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The Baleful Influence of W. J .
Bryan.
Like Woodrow Wilson, Mr. Bryan was a dis¬
mal failure as a lawyer.
In his biography, written by his wife, she
speaks pathetically of how she used to patch the
seat of his breeches.
He suddenly loomed up as a fine declaimer in
a local political campaign. professional polit¬
He quit law, and became a
ical campaigner. district
He convinced the Populists of his
that he was a better Pop than was the nominated
Pop running against him.
So the Populist voters were beguiled, and they
voted for Bryan, rather than for the Pop nomine *.
He came to Congress, acclaimed as the Dan¬
iel Webster of the West.
He declined to vote for Mr. Crisp for Speaker,
because Crisp was an ex-C-onfederate soldier; but
when he saw that Crisp’s election was a foregone
conclusion, he went over to Crisp, and thus won a
place on tire Ways and Means Committee.
Being a member of this, the predominating
Committee, his position in the House was promi¬
nent and influential.
He chose his own time to make his first speech,
and his subject was the Tariff.
He had practised it in the hall of the House,
between sessions, in order that he might get the
hang of the difficult acoustics.
This was not to be criticised at all. but it
shows how very careful and mechanical were his
preparations for his debut.
The day cam? for the speech, in a full House,
and when Brvan rose, there was silence and expec¬
tation throughout the great audience.
His presence was fine: he was tall enough,
stout enough, and very handsome.
His voice was insinuating to the last degree;
and it was clear, strong, musical—with a slight
lisp, almost a whistling side-tone, owing to the
slight overlapping of his lips.
His audience was thoroughly pleased, and ap¬
plauded him most generously.
Some of the Republican leaders were not
among the pleased, and they interrupted Bryan
with questions.
His repartees were quick, spontaneous, over¬
whelming.
Evidently, the newspaper reporters had been
coached; and, almost before the speech was over,
the wires were thrilling with reports of the grand
triumph of the Orator of the Platte.
The fact is. the speech succeeded because of its
faultless delivery; because of the youth and good
looks of the speaker; and because it exactly corre¬
sponded with the temper of the Tariff-reform
House.
A few days afterwards, Bryan told me and
others in the rear of the seats in the Hall, that
he had received a letter begging him to run for
President.
He added, “I am not old enough to qualify.”
Bryan did not, so far as T remember intro¬
duce any bills for general legislation.
He introduced several for special pensions.
He made a speech in favor of the automatic
car coupler bill, but I do not remember whether
he remained with us for the all-night fight which
put it through.
He did not—as I remember—take a part in
the all-day fight for the Rural Free Delivery of
mail.
I do not know how he voted on the 8-hour
day, for laborers working for the Gotornmenr.
which measure I supported.
He was re-elected, and served another term,
but he added nothing to his reputation.
He elaborately prepared a speech on the Mon¬
ey question: he failed on it. because he did not
understand the subject, and does not now under¬
stand it.
At that session, I demanded to b? heard, on the
floor of the House, in advocacy of my right to my
seat—my contest for the seat then being before
the Committee on elections, in legal shape.
The House refused me this privilege.
. Since our Government was founlded, no oth¬
er contestant had been thus denied.
As a matter of simple justice to Mr. Bryan, I
am glad to state, that he voted in favor of allow¬
ing me to be heard.
He did not offer for a third term: he left
Washington in a dudgeon, declaring that he would
go back to Nebraska, and become the leader of the
Populists. told the. Senator
(He so present Smith of
Georgia, who told it to me.)
I have always suspected that the fear of Bry
tin’s bolt caused Speaker Charles R. Crisp and oth¬
er astute Democratic leaders to intrigue with Bri¬
an and promise him the nomination for the Presi¬
dency. did
Anyway, he not bolt, and he was made the
nominee.
The problem of the ensuing campaign was,
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LET THE PEOPLE VOTE ON IT.
Every possible effort is being made to keep
the League of Nations from a popular vote.
It has been endorsed behind closed doors of
Chambers of Commerce.
It has been sprung upon a few tired ex-Con
federate soldiers, who had no chance to hear both
sides, and who did not number 50 votes; and then
the favorable vote of these 50 was advertised by
John Sharp Williams, in the United States Senate
as the united voice of the Confederate Veterans
Association.
In like manner, the question has been sprung
at Church meetings, where it had no business to
be, and at labor metings which had no jurisdiction
whatever over the subject.
Finally, the British propaganda referred the
question to the college boys , most of whom arc not
old enough to vote.
So far as I have seen, the League has not been
referred to the Masons, the Elks, the Odd Follows,
the Junior Order, the Farmers’ Union, the Grange
or Labor Unions not belonging to the A. F. L. and
its allied organizations.
When any political question which proposes
a change in the organic law of this Union is to be
referred to the jwople, it should lie voted on by
THE QUALIFIED VOTERS.
