The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-28

Oregon University; Jewell Cool
Pennsylvania. AT right Mrs. SUI
lativA elections the corporations
would bring out some man who had
not been thought Of during the cam.
paign ana have him elected Senator,
putting him through the Legislators.
Calls Senate Democratic.
That was the reason In those days
the United States Senate was not
responsive TO the win Of the people.
Today the Senate ID as democratic
as the House, and on some occasions
more 50. There's no limit to the de.
bate in the Senate as there Is In the
House.
To-day we have law that prevents
the discrimination by railways
against cities-We have the law that
abolished railroad passes.
These are the more prominent
changes that have taken place in
my own political life time. There
has been q revolution, complete and
entire In public sentiment. in regard
to the rights Of corporations to do
what they please, regardless Of the
public. o.
There is much yet to be done.
In fact,t civilization progresses, al
ways. It never reaches perfection
but always 1t advances, and it's
easier for the people to secure what
they want than 1t was a third Of q
Gentry ago.
Calls Reforms Extraordinary.
81 know, progress seems slow
that the progress is slow from day
TO day. But it's tremendous when
! you measure IT, by the decade, OF
by a quarter Of q century. And the
past twenty-five years brought the
most extra ordinary reforms Of any
similar period in the history OF
the United States.
I'm addition to the reforms / have
just named. we have the laws regu
lating the packing house, we have
the anti-option bill, we have the
laws regulating exchanges.
"And the next great moral issue.
before the American people 10 the
single standard Of morals for men
as well as for women. It's coming
to America. Just az surely as pro-
hibition came.
"The fundamental need Of
America-of the world-today. 10
| to get back to God and q sense OF
personal responsibility.
"Egotists among preachers living
| today deem themselves greater than
Christ himself. Egotists who call
| themselves scientiStS-and say
this with all difference to real
men Of science-deem themselves
of greater wisdom than the Lord.
America was not founded by
flappers and men who believed
they were decended from monkeys
and goriallas and apes. 1t took
faith in God to make pioneers who
founded America. It takes faith to
keep the nation they founded.
when / pin down to specific
questioning many men who talk
with me about Darwinism.' find
that usually they have no belief In
| the Virgin birth Of Jesus Christ.
They have no belief in the resurrec'
ton from the dead. They have
They have in its place something
infinitely cheap.
"Smug professors, deeming their
brains greater than the Divine Rev.
Citations OF our Lord through the
Bible, sit in chairs in our schools
| and colleges and universities and
teach our boys and girls to look
| down upon brutes as the source OF
their creation, instead of looking
upward to God.
Calls Evidence Circumstantlal.G
by circumstantial evidence OF
physical resemblances they try to
prove that man is descended from
the brute. They have labored in
dustriously.
| Men who would not cross the
street to save a ao1,I havA travelAd
around the world in search Of skele.
tons.
| If they find a stray tooth in
gravel pit they hold a conclave and
fashion a creature such as they
| suppose the posSessor Of that tooth
to have been--and then they shout
derisively at Moses.
One single indisputable fact
overthrows and confounds them
That fact Is this: No species has
ever been traced to another spc
cies."
William Jennings Bryan rose
from his substantial breakfast
| Solicltously. he supervised the CAR
rying OF Mrs. Bryan, charming
patient. white-haired, courageous In
her illness, to an automobile.
Looming large in their luggage
was a large old.fashioned basket
such as farmers wives carry to and
from town-and piled high in 1t were
a couple OF dozens alligator pears.
| Raised them on our own place
near Miami" said Mr.. Bryan proud.
ly. we're taking them out to the
| children"
| On the steps of the train he
paused a moment in farewell.
/ Not n Scran NJ paner
ut all sums up into this" he
smiled. THE fundamental need of
the world today-and especially of
America--is to get back to belief In
a. living God and q sense of personal