Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-16
BEL|Ev||E:s!BRYAN
WILL PREVENT
ANY ACTUAL WAR.
Great Faith Attaches to Strong
4 ProclivltieS Of Secretary of
State to Preserve Peace for
aAUnlted States,

isFseisl cossssronprser 70 noRsl~o Jo0ansli
! y Chicago. May l5.---"There win be
no war between the United States and
Germany. In my opinion said an cm-
inent citizen of Chicago this morn
Ing, He takes a view OF admlnistra-
ton policies decidedly different from
that of most citizens of the United
States, and his ideas are entitled 10
respect. on account OF his many years
of experience In politics, the high po.
sitions he has held and his knowledge
of the men now at the head Of nation
|al affairs
Many people have said that william
Jennings Bryan IS merely ar orna-
mental appendage TO the admnistra-
tiont that he was placed In the high
office he now holds because he made
Woodrow Wilson president OF the
United states, against Champ Clark.
That view is altogether wrong. ="
says the authority quoted William
Jennings Bryan is a man OF strong
will-stubborn TO the last degree. Be-
Ing, first OF all, n man of peace, and
having adopted the pacifist ideas OF
the time, he will not only oppose any
thing warllke, but will absolutely pre-
vent any belligerent action.
III this statement had come from a
casual thinker or person lacking fa-
miliarity with the inner things Of poll
tics, II might have passed without at
tention, but the testimony of the man
uttering these opinions has a standing
that cannot be ignored. Nor IL this
commentator closcp ersonul friend
OF Bryan, in the intimate sense Po-
litically, he is an opponent
Tho manila IA, fhfu nttV utha no a.
to drop a word into the ear Of the
president are legion. unquestionahly
a great many personal dispatches are
going forward. including not merely
those of cranks or angry people, hut
suggestions from men versed In state
craft. rhe administration has invh-
ed such communications but perhaps
the average clifton Is inclined to smile
at one who responds To such an. in
thinking that that man has
too high an idca of the value Of his !
own opinion. A man who has held I
high governmental places was ques- !
toned on this point today.
These suggestions are helpful In !
some instances he replied "A gov |
eminent officer has his head plunged /
In a great mass of papers, trying TO
work out some problem, He Is likely /
10 narrow himself down to mere tech
or to make some grievous I,
error for sheer lack Of freshness in 4
his own thinking. A wise word from 4
4 friendly source works wonders In II
such a case sometimes Help your
rulers by suggestions. They want to
near from the people, particularly the
wiser folk, for IL is their business to
AIRY out the will Of the people"
This Is a reminder of n statement
~ Frank r. Vanderbilt, when he was
secretary OF the treasury.
L WAS part of his busiDess to go
lround the country and learn things
hat could not be learned over the
ong- distance telephone to the treas
Try department. His attention was
allied to some errors that had crept
nto certain treasury statistics.
why didn't YOU tell us of il at the
ime % he asked.
ooh, II was only a few figures and
ot worth WHILE was the reply.
There is where you are mistaken"
There are many things
n our work that, naturally, we do not
iscover Somebody from the outside
must discover them, and II Is the duty
f that somebody Immediately to call
ttention 20 themi This Is true Of
reat things and small, and | wish
hat you and everybody else would as
ume an attitude OF helpfulness to-
'ard the treasury department"
Much more in these terrible times
eeds the citizen TO help his rulers |
there be ton of chaff In the let
IRIS and kilograms there will also be
least few grains of wheat.