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I ? * MR. BRYAN'S f By Bishop B. B. Hoss, in The Mem- ? phis Commercial-Appeal. 1 This utterly unexpected event? * unexpected at any fate hy the coun- ? ,.y at large, though it haB since been the theme of conversation in every 1 community and in almost every home { in the United States, and for the ' matter of that throughout the civilized world, is not likely to he followed * by any great political consequences. As far as signs go, it will not alter the policies of our own government 1 by so much as a hair's breadth. Nor 1 will it in the least affect the attitude of the Kaiser and his counsellors, unless it may possibly harden their hearts and stiffen their necks against the just demands which President Wilson has made upon them. In the light of their recent conduct, who can believe for one moment that any appeal to them from a nation believed to be utterly unwilling to tight would be more than wasted breath? Nevertheless, the dramatic aspects of Mr. Bryan's course are full of huw'' man interest, and will serve, not only the purpose of producing a teniaeA porary sensation in the public mind, fl * but also of furnishing a lively theme ** for tho discussion of future histor| ians. From his youth up Mr. Bryan I has been a man of surnrises. After his two terms in Congress, which disclosed him as an uncommonly bright and eloquent speaker, but not as a matured statesman, lie retired to what looked like the obscurity of Lis Nebraskan home. But it was not possible that he should be long ob- , scure. He had in him a native capacity for publicity, and especially a wonderful gift for utterance, which were sure to give him notice in the public eye. No matter what the course of events might have been in the United States, he would inevitably have participated in it. The agitation of the free silver issue furnished him his first great opportunity. Believing to the bottom of his soul that the United ( stAtes nueht to keen its mints oDcn to the "free and unlimited coinage o( silver at the God-given ratio of 16 to 1, and without waiting for the co? operation or consent of any other nation," he created a following, which in its breadth and its intensity will always be remembered as one of the , ri)k miracles of our political history. I ~ Whether he was right or wrong is not the point which I am here emphasizing, though I personally never doubted for a day that he was profoundly wrong. The fact remains that he stirred up his fellow citizens as not even Henry Clay had ever been able to do it. In many communities they talked of oiling up their Winchester' rifles and moving to Washington in case the plutocrats should refuse to undo "the crime of *73." Strange things may happen in the future, but nothing stranger can happen than that vast popular ferment which largely as a result of his influence spread from ^falne to California, and which failed ty make him successful at the polls chiefly because Mr. Hanna, who did not care a Jtraw tor oratory, knew exactly how to raise , an immense "slush fund" and to place it where it would do most good. Though thrice defeated for the presidency, Mr. Bryan has neve:* lost his grip upon a perfect host of his fellow citizens. Tens of thousands of people who have not endorsed his economical views, nor believed htm to be a safe leader in practical affairs, have yet cherished a profound rej spect for him as a man of the high* est ideals, noble in all his aims, and clean anc^ wholesome in his personal life. The very gibes and sneers that have been uttered against him have only served to fortify him in popular esteem. In the eyes of the great, of the good people of America it is nothing against him that he is a pronounced Christian and a strict believer in temperance. The cheap wit that has been hurled at his head because of his addiction to grape Juice has not hurt him. Whoever expected it to do so simply did not know the time of day. It Is too late in the history of the world to hope to break down a man for being the sworn enemy of alcoholic drinks. I may go further nnd say more. Mr. Bryan's general course since he entered the cabinet of President Wilson lias been in every way commendable. He has shown. In most cases, a measure of loyalty towards j his chief and a capacity for selfefTacement In the discharge of his duties that nre worthy of all praise. That he has also brought to the administration In days of trial and perplexity an element of mucti strength in the support of his innumerable friends is beyond dispute. Let it be set down to his credit that no slightest trace of mere political manoeuvering or wire-pulling has been found In him. He has been wholly 'clear In bis grett ofllco.' Not m 4 i RESIGNATION ! fi ?? C ?ven his worst enemy?and he has j * iad the blessed faculty for making ! t memies as well as friends-?can say I mything against his honor. That he * las now sadly erred In judgment I ( iteadfastly believe. But I do not 1 hlnk for one moment that any base l nouve nas enured into lus conduct. ? ie goes out of the secretary's office * is he came into it, white-souled and t lonorable. 