The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 06, 1906, Image 2
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Home?and Lottie! Dan Joyce, j
that staring man with the haggard, j
boyish face, at whom the other pas- j
sengers had glanced so often, gripped !
his teeth to keep back a shout?or a :
sob. Home! For him, the gap in ;
those white cliffs looked like the
gate of a paradise. Dear England? j
after two and a half years in the j
-W- Australian bushland! London, and j
then?his precious Lottie, waiting for !
him all these dull months! i
He would catch the pale, slight !
figure by surprise in his strong brown I
arm5 snri fpll hpr that Iovp alone I
had drawn him back six months be- :
fore his allotted time, and how it had j
secretly almost broken his heart to
leave her to her lonely nurse's rou- i
tine, with only his old chum Ferrars !
to watch from a distance that no i
harm befel her. Only his love?not i
because of that incredible letter that [
had reached him in the wilds two
months ago! i
Ke was clutching it now. He j
would tear it up and throw the pieces i
at her feet. Her tired eyes would fill
and brim over; she would sob out on
his shoulder that she had written it
on a wild, inexplicable impulse, when
the loneliness of life seemed too
heavy to bear. Yes! Ke had not
once doubted it. His quiet, trusting
Lottie!
No, there was some strange mistake
that would be puffed away in a
moment.' Ferrars would have whis*
pered the word of comfort for him!
Ferrars, the actor, was the one man
^ living whom he had cared to trust
with his heart's deepest longing. For
that last brief letter that her fingers
had penned had been one to crush
and brutalize any man not su suic ui
the woman he had asked to wait!
"My Dear Mr. Joyce?I shall not
"be able to write again. You will
think it hard, for a time, maybe, but
you would think still less of me as a
woman if I let you go on hoping and
looking forward. Against my will
my feelings have gradually changed.
I shall only ask you, as a man, not to
cause unnecessary pain by ever trying
to see me again. I hold you to
that. Good-bye.?Lottie Haynes."
Oh, to see her lips quiver close to
his own again!?to kiss away all the
haze of misunderstanding! "Lottie!
Lottie!" he was whispering to himself
all the way.
London?Amies street?the house
itself?at last! One minute more!
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away, quite steadily, but with a queer
t pallor under his tan. Miss Haynes
was gone away to some hospital, they
told him, staring curiously; that was
all they knew. Lottie had promised
never to give up that room of hers
until he came to take her from it as
his dear wife. She had gone, leaving
no clew.
Ton minntoc mnrpanfl he had runST
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the same old bell. "Oh, yes, Mr. Ferrars
is still with us! We knew he
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expected some friends, but he is not
at home yet " She hesitated.
"Thanks?thanks! Archie won't
. mind me waiting!" he said, clearing
his husky throat. And he found himself
going dazedly up t?he stairs.
An then presently he drew in his
breath sharply. A sudden buzz of
voices below; men laughing and chattering.
Now they were coming up?
Archie leaping on ahead. He could
pick out the old careless, rich voice
that he would know among thousands.
Then suddenly the door was
pushed back and Ferrars stood there.
Ferrars, not changed an atom!?the
old smile on his dark, keen, goodlooking
face.
tl r It died out. Dan Joyce had
sprung, his hand out, that husky
"Archie, old fellow!" warm and broken
on his lips. But that was all.
In the dying light all the blood had
seemed to drain from Ferrars' face
and left it gray; hestood like a thing
of stone. For a full minute, while
that muffled laughter came in from
the next room, life seemed to have no
meaning, and tbenFerrars naci ciosea
the door and held it fast.
"You!" he strained out. "You'
here?back in England! What?
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"I'm sorry," Dan whispered. "I
never meant to give you that shock.
Archie,'she ? she's gone! Gone!"
" His voice broke, he reached out
again, gropingly.
"Dan! I thought of you as thousands
of miles away", and?to see you
standing in my room!" The hand
fell away. He stood back as if
scarcely breathing, his face turned.
