Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-11-19

| founded on the teachings OF Ih0maS
Jefferson, and the latter the party of
aristocracy founded by Alexander Ham
ilton, who advocated centralized
government
He averred that democratic doctrine
must be good for President Roosevelt
had adopted many things advocated by
the democrats. He had been asked if
Roosevelt was democrat and in
answer he always felt like telling the
story which was told of Rev. Cartwright
the noted travelling preacher of Illinois.
Some one," said Mr.. Bryan, ''once
asked Mr.. Cartwright if he was scanc-
titled. The old preacher replied. Yes
in spots.' If you ask if President
Roosevelt is democrat | answer,
'Yes-in spots. And he said he
hoped the spots would grow larger and
there would be more of them.
Mr.. Bryan told how he had been
called a dreamer by Senator Beveridge,
Gov. Cummings, and Speaker Cannon,
but recalled the bible story of Joseph,
the dreamer, and his success, when dur
ing famine time he had charge of the
corn of Egypt.
| so have made up my mind" he
went on ''that it was not so bad after all
to be dreamer, if you have the corn.
| mo do not deserve to stand ar~ong
dreamers; but there was great demo-
cratic dreamer. jefferson was our
| great dreamer He had vision of a
governing people in which each
| citizen was sovereign and where no
one dared or cared to wear a crown.
And he put that dream upon paper, and
for more than a century people have
been building away, and the laborers
are today scattered through the land,
for go where you will on this earth you
will find people as earnest as you build
ing away to realize this dreamer's
dream, and when that great structure
is at last completed, it will stand so
high that all the people of the world
shall see it and be glad.
mo, l have simply been builder,
helping as best / could to rear this
structure; but shall be content if when
my days are numbered it may truly be
said of me that was of some little help
to my countrymen in realizing the de-
sign of this greatest of the world states
men dreamers, Thomas Jefferson
Mr.. Bryan touched upon the present
financial stringency and his advice was
just what might have been expected.
He urged upon his listeners to trust in
their banks.
81 am afraid that if had been elected
president and these times had occurred
in my administration there might have
been republican politicians who would
have blamed me for what the country
has suffered" said the speaker.
"But, my friends, l shall not blame
the president, as some republicans
blame him for the situation in which
we now find ourselves. l was down
east the other day, and down there
many of the prominent republicans
were laying the blame upon the presi-
dent, and they asked me what thought
about it; if thought he was to blame,
and my answer was that we ought not
to blame the sheriff, but blame the thief
That they ought not to blame those who
enforced the law, but those who COM
mitted the crime for which the law is
made necessary. | am not going to
blame the president because he has
turned the light upon the transactions
which have disgraced our land. | will
not say that he always has beer wise.
81 give him my endorsement for what
he does that is right, and cannot find
it in my heart to blame him for calling
attention to the mismanagement of
great corporate bodies and of corrup-
tion in high places; neither will blame
the banks in which we have faith. lam
not sure but what we are under great
obligation to them. But, my friends,
that does not matter. am going to do
them justice even if they were not in
clined to do justice to the party to which
| belong. am going to say that | do
not believe the bankers securities
throughout our land are bad, and they
are not responsible for the situation.
The trouble you know began in New
York They began with the gambling
transactions there which have been per-
mitted and because some of the bankers
there loaned on this fictitious capital,
on this watered stock, and some of the
bankers there l think were engaged in
enterprises that ought never to be en-
gagged in, and thus risked the money of
the depositors within their keeping.
"And then when the crash came and
the timidity of the depositor led him to
withdraw his money from the banks
most concerned, then other banks suf-
fered and the timidity increased. And
then when those banks in the east could
not return the money that the western
banks had deposited with them, then
there came this paralysis of business
| that is now felt to the remotest corners
of our land.
But, while l am not criticising the
president, and while am not critieising
the banks, | do sag, my friends. that
the republican leaders who have had
control of this country practically for
forty-seven years have not done what
they might have done 10 avert just such
crises as this.
"H you will read the last republican
national platform you will find that the
Republican party possessed the power
for forty-four years ii was then, now it
is forty-seven. That for forty-four
years it has had control of this govern
iment' nearly sll the time. It declared
in that platform that there were only
two years in the whole forty four when
the democratic party had the three
branches of the government.