The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
Mt Bryan Delivers Address to Teachers Upon Rewards
 of Labor
PRODUCER DOES NOT
 GET EQUITABLE RETURNS
Nebraskan Declares That Change of Administration Is Necessary To Secure Reforms for Benefit
 of Working Classes.

Fairview, Lincoln, Neb.. July 1s-Declar- ing that society had not given to the producer his equitable reward, and that the administration of the government should be changed so as to remedy this condition, W. J. Bryan today from the lawn of his home delivered one of his most important utteranoes in the last sev- eral years. The occasion was the visit of several hundred teachers and students of the Fremont (Neb) Normal school After shaking hands with the visitors. Mi. Bryan was introduced by Prof w. II. Clemmons, principal of the school. Mi. Bryan spoke as follows:
 Ut is true that have not been officially notified yet of my nomination, but there are certain things that have been said that have raised a suspicion in my mind that an announcement Is going to be made soon that will not be a great sur prise to me. But I am in sort of in- termediary state now. and it is not proper for me to enter into any extended discus sions until this announcement is officially made. But I cannot withstand the temp tation to say a word when I am confront ed by the students who come here with Professor clemmens and Mrs. Clemmons. They have been old-tlme friends of mine, and am not going to take unto myself all the credit of your being here.
 Generous Friends.
 Professor Clemmons and 1 have been in politics together for a good while. It is well to have generous friends who over- estimate your virtues and minimize your faults for l think it was Franklin who said more than a 100 years ago that mans friends had to overpraise him In order to make up for the abuse he gets from his enemies. and which he did not deserve. and it Is fortunate that I have some very good friends like Professor Clemmons to make up for some who are d little prejudiced when they call to ex- anime the principles of what 1 stand for and what I tried for.
 You are preparing yourselves for teachers, and what I want to say to you today is in line with your work. If you will examine the platform adopted at Denver you will find that it closes with an appeal to those who desire to see this government a government of the people. by the people and for the people, and so administered that it will so far as human wisdom can, secure to each individual the reward from society proportionate to the contribution that that person makes 10 the welfare of society. To my mind thls is the ideal toward which a government should strive. There is a divine law of rewards. It is that every one shall en- joy in proportion as that person by en- ergy and industry and intelligence con tributes to the world
 Sacrifices of Pioneers.
 Many of you are the sons and daughters of pioneers who came to this country and converted what was once q desert into a garden-spot. When the pioneer goes into new country he en- dures sacrifices and his reward ought to be large. He goes forth with great industry to convert the raw materials that he finds into finished products into material wealth-and when the conditions are such they ought to be he succeeds in amassing a fortune and accumuatng property in proportion as he applies intelligence and industry to his work. I take it that that Is the divine law of reward. and the govern ment should, as nearly as possible, fol- low these laws.
 One of our complaints against pres ent conditions Is that the rewards of society are not equitably distribut Take, for instance, your occupations, or pro fessions. Whether our children are a comfort to us a pride to us, a source of helpfulness to us. depends very largely upon what the teacher does, for the teacher, more than any other one, co-operates with the parent in the de- velopment of the child. Now, this is your work It could not be a more i'm portant work, and yet what is your remuneration?
 Rewards for Work.
 Now, compare your compensation and your work with the compensation and the work of those who have se- cured privileges and favoritism. Com pare your work and your reward with those, for instance, who have secured control of some great industry, and who, by means of this control, are able to reach their hands into the pockets of S0,000.00O of people, and, by fixing arbitrarily the price of that which thev sell and which the people must have, are able to gather a reward larger than they earn.
 The democratic party is not expect ing to bring the millennium through a democratic administration. Those who represent that party understand that governments are administered by hu- man hands, and that what mems hands touches does not attain to perfection.
 We do not expect our nation will be free from faults when it is intrusted into the hands of those who call them selves democrats. But 1t is the purpoSe of those who are democrats to secure "a better adjustment of rewards of serv- ice, and they believe that this can be done by restoring to the government the ancient doctrines. They believe 1t can be done by making 1t more re- sponsive to the will of the people; and 1T you Will read the platform you will find that there are several specific re- forms that are asked for