"Where is she?" Dan asked
thickly. "I came?I came home because
I couldn't live longer without
her. Tell me that, if you know, and
I'll go. Where's my Lottie?"
"I do know." He had tiptoed to
the door and clicked the key. When
he turned there was sweat on his
forehead, as after a great mental
ordeal. "Dan, I do know?and can't
help you. Now you know why I
have not written lately?I could not.
I heard?I heard there was another
man. What could I do when she
asked me, on my honor, never to tell
you where she had gone? I prom
isea; 1 naa to. l can c ureaa, luj
word to a woman!"
"You must?and will," Dan whispered,
never moving. His blue eyes,
staring past, seemed to see nothing.
"I left her in your keeping, as my
one friend on earth. You could have
told me, for my life's happiness?
and hers. You'll tell me now, because,
night or day, I shall never
rest until I have it from her own
dear lips that woman's love?Lottie's
love?would die like that."
A long silence. Dan was not quite
ure?there seemed to come a thick
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mist over everything ? but he believed
that Ferrars had slipped from
the room in that nameless pause.
Ke. knew nothing more for certain
until Ferrars' hand closed upon his
shoulder. Ferrars' voice itself seemed
to come from a distance.
"Here, then, take this. I've written
it; I've not told you?not broken
my word literally. I can't stay to
talk to-night; I have to be at the
theatre by seven, and my friends are
waiting. She s staying there, at that
address, with friends, not far off.
Send this telegram to her with your
own hands.
"I tried to spare you pain by keeping
silence. She won't see you?of
that I'm certain; so this is supposed
to come from a friend of hers, asking
her to be at the main park gate by
9 o'clock, on a life and death matter.
It's quiet there?the gates
close at dusk. Say nothing as to
how you found out, and don't go
near the house itself. Simply wait,
and call here to-morrow to tell me.
Old chap, it would be cruel to wish
you luck!"
Some word rose in Dan's throat,
but it was not sound. He pressed
the other's hands and went out. Almost
unconsciously he dispatched the
telegram.
Nine o'clock! A thin powder of
snow was falling. Past 9! He stood
on there in the grip of the cold
lethargy because there seemed nowhere
to go?nothing more to live
for. And then, Lottie! Over there,
about to cross the white roadway,
came the dear slight figure that had
moved through his many dreams. He
wnnf-orl tn loon fnrwnr/1 +n chnnt
her name; he could only stand
rigid.
She had paused, looking around.
Only the curb railing was between
them. Then she had seen him, and
given the thrilling little cry for
which he waited. She realized! To
her he was a ghost from a dead
past. He could just make out the
deathly whiteness of her face in the
surrounding gloom. She had quivered
back; she was going without a
word?out of his life for ever!
"Lottie! Lottie, dear hear me!
One word?if j'ou ever loved me!"
"Not one?no, not one!" She
faltered it faintly, but with determination
that went to his. heart.
"Don't come near me?I am not
worth it! It was not?not like you
to stoop to such a trick with a weak
woman!"
"Hush! I won't move; I am not
going to frighten you, dear! Only
let me speak quietly; only tell me
what it all means!" He stood motionless
on his side of the iron railing.
*She had changed?yes! There
was something in her attitude tonight,
in her chilling resolution, that
he had never known in the old days.
His Lottie!?yet not the Lottie who
had clung to him and .bade him be
strong and brave for her sake.
"If you knew what I have suffered
you would forgive me this," he said,
imploringly quiet. "It's all a mist;
I know nothing except that I have
done nothing to-forfeit your love. I
had your cruel letter and would not
Deiieve it; l came DacK nome to ten
you so. You never meant those
words. Lottie, you can't?you won't
?say that you have given to some
other man what you gave to me?all
that I held precious in life. I worked
for you out there; I waited, for
your future's sake; I never will believe
that you turned from me of
your own accord, knowing that I
prayed for you on my knees every
night?that I "
It quavered off. His effort had
been made. He caught at the rail
and put a hand to his eyes. She was
looking down as if in deepest shame,
but without a visible tremor.
