The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21
A NEW BATTLE CRY
 ISSUED BY VIM. J. BRYAN

man of action. the man of thought. the clergyman, end among the rest he made the statesman. Free government is tho right of the people to- nominate set him to the job. Bad government Is when they mistake the man God de- signed for blacksmith for a states man and set him up. There Is a heap of that sort of thing, and that IS what all this rcw is about.
 We have class of prophets in this country who hold that the people can do no wrong. That is just as false maintained in the time of Plantagenets that the king can do no wrong. When mankind shall have attained to the per lection that the people can do no for government at all among men. What is government for but to keep the people from doing wrong? The most despotic government in the world would be the rule of an unrestrained majority, and that is what this initia- tive and referendum is. The vital principle and prime mission of free government is to establish rights for the minority that majorities are re- quired to respect, or rather to conserve and preserve those rights that are in- herent and jnalienable.
 A Harvest for DemagOgues.
 Hence our written Constitution. that Is so replete with limitations of gov ernmental power. Why change a sys- tenn unueT WHICH we nave pGCOHle SO powerful and so opulent? Why aban- don the representative system for the pure democracy of the initiative and referendum? What harvest for dem agogues that would be-a government of the demagogues, by the demagogues and for the demagogues. In such a government Denis Kearney would be greater than Clay, Calhoun and Web ster. The land would be overrurA with agitators, with all sorts of heresy the people would be invited to initiate. Congress would be a perfectly useless body Every citizen with vote would be a legislator millions of them dense- ly ignorant of the issues and hundreds of thousands of them moved by the most vicious passions. Fine laws that layout would make.
 Mir Bryan has threatened to read everybody out of the Democratic Par ty who does not take up with this fad. ject 1t he intends to read himself out of 1t. That is threat Threaten ed men live long. Is the Democratic Par ty the craven thing MT. Rryan's threat implies? We shall see.
 Bryan's BOssism.
 There are Democrats in this country who profoundly believe u at MT. Bry- ans room Is better than his presence; to's brain" the Democratic Party could not afford to submit to the bosslsm couched in the passage have quoted.
 'I am Sir Oracle. "
 He will allow no man to be a Dem = ocrat who does not subseibe to his infallability and who is not as thor oughly convincGi that he is immune to error as he himself is persuaded he Is. Perhaps the Democratic Party can stand 1t. It has stood a heap of things that would have put any other party out of the political business and yet sur wives.
 But never before has such a nause- ating dose of bossism fixed up for 1t as MT Bryan mixed at Brooklyn Tues day. If the Democracy shall quaT 1t, then bring 3n the government owner ship. It will gulp that, too, and not bat an eye.
 Is Mir. Bryan aware that he is be- come a valuable aid society of the Re- publican Party?