Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-10
DEMOCRACY, THE HOST

Monday. the twenty-second of November, will be an eventful day for Globe. William Jennings Bryan. the leader of American democracy, has set that day as the date of his visit to this city On the evening of November P, the people of Globe will have an opportunity to hear this greatest of American orators, statesmen and re- formers deliver at Dreamland one of the lec- lures that have held in unbroken spell hundreds of audiences throughout the United States. The days program of welcome and entertainment will be concluded with banquet at which local democracy will make occasion to pay its hom- age to the most notable champion of the peo- ole that modern America has known. Such in part will be the program that will make No vember g, 1909, one of the most memorable days in the annals of Globes history.
 The plan outlined for the reception of Mir. Bryan is credit to the intelligence of the democratic committee entrusted with arrange ments for the commoner's coming. It not in- frequently happens in the preparation for re- ceiving distinguished visitor that the general public is deprived of the privilege of hearing him speak at length, or of getting in close per sonal touch with him for the reason that his at tention is monopoized by few actuated chiefly by political motives. But the proposed plan for extending hospitality to this national figure has apparently been made with view to bringing him into the closest possible relationship with the public during his brief stay in the city. And to that end the commoner's lecture at Dream land theater will be given under the auspices of the united churches of Globe. All of which is as it should be, for whatever remarkable quail ties Mr. Bryan may have as statesman, as a political organizer, and as an advocate of sautary reform, he is, nevertheless, first of all great teacher of progressive principles, great preacher of practical liveable doctrines There fore it is altogether desirable that the people of Globe should be given chance to hear from Mr. Bryan's own lips, and couched in the fecitous pharseology of which he is master the uplift- ing ideas that he has formulated out of his wide knowledge of humanity, its sorrows and it's struggles.
 The thoughts that make for soul regeneration are the greatest and most far-reaching thoughts that can emanate from any human mind They are the thoughts for which posterity thanks those who have preceded them The embodi- ment of those thoughts in words is what makes the literature of the world, the literature that hvec because it is an essential part of human life, that wondrous throbbing mystery that goes on and on hand in hand with the aeOns that make up time.
 Reformers are not always worthy of praise. Some of this great class of individuals promul- gate doctrines from the mere love of self-asser- tion, or of selfish aggrandizement Others teach doctrines so narrow and so hostile to freedom of thought and spirit that they are antagonstc to every divine instinct implanted in the human mind.
 William Jennings Bryan is guilty of neither of these errors. No broader or more truly prac- tical philosophy has ever been voiced from the American lecture platform than that which Mr. Bryan has fathered. His teachings have all the scope compatible with effective living And the approval that millions of the American populace have already set upon them will, it is safe to say be heartily augmented by the people of Globe when they hear the commoner's address on November p. From all reports the lecture which Mr. Bryan will deliver here will be either The Price of Soul" or "The Prince of Peace" Whichever one of these is given. the hearing of it will be rarely accorded privilege and one that no person can afford to miss. For both of them are masterpieces of the forum.
 The banquet which is scheduled to conclude the evenings program will be attended by the representative men of Globe The spirit of the function will, of course, be largely democratic