"It is too late," she said in the
same faint, cold way. "I?I did not
realize you would take it so to heart.
There is no need to make a scene
here; I am known, and?and I
ought not to have been trapped1 by a
trick like this. No, I can't tell you
any more' than I wrote. I don't ask
you to forgive me, but just to forget
me. If you persist now, I?I must
go still farther away and give up my
work here. But if you're the man I
think, you'll go back and find some
better woman who will repay you
for all. I dare not stop; I must say
good-by." ? ,
"Good-by." The man's lips echoed
it in a far-away whisper. His staring
eyes saw nothing now. The lump
in his throat could not be gulped
back this time. Only once his hand
wavered out, as if in hopes of touching
hers, but the dear figure in gray
had gone.
Ten o'clock! A groping, haggard
figure, he found himself back at the
house where Archie Ferrars lived. In
that front room the gaslight still
burned, but no one-was there. He
moved to and fro with simply the
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"good-by" before he turned back to
that lone life in the bush. All unconsciously
it was that he took up
a newspaper lying there; vaguely
his strained eyes focused a blue-pencil
mark around one paragraph. He
read and reread as a child might
have done:
Successful male impersonators are
legion; but it is rare, indeed, that we
find the man who can don woman's
garb, and don with it the graceful
charm and femininity essentially exclusive
to the tender sex. Mr.
"Archie" Ferrars has evidently made
a careful study and mastered the
subtleties of a difficult role. Not a
few among his appreciative audience
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at the Ambigu last night were left
skeptical as to the artist's real sex.
Incidentally, we understand that any
! such doubts are dispelled by the fact
j that Mr. Ferrars is shortly to be
married to a charming lady who
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He heard a knocking at the hall
door below. And then a voice?low,
clear, sad. A woman's voice; the
voice that had answered him not an
hour ago?Lottie's .jXc: Here!
He stumbled across. He had
heard the maid answer that Mr. Ferrars
was at home. He stood rooted,
a hand to his forehead, staring out.
Was it real? Should he wake
presently in a sweat to nna nimseii
still upon the ocean liner? For a
door on that lower landing had
opened, and Ferrars* pale, clear-cut
face looked out. Ferrars, unconscious
of his return to the house, had been
in that other room all the while.
And Ferrars had called anxiously
down.
"Miss Haynes, is it? Why, dear,
what has brought you here? What
is the matter? I was not well?
I did not go to the rehearsal tonight.
How strange you look! Come
this way?sit down?tell me?you
must!"
Flat to the wall the listening man
shuddered back as Ferrars leaped
| up the stairs, sprang in, set the gas
blazing, and reached out for a chair.
"Xo?no!" It was the same dear
voice, but trembling and somehow
different; it went through Dan's
I brain with a strange thrill. "I could
not rest?I was going straight on
to the theatre to find you." She
paused. Framed there in the doorway
so close she seemed to strain
her hands together.
I "He is back!" came her whisper.
"He is back in England?in London!
He was seen only this afternoon.
He went to my old address, some one
told me. He looked ill and troubled.
No, no?let me think * * *
Archie I can't?I can't be your wife
yet. I think of him still?I must,
whatever he has done, however faithless
he may have been to me out
there. You don't know; you couldn't
understand a woman's heart. Oh,
it would break if I thought he had
come back to realize the love he had
thrown away*?come back to find me
another man's promised wife! J
wrote that letter. Yes, you made
me; but something told me that a
true woman would have waited to
know from his own lips that he had
met a woman he loved better. I
have lived in agony, and I wouldn't
tell you you had won my promise
when all seemed ,so dark and bitter."
"Lottie!" It broke in* a moan
from Dan's lips. "Lottie! He. is
here! Yes; here for love of you!"
