The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-28
BRYAN ATTACKS
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Commoner Also Declares He
Will Watch" Next Demo-
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Orleans to Los Angeles, accom-
panied by his invalid wife and Sec
/: rotary. to visit his children.
i Before leaving he gave an Eau
revoir' interview to the Cosmop )i-
itan News Service-an interview in
which the Bryan fighting spirit
) shone undimmed.
"I'll be at the next Democratic
!. national convention" he declared.
J 81 may not be there as a dele
gate, but I'll be there anyway. I'll
keep my eye on things.
| Trust the People, He Says.
my outstanding impression,
looking back over q third Of cen.
fury in American. public life? Trust
the people! They win always solve
the problems In the right way II
Iyou'll give them time.
1.-THE next great moral issue is
the single standard Of morality
for men as well as women. It is
coming as surely as prohibition
came-and that's here to stay.
1.-THE fundamental need OF the
world today is to- get back TO God
and a sense of personal RESPONSE.
bility.
"Darwinism Is the most democrat.
izing development Of the nine.
tenth century.
/ StiIl Raps Darwin.
'.Man has his choice OF looking
up to God or down to the brutes.
for his origin. Why look down to
the brutes?
"Darwinism is hypothesis.
What IL a hypothesis? There's a
simpler word for it, It's the word
guess And Darwinism is a bad
"Belief in God and the Bible is
the pet aversion OF the scientific
soviet that IL trying to sap the
Christian faith. :.
i "I'm taking the sciences them.
selves, one by one, and with them
confounding the scientific soviet
that seeks to discard the eternal
truths and put q bad guess In
their place.
"Bekin with chemistry. So far
az 1t proves :lnythinw, It proves
that degeneration and not prog
ress, disintegration and not con.
Btruction, are the rule in nature
SO far as earth 10 concerned.
Chemistry is an exact science. 1t
has not discovered any law Of evO-
luton. It moclks the atheist and
brings confusion to the evoIutionist.
/ believe in science but not in some
'scientists.' Science 10 one OF the
noblest departments Of thought.
But scientists vary from the mod,
est Newton who felt he had
the shore Of the ocean Of truth.
gathered but q few pebbles from
down to the egotist who invites the
old frontier comparison: The
Lords overcoat wouldn't make him
q vest
get back to God and a sense Of
personal responsibility. That's what
the world needs. BY their fruits
shall ye know them When the
sibility get bad enough, steps Will
be taken to remedy conditions.
Word For FIappers.
1.-THE flapper Of today IL one OF
those fruits. DID you ever see a
flapper at q prayer-meeting? Mrs.
Henry Ford was right when she
reproved those bare.legged women
who came to ask for her autograph.
1.-THE Ku Klux Khan win go the
way Of the American Protective AS
ISOLATION. For the A. p. A.. bad as
1t was, was free from the funda-
mental defects Of the X. K. K, and
1t passed. Those movements run
their course. remember when an
A. p. A. told me years ago that a
certain August 10 was set as the
day for the Catholics to rise and
take the United States. Don't you
know their churches are full of
guns?' he told me. It sounds amus'
ing. now, doesn't it?"
Nudges, pointings. swift whispers
of that's Bryan" marked the
moment the tall figure Of the Ne
braskan stepped across the lobby
him the wheel chair in which Mrs.
Bryan sat. There was no mistaking
the tall, bulky figure topped by
the eaGle-keen old fighting face.
!. A Marvellous Hat.
A big, baggy sack coat Of black
alpaca, grey striped trousers, broad
toed comfortable soft shoes, a
striped washable bow tie above a
grey striped shirt-that was the
commoner's garb. And his hat. II
was a marvellous headpiece. Soft
black felt was the brim, with a
black silk band, and the crown was
Of yellow leghorn straw, blocked In
an alpine model In one hand he
carried q paper grocery bag.
Into the hotel breakfast room he
wheeled Mrs. Bryan, from the paper
bag were produced some big ALI
gator pears.
I'VE grew them on our own
place in Miami" explained Mr.
Bryan. Yes. we eat them as a
salad. but they make a fine break
fast dish too"
There's nothing wrong with the
Bryan appetite.
"A large alligator pear vanished
Likewise, q plate of sausage, and
some hard-boiled eggs and coffee
) And between vanishing sausage. &C
to speak, the "reminiscences of vii
liam Jennings Bryan came forth.
Cites Change in Politics.
Looking back over the past
third Of a century since 1 was
elected to congress thirty-two years
ago." said he, my outstanding
impression is this: Trust the people
They will always solve the prob
lens in the right way, II you give
them time.
= when I entered politics, you
could tell political polling place
half a mile away, by the crowds
that stood around it, now you have
to get policeman to show you
where to vote. it's so quiet around
them.