The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-07-31
BRYAN DIED 20 YEARS TOO LATE

William Jennings Bryan is dead! Instead of going down
to his grave mOurned by the great people whose
he stirred 30 years ago. Bryan will be remembered
who abandoned the principles of his youth for the
comfort and of the bourgeois middle of the roader
In his early years Bryan rendered great services the
of humanity by his participation in the PoPulst move
At that time he referred to by the kept ladies of
the press radical and attacked with much per-
sona hatred is W. L Foster today The he cham
poned assaed with bitter fury by the master class
of that period than is the Communist International
At time when the rising populst movement challenged
the political power of Wall Street. Bryan entered the Demo
cratic Convention and electrified the delegates with his fam
crown Of horns and of gold speech and as a
consequence was nominated for the Presidency This i'll
stared of his had the effect of killing off the most
Using political movement Of the producing class yet attempted
in America The popus party swallowed by the Demo
But in the Democratic party Bryan batted for
against the powers that prey much the unscenthc
fashion did LaFoIett towards the end of his
But the savory smell of the Aehpots of Egypt too
much for the pOssesor of the of gold He suCcumbed
the siren call of the money God He sold his golden eo-
quence Chautauqua profit hogs and with it his principles,
for the proverba thirty pieces of silver We see him sink
lower and until last he is enmeshed in the of that
Prince of Fypocres Woodrow Wilson, and while that Shiny
tool of Wall Street and British Imperialism plotting
plunge the young manhood Of America into the Bryan
sat supney the cabinet and uttered word OF
ing the country True Bryan got of the cabinet and
in that way attempted escape the blood outlines of the
Wilson dictatorship but he did it like coward sinking
away from the battle line than fighting earlessy for
the truth
From then on we find him sinking lower and lower in
the slime Of commercalsm until behold the once great
tribune of the people prosttutng his talents the
of real sharks Florida The end of Bryan pa
hec in the In order appease his nordnate ap
petite for publicity and lay the foundation for the reapng
of another golden harvest the lecture platform, he took
the side of bgoy and intolerance against science and intel
lectual progress in Tennessee.
Like shyser, he played down the ignorant ee
He catered to the blind prejudice and passion of the
most backward part of the population. He pandered to the
intellectual riff raft by mounting the crude and brutal forms
of fanatica fundamentaism He shouted their puerile
from the housetops. He paraded their imbecites Bryan
who began his by endeavorng snatch the
of hons from the brow of labor ended by trying clamp
the lid of medevasm upon free thought and discussion
intellectual freedom in America He did his best cruelty
his counymen upon the Of bgory and intolerance
Bryan died too late If he passed away 20 years ago hi
bors behalf Of the oppressed would be heraded future
generations He would be acclaimed great and good mar
instead of nfantie bgo and money grubber whose I
oozed out under dark cloud