He stood there, his shaking arms
put out. All was silence. The cry
in her throat seemed to be frozen.
Ferrars, his friend, had reeled back,
and cowered away as from a descending
death-blow. Only his lips
worked soundlessly as Dan Joyce
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pointing, his voice suddenly strong
and calm.
"I know. ' I know now! What
have you done? What' have you
written, to blackdn my struggling
life in her eyes? .What part was it
you played to-night?you, the actor
?as the last vile resource of a man
in extremity? The part that that
paper says you play with such rare
success?"
There was no answer. He waited
for none. He turned his voice going
soft. "Lottie! The light has come
?heaven meant this to happen. An
hour more and I should have lost
you?lost you to this man who has
sunk himself body and soul to win
you away in my absence?this man
who could veil himself in angel's uniform
as a nurse?as your own self,
to crush me with a lie! Tou never
doubted me; you were blinded, as
I was blinded to-night, by the genius
of a villian."
"You wrote!" came the weak
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eyes looked past at a something too
deep to be understood. "You wrote
twice, saying that you wished to release
me. I was crushed; I had no
one to turn to. And yet?and yet
?oh, Dan'"
"Come to me," he whispered. "It
is all dawning now. I never wrote
that. My real letters have not
reached you. Look! He has played
many parts, trusting that I should
never come back in time; but tonight
*he has played his last. Come
to me, Lottie! Only believe, and
love will bring the light."
j Next moment he stood in the grip
of a happiness that paid for all.
I Two soft hands had framed his face;
a slight breast heaved against his
own; a trembling figure was locked
within his arms, and he knew foi
certainty that a woman's love, once
given, can never be taken away. Id
that sweet pause Ferrars had stolen
from the room?perhaps from the
house, but neither knew it. The
dawn of truth, after that long dark
ness, blotted out all else. Dan Joyce
onmo into life l-infHniri , |
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Robert Halifax, in Tit-Bits.
Ruined Hunting Countries.
The "physical features" of a hunting
country change in an extraordi
nary manner. .Some districts whicl
were considered first rate for th<
purposes of sport, have been so com
pletely spoiled by railways, wirefencing,
and building and drainage
that in spite of the "fashionable'
character their retain, a stranger ii
search of sport must be a simpleton t<
go and hunt in them.?Country GeD
tleman.
There was no full moon in thi
wliole of February, IS66. Accord
ing to astronomers, this will not oc
cur again until the year 2,499,962. '
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Using Georgia Garnishments.
South Carolinians are availing
themselves of the garnisheeing law of
Georgia to the amount of thousands
of dollars annually in the absence of
a similar statute in this state. The
practice is especially common in the
case of the railroads and many cred- |
;<T?r<a nf pmr.Invps who are unable to i
collect their claims in Charleston and
other cities, put these claims in
the hands of magistrates in Georgia
and settlement is immediately had. It
is a profitable business for the Georgia
magistrates and the arrangement
is satisfactory to the South Carolina
creditors.
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Charleston Immigrant Station.
E. J. Watson, commissioner of the
department of immigration of South
Carolina, has cabled from Bremen
that through his efforts the North
German Llcyd Steamship company
had decided to establish a South Atlantic
immigration station at Charleston.
together with a passenger and
freight service. Mr. Watson stated
further that the inauguration of the
service was left to his discretion and
would be put In effect immediately.
This announcement means a great
deal not only for South Carolina, but
the entire south, and will, in part,
relieve the congestion at the New
York station.
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Atlanta Man Orator.
W. S. Wier of Atlanta was the labor
day orator at the celebration in Columbia.
Mr. Wier is well known in
the labor councils cf Columbia, and
has been prominentiv identified with
the labor movement for a number of
years.