1 In spite of all that I have said in ( he foregoing paragraphs, and of nuch more that might be said on the ^ lame line, I am yet constrained to my that Mr. Bryah has made the 1 greatest mistake that any statesman :ould have made under the circum- f itances. Nor is It possible for him jy sound argument to justify his ac- 1 ion. If there ever wgs a time when 1 in American President deserved to be supported by his cabinet and by ill the people, that time is now. Mothing less than postively wrong or 1 vicious action upon his fr&rt could warrant the secretary of state in. breaking away from him, and no juch action as that is alleged. Mr. 1 Bryan himself is witness to the high 1 iharacter, the patriotism and the 1 pacific temper of the President. Indeed he himself participated in all the events that made the President's last note a necessity. If Mr. Wilson, *fter sending the first note, had fail- 1 ed to send the second, he would have ' rendered himself and his country the laugning stoclc of the world. It will not do for Mr. Bryan to say that he signed the first note in view of the facts as he understood them. The facts were perfectly known at the time. Not a particle of new light has since been thrown upon the case. The efforts of the German government to show that the Lusitania was an armed auxiliary cruiser have J broken down so completely that no rational man can pay any attention ! to them. The facts as presented to ! VI? T>- * * mi. r?ryan in me beginning have not . been altered in the least. It must I be said, therefore, that by his official conduct in the tlrst instance he has helped to create a dangerous situation which he is now unwilling to face. If he did not know what he was doing to start with, and what the consequences would likely be, then it only remains to be said that he had less acumen that a man ought to have in so high a position. Not only is it true that the manner 1 in which the German government met Mr. Wilson's first note made the second note necessary and inevitable but it is also true that there is nothing in either note?first or second? that could not have been penned by an ardent lover of peace and a genuine Christian. Nothing in fact is more conspicuous in these great documents?1 had almost called them immortal documents?than their utter freedom from jingoism or bluster. From beginning to end they are marked by a high and serious courtesy which will cause them to be read by unborn generations as perfect models of what diplomatic documents ought to be. What do they obh. ui uurmany except that sly? show respect for the immemorial usages of civilized warfare?. What lesH could they have asked without cringing and dirt-eating? Mr. Hryan's logic limps at very > many points. He thinks that Americans should have kept out of the war zone on the sea, and almost goes the length of censuring those who dared to pay no attention to Count Bernstorff's warnings. But he makes nothing of the fact that Bernstorff'a government had also been warned very explicitly that it would be held I to "a strict accountability" if any | American citizen should suffer in property or life as a result of the submarine warfare. Nor does he nc-.-in iu net* i iiai me reui question lsi whether (lermany. may at any time ; when It pleases virtually drive Innocent Americans off the sea without ( so much as usking anybody's permis- l slon. If our government could con- j sent for one moment to that doctrine 1 then It would have reached a level of base cowarliness that is inconceivable to Americans. To give up our insistence as to our rights In connection with the Oultiight and the Lusltania is to give them up for good and all, and to fesign the duty of assuring ample protection to our citizens. It is not the present cases alone that are concerned. The whole future is Involved. Equally fallacious is the notion of Mr. Bryan that the attempted block A Cough Remedy That Relieves. It's prepared from the healing Pine Ilalscm, Tar and Honey?all mixed in a pleasant, soothing Cough Syrup called Dr. Bell's Pine-TarHoney. Thousands have benefited by its uae-?no need of your enduring that annoying cough or risking a dangerous cold. Go to your dealer, ask for a 25c original bottle of Dr. once and get rid of your cough and y>ld. * 2 THE LANCASTER NEA ide by England against the importa- 11 I Ion of foodstuffs into Germany \ I j netty much on a level with the I itrocious sinking, without the slight- | >st notice, of an unarmed passenger ship. tie speaks of this blockade as in effort to "starve" the civil popuation of Germany. If Mr. Bryan had studied his \ristotle more and his Cicero less he could not have fallen nto such an error. To begin with, F< England did not institute her blockide against foodstuffs until the Gernan government had sequestered all he supplies in the country. There vsCa food enough and to spare for the :lvil population. If Germany chose ec o put her own people in peril of Btl starvation by taking over all suDDlies ind determining that her armies al< should be first fed, could she justly ?P nsist that her antagonists in the war ch should help to mantain this arrange- a nent by allowing all sorts of provis- lsl ions fo go into the country? The ^ purpose of this blockade is to force to 3ermany to feed her own civil popu- to lation, as she is entirely able to do, tu and thereby limit her powers of ^ maintaining her army. This last end ECngland had a perfect right to seek. 8 BC By his extreme protest against "force." and his plea for "persua- n( Bion," Mr. Bryan ignores some su- p< preme truths. Persuasion belongs pl to the church. As she deals with the 81 inner convictions and emotions of pt men's natures, she can only persuade. It is not possible for her to control that invisible sphere except by per suasion. In attempting to <lo so she | u would be guilty of a great sin. But u the state, having to do with the out- i ward conduct of men, does not per- !il Buade, but commands. Its symbol is the sword. The civil magistrate iv "beareth not the sword in vain; for 'h he is a minister of God, a revenger, si tQ execute wrath upon him that si doeth evil." If the state should not use force even to maintain its ex- ti istence against external aggression, m then it may not lawfully use force al even to suppress internal lawlessness and anarchy, and ought to disband al Its police, close up its criminal courts and tear down its jails and ti penitentiaries. Force in its place is p, a most wholesome thing. w Mr. Bryan's notion that by issuing 0| a stream of unofficial messages to the American people, and to the German- w Americans, which, if they have any tf oicrni Aoonon n t nil n nt>n txvlit />? !