,transcriber's ,notes3 ,italic text is denoted by underscores and bold text by equal signs4 ,small uppercase have been replaced with regular uppercase4 ,blank pages have been eliminated4 ,variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original4 ,,the ,,new ,,democracy4 ,a ,handbook for ,democratic ,speakers and ,workers4 ,an ,outline of the ,methods of the ,national ,volunteers of ,democracy and of the ,volunteer ,speakers ,bureau4 ,,by ,,walter ,,vrooman4 ,price3 ,cloth1 #ge cents2 ,paper1 #be cents4 ,copyright ,,by ,,walter ,,vrooman1 ,wainwright ,building1 ,,st4 ,,louis1 ,,mo4 ,witt ,printing ,co4 ,,the ,,new ,,democracy4 ,,preface4 ,upon the close of the #ahif national campaign1 it was decided at an informal conference of several of the leaders of the ,democratic party1 to establish a bureau of speakers for the continuous propaganda of ,democratic principles by new and young men1 while the acknowledged leaders of the party were busy in the ,senate and ,house of ,representatives4 ,in ,december1 #ahif1 headquarters were opened at ,st4 ,louis4 ,several hundred speakers soon became attached to this bureau1 and it was decided to form a permanent organization1 that would bring together not only the speakers but all the workers of the party4 ,the outcome of this has been the organization of the ,national ,volunteers of ,democracy1 with the ,speakers' ,bureau and ,training ,school as a special department4 ,each volunteer is expected to assist in forming regular ,democratic clubs1 except where for special reasons it is found advisable to organize ,silver or ,populist clubs1 and also to build up and strengthen clubs now in existence4 ,heretofore1 the handbooks for ,democratic speakers and workers1 have been so stuffed with statistics and figures as to burden and confuse the minds of their readers1 consequently there is a demand for something simpler1 for something that will give a bird's eye view of the political situation1 with suggestions as to best methods of work and speech4 ,it is to supply such a handbook to ,democratic speakers and workers1 and to outline the plans of the ,democratic ,volunteers1 that this little book has been written4 ,st4 ,louis1 ,mo41 ,june #a1 #ahig4 ,,chapter ,i4 ,,introductory4 ,the ,new ,democracy is the ,old ,democracy4 ,it is likewise the only ,democracy1 and in ,july1 #ahif1 after years of suppression1 it became the ,regular ,democracy4 ,the ,democracy taught by ,jefferson and ,jackson is the ,democracy of ,bryan1 ,stone and the ,chicago platform4 ,but the victory at ,chicago of true ,democracy over the counterfeit that for years fraudulently used its name was not however a finality2 it was a beginning1 and what was there accomplished nationally is yet to be accomplished locally in many states and cities4 ,we have not only to push on to new and local victories after taking the central citadel1 but what is of greater importance1 must hold the positions already taken4 ,it was said that at the ,chicago ,convention we not only raised the dead but cast out devils4 ,we must remember1 however1 that there are other devils1 which in many places still possess the party locally1 and the miracle of casting them out can only be performed by the power that comes of unselfish patriotism4 ,it is noble to fight for a righteous cause1 but it is glorious to ,,win in a righteous fight4 ,the exposure of ,republican lies1 the betrayal of their every promise made prior to the last general election1 the perfidy back of their pre-election threats1 have made ,democratic victory reasonably certain in #aijj4 ,when the country has been cursed four years more by the infamous gold standard and monopoly rule1 the majority of the people will favor a radical change4 ,,we ,,can ,,be ,,defeated ,,only ,,in ,,one ,,way4 ,let us repeat this4 ,there is but one possible way by which the producing classes can be defeated at the polls in #aijj2 that is by the same old trick used by tyrants in all ages1 the placing of their own lieutenants as the leaders of the people4 ,the plutocrats fully appreciate this4 ,they know that the people1 weary of ,republican misrule1 will vote another party into power1 hence their only salvation is to guide and control4 ,they can do this in but one way1 by having the opposing army officered by generals of their own choosing4 ,it makes no difference how big the army1 if the enemy chooses its officers1 it is doomed4 ,this was the trick by which monopoly defeated ,democracy in several states during the recent campaign4 ,the forces of the people were hastily organized4 ,the recruits were strangers to one another4 ,by a bold move on the part of plutocracy1 backed by ample corruption funds1 the willing tools of the money power were in many places made leaders of the very army formed to destroy the money power4 ,as a consequence1 we1 the people1 ,,cast the votes1 while in many places the gold standard representatives of the ,republican and ,democratic parties ,,counted them2 and incidentally failed to count ,,many4 ,in #aijj the people may poll any number of votes1 but1 if we fail to stamp out such traitors as ,david ,bennett ,hill1 ,calvin ,s4 ,brice1 ,wm4 ,c4 ,whitney and ,john ,g4 ,carlisle1 who use the ,democratic name only to defeat ,democratic principles1 and who claim friendship for the poor man only to add his product to the fortunes of the rich2 unless we expel these conspirators and hypocrites from the ,democratic party1 with all their abbettors and partners in fraud1 we will be defeated in spite of our overwhelming advantage in numbers4 ,democracy now means the people against the organized money power4 ,it is simply insanity for us to prepare for battle and select as drill masters1 men whose salaries are paid by the very