He is a forceful and convincing
speaker, quite magnetic and possesses
a wide range of knowledge on labor
matters and labor statistics. He is a
member of the Atlanta Typographical
Union. He has been labor day orator
on many previous occasions, and has
won quite a reputation as an orator.
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Negro College President's Break.
Thomas H. Amos, colored, president
of Harbison college, a co-educational
institution for negroes at Abbeville,
supported by the northern Presbyterian
church, was waited upon recently
by citizens of Abbeville and requested
to leave the town on account
of languafe used in his commencement
address. He said negro women
had brought white women to the
kitchens and hoped that they would
scon bring them to the wash tub.
Amos telegraphed from Baltimore
that one of the directors would soon
arrive in Abbeville to take charge of
the institution. Tix-Speaker or tne
House Frank B. Gary, a resident of
Abbeville, is authority for the above
statement.
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Experienced in Military Affairs.
Colonel J. C. Boyd, who was elected
adjutant general of South Carolina,
in the recent primary, by the handsomest
majority ever given a candidate
for that office, who had opposition,
was bcrn in Selma, Ala., August
15, 1848. He served in the war between
the states as a private in Co.
4, sixth Alabama cavalry, and later
in Co. D, sixty-second Alabama infantry.
He moved to Atlanta in 1867,
and lived in that city until 1875. He
was second lieutenant in the Governors
Guard, the second military company
formed in Atlanta after the war.
He moved to Greenville in 1S75, and
has made that city his home ever
I since. Colonel Boyd has had a brilj
liant military career in the civilian I
soldiery of this state, and has done
as much for the militia as any mau
in it. His election to the highest military
office in the gift of the people ^
is a just recognition of his services.
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Echoes of the Primary.
| Farther reports of the vote in the
| democratic primary show that Martin
I F. Ausel of Greenville has slightly inI
creased his lead for governor, with
! Richard I. Manuing of Sumter second.
I Ibese two will make the second race.
Out of 75.000 votes in a total of
! possibly 95,000 the vote for governor
| is as follows: Ansel 31.978, Manning
! .18,807, Blease 12,951, Brunscn 7,310, j
| Sioan 2,428, McMahan 1,811, A. C.
Jones 707, Edwards 531. Complete re- j
turns will not materially change these |
figures.
The race'for attorney general creat- :
ed considerable interest because of j
Senator Tillman's opposition to one of !
r-h/i /-onnmafps?j Fraser Lvon. In i
U1W v?w ? r
this race Lyon has a long lead over
his two opponents, J. W. Ragsdaie,
whom Senator Tillman favored for the
office, and the incumbent, Colonel Le
roy F. Youmans.
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Decrease in Cotton Condition.
The excessive rainfall, more or less
general during the month of August,
has caused material damage to the
cotton in South Carolina. Rains have
produced a superabundance of "weed''
to the detriment of proper fruition.^
Clay and undulating lands have not
suffered as much as flat sand lands,
but" in all places the excessive moisti
ure has given impetus to grass growth ]
and prevented proper or timely culti- !
ration with sweeps.
Unless there is hot clear weather in
the near future there is danger of cot- j
: ton rotting in the bolls or producing j
what is known as "blue'' cotton. Reports
now coming in show a great de- |
[ crease in condition, and it is believed j
that condition of 73 per cent is a fair |
estimate ot the crop at present, while
in some counties the condition is reported
as low as 48 per cent.
Insects are bothersome in some secI
tions, but the dreaded cicada, which
i appears at periods of seven years, and
| which affects only one county in this
I state?Edgefield?has not yet appeared
in sufficient numbers to do much
j damage. The crop is ten to fifteen days
J late.
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"Divine Healer" in Trouble.
[ Baxter Hayes, the' seven-year-old
child of Rev. and Mrs. R. B. Hayes,
I died at the home of his aunt in Anderson,
and the circumstances of the
death have evolved a case somewhat
sensational and yet pitiable.