*</?? 1 These fellows who are waiting for 15 the war to end to start something ? will find that they are only second raters. The trick will be turned by p the fellow who makes rathen than n waits opportunity.?Florence Times. Tribune. I JJ I h d It Head* Well. | s It is pleasant to read that our market is glutted with gold even jf we ^ are unable to see any of It.?Charlotte Observer. I I Human Doormata. Some men could be slsed up in two { words: Human doormats. ? Florida Times-Union. 1 j L A flood Household Saive. I nrilinnru oilrr*nnta on/1 In Inelna a wa 1 * not of themselves serious, but infee- i a tion or low vitality may make them , dangerous. Don't neglect a cut, j L sore, bruise or hurt because it's , l small. Rlood poison has resulted , y from a pin-?rlek or scratch. For*nil : I. such ailments Bucklen's Arnica a Salve is excellent. It protects and .heals the hurt; is antiseptic, kills In- e ! fection and prevents dangerous com- v j plications. Good for rill skin blemI ishes, pimples, salt rheum, eczema. L [Get an original 2-ounce 25c box from your druggist. 2 & 'k .. nihllllK BllVt ?V ??? , UIB R'OICIJ' tl ILK a I 8J of the President's actions, he is helping the President to attain his ae- bi know lodged end of peace, is almost tr amusing. Having been for many i years a teacher of logic, I am almost ri tempted to throw this argument into ni the form of a sylogism, for the pur- p( pose of Rhowing its fatal weakness, p, but I do not wish to expose myself to w the charge of pedantry. d< War, of course, is awful beyond li the power of words to express. Kven tt when it is relieved and lightened by tc touches of humanity and chivalry 2< it is appalling. Brought up as I was in a border state, and spending my c< youth in a fommunity in which near- n ly every family was rent in twain by it our own Civil War, my memory of w those days of darkness has been al- it ways a horror to me. In my judg- Q ment the vast majority of the American people?practically all of them a ?feel the same way. They not mere- A ly do not want war, but they dread it, and would prefer to submit to w anything except dishonor to avoid it. b Rut they would rather tight than ac- j p cept the claim of any foreign nation i ti that they should not at any time go ] g on the high seas or elsewhere, with i f; peaceable intent, except at the risk 1 i; and peril of being murdered. The j o sea belongs to peaceful commerce, i; Belligerents have no right to fence | ti off any part of it and require neu- j trals to keep out of it. They them- ; selves are there simply by tolerance,! and must be careful not to do unlawful acts. k n Now "s tlie Time. VS. JULY 2, 1915. )RD ASQUITH URGES i BRITISH ECONOMY ecessary for People of Britain to Finance the Great War. OR POPULAR WAR LOAN, j "' ssary to S|H*n<l a l)a> on the War?People Will Have to Subscribe Money. London, June 29.?Penny-wise onomy heretofore has not been a rong feature of the gatherings at lild Hall, so closely connected with dermanic bannueta of nrnvoriiiai ulence, but Premier Asquitb today ose this home of weath to initiate movement in support of the Britti war loan. He urged personal rift throughout the nation so as make it possible for the country bear the strain of the expendlre of $15,000,000 dai'y entailed by e cost of the war. As if to give the campaign a good nd-off the first really big sudription to the war loan was an>unced simultaneously with the apiarance of Premier Asquith on the atform. It was by a London asiriinpo poninn.ov oil '> AAA Ai.n >uii(18 sterling ($15,000,000.) Premier Asquith emphasized that lat was the first great democratic an in the financial history of reat Britain. The state, he said, as appealing to all classes, even lose whose resources were most mi ted. "Waste on the part of either indlduals or classes," said Mr. Asquith. which always is foolish and short ghted, is, in these times, nothing lort of a national danger." The Premier dismissed as impraccable the ideal of selling investentse property, or of borrowing jroad. "The amount that could be raised jroad in comparison to the sum reuired," he said, "would be praccally infienitesimal, and if it were assible on any considerable scale e should have to face the prospect ' ending the war a debtor country." The only other course, he declared, as that his countrymen diminish leir expenditures and increase their ivings. Mr. Asquith continued: "The state of the trade balance etween ourselves and other oounies at this moment affords grounds, don't say for anxiety, but for seous thought. For the first five lonths of the present year our imarts have increased by 32,500,000 aunds sterling ($162,500,000.) hile our exports and re-exports have ecreased by 73,750,000 pounds sterng ($368,750,000.) That means lat for 12 months our indebtedness > other countries will reach over 60,000,000 pounds sterling ( $ 1 ,90,000,000.) The only way to )unter-act this is by reducing all unecessary personal expenditure on nported articles such as tea, sugar, 1 * - in*-, jiru ui, cu ,, itiuj on goous niaue 1 this country bo that a larger uantity may be left to sell abroad." Remarking that it was not merely question of self-preservation, Mr. squith proceeded: "There is not a man or woman ho has seen what is hanging in the alance, but who has during the ast year become greatly conscious hat the battle in which we are enaged touches interests and ideals lr beyond the shores of these ismds, beyond even the confines of ur world-spread empire, and realms that it concerns the whole fuure of humanity." Puzzle for Papa. Small Sadie's father is a traveling tan, and during his absence a new aby arrived. 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