The copper era., 1909-11-25
WILLIAM j. BRYAN.
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belongs to others. In politics as in
the army, the generals get the glory
while the men die in the trenches
and have been trying for about Il
years to impress upon the people that
p large part of the credit that has
been given I'd ME has been accom-,
plishsd By those working for me-
find that even republicans have
treated me well most Of the time and
sometimes when they did not mean
I'd. Senator Beveridge came out to
Lincoln, Nebraska, a few years ago
and made speech, and being in MY
hene town.. he said. INF. Bryan is
all fight, but the trouble with him is
that he dreams, while Mr.. Roosevelt
does things" 1 read it in the paper
and did not pay much attention to it
at the time, but a little later on Mr..
Cafif1on in another speech said that
Was q dreamer. Then a few days
later Governor Cummings also said
that 1 was a dreamer, and even later
Governor Hanley concluded that l
was dreamer. With these four dis
tinguished citizens calling me
dfeanter, it began to look serious,
end I thot1ght that perhaps after al.
was a dreamer. In fact, had | said
that was not they would have dis
puted me. So looked UP the ques-
lion to see what dreamer was, and
Vent to the Bible, as 1 always do in
case a perplexiDg. question presents
itself, and have found it the safest
way. For if l have other authority
the republicans attack it, and it keeps
Inc SO busy defending myself that L
have no time for anything else, so
go to the Bible and then if they dis
pute it, I just let them scrap it out
with the BibIes looked back to see
who the dreamers were, and chiefest
among them I found was Joseph.
The Bible said that Joseph was a
dreamer and because he told his
dreams to his brothers they hated
him, and one day when they were
First they said they would kill him,
and then they thought this might be
dealing with him too harshly, so they
decided to put him in deep pit. Q
haven't had a chance to go into the
question thoroughly, but [ suppose
that dropping Joseph into the pit, is
about the same as defeating the
Democrat for office. Then, a mer
chant came along and they took him
out of the pit and sold him to the
merchant, who carried him away in
to Egypt, and they went home and
told their father that the wild beasts
had devoured their brother Joseph
Years passed and of course they had
almost forgotten their dreaming
brother, and then the famine came on
and then had to go down into Egypt
after corn, and there they found the
dreamer and he had the corn. So
made up my mind that after all, it
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dreamer, if you only had the corn.
The more 1 thought about it, the
frmer was my conviction that the
dreamer was an important parsonage.
Go through Europe and you will find
great cathedrals, and back of every
there was dreamer, a |
man who had had great dream of
a great temple of worship and then |
who undertook to put that dream on |
paper, and sometimes centuries later |
after the dreamers had been forgot |
ten, those great plans were carried ]
out and the great temple is built, and |
then people travel from all over the |
world to see the magnificent struc-
lures, and the builder is praised |
while the dreamer who conceived the |
structure is forgotten.
l cannot count myself a dreamer,
realm of states manship-Thomas JET
'erson was the worlds greatest |
dreamer. He saw a people relieved |
from the oppression of a monarchy, |
and he had vision of a self-govern-
ng republic, in which every citizen
should be sovereign. He put that |
1ream on paper, and we have been
building on those plans ever since.
IN every land and nation you will
ind men building according to the
plans that the great Jefferson drew.
some day the building will be COM
oIeted, and then the people of all
he world will find security within
is walls and portals.
No, ! cannot count myself a dream
n; 1 cannot claim that distinction.
shall be content if, when my days
ire numbered, it ca1 be truthfully
aid of me, not that [ was a great
lreamer, but that with whatever abil-
ty l had, and whenever the oppor-
unity presented itself 1 strove TO
'uild higher in my day that great
tructure of the dreamer, Thomas
efferson. And L am here to say to
'ou tonight that 1 confidently believe
hat those things for which Jefferson
ara being realized and I
IN going to try to show you the
reat claim that democracy has upon
he world.
A few years ago, while travelling in
Iexico, 1 was impressed with the
bsence of the great middle class.
ook occasion to ask one of the con-
uctors on the railroad why it was
hat they had to send to the United
tates for their conductors aud train
1en, and he told me that those in
Iexico who were competent to do
hat work looked upon it as beneath
hem and looked more to following
he professions, and that those who {
yere willing to do it were not COM
etent, and because they had no {
reat middle class, as we have, they
ad to send to this country to get t
Ompetent men for that work.
When l visited Asia 1 found the {
anna conditions, and that bewteen {
he two extremes of society there was
great gulf, and those at the top
Ould not reach those at the bottom. )
When visited Europe found that I
be extremes of society were not so
lr apart, but even here the distance :
etween them was too great. So l
)und that the average man in the i
United States is the biggest average t
ian in all the world, and the COM /
ION people of this country are the |
people of this land. Some