The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-16

ism With the whole world tense and
anxious, patriotic advice and suggestion
are of more value than defamation. Spec.
ulation willis in the blaze of truth. Abus-
i've phraseology shrivels before the re-
lentless fact. Honesty is the command
ing quality of free and patriotic Amer
lean.
Thus is the nation accomplishing the
destiny of democracy The commanding
TACT of the modern age is the spread of
intelligence. The schoolhouse has con.
lquered ignorance. The printing press has
transformed the purpose and capacities
OF man. Education has qualified him for
a better existence The Bible has made
him a moralist Men know that the
world is big enough TO support the hu-
man family in peace and comfort. Men
know that the great problem of peace
and comfort is not yet solved They
know that it cannot be solved by the
solutionable only in conditions of peace,
reason and practical morality This
state of knowledge is the crowning
achievement of progress.
when the Imperialism of Europe cast
the iron dice of destiny, America threw
the moral dice of destiny. America
staked the principles OF her justice. There
they stand in untarnished integrity in
the gaze OF a stricken world. The in
telligence of men grasp the meaning of
America. Her example will resdiust the
relations of men everywhere. The aspir-
ations of men are for freedom. Men and
women can and should rule themselves.
The day when they rule themselves war
will disappear. The hand of divinity has
so written it in the needs and necessities
Of humanity made in its image.
America, prosperous, peaceful, blessed,
is so because the inscrutable purpose of
God intended it. The contrast between
Europe in flames and suffering and the
United States peaceful and prosperous is
the divine contrast. BY saving the Amer
lean system civilization is sa"ed. The
peace of America demonstrates the folly
of war. The principles of democracy fur |
nish the means of avoiding and prevent
ing war. The universal intelligence Of |
men DEGREES that the war now devastat- |
ing Europe shall be the last war
''Sons of America, keep unsullied the |
sacred shrine of peace. through whose /
portals viii vet pass arm in arm the I
crowned head and the humble peasant in
silent worship of God.
Therefore, my fellow countrymen, not
!, but his deeds and achievements; not
/, but the spirit and purpose Of Ameri-
ca; not l. but the prs yers of just men;
not l, but civilization itself. nominates
TO succeed himself to the presidency OF II
the United States. 10 the presidency OF
a hundred million free people. bound in
impregnable union the scholar. the 4
statesman, the fnancier. the emsncipa-
tor, the paciicator. the moral leader Of
democracy, Woodrow Wilson
'Ameriea's Greatest Democrat"-Bryan.
In a lull in the proceedings last night
Chairman James called upon William
Jennings Bryan as zone Of the leading ,
itizens Of the world and Americas great
81 Democrat.
Dir. Bryan opened by expressing his :
appreciation Of the honor conferred hv I
he invitation to speak to the convention I
nd talked for IS minutes. Every Dem
cratic convention is love feast to me-
e said 1T gives me an opportunity 20
meet and renew scquaintances with men II
18th whom ] have been associated in a
.olitics for more than - years- He Ia
aid his respects in complimentary man p
lCou5uued on eighth pzgel q