Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-29

occurred
to speak.
Mr.. Bryan Speaks
"I appreciate the kind words said
about your city and myself" began Mr.
Bryan, land if you will admit the truth
of all that has been spoken about
myself / Will admit all that has been
said about Los Angeles" and there fol-
lowed q general laugh.
when a man is I'm public life" he
continued, ut is necessary for him to be
complmented by friends to make up for
unkind things said about him by those
who are not his friends. When some
mean Republican says unlkind things
about me | Will remember the kind
words said about me tonight and forget
the unkind ones.
II am glad to be able to make a
speech outside of politics. During the
past fifteen years l have had many OPP
portunltles to make political speeches,
and | usually took advantage of them
/ am glad to speak upon a subject that
all can agree upon. Another reason Is
that can avoid politics now more than
/ used to, because events continually
occurring made the discussion of poll
tics from Democratic standpoint less
necessary.
IL am afraid to say things that 1 used
to, because people Will say that 1 am
plagrarizing from the remarks of Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
1.-THE talk tonight will be nonpartsan,
but my address tomorrow night will be
of the straight Democratic variety.
When ! have made political speech l
have been accused of attempting to de-
liver a sermon, while If i attempted to
deliver sermon people would say 1 am
making a political speech. l cannot ex-
plain this except on the theory that
there Is so little difference between
Democratic doctrine and a sermon.
"As proof of this theory 1 will relate
an incident which occurred during a To-
cal campaign in my home town, when
the churches took up the subject of
good civic government. In my church
a Republican lawyer made a speech,
while 1 talked from the pulpit of an
other church. A few days afterward
the Republican complained that I had
made a Democratic speech. l denied
the allegation, and asked in what re-
spect / had erred. He replied that
had favored Judge Brodie, the Demo-
cratic nominee for mayor. 1 replied
that / had not mentioned Judge Bro
dies name, when the Republican said:
"'Well, you advised the people to
vote for the best man, and they knew
by that that you meant the Democrat "
Up to this point every sentence ut
tered by Mr.. Bryan was greeted by
laughter or applause.
Mr.. Bryan, wfrsse announced subject
was "The Old World and It's Ways
then proceeded to relate Incidents of the
recent tour made by himself and Mrs.
Bryan and two of their children prac-
tically around the world.
Throughout his lecture he compared
the scenery and costumes of the old
world with those of America, always tc
the advantage of his own country. He
spoke Of various resorts and said that
for winter resort he would come to
Southern California. Mr.. Bryan said
that he took a trip over the electric line
on Mount Lowe, and that he doesn't
know of any place on earth where there
can be found in such a limited area
oranges, snowballs and surf bathing,
and that he would recommend this Sec
tion to all his friends.
Mr.. Bryan described many incidents
of his travels and the people and GUS
toms of the countries he visited. He
said that the Columbia river, when
built up with homes and decorated
with the attractions of the Rhine
would far surpass that famous water
way as an attraction to the travelling
public, while Lake Tajo of California
he declared to be far more beautiful
than anything which Scotland, Switzer-
land or Norway could offer in lakes or
fjords.
Referring to Japan the speaker said
that country faced a crisis at the
present time. She has borrowed the
western ideas in business and politics.
Now, he asked would she borrow the
religion on which the western civiliza-
tion was founded or fall by the way
side In her loyalty to the old, worm
out oriental religious beliefs? The most
important question facing the nation
was whether she was to become an ag-
nostc infidel nation or accept the re-
ligion which had given the western
civilization it's enduring strength.
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