Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-15
DEMOCRACY AND HOME

Holm w. KERN, Democratic candi-
date for vice president. says the
= party will score signal victory
in November. Republicans who give
their politics instead of their country
the first place in their loyalty fail to see
any reason for this confidence. They
think Mr.. Kern is talking for effect"
when he says Democrats will win. But
he is in earnest, and you shall see he is
a true prophet. Democrats will win
because the Democratic platform is a
ton of intentions, plans and principles
which breathes the very spirit of
Americanism, and revives the hopes Of
many good citizens who had begun to
think the day was over when Freedom
was the only ruler in the United
States, and to believe the tyrant Greed
had usurped her place. He will win
because the Republican platform is an
unsound document of doubtful sanity,
devoid of wisdom, weak in patriotism,
strong in pandering to privilege, and
in essence and effect bull-headed,
dogmatic assertion that whatever is,
Is right, when it is Republican and
because it is Republican. incidentally
the Republican platform contains an
undeniable statement of the amazing
increase of the national wealth and
available material resources during the
very years when the people were suf-
fering most from intellectual famine.
T. Nh 70 nina
because the effects of physical famine
are transient if it is relieved in time
and not permitted to kill; while the
effects Of intellectual famine, of the
deprivation of boys and girls of the
education which should train, broaden,
improve and steady their minds can
be overcome NEVER, NEVER,
NEVER!
: No matter how wealthy the illiterate
children of the United States may be
in later life, through fortunes chances
or changes, their money will never buy
back for them the years, the playtime,
the school time, the opportunities of
their youth, store their minds with the
knowledge which they have not been
allowed to acquire, or form their brains
to the habits of correct thought which
have been interfered with. We have
heard one of the richest men in the
nation say, with obvious and unaf-
fected sincerity, that he would give
great deal more than half his fortune
If he had the mental training of the
boys and girls in the sixth and sew
enth grades"
This man knew his life had been mar
rowed, knew he was cribb'd, cabin'd
and confined, mental dwarf on
mountain Of material wealth, conscious
of possession, possession, possession,
and of inability to appreciate, under
stand or use possession. Here was
torment worse than that of Tantalus'
In order to protect innocent boys ana
girls who under Republican conditions
would have to suffer both from pow
erty and ignorance-for not one in a
million overcomes the former condition
unless, like the ignorant rich man who
talked with us, he is one of fortune
favorites," 1t is the duty of all Amer
leans 10 entrust to Democratic patriot
ism the care of the country which,
among all its achievements, has none
greater than its production Of the
American ballad, Home, Sweet
Home" 1t is the duty of all good
Americans to save the land Of Home,
Sweet Home, to protect Home, Sweet
Home and keep the little kiddies" at
their mothers aprons strings and IN
the school room and out of the clutches
of the Beef Trust and the Steel trust
and the Coal Trust. They can save ana
protect the Homeland and help re-
store three million toiling children TO
their nurseries and schools by forget
ting past political prejudices, If indeed
they were swayed by any, and by CIV
ing broad-minded, hearty, American
support to William Jennings Bryan,
Defender of Home. Sweet Home.