The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-12
Special Correspondent 10 THn suy.

BERLIN via London). June rs
Bryan had to go because his one
SIDED, p~ro-English policy was about to
compromise the Democratic party.
THAT he IL trying to attribute dia-
metricaily opposite motives to his resig-
nation is only new proof that this vet
eran weathervane is noticing how the
wind has turned"
such is the opinion expressed by DR..
j. Jastrow OF Berlin University In a
W column leading editorial In the
BerItner To0ebldtt. DR.. Jastrow in his
article makes IA careful analysis OF the
American President and the ex-Secre-
tary of state and contrasts the two
men, both In their achievements In office
and rs politicians. DR.. Jastrow says
in part:
III MIR. Bryan's resignation and the
publication of the new American note
were to constitute a clarifying event
they have not achieved this purpose
everywhere. ON the contrary. there Is
considerable confusion about the uues-
ton as to how Bryan as a friend OF
peace could refuse to sign a note which
IL In no point more threatening than
the first note. which he not only APP
proved but which he was even anxious
at the time to have designated as his
own creation.
View of American POlitics.
The solution. however. is to be found
easily and surely when one considers the
whole thing from the standpoint of inner
American politics. In the first place the
year 1916 is an election year. Wilson as
we'll as Bryan will appear as a Presi-
dental candidate. ana after American
fashion almost the whole year, from the
spring months on. will be devoted to the
cultivation of the American people at
the hands of the candidates and their
friends.
THE two men represent In singular
perfection the two characteristic types OF
American politicians. the ayitator and
the statesman. Bryan as an agita.or is
no unknown parsonage in Germany.
When in the '90s bimetalism for \
time seemed to develop into a serious
menace to the purity and honesty of our
German currency system most of the
blame was attributable to the successful
ramblings of the American silver advo-
Gates, whose leader was Bryan.
W Germans in those days shook our
heads as we saw these bimetalistic agi-
tations receive a reliGious version in
the mouth of the youth from Nebraska
III tnt dnlldls OF american utIIloNrdNN
that was not peculiar. In that democ-
racy there had been since its foundation
a tendency hat even used the Old Testa-
ment in arguing for a reform of the
credit law.
Even so the speeches that Bryan is
now launching as IA leader Of the peace
movement are spiced with Biblical quo
tations. and his total abstinence propa-
ganda has "A by-taste of puritanism Gin
Germany We would call it philistinism).
! However, just as bimetalism was for
him nothing but the advance team on
) the way to the White Hous just as
h threw that programme overheard as
soon as ii became "A dead weight be-
cause OF its failure. so are the prohibi-
ton and peace movements to-day for
: him only instruments to gather the
masses about him and to be able to dis
, pose of great organizations.
big Takers"
Now. while Bryan in all these things
Is the lawyer, the journalist and the
agitator through and through man
of the type such as Berlin learned to
know a few years ago in the big talker
) RooseSelt-the opposite type. that of the
e calm and considerate statesman. is rep
. resented by Woodrow Wilson a man
l who has not advertised himself nearly
= so much in public life. but who as a
: student OF national and international
1 law and of political theories as well
: as a university administrator. commands
' a highly respected position in America.
1T is to the confidence in this man
that the Democratic party owes its
: sweeping victory in the 1912 elections.
! "In the sphere of ideas of It's adher-
: ents American democracy leads a sort
y of mystic life of independence. free from
: the State in whose services ii place.
il...ty IL ,a.aGIaro stSaIf tha u,,a rIta,
e II the protector of the democratic
fount of ideas inherent in humanity al
e large and the election. the nOminatio.
of the candidate these things are .
procedure of great solemnity which de
X cides TO which man shall go the homo
Of assuming the role of representative
v and leader of the battling democracy.
l. "When Bryan took the State portfolio
he found no task of consequence await
ing him in the field of foreign policy
i But when last August the war brok'
n out and England by cutting the cable!
made public opinion in America so com
VI pletely dependent upon England as prob
ably never before any great nation IA
" been dependent upon another when al
America r%esounded with British accu
, ~sations against German militarism
when Germany had not even a chanc,
to let news get to the United States
y then Bryan made the thoroughly pro
English sentiment MS OWN because tina
was the only great opportunity fol
h achieving his political ambitions.
e Nr. BryRn's sources of Revenue.
h Everything that was given out b,
the State Department in those DAYS Dor
the stamp pro- England When in tn
n course of time Germany reestablishe,
a certain news service by wireless
when the German Americans becam
active and when even among the rea
"a tlueblooded Americans voices wer
70 raised which pointed TO the .mpropri
ETY. OF such a dependency, an America.
newspaper reminded Mr.. Bryan of tn
fact that he was drawing his salar
" Tor representing the interests of Amer
leo 1t was pointed out to him tina
the man who represented the interest
-, of England was Mr.. Grey.
!" The reference to his. salary. whlc
was not exactly good taste az We've
from the standpoint of our own Gus
toms, was made because Bryan short