The Penn's Grove record., 1915-07-02
The PENIS Grove Record
FRIDAY, JULY 2. 1915
The Great Political FuneraIP

The Great Political Funeral?
The resignation of William ]. Bryan
as Secretary of State, is declared to be
the greatest political decease in recent
years. From being the Premier of the
greatest nation to deal with all other
nations, he has resigned to sink into
oblivion as an humble private citizen,
with few political mourners at his de-
parture. His political whereabouts
and destiny are unknown, unhonored
and unsung.
The funeral service was held in
Madison Square Garden, New York
City. Thursday evening, June Oath.
1t is amazing to announce that the
funeral sermon was preached by the
spirit of the politically departed. The
text was "Peace on Earth 10 All Men
of Good WILL" The Garden seats
$4,000 but the standing room was oc-
cupied by 5000 more. The New York
World, which printed the sermon in
full, but gave no editorial obituary
with black rules, estimated the number
of persons who came to attend the OBJ
sequies at 10000. Those outside the
Garden heard six speakers who echoed
international peace sentiments with
honor under the new dispensation of
Daooa op Earth to oil man of Good
Will, when the greatest carnage of war
the world has aver seen is now i'll
progress. The great anomoly of the
occasion was that the audience was
comprised largely of those who needed
the gospel of peace, they being descend
ants and sympathizers OF the most
war.like nation Oh earth, the II which
is now doing the most carnage.
1t was Constantine the Roman EN-
peror who first gave the ritual form Of
Christianity to the most powerful gov
eminent ruling on Earth, 306-330 A.
d. He had political power to enforce
the rule by fear. 1t was William j.
Bryan, Premier Statesman of the
United States of America, who negOti-
ated Treaties of Peace with thirty ma
tions to abolish wal and create world
wide peace by reason and love. He
resigned in order that the spirit oil
peace may be spread with love for the
good of humanity and not fear from
the feudal lords who desire TO have it
by force.
Notwithstanding Mr.. Bryan is a
private citizen with no political power
to bestow offices nor honors, being
declared politically dead, his ghost,
like Banquos, continues to haunt the
editorial Sanctum SanctOrum OF the
great metropolitan daily newspapers
who never mourned at his three pre-
vious political burials. From two lines
to two columns are devoted to him
daily as to his whereabouts, doings
and sayings.
All are satisfied that he is i'll political
purgatory but whether the peaceful
spirit of world wide democracy which
accompanies him will even be able to
reign upon earth among all men OF
good will, is a subject always alive for
editorial conjectures.
William j. Bryan being politically
killed for the fourth time-some say it
Was a suicide this time-th0se who
have read his career most closely and
followed the principles which he has
advocated for the past twenty-five
years can we'll say, "Blessed is the dead
who die in the Lord" There will be a
mole glorious resurrection than on
former occasions when the mist of
battles have rolled in splendor from the
beauties of the hills which will reveal a
new heaven on earth; when swords
will be beaten into plowshares and
MI. Bryan will be remembered in
heroic monuments III distant future
years as the first great statesman to adj
vocate worldwide peace amongst all
the nations of the earth, at a time
when the greatest war in the history OF
the world is in progress.