The Washington times., 1920-06-28

Silly Democracy.
Bryan a Real Man.
II Religions viii Pray.
How Rich Is America?
BY ARTHUR BRIsBAl
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by ARTHUR BRISBANE
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J The railroads are not running.
Everybody is profteering, from
the man who sells a neektie TO the
man who sells a locomotive. War
exists In dozen places In Europe
and threatens to break out all over
the world.
! The national Democratic party
Is selecting a candidate for the
J Presidency, a man to manage the
United States and, through the
United States. influence the world.
And all the talk 10 OF wet or dry"
Whether or not a man wants to
drink. shall be allowed to drink,
or whether his well-meaning, vir-
tuous brothers shall have their
way about II. Is the one grand
question. In the kingdom OF Lilli-
put, Swift's hero found the little
creatures quarreling about this:
when you eat an egg. which end
should you open, the big end or
little end?" The Democratic con-
vention gives a good imitation OF
Lilliput.
One individual has some OF the
characteristics of a real man. His
name is w. j. Bryan.
There are things that he does
not know. and some that he knows
are not so.
The evidence of a thousand CEN
turies means nothing to him COM
pared with something that he saw
once In Nebraska. The problem OF
experimenting arbitrarily with a
hundred million human beings Is
to him no problem at all. But Mr..
Bryan knows at least what he
wants, and how to let others know
what he wants.
At the Democratic convention
they have what they didn't have
in Chicago, a man able to talk to
ten or twenty thousand people and
able to make them realize that
somebody is talking to them.
Roosevelt first, then Hiram
johnson, allowed convention Of
well-ruled, corrupt delegates to
walk over their bodies, with no
real protest. They cannot do that
with Bryan.
If you could lend Bryan's abil-
ity as leader, talker, man of ab-
solutely convincing sincerity, to
somebody with information and an
= open mind concerning events that
happened before the Philadelphia
Centennial, it would make a fine
combination.
General Allen, commanding
American troops in the occupied
district, where American troops,
by the way, have no business, pre-
dieting that Germany will surely
rise in industry and Pr9speritxs.
says: "The people viii have to
re-establish their own industries,
import what they need, and .ex-
port what they produce. Or they
will have to export the population
to countries where they can earn
what they need"
This country now offers pleas
ing opportunities. Farm laborers
used to be paid SIS a month and
their board. Now, in the West,
''the lowest figure will be seventy
cents an hour" Farm hands Will
be we'll fed, we'll housed, and make
81 a day if willing to work ten
hours.
A good slogan for Harding, or
the Democrat, to take the place OF
the old "full dinner pail" would be,
"T1l bring back the old prosperity
and security, and retain the new
kind of wages"
In religion, at least, the Demo-
Gratis will cover the field at most.
The convention, seeking wisdom
and guidance, will be prayed for
by the following reverend gentle
men:
One Catholic, the vicar general
of the Roman Catholic archdiocese
of San Francisco.
One Methodist, Bishop Leonard.
One Protestant Episcopalian,
also D1SnOp, anu NdDpl mdfluo
A. Meyer, representing the relig-
ion from which the Christians bor-
rowed theirs.
There will also be a Presbyte-
rian, a Congregationalist, Bap-
fist, a Lutheran, and Peter V.
Ross, Christian Scientist. That is
what you may call thorough, al
though Mr.. Taft's church, the Uni
tartan, is not represented. Per-
haps the rabbi can represent that,
as we'll as anything else, as Uni
tartan. The Christian Scientist
will do well if he keeps ERROR"
from making an "avenue" Of the
thing called democracy.
Lord Leverhulme is one of the
ablest, best-informed business men
in the world. What he says about
England's finances, her ability to
-oay her debts, and about her i'm
mediate danger, interests the
whole world.
He denounces the British for
worrying about their little national
war debt. England now owes