Not only that—it should be voted on by the
qualified voters at the time, and place designated
BV LAW.
Church-buildings, college halls, Chamber of
Commerce rooms, American Federation lodges, are
:not the places for a referendum vote on any vital
question affecting the whole country.
The Atlanta Constitution says in its Wednes¬
day issue that 20,000,000 people are roaring for
the League.
Whoever wrote that, “greatly exaggerated.”
The only people who are roaring for the
league which reduces us to the status of one o)
England's colonies , are the financial buccaneers
such as J. P. Morgan- Bernard Baruch, the Park¬
ers, the Steel Trust, the Standard Oil Trust, the
Munitions Trust, the Coal Trust—and the Con¬
gressmen whom they own, and the Editors whom
they teach what to say.
The reason why they are afraid to let you have
a vote o i this League, are these:
(1) It puts your magnificent Union under
THE CONTROL OF EUROPE AND JAPAN/
(2) It puts your Government on an equal
footing with each of England’s colonies, but, not
on equality with England , herself.
(3) It makes you the equal in the League
Congress, of Australia; but Canada, and New
Zealand and South Africa each has a vote equal
to yours; and if these British colonies vote, against
you, the 110-000,000 people of this country are
controlled by the few millions of colonists that
live in those English provinces.
Neither of those- distant colonies has a. rx>te
in the British Parliament , but all of them will have
seats of equality with our Union , in the League of
Nations. •
Instead of being the equal of England in the
League, you will in fact become, her greatest pro
inee, to be exploited for troops, money, credit
AND SUPPLIES.
(4) The League gave Syria to France, and
a bloody war for their independence is being waged
by the Syrians.
In consequence of the Treaty and the League,
there are 23 wars now raging in Europe and the
near East.
Is this the New Day? i$ this the prevention of
war?
The arbitrary giving of Syria, to France was
more indefensible than the taking of Alsace-Lor¬
raine by the Germans after they had conquered
France, in 1870- because the Entente, never made
war upon Syria: but on the contrary, dangled be¬
fore the Syrians the promise of “ self-determina¬
tion?'
(5) Woodrow Wilson not only agreed that
England should break all her promises , as to
Egypt, but he allowed her to seize Persia, , whose
oil-fields, minerals, and wool she coveted.
Under the thin veil of an “agreement,” Persia
dies, as an independent State, and becomes one of
England's dependencies— just as our Union, will
It will be a great value to us to have all subscrip¬
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do, if our people ratify the Traitor-League which
the International bankers,.bondholders, and man¬
ufacturers dictated at Paris.
(6) President Wilson declared in his Four¬
teen Points, that the seas must be free , in war as
well as in peace.
Why did he surrender to England on that
issue!
He did surrender it, and England has gone
right ahead with her two-power policy, and has
proclaimed her purpose of continuing to be the
Mistress of the Seas.
Her navy is to be, the equal of the- fleets of
ANT TWO NATIONS.
In building this might}* armament, she is
doubtless using the money Hr. Wilson loaned her ,
without any legal authority.
It is costing her so much to increase her bat¬
tle ships, that she does not even pay the interest
on the four thousand million dollars loaned her by
Wilson.
(7) The League of Nations lets your Repub¬
lic down to a level with Cuba, with the. negro
Republic of San Domingo-Haiti, and with Liberia.
Has anybody explained why?
No.
Are you willing that the Roman Catholic Is
land of Cuba, and that of San Domingo, shall la¬
the equals of vour grand Republic, in the League?
The secret as to why this was done, has not
yet leaked out.
(S) The League binds you to send another
Expeditionary Force to France, whenever her
Government calls for it, on the ground of German
aggression.
This is a perpetual contract binding on the
United States, but not binding France to anything.
The French are a warlike people, and their
quarrel with Germany is a thousand years old.
The dreary history of the feud has been- that
when France felt strong enough to invade Ger¬
many, she did it; and when Germany felt strong
enough io invade France, she did it.
The devastation and atrocities committed ji
Germany, by the French commanders, of Louis
XIV, were even more atrocious than those com¬
mitted by the Kaiser’s officers in Northern France.
Marshal P'oseh ifj already publishing State¬
ments about “another war.”
He is saying that the dream of peace is an il¬
lusion.
He wants France to go on with her prepara¬
tions for the coming war.
When the Marsha] is in that state of mind,
how long will it take him to discover that Germany
has committed an “aggression ?”
When Marshal Fosch discovers what die is
looking for, and reports to his Government whit
he has found, the French Government will demand
nother Expeditionary force, and our Kaisers will
conscript another five million Americans.
That’s the unlimited obligation which Wood
row Wilson fatuously put into the League nego
tions, as a separate Treaty.
(9) The League is evolving its own Supreme
Court, as I told you it would: its own system of
finance, as I told you it would.
It is to have its c*m armies- drawn from the
member States.
