The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-09-28
A GREAT SPEECH
iiiam Jennings Bryan Spsakes
on the Progress OF
CHRISTIAN IDIALo.
AS Observed on His Trip Around tn
World. Shuws Sand Pat Argum; mt
Exsm!ned ard Answered. Gov.
tfLment Ownership yf Rail.

roads Considered.
Mr.. Chairman, Mr.. Mayor, Governor,
Ladies' and Gsntl mon:
IN 1t Is very gratifying ~ be welcomed
to this great Southern S;&ts, thi,
typical and repreasp tsptve Stare o.
the South, so oordislly by the reore.
sentative Ct your city and your chic.
executive.
L appreciate the k.ud words which
they have SpOS.n. 1 am Ails,u, nov
ever, that 1t ia goirg to be very e'nl
CULT for me to ure up to tho big.
opinion that they have expressed. i
am glad l am young Tor / VIII rs We 9
longer time to eldravor TO justify
their good opinion YOU have done E
much for ma In the past and been s,
loyal to tho things which l hAvos tJut
for that you have an uolimited uepo,
1t In my bank, and car drew on il
whenever you require It.. l shall come
here whenever | . help YOU sac l.
aB In the part, you do MOI
need any help, l VIII come here when,
ever you can help me. (LtuRhte1 }
And you can hep ma by givinR mr.
encouragement, Or giving n.s ucpa, oy
giving me !nsp..al Ga,
appreciate the gathering Of this i'm
menSe Grove beiOye me. III. did no
mention his namo, but he told then.
10 Vcbe for the best man ard every
body knows who that is.'' (Laughtnr J
When l have tried to be non parti
can l have not always SUI c }o1e5; but
today | am not going to sry. / tninL
you are 9 5000 deal es they wers 81 .
meeting l once add fessed at Buckhorn
school house, back in 81 LAS | wen
In The iCuBe, b little school house, one
OF the d NUof7.in whispered to me
Hit 'sm hard, there is ns3t a Repub
loan here" (Laughtel 1T was his
icea Of good meeting (muEhter
But | Ee+d & splendid OraHCa t. cay al,
1 wanted to say. The fact is ] really
erj, q meeting BETTER Il sOn.o IL pub.
licahb ar present.. l late 10 nske a
s'eeeh on great gu .~stion&, IN great
Crises, And feel thai I'll the pc ,p,e
whom l ana talking to ara ill rts,i!
and don't need what / ncy.
Like tof2ci 3iiao p,s,l ~ thcre mr.,
pe somo one WHO uupup 60 be 49, ID,
and l oap after awhlie luo4 back anl
feel thai l hEvA ~, d :. tre ore as q
bran from the burning. But # l can
not make q speech " Re publican
here, A can make a speech like / would
make 10 hi puulioans su .na. ia Asy
know how we TALK 10 them up North
where 5hoy ned tSlhing 20. (Laugh.
ter
TRIBUTE TO CHRISTIANITY.
My trip arouni the woilu las baen
an Instructive one, 1t hae given noe
great encouragement. 1 was glad that
this meeting was ornred wibh PRAYER.
4 have been a mem Der OF the Onria
tihn church siLce l vas ID. l hope /
have grown In grace, as INC say. l
think l have learned to APPRECIATE
the Christian ideal more thai l ever
did before, for | " secn the mead o.
1T In the Orient, anu l have returned
with the belief tna5 whaG they need Ia
the O.lent more than any Li; K else is
the Christian ideal that will CIV them
q conception of life worth living up
to.
When in China they tod NE that
they were living up IT, the Confuotous
ideal, and that In cur country we are
not living up to the Christian ideal,
and l told them that o man coula fall
short Of the Christian ideal and yet
live on 8 much higher plane &! an &
man who lived up to the Contuci1us
ideal. 1t Is the glory Of cur concep
tion Of life, the Christian ideal, and
while it is within sight of every one
it ID beyond tho res ca Of any 20 en-.
tirely fulfill 1T.
1 was GLAD TO find every where that
democracy was growing. DEMOCRACY
means the rule Of tte pcople Wa hnvt
not Visited o land but we fund ti.ere
evidence Of growth Of the democratic
idea. Nothing more imprGsSes ore
than the fact that there IL not q ma
t1on on earth where It's seed has not
been soWn In places whore 1t is net
now making progress, Even In Tur
key, the most backward OF all chose
nations, a man was talking to me ore
day on the boat-the nextday he c II
me apologies because he did not talk
longer. He said that he bad some re-
form lGeas, that he was uadeT susp'c
Ion, that he sAw q apy watching hin
when he was talking to me and nc Wak
AFRAID to talk any longer. They aye
talkir 6 reform everywhere, ire work
Ing toward the Democratic ideal. 1t
is growing in this country |
will speak Of this growth sitter &
while.
l come to bring you words OF en-
c0uragement in regard to the ultlmste
triumph OF these idaaS to which yo,
have stood &c stSGdfastly.
Before l do that / want TO dwell &
little while on a subject that has beer
brought before the Southern people
by n OF the mernberSOf the cabinet,
Secretary Leslie M. Shaw, who Is Wis
1ting North CarolinA, making tariff
speeches, especially In Dis trictS where
they have small Republican majori.
ties. | thought 1t worth whilo to call
attention In the South to Che speech
he made, aud to show how comp letoly
Ghid speech proves to you ali we CON
for on the tariff question. Score
tary Shaw Ia on3 OF The leading Re.
publicsns, that Is, he is one OF the
leaders IN II branch OF the r publl
CSu party.
REPUBLICAN, PARTY DOOMED.
The Republican party is d!yiaed,
and 10 Ia dividing more no more. |
want to say to you Dam Gratis, you
know what Ii was II Democrats to bo
divided, | want 10 say to you who SUI.
Tered terribly while that division last
ed, i want to say 10 you who walker