theodore Roose-
vett-says President is an Idealist,
But Man of Affairs-A Dreamer and
Doer-TaIks of Ownership.
Lincoln, Neb., Oct 5.-A misguided
martyr, righteous, but not right, Is
Senator Albert j. Beveridges defini-
of ideals is his definition of President
Roosevelt who, he believes, is as great
an idealist and dreamer as Bryan.
Senator Beveridge analyzed the two
men, comparatively and quantitatively,
in speech delivered here last night in
the interest of the republican congress
slonal and state tickets. He analyzed
also Bryan's dream of government
ownership to the end that the day
would never dawn in this country when
it might be realized.
Senator Beveridge said:
II have no patience with the abuse
of Mr.. Bryan. Mistaken in policy, he
is YET a hero of conscience. At st.
Louis he refused to sell his moral
b1rthrignt for mess of pottage. Sur
rounded there by the master manipul-
ators Of an unrighteous cabal that
sought to snare and thought to fool
the American people, he refused to sub
nit and trampled beneath his feet
offers Of influence and power. And to-
day he is the same und1smayed soldier
of conviction, choosing to utter his
thought however it may shatter his
fortune.
"This is the stuff out Of which is
made great preachers and reformers.
Such was Peter the Hermit; such
Rienzi; such Robespierre and Danton;
such was Patrick Henry and Wendell
Phillips. But such have never been
nor never can be the statesmen of a
people. There is in them so much of
poetry, so much of fanaticism; there
is so much of the dreamer, so much of
the martyr, that, while they see splen-
did visions and dream grand dreams,
they cannot make those visions real
tiles or bring those dreams to pass
| Bryan Righteous But Not Right.
i "And yet these men are needed by
humanity Always among the people
there should be the voice of protest;
!. Mr.. Bryan is superbly that. Always
in free institutions there should be the
critic and the objector; Mr. Bryan is
I supremely that. Always unrest should
have its advocates; Mr.. Bryan is grand
i ly that.
"And SO tonight, conceding, nay,
gladly asserting, the morality, courage
and fidelity to what he believes best
for the people, only question the
soundness of Mr. Bryan's views. He
is righteous but not right. In the
minority he and his followers, intend
ing to work out good, would work out
ruin.
"The true statesman has the devine
gift of achievement, the noble art OF
) getting things done. And such a man
| is he who in five years has got more
good things done for the peoples good
l than even Mr. Bryan's fertile brain
ever thought of; who has accomplish
; ed more reforms than were ever
wrought in the same time in our his
, tory; who is this moment in the midst
: of the mighty work the people have
' given him to do, and who today, with
: strength, justice, and righteousness, is
leading the American people onward
: to a fuller practical realization of theil
Y hopes, the president of the American
/ people-of all the American people
t Theodore Roosevelt.
Roosevelt Dreamer and Doer, Too.
Theodore Roosevelt has been able
: to do what he has done because, like
: Bryan, he is an idealist, but, unlike
. ;. Mr.. Bryan, he is man of affairs; be
cause he has courage as high as Ne
braska's great radical, a conscience a.
!. sensitive but skill and experience
with men that enables him to use TO
:. :. the peoples good the qualities of hu
! man nature as he finds them; and ;
= wisdom that compounds for the welfar,
. of the people, not only the strength bu
: also the defects of those with whom
he works.
"It is just the difference between tn,
!. dreamer and the achiever. Both ar
J necessary, both pure, both devoted t
:. the republic. But one is the admins
: TRAITOR; the other is the objector."
Addressing himself to the subjec
of government ownership Senator Bey
y eridge said:
:. Government ownership is wrong be
= = cause it is not a principle which cal
!. be applied to all industry, which lik
- the railways, affect all the people
government supervision is right be
cause it does apply to all industries
!. which, like the railways are so grea1
= they affect the people. Government
: ownership is wrong because it is fata
), to Individual initiative; government
: supervision is right because it pre-
serves individual initiative but pre-
vents individual abuses"