The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-03
BRYAN MAKES PLEA FOR
INTEGRITY IN POLITICS
Continued from Page I


person was called a dreamer who was
called Joserh. His brethren got mad
because OF his dreams When his faith
er sent him out where his brothers kept
their flocks in Dotham, they called
him a dreamer and wanted to kill him;
they put him down i'm a pit and finally
sold him To some merchants going down
TO Egypt / followed it up and L
found after while this dreamer gath
cred the corn together. and when there
was a famine his brothers came down
TO get corn of him. So it wasn't so bad
TO be a dreamer after all.
While / found it a compliment TO be
put in their class, / would not be con-
ceited enough to put myself in the
class of those who dreamed great
things, for 1 haven't been the original
or. I haven't been even the pioneer.
Many have discovered the principles
have been fighting for long before l
found them The only credit l claim is
that have been working overtime ever
since l discovered them to disseminate
them. l was thinking OF one who was
one of the greatest of our dreamers.
Thomas jefferson deserves more than
any other man in our history TO be
called a dreamer, and his dreams are
constantly being materialized. l want
to speak for a few minutes today about
Thomas JeffersCn because he IS my pa
iron saint l lose no opportunity to
say 1 believe him 10 have been the
greatest constructive statesman that
this world has ever known; that neither
| 1,Ar w hs4
ever produced a man who stands as
high as jefferson as a constructive
And / believe that the example of
Jefferson is important for us TO consider
| an educated man. He was one of the
best educated men of his time. but yet
| his sympathies were with the ignorant.
! Jefferson outlined the public school syS-
tenn that is not only developed in this
| country but has been borrowed the world
! over 1 speak of il because today we
| need more educated men with sympe-
thies like jefferson had. The trouble
| with our education now is that IL too
often separates the man who has educa-
ton from the people who haven't had
| speaking of the scholar once said that
| the people made the history and that the
schools simply wrote it,. one-half true
| and half gathered from their prejudices.
And II is true today that the schol-
airs in this country are not doing their
duty. They ought to look ahead and see
/ the dangers. and they ought to warn the
public of the dangers that are coming.
/ but yet they do not do ii. President
Roosevelt made a speech TO some Har-
! ward graduates and he pointed out this
very thing. He said there was not a great
scheme of spoliation in this country that
4 was not defended by Harvard graduates.
4 Our public men instead OF training their
! trained minds to the services of the peo
| pie are too often trained over against
| the welfare Of the public. / think at
this time the example of jefferson comes
/ TO us as an inspiration. and we can mold
him up TO the learned men of today and
ask them to initiate him in not allow
ing their education TO wean them away
from the mass of the people.
Example for the Rich.
Jefferson was a rich man. rich man
for his day. But all of his sympathies
| aristOcrat but he was the first great
| Democrat. He was hated by men of
great wealth of the day because he per-
sistently insisted upon the application of
the truths. Equal rights to all, special
privileges 10 one And. my friends
let me say here that Thomas jefferson.
1 a wealthy man who had Sympathies for
the poor. gives us an example that ought
TO be held up TO the rich men of today
To-day We find greater fortunes/in sim
gle hands than. the world has ever known
before. The rapidly with which the for
l'tunes have been accumulated in this
country has amazed us all. II is unpar-
| alelled In history And because many of
| these great fortunes have been accumu-
| lated by immoral means. the people who
have accumulated them have become so
perverted that they take distorted view
4 OF society, OF government, and even of
religion. Thomas Jefferson didn't ask
for privilege. He didn't ask a favor
He only wanted what all might have
| And he favored government that pro-
tected every individual enjoying life lib
| erty and the pursuit of happiness guar
| anteeing to him fair share OF the pro-
ceeds OF his own toll My friends there
would be no antagonism between the rich
felt as jefferson felt. and he was a rich
! man for his time.
Sympathy Is Needed
What we need in this world Is SYM
pathy. sympathy 1t is the bond that
must bind people together. and when a
! man becomes so rich that he ceases to
\ have sympathy for the poor he is richer
than anyone ought TO be- You ASK me
/ how much money a man ought to have
i don't know. ] would not assume to fix
a limit TO what man might hold. In
| the first place i would say that no man
| ought 10 have money beyond what he
gives service for in return. say that a
/ man ought TO have from society a re-
ward for ell he can do for society II a
man can give to society services worth
| 400 a day he ought to have 800 day
| II he can give services worth 1000 day
/ want him to have 81 900 day. If he
| can give services only worth 80 day.
he ought 10 have only so day. That is
! that the reward should De commensurate
/ with the services.
/ NV friends. I am going 10 Law down
| what / regard as a sound principle in re-
gard u the amount of wealth that a man
can have A man can have all the wealth.
| n he gets il honestly all the wealth to I
he can have provided he owns the mon
ey But when man gets SO much mon
ey this the money owns MN. ne mas