The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-10-22

TO tel, him. that IL he didn't mind out
the real bears or the Teddy Bears
would get him yet. But, IN spite Of
the fact that he had called attention
TO a thing that he had struggled
against rope to remedy, in spite Of the
act that nc had returned evil for good
by mentioning something that all the
hair reetcreTs IN the world had failed
to correct, he was bound 70 say Of Mr..
BRYAN that he was one or the great
est, the Rrandest and nobleSt and
truegt men that God had ever given
To any country So profound he was,
So FAR in advance of his age, that he
had been called a fanatic and his prin-
ciplcs and policies denounced as
fanaticien. and yet so great was the
rs,e a... la-a.a I 80 rIC.t -e was aeIt
BY the peopIe that the great ieade Of
the opposition had taken and appro-
priated his policies to his own use.
He had been heard gladly by the
crowned heads Of the world. A man
without guile. with the courage Of
conviction, Mr.. Bryan, he declared,
was something higher than a patriotic
was a true and humble Christian gen
tleman. He took pleasure in pre-
senting a great, az true, az patriotic
and noble a mar as God had ever
given a PEOPLE. orator. statesman. man
and Christian, William j. Bryan, OF
Nebraska a
4 Little Game With Glenn.
Amid prolonged cheers and APP
plause, Mr.. Bryan rose to commence
his speech, while the tumult held until
he silenced ii with a gesture. Re-
ferriug to Governor GIenn's pleasantly,
he said that "a great deal goes on be-
hind tho scenes. Those who sit in
the audience are often deceived I'M
less ~they-converse afterwards with he
players. You have heard only a lit
tie part ir a little game that he and
] put up on the pe---e- We arranged
that | was to discuss his bald head;
that he vas to become indignant and
that l would then nave the chance
to explain that if you examined the
Bible you would find that all that the
boys said to h prophet was some
thing that the governor could not
take offense at. because it was eco
up"-ol,, ~bald-head!" daughter and
applause.)
He was glad that he could join the
great throng present in giving testi-
mony to the high performance by the
governor of the duties Of his steward
ship. 81 am glad to come to a state
in which the Chief Executive has
displayed such sympathy with the peo-
pile. It took moral courage to do
duty. and Glenn had displayed it. He
appreciated the compliments that had
been paid him. He had been forced
to take them at par by the compli-
ment he had paid to the audience.
Having told what a fine audience it
the parity. He should have said
that the ratio between the splendid au-
and himself was the sacred
ratio of 16 to lin favor of the au-
dience.
The audience vas so splendid that
he could not hope to reach it all with
his voice and must therefore talk to
that part of it that he could reach.
and he would ask him to act as a
convention and transmit anything that
they might think worthy to repeat to
those who could not hear what he
had to say
Who Make Up 1.-THE Run"
When he spoke of the average
man. Mr.. Bryan wanted ii under
stood that he was not speaking Of the
ladies at all. There is no
average woman; so far as
my experience goes, they are
all above the average" II speaking
of the average man, he wanted to
how numerous he is, how i'm
portant, what his connection with
government is. If, when you think of
the average man you think of him as
a Democrat. it is because If he knows
~ AAot pCSl ~ q L NC Ill lIllilS ClSC.
Sometimes, in other countries, he
had had occasion to look for the
man and could not find him
he was not there. In Mex
leo the official class was refined
and educated; they live in luxury.
very different; the peon had neither
nor refinement. While the
officials were doing what they could
to lift UP the level there was much
to do. Because there was no middle
class, Mexico was sending to the
United States for men to manage her
In Asia. the situation was worse.
the ruler was at the top and the peo-
pie at the bottom, with an immense
between the two.
In Europe, While the extremes are
not so far apart, there is no middIe
class such as there is here-at least
such class as with that
in this country.
When in England he a visited
several great estates, two of them that
had come down in the same family
for two hundred and six hundred
years respectively. On one of them
zoo families of tenants tended to
Z 200 acres of land. For seven cen
turtles. one family had held the right
collect the rents. and two undre
right to pay the rent. Those who
the soil could not get rid of it,
and those who titled it, could not get
hold of it He saw there the blight
landlordism. and he saw as he
had never before the service that JEFF
ferson had rendered in the law pre-
venting the entail of land. If that
had not been passed, there
have followed a landed aris-
tOcracy.
Ours Biggest Man of All.
NThe more | saw of the old world"
Mr.. Bryan, the more loved
the new. One thought Impressed me
nowhere among the old coun-
tries was their average mar as big
as u average man. Nowhere are
the common people like our people,"
For fear lest some one should con-
slider the use of the word common
a reproaCh, he would enumerate the
he included in the limits of the
expression. How large and respect
a class il isl
a Compliment.
When he had started his Com
moner' Republican editors had twit-
him with the name. He replied
that, when it was understood who are
embraced in the word. it would be
to be such a compliment that
everybody would be anxious for a
ticket of admission.
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