The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-10-27
THE PRINCE OF PEACE.

One of the most eloquent tributes
that from Rev. ]. F. Nugent, of Des
I Moines, who on referring to Mr.. Bry-
ans great speech The Prince OF
Peace took occasion to ray him a
glowing tribute both as to his personal
and political character. Rev Nugent is
one of the most eloquent ministers in
the United States and the words. COM
ing unsolicited from him, can hardly
fail to make a powerful impression in
the minds of those who read them. A
few extracts are given in the language
of the gifted divine.
For the first time since the forma-
ton of this republic a speech of a
purely religious character is thrown
before the American voter as the latest
and best form of campaign dOcu-
ment. During the past one hundred and
thirty years the American citizen has
been taught to study the political ma
chinery of his government. In the pres
ent campaign he is respectfully invited
to seriously study the principles which
underlie the machinery itself At a
roar of the political tempest, but the
party cries of good times, bank guar
antees and injunctiOns, it is somewhat
unusual to ask the voter to stop for a
moment and calmly study the issues
from moral standpoint
Issues are short-liVad Like the
| leaves of the forest they sometimes
| bud and fall in a single season, but
the leaves have never fallen withOu>
having written the history of their life
in the rings that make the sturdy
trees of the forest. The leaves have en-
dured only for a season, but the trees
live on through the centuries. History
| is as full of dead issues as the woods
are full of dead leaves, but the causes
that gave them birth. and the way they
have been settled. is the stuff from
which is spun the thread that makes
| the web of living history. 1t is in the
| light of these facts that history must
be written and that history must be
| read.
/ "The great underlying principles OF
truth and justice are never changed
by issues. but issues must be changed
and modified by them. SO far as Coo
/ is concerned. these truths are eternal;
| so far as man is concerned, they are as
old as the world.
In 1896 Mr.. Bryan ran for president
of the United States on the issue OF
! a double standard in the value O.
money. The republican party then ad
vocated the single standard Bryan
| 6pfhafo6 r h.
election that sixteen millions of
campaign fund was the orator who die
the talking in the doubtful states. AT.
ter the election we were told that i
was the voice of the people, The single
| standard carried the day In the pres
ent campaign Mr.. Bryan is running fo
president of the United States on tn,
issue of a single standard in the world
of morals. The republican party nov
advocates the double standard, one TO
measuring the rights and wrongs o
the plain people and the other mad,
for the builders of predatory wealth
! The people have been crying ou
/ against the abuses of corpora tons ant
combined wealth. and every court deci
sion that favors the railroads. tn,
Standard Oil, the paper, the tobacco
trusts and the beef robbery, and ever
form of predatory wealth has callet
forth loud and indignant protests from
the common people.
''Mr. Bryan's principles are as wild
as the world and include the human
race. No theology can be true and in
clude any less, and no true politics cal
- limited to the territory Of certain
flag. 1t is true certain countries ma,