The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-09-10
WH|TACRE
Criticizes Senator Bev-
eridge's Youngs-
town
ESTIMATE OF BRYAN
To the Editor:--

progress. Always such men have
been the voice of protest, but never
the statesman of cause. Always
they have been the urgers of reform,
but never the doors of the work.
"Mr. Bryan is an Aaron, but not a
Moses; a Henry, but not Washing
ton; a Wendell Phillips, but not an
Abraham Lincoln. He is the storm
of unrest which clears the atmos-
phere, but not the trade winds that
carry to port the freighted ships of a
peoples hope.
-Four years ago, in his own home,
paying tribute to his character and
mind, l called him dreamer who
beholds happy visions but achieves
no useful deed. His is the mind that
thinks of the barren field bending
with grain; but his is not the plow-
mans hand, the sower's craft or the
cleaners husbandry. The poets
dream Of an undiscovered Utopia has
cheered us all; but the Pilgrims, act
ually landing on Plymouth Rock,
planted the real tree of liberty, be-
meath whose real shade we rest and
by whose real fruits we live"
The distinguished Senator does well
to liken Mr.. Bryan to a man who
looks upon a barren waste of land
and dreams of fields of golden grain.
Some dreamer on beholding the bar
rem wastes at the foothills of the
Rocky Mountains dreamed of mighty
dams in the mountain Businesses
above, holding back the waters furn-
ished by the melting of the eternal
SHOWS, and of thence conducting these
waters through miles of canals to the
arid plains below, there to make the
parched earth into fields of waving
golden grain. But the dreamer" did
more than dream-he aroused the
American Congress and today his
dream of mountain dam, canal and
fields of waving grain are realized
and the American desert is desert no
longer.
What but barren waste of insult
ferable oppression aroused Patrick
Henry to supreme flights of oratory!
What but the barren waste of 'man's
inhumanity to man" aroused Phillips
so that he went forth soWer of good
seed-a power unto salvation for the
colored race. Verify the >''wrongs of
man did make the love of God more
plain" who sent forth both sower
and reaper and the harvest was a
slave free America "He that soweth
the good seed is the Son of Man"
and that man lists through the ages
and this world of men be his name
Him whom l may not mention here,
a Washington or Henry, Phillips or
Lincoln.
Senator Beveridge has not read his
tory Alright when he forgets that
Patrick Henry's eloquence aroused
the Virginians to sense of their
danger and placed armies at the COM
mand of Washington; that Wendell
Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison and
Mrs. Stowe, were not UNIMPORT-
ANT factors, but were the ONLY fac
tors who aroused the American peo-
pie to the conviction that the en-
slavement of man by man was a
crime against humanity and that
their thirty years war" alone made
Lincoln and the Emancipation Pro-
clamation possible. For thirty years
they were denounced as impracticaDle
theorists, dreamers, and reviled and
hated as Mr.. Bryan only has been de-
nounced, reviled and hated but
truth and justice finally prevailed; /;
John Brown died on the scaffold, but
that scaffold "swayed the future" and
Lincoln became president and the
negro free. Phillips, Garrison and
Mrs. Stowe kept the faith with brave,
true hearts, and never faltered
through dark fortune and through
bright, as has Mr.. Bryan, with a
courage that Senator Beveridge may
well emulate.
Patrick Henry, in his way, no less
than Washington, was necessary to
the success of the revolution; Phil.
lips, Garrison, Lowell and Mrs. Stowe
alone made Lincoln possible; these
were the men and the one woman
who dominated the pioneer period OF
the movement for personal and poll
tical freedom; these we're the ones
who swayed the minds and aroused the
patiotism and conscience of the men
and women of their day, as Mr.. Bryan
has In ours. These were the dominat
ing pioneer forces which eliminated
in the Declaration OF independence
and the Emancipation Proclamation
So William, Jennings Bryan in his
advocacy of the past twelve years has
alone made it possible to, in some
small measure, write conscience and
humanity on our statute books" Fol
all these reforms Bryan and Bryar
alone has done the pioneer work; he
has made plain to the people as hai
no other man the dangers of oul
times. His was the clarion voice call
ing In the midnight darkness, In this
morning light. at high noon and a
the even tide, "Watchman what of th'
night?" Without the aid OF "his dis
ciples" in congress not one of the re
forms Of which the senator is 81
proud could have been enacted int
law
LET no man denounce Mr.. Bryan,
says Senator BeYeridge, and he Nigh
well have added. "but let all men hal