Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-10-29
SOWING DRAGONS TEETH"

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Under the above heading the Lynch
burg News quotes approvingly the fol-
lowing utterances by Mr.. Bryan in his
speech at Joliet, Illinois. Mr.. Bryan
said:
My friends, think too much of the
next generation to stop my efforts to
rid this country of the evil of private
monopoly. l am willing to fall on nv
knees every morning and say to my
rather In Heaven: Give us this day our
daily bread but God forbid that |
should make my countrymen go down
on their knees at morning and say to a
trust magnate: Give us this day our
daily bread, and have him answer: L
will If you will vote the ticket want
you to- You cannot afford to fasten
that sort Of system on this country or
any other country"
The News thus speaks in commenda-
ton of the sentiments of the dangerous
agitator:
The audience to which Mr.. BRYAN
addressed these ringing words was COM
posed largely of workingmen, and it is
said the utterance was received with a
remarkable, almost riotous demonstra-
ton of approval. Small wonder that it
was. Mr.. Bryan has a remarkable
genius for the clear and telling and
forceful statement of proposition or
condition, and he has rarely exercised it
to better purpose than in the language
quoted above"
The News very appropriately head
its editorial embodying Mr.. Bryan's
hateful sentiments and its no less un-
worthy words of approval: Sowing
Dragons Teeth" They are as vicious
an appeal to the baser passions of the
dissatisfied elements among the work
ing classes as were ever enunciated by
any selfish, ambitious political leader.
And If the soil in which he is sowing
should prove as fertile as Mr.. BRYAN
hopes 1t may, his seed will surely bring
forth an awful harvest of dragons.
We have before alluded to the fact
that the great evangelist, Sam Jones.
once said in our presence that William
Jennings Bryan was the most danger
Gus agitator this country had ever pro-
duced. His speech at Joliet demon
strates that Sam Jones had truly read
the character of the man, who for the
past twelve years has been striving to
reach the most exalted position in the
nation by arOusing the evil passions of
one class of citizens and filling their
hearts with hate for another class of
their fellowmen.
The work of this man is n ade the
more dangerous because it is done under
the cloak Of Righteousness. 1t has been
but short time since he was travelling
over the country as preacher of ''The
Prince of Peace" Now he is sounding |
Wiz NNSNAA ASS VI Tie ITlUCe OF Devils. |
the gospel of hate and discomfort. He
is the Robespierre of American politics:
and If the conditions of society in this
country were the same that they were
In France in 1871, and if our government
was as weak now as that of France then
was, William Jennings Bryan would
prove as cruel Jacobin as was Maxim
lillian Robespierre.
The French demagogue did not hest
tate to sacrifice his own associates.
friends and fellow revolutionists, Potion.
Danton and Desmoulins, and to battle
his country in blood for brief enjoy
ment of his unholy ambition. So ia
Bryan now willing TO immediate his form .
er political friends and fellow ,
Hearst, Watson and Debs; and is ,
seeking to destroy the usefulness OF the I
courts and sap the foundations of the I
government, by trying to make the '
masses hate and destroy the surest bull q
varks Of their liberties. il
Let US hope that q vast majority of t