The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN DNCUSSEN HREE WUklD PkUBLES

an impossible gulf between the prince and his people, and there is even now in large part of the orient a gulf 50 wide that one who tolls with his harfds cannot look across 1t. The royal fam flies have lived by the sword and they have forced from those beneath them a tribute sufficient to support them selves and their armed retainers. The masses have been the prey of the governing classes, no matter what tribe or family held the throne.
 In Europe the extremes of society have been brought nearer together al- though there is still a gap between the aristocracy and the masses. This gap. however, is growing more and more narrow, education and popular govern ment being the most influential fac- tors in bringing about this result. With education now more and more within the reach of all. the poor boy is forcing his way to the front in bus mess and with his fortune thus &C., quired he is leveling ranks. In the political world, too, the champion of the weak and the oppressed is making his influence felt and his political power Is opening before him doors which until recently were closed. Tn France deputies, senators and even presidents have come up from the people, and in England a labor leader. John Burns, has fought his way into the cabinet. Who will say that the European laboring man is not making progress when labor's foremost repre- sentative in Great Britain becomes the guest of the king
 Yes, America leads the world in the recognition of the true worth of the man who tolls, and yet, even in Amer lea there is room for still further ad- vancement. Our national life is full of instances of rise from office boy to merchant prince, from plowman to governor, congressman and senator; we have had a rail splitter made pres ident-and no president ever bore him. self better or served amid more trying times-while another president looked back to the days when he followed the tow-path on a canal, And yet, with these illustrious examples of poverty overcome and great careers built upon a foundation of manual labor there is still much to be done before the pro- ducer of wealth will receive the con sideration which he deserves. The dig nifty of labor will not be appreciated as it ought to be until our young men are taught that 1t is more honorable to contribute by labor to the sum of the worlds wealth than to spend in likeness the money that others have made.
 Tolstoi contends that people cannot be kept in sympathy with each other ! unless all perform some physical labor throughout their lives; he says that contempt for those who do the drudg- cry of life is natural if we put that drudgery upon others and reserve for
 ourselves only intellectual pursuits
 Whether this be true or not. it Is true that we cannot view labor in its prop
 CT relation to life unless we measure life by a standard different from that
 which Is now ordinarily applied So
 long as we measursf life by its income rather than by its odtgo, we shall seek
 those occupations which yield the
 largest pecuniary reward; when we measure life by what we put into the world rather than what we take out of 1t. we shall seek those occupations
 which offer the largest field for use | fitness.
 Enough has been said to indicate
 that the worlds work is broad enough 1, to enlist all who are willing to work