The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-07-06
THE .JEFFERSONIAN
How Much Does This Country Owe
TO MIR. BRYAN?


the spondulix To preach about Christ, at
$500 sermon, seems to me the browning joke,
or tragedy, of the Goth Century. That any
wealthy citizen-and Bryan is easily worth a
million dollars-should charge fancy prices,
against those who come out to hear him
eulogize the Divine Pauper of Judea, is over
wheming proof of two things:
(1.) That the American people have an in
durable fondness for being humbugged
(2.) That the humbugs know it, and get
rich on it,
After touring the State of Georgia. and al
most bankrupting every Chautauqua which
paid him those big prices for those tame ser
mons, the Hon. w. J. Peerless condescended
to appear on the rear-end platform of the
train and to make few remarks to the as
sembled rubber-ne and chronic slght-see-
ers Nearly all Of our towns are blessed with
a few of these. They meet the trains as regu-
larly as the postofice clerks and the express
man do. They have no business at the sta
ton, else they might not be there. Having
no cause for being there, they are always
there. This is true OF Alabama, as we'll as of
Georgia. pass the pepper.)
Thus it happened that, when w. J. B. had
swi ped the gate-receipts in Georgia, and was
happy on his way back to where he came
from, he was in a much more cheerful state
of mind than were the Chautauqua managers
who had expected to make money on him,
but hadn't
Consequently, when some idle guys, of an
Alabama town. saw Peerless on the train and
yelled for him, he and his Smile came to the
rear end, and began on it, again.
The subject of the spiel was, of course,
W. J, B. The rhetorical bouquets were, of
course, flung at W. j. 3. The verbal monu-
ment was, of course erected to the memory
of W. J. B.
What else could you expect?
Hoots! Toots! In these days. who's to
blow Bryan's horn, if not himself?
Among other things that Bryan gave him.
self credit for, in his Alabama talks is, the
sentiment i3o f0v0r of the popular election of
Il. s. Senators! Bless my poor, sinful soul
L wonder what that bashful man will claim,
next. If Sir Isaac Newton doesn't watch out.
BRYAN will go down in history as the dscov-
erer Of the law of gravitation
Let us see:
Away back yonder in the Nineties Bryan
spoke of nothing but Free Silver He started
out on tariff reform, but dropped it. He en-
tered into the service of the Silver Kings of
the West, and was paid, by Them upwards of
$4,000 for the speeches which the country
supposed to be the outpourings of unselfish
patriotism. Nobody heard him say a word
for tariff reform, greenbaclz currency the mi
tlatlve and referendum, or for the direct cleo
ton of u. S. Senators.
The despised Popuzists aoere the only ones
q0h0 acere doing that.
In 1900, Bryan was still harping on Free
Silver; to which he added most inconsistency,
anti-imperialisn.
In 1904, he was in the employment of the
Wall Street element of his party; was cam
paigning in a "Special' furnished by Wall
Street; was drawing money-thousands of
dollars-from the Belmont-Ryan slush fund,
and was making 60 talks day, for the Wall
Street candidate, Judge Parker.
Not a syllable in behalf of the direct cleo
ton of Senator'S did he utter. Anti-imperial-