Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-19
BRYAN ADVISES
CHURCHMEN TO
ENTER POLITICS
Says Worlds Biggest Need
Is Greater Faith in
Creator.
SCORES DARWIN THEORY

The big need Of the world today is
TO get back to God, and prayer; real be-
lief in immortality and brotherhood IL
the only hope for world progress and
world peace, according to William Jen-
ninRs Bryan, former Secretary Of State,
in an address to an audience that COM
pletely filed Tomlinson Hall last night,
at the twenty-eighth quadrennial gen.
eral conference OF the United Brethren
Church, the Commoner using as his sub
ject, Brother or Brute"
Taking exactly the opposite position
from the statements expressed by Albert
J. Beveridge, former United States SEN
ator from Indiana, in his address Tues
day night, Mr.. Bryan urged ministers of
the gospel TO take an active part in the
political affairs Of the Nation.
URGES MINISTER'S TO
ASSIST GOVERNMENT.
81 have been anxious that ministers
take a larger part in shaping govern
mental principles" Mr.. Bryan said. ITO
whom shall we look for leadership in
moral things If not to the guardians of
the Ark of the Covenant
ministers cannot shirk their duty in
s&this respect. What kind Of a country
would we have If Christians attended
alone to Christianity and left politics
for the politicians alone. Every minister
| should enter and lend his influence to
politics
MY purpose is to emphasize the fact
that there are but two attitudes to as
sumo which deal with fellow men, namely
that Of the brother or that Of the brute.
He is either restrained by the feeling of
brotherhood or kinship, or he Is hunting
his prey with the savage longing Of the
beast"
BUSINESS "DEVoURERS"
DENOUNCED AS "BRUTES."
He then illustrated this statement by
reference to acts described as british,
beginning with the story Of the cannibal
who defended the title TO a piece Of land
by saying when I ate the owner of the
land the title passed to me-" Mr.. Bryan
quoted from the Scriptures to show that
David and Solomon described some men
as british. He denounced those who de-
YOUR widows houses then for a pretense,
make long prayer.
The pure food law, the antitrust law,
child labor and white slave law were
cited as illustrations Of the fact that 1t
IS necessary to restrain british men by
criminal law, even in this country.
The pure food law" said Mr.. Bryan,
'swas passed because the people learned
that other people were poisoning food
IN their greed for money. Adulteration
of food was jeopardizing the lives Of the
American people.
SUPREME COURT Is
NOT ALL HIGHEST"
'The pure food law stands as re-
Fiction on the morals Of this country,
but Il is to our credit that we had
courage to pass q law which will make
criminals out OF business men who would
endanger the health of the people.
There is a fact that this is far more
important than the decision of the United
States Supreme Court in declaring the
child labor law unconstitutional. That
fact is that humanity is greater than the
Supreme Court, and we will yet have a
child labor law in this country"
The antitrust law and the white slave
law were discussed by Mr.. Bryan, who
said the latter law was passed to pro
tect womanhood and society from the
brutishness Of men, and added that the
necessity for the passage this law also
IS a reflection on the morals Of the Ma
ton.
And there is another law on the way,
said the Commoner. 1T has passed the