The boy came from his home in
Toccoa, Ga., on a visit to his aunt, and
son after hit arrival became ill. His
aunt summoned a physiciaji, who, after
examining the child, said that it
was suffering from an abscess on the
brain and that an operation would
j perhaps be necessary in order to save
its life.
Mrs. Beams, the aunt, would not
i consent for this without first consult!
ing the parents of the child, so she
I sent for these at once, and when
I they came, soon had the facts before
j them. Now, the child's father is a
I traveling evangelist of the "faith healing"
cult and his wife is a member
of the same sect and they immediately
protested against the operation and
against any services from a physician
whatsover. The case was reported to
t the city authorities, and it was found
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| lilill I1U Mcii '.lie ia? autnuii^^u uuj
interference. Notwithstanding, Mayor
McCully directed th? physician to go
back and try to dq something for the
suffering child, which was said to be
in the throes of death. Whereupon,
the physician was denied admittance
by the believers in "divine healing,"
who continued to pray vociferously.
Within a short time, the child died
as. stated above, and the father was
arrested, charged with homicide,
great deal of interest is pending the
outcome. MT. Hayes was later released
on bond.
WARSHIPS IN REVIEW.
President Looks Upon Magnificent Array
of Fighting Machines of the
American Navy at Oyster Bay.
A special from Oyster Bay says:
Under skies that broke brilliantly
blue before a westerly gale, which
swept down Long Island Sound and
blew out to sea, the clouds and tempestuous
rain which in the morning
threatened to immeasureably mar the
spectacle, President Roosevelt Monday,
within hailing. distance of his
summer nome, reviewed tne most
magnificent naval fieet ever assembled
under the American flag. Forty-five
of the most splendid types of fighting
vessels afloat lay at ancbor In threa
columns as the naval yacht Mayflower,
which just a year ago, was
written into history as the meeting
ground of the peace plenipotentiaries I
of Russia and Japan, passed up and I
down the lanes, the president an applauding
spectator on the bridge.
The Mayflower's journey was made
amid a continuous boom of saluting
cannon, and gun after gun spoke the
navy's honor to the commander-inchief
of all America-s military forces
President Roosevelt had as his
guests on board the Mayflower the
secretary of the navy and several
other government officials, members
of the senate and house committee
on naval affairs and the naval attaches
of eight of the powers of the world.
There was something of an object les-;
son in this gathering of a represent*
tative array of the American navy,
aimnf- /^no.thirU of thp fieUitinar fnrces
being in the review.
When the parade of the Mayflower
was over and the president had looked
with critical eye at each of the flagdressed
vessels, his yacht came to
anchor and he received on hoard the
commanding officers of the fleet. Then
followed a gala luncheon at which the
officers, the government officials, the
attaches, senators and congressmen
were guests together with a number
of the personal friends of the president.
WIFE'S BLUFF IS CALLED.
Gress Will Donate $5,000 to Charity
if Charges Are Proved.
G. V. Gress,' the well known Georgia
lumberman, whose wife recently
brought suit for divorce against him
on statutory grounds, has issued a
card to the public in defense of himself,
in which he says:
"Mrs. Mary N. Gress has for the
third time brought suit against me
for divorce. In her petition she
charges me with rnfidelity, which
charges heretofore in all cases have
proven untrue.
"Three years ago I published a card
offering $5,000 donation to the orphans'
home at Decatur, Ga., to any
party who could prove mv infidelity
Without perjury, and that offer is still
standing good." j
CHEERS FOR BRYAN
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Great Commoner Given Rousing
Welcome i?..Gotham.
ADDRESSED THOUSANDS
Madison Square Garden Packed to Its
Utmost by Enthusiastic Democrats.
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Bryan's Views on the Vital Issues
of the Coming Campaign.
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Such a welcome as seldom in this
country's history has been accorded
to a private citizen was given 10 William
Jennings Bryan at Madison
Square Garden, New York, Thursday
night, in the celebration. of hi* return
from a year'e absence, spent
in foreign travel.
