El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-30

and the boy had excellent schooling.
His mother taught him to read, and his
first speeches were made standing on
the kitchen table where ne spoke the
lessons she made him commit to mem
DRY. She brought the boy up in the
way he should go. He was only IA
when he Joined the chruch. and he has
been a good Presbyterian from that
day to this Some of his lectures are
excellent sermons; and had he been
called he would have been greater as
as a political orator.
Mr.. Bryan took an academic course
at college and studied the classics he
thinks his study OF Latin and Greek
was a great benefit TO him, and he
says that the mental discipline ne re-
ceiVed from geometry has helped him
in mis- public debates and arSUmenta-
tive work. I can also see how his tai
ent as an orator has been developed
and refined by his taste for poetry and
good literature. He has always had
his book loves and favOrtte poems
Among the latter are those of William
Cullen Bryant. with whom he first be-
came acquainted through a prize copy
of the poems which he received for
making the best grafton in a eompeti-
tive contest while he was a junior He
thought so much of this book that he
gave it to Mrs. Bryan when he was
counting her.
Does Not Worry.
When I asked as to his work and
whether the demon of worry ever kept
him awake at night. He replied:
I do not worry. 1 do the best 1 can
and leave the results TO the future
don't believe in baSlng ones decision
on the possible results. The only ques-
ton to be considered is as to whether
the Nact is right or not II II is right
it should be performed irrespective of
results. Besides you cannot prOphesy
as to results. It is more important that
you should do the right than you
should regard the consequences God
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know the right. and believe he should
act according to that ability and leave
the results to take care of themselves.
The man who does that need not Wor-
ry."
Believes in Honest Politics.
'Then you believe in honest poll
tics?'
that last" said Mr.. Bryan. Morality
is the only foundation for the building
of a man or a nation made speech
along that line Flag day. The subject
was brought up by the man who spoke
before me. He made rather a humorous
reference to my idea of Friendship VS.
the Batueship. and rather challenged
the doctrine I had set forth in regard
to it In my reply 1 showed that his
tory was streWn with the wrecks of
nations which had proclaimed their
immortality when they were at the zen
it'll of their power, and that no amount
Of physical force could maintain any
nation if il were corrupt morally I do
not think that the only way to pre-
serve peace is to make ready for a war
that we may never have That is a
barbarOus doctrine. It is brutal and
unchristian. It belongs to the dark
ness and not TO the dawn"
War Not Mans Natural State.
But is not war the natural state Of
mankind%
NO. The natural state Of mankind
should be peace and brOtherly love.
You could not love God If you thought
he so made you that you must kill
some one occasionally to prevent de-
generation. All the progress that man
has made has been through the law of
love, rather than through the law Of
hate. Some people talk Of evolution
and preach the DarWinian theory. L
do not believe in it The Darwinian
theory is based upon the law of hate.
It breaches the survival of the fittest. I
by which the strong kill off and crowd
out the weak. I prefer to believe in
the law of love. and that God created
man. You may call it a miracle, but
the world is full Of miracles. Indeed.
almost everything is a miracle. Take !
any plant and try to explain it How
does il grow? Where does it get its
fruit Its color? Look at the seed You
cannot explain it. Then why try TO
explain man? Take an eggi Tt is
miracle. Set it under a hen and in
three weeks she viii bring forth what