Necessarily, it must have its own system of
taxation, imposed upon each member nation.
It must have its own ambassadors, ministers,
and consuls.
It must have its own Cabinet: those appointed,
so far, are Roman Catholics.
The Pope will be a member of the League,
but Protestant churches are not recognized, at all.
(10) The League is so constituted that the
Roman Catholics have an overwhelming majority
vote in it.
It is a Catholic League.
(11) This League has the power to order
your soldiers to any part of the earth, to defend
England’s perfidious grab of Egypt; Japan's grab
of Korea, Shantung and Siberia; France’s grab of
Syria; England’s grab of Mesopotamia and Persia.
If you vote for this diabolical Imperial League,
you surrender the mastery of your own fate, the
control of your foreign policy, the ordering
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Issued Weekly
A Few Samples of Roman
Catholicism.
There is a Catholic Layman's Association, lo¬
cated in Augusta. Georgia, and for several years
this Association has been flooding the. country with
the most insidious, mendacious, and impudently
persuasive, literature in behalf of the foreign
church which is ruled by a few Italian pru hits.
There had been an English Pope, a Flemish
Pope, German Popes, Spanish Popes, and French
Popes; but after the sudden death of the Flemish
Pope, in the 16th century, the Italian Cardinals
caused the election of an Italian Pope; and it is
now the written, law of the church, that there
shall always 1 h> a majority of Italian Cardinals,
who are to elect none but one of themselves .as
Pope.
(You noticed that in the recent creation of
Cardinals by the present Pope, the majority were
Italians.
It will nlways.be so.)
Consequently- when the Roman priests Tmd
laymen strive to make America Catholic, they are
striving to place us under the religious and po¬
litical control of Italians, living in Rome.
The Association which {scatters ltteratorp f*<»n
Augusta, has falsified the Roman Church a position
on Marriage, on Education, on Civil AHogiance,
upon kidulgencies, upon the worship of Images,
upon the Office of the Priest, upon Convents, upon
Bible reading, and upon emery other point
controversy.
They Haim to speak hy authority.
WhOSB -AUTHORITY ?
They never quote die Pope!
They never quote the Councils oflhe OhrrcA.
They never quote the Lana of their Cbwrdfc,
They never quote the. Bible.
Why, then, should anybody pay attanfJaa
to the. stuff circulated by J. J. Farrell’s Laymans^
Association-?
/1 deals in impudent assertions-, sir sobs <X 09
DEAL WITH FACTS.
Some years ago, ChCMfe
House of tb© Betwiger Brothers, New York, pub¬
lished a book enticed “The Groat Eagocawai Let¬
ters of Pope Loo XJII.-^
These, official letters of fhe Pope c o v er «aarry
subject that J. J. Farm! has been discuasaig-; and,
in these letters, the Pope lays down him Imn, on
those subjects.
Docs Farrell's Association quote those letierf
to sustain its positions.?
No,'
Why not?
Because the. Pope’s law, as set forth m those
official letters, gives the lie to FanreiPs pampiafefca.
In other words, Farrell is engaged in the no- ‘
ble work of gulling our people, and soothing away
their opposition to this autocratic, anti-dem¬
ocratic, reactionary, ignorance-loving, blood-thirs¬
ty church.
Let ws consider a few of fix? points, and see
what the highest Catholic authority says about
them.
Marrimus.
Farr elk's Association has been shamelessly'
falsifying the Inm of the Italian Church tm mar¬
riage.
’Idle substance, of his propaganda has been,
that only as between Catholics , did the Romanists
hold that a bachelor priest was necessary to unite
the man and the woman in marriage!
What, a brazen falsehood!
The Roman Church never codified its law until
a thousand years after Bishop Boniface, (in 606)
bought- from the Emperor Phoeas the title of Uni¬
versal Bishop—afterwards contracted into that of
the Pope.
Previously, every Bishop had been called pope
papa—but after the deal between Ronifar* and
Phoeas, all Western Bishops ceased to use (be fa¬
therly title.
It was in the year 606, that Popery began its
bloody career; and it was not until Martin Lu¬
ther discovered a Bible in his monastry, read it,
realized what a Pagan Medley the Roman Church
had become, and denounced the money-sale of for¬
giveness of sins—past, present, future, on earth,
and in hell—and commenced the Reformation,
that the Roman Church saw the necessity of de
aU^ng How what long its did creed it was. take to decide?
It took eighteen years!
The Council convened in 1545, held 23 session*,
outlived several Popes, and adjourned in 1563.
Even then a decision would not have bee*
reached, had not the Pope packed the Conventiou I
with an ever increasing number of Italian prelates,
bought Cardinal Lorraine, of France; and brought
the- influence of the Emperor to bear upon the Ger¬
man delegates.
No jxilitiual convention of recent years has
used the steam roller with more skill and force*
than Pope Paul used it on the Council of Trent.
One of the prime objects of the Pope was, to
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