As the guest of the Commercial
Travelers' Anti-Trust League, Mr.
Bryan was greeted by mere than 20,000
persons, who filled the great
structure from floor to upper gallery.
At the same time the streets and avenues
outside the garden were choked
for blocks by other thousands who
stood patiently for hours for the privilege
of even a fleeting glance at the
distinguished- visitor.
When Mr. Bryan entered the hall
the proceedings which already had _ been
begun were brought to a tem!
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volley after volley of thunderous
applause rolled through (the great
building. When Chairman Tom L.
Johnson in. his introduction of Mr.
Bryan referred to the guest of the
evening as "the first citizen, if not;
the first official of the land?not yet '
the first official," and Mr. Bryan rose,
the great gathering broke out in un- ;
restrained cheering, while the band >
played "Hail to the Chief!'' So touch- ; ed
was Mr. Bryan by the welcome that -.V"'
as be stood waiting for the cheers to
subside his eyes filled with tears <
and he strode nervously from side ^
to side of the narrow platform.
When Mr. Bryan uttered his first
words, "Mr. Chairman," there was tr?? ' ^
mendous applause. .
"Ladies and gentlemen," he contln- <7^
ued, after three cheers for William
J. Bryan had been called for and giv- . -r.
en; "how'can I thank you for this 4 V?jj|
welcome home? My heart would, be
flint, irfdeed, if it were not touched ! '
hir vnnr demonstration. My heart
would be ungrateful beyond measure.. ,
If It did not in return consecrate
itself to your service."
Following are the views of Mr. Bryan
upon vital issues as set forth in v' .f
his address: .
Labor?The workingman's life, lib*' "
erty and pursuit of happiness should ;
be preserved. It is unjust to give employers
absolute control over em- . ' -$?
ployees. Differences should be settled
by arbitration.
Tariff?Protective tariff has been '
fruitful source of political corruption.
Free trade, optional in its details -i;
with the president, could' be made '%
the most effective weapon with which
to fight the trusts. ,
Money?Mr. Bryan declares that the . r)
unlooked for and unprecedented increase
in the production of gold haa
enabled the democratic party to present
a united front on the money f
i question.
Trusts?'Merciless war on trusts Is
recommended to the democrats. Corruption
in insurance companies and
other corporations is dwelt upon. The
democrats should refuse campaign
contributions from corporations.
Socialism?Socialism presents a consistent
theory, but does not take hu
man nature into account It would
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substitute a new disease for the disi
ease from which we suffer. Socialism
must be answered with argument, not
abuse.
Injunction?Government by injunction
is an attack upon the jury system
and should be opposed. The In- "
junction should be supplanted by arbitration.
Next Issue ? Paramount Issue in ;
next presidential campaign will concern
trusts and their control. Democrats'
motto must be "A private monopoly
is indefensible and intolerable."
Provision must be made to imprison,
not merely fine, law-breaking capitalists.
Arbitration?Mr. Bryan urges that '
the United States, in common witu
ail other nations, should, before de- >
claring war, submit all international .y:
differences to impartial arbitration.
Eight-Hoar Eay?in the interest cf -v
humanity, the development of the
home life and love of family and the
progress of the human race, the eight
- ?* -i
hour working day snouia oe universally
adopted. V. ^
Anti-Imperialism ? Mr. Bryan de- V
Clares United States' experiment In 5
colonialism has exposed to ridicule the [i
declaration of independence. He
urges home rule for the Filipinos.
THE ONE DISCORDANT NOTE ! 4
Uttered Ey Bryan ?.Vas Government
Ownership 01 Railroads. . .
Mi*. Brvan's re-espousal of govern* . J !
meat ownership of railroads promises
tc* fill the democratic outlook with
complexities. Southern democrats returning
from New York continue to
shy at th it ieature of his speech, but
seme of them think he will not run
amuck wit.i it.
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