money power against which we fight4 ,suppose a million ,american soldier boys were to march with flying flags and beating drums1 against an invading army of ,cossacks and ,turks1 and that by some trick the wily ,czar and ,sultan should secure the appointment of ,russian and ,turkish officers over our troops4 ,should we be surprised if thousands of our brave boys were led headlong into ditches and slaughtered like rats in a trap and our magnificent army cut in pieces by half as many ,european king worshippers8 ,we should not be surprised4 ,and no man who knows anything about war could have been surprised when such fate befell the magnificent army of raw recruits led last year by ,bryan against the invasion of the ,european moneyed despots4 ,we were cut to pieces1 ambushed1 scattered and defeated solely by the treachery of subordinate leaders whom our great champion and the people trusted1 who1 by sympathies1 self-interest and custom1 were bound to the very money power that we were fighting to overthrow4 ,and now the very men who sold out the people1 who defeated the cause of ,american independence and fastened upon our nation the rule of the ,european money power for four more years--these same men1 led by that adept in low cunning1 that master of political knavery and arch enemy of popular rights1 ,david ,bennett ,hill1 are trying to get a foothold again in the party they have just defeated1 are again trying to gain the confidence of the millions whose liberties they sold1 and whose children they are now trying to betray into perpetual slavery4 ,some may say that it is impossible for these conspirators ever again to get a hold on the ,democratic party4 ,such over-confidence is always a fatal weakness in war4 ,when we know that the only possible way for plutocracy to continue to rule our country is by corrupting the ,democratic party and placing its own agents in ,democracy's counsels1 and that the united money power of the world1 will during the next four years 7aided by the best talent that can be bought by unlimited funds71 attempt to man ,democracy's army with plutocracy's hirelings4 ,our business is not to lull ourselves into a false belief of security1 but to work by day and watch by night to defeat the enemy4 ,it is not for us to proudly boast that there is no danger1 for there is danger1 ,,grave ,,danger1 ,,solemn ,,and ,,awful ,,danger1 ,,that ,,with ,,an ,,unlimited ,,use ,,of ,,money ,,and ,,the ,,purchase ,,of ,,the ,,best ,,political ,,genius ,,and ,,cunning ,,of ,,our ,,country ,,by ,,monopoly1 ,,we ,,may ,,again ,,be ,,betrayed ,,on ,,the ,,eve ,,of ,,battle4 ,when the outcome of our struggle is a world to be gained or lost1 civilization to go forward or be derailed1 all that is dear to us1 all that is most sacred in life saved to us or snatched from us1 we cannot be too alert1 too eager1 or too anxious2 cannot prepare or organize too thoroughly for the primaries that are to decide the leadership and control of ,democracy in the contest of #aijj4 ,we should1 each of us1 swear in the name of ,god and man1 that all the power and influence we possess shall be earnestly exerted from now until #aijj in ridding our party of these parasites who are in it only to destroy it4 ,we should bitterly oppose the selection of any man for election judge1 precinct captain1 ward committeeman1 city committeeman1 county committeeman1 state committeeman1 national committeeman1 or any other place of trust in our party1 who is known to be in sympathy with1 or friendly to1 the gold standard1 or to any one of the giant trusts now helping destroy our ,republic4 ,if we would destroy the trusts1 we must be led only by known enemies of the trusts4 ,if we would be victorious in this conflict against plutocracy1 we must follow only leaders whose records prove clearly that they are absolutely free from entangling alliances with plutocracy4 ,some say we must harmonize all elements4 ,we cannot harmonize the interests of the man who steals and the man who is stolen from1 any more than we can harmonize fire and water4 ,we only weaken our cause by trying to get the men against whom we are fighting to join us4 ,some one exclaims we must have the gold ,democrats with us1 or we are lost4 ,,there ,,can ,,be ,,no ,,such ,,thing ,,as ,a ,,gold ,,democrat4 ,the ,democratic party stands for the abolition of the gold standard and every other monopoly by means of which scheming monopolies rob the public4 ,a gold ,democrat is as much an impossibility as a round square1 white lamp-black or a red-hot icicle4 ,the plutocrats who left the ,democratic party and enlisted under the banner of ,mark ,hanna1 will never join us except for the purpose of defeating our plans4 ,they will never work for the success of the ,democratic banner1 unless they themselves carry that banner1 and lead us1 its followers1 into their own traps1 wherein we shall be despoiled4 ,for the vote of every traitor and deserter1 gained by such cowardly attempts at compromise1 we shall lose a hundred loyal votes through sheer despair4 ,we do not need the gold bugs4 ,if they are honest in their professed change of heart1 they will vote for honest1 fearless candidates as well as for those of the milk and water brand1 or who have no definite programme except their secret pledges to moneyed constituents4 ,if they have not experienced a change of heart1 we do not want them1 for it is better that they remain open enemies than that they become professed friends1 seeking an opportunity again to betray us4 ,we do not object to receiving in the ranks the man who comes back to the ,democratic party and says3 ,i deserted you1 but ,i wish now to return to the fold2 ,i was a traitor during the last campaign1 but ,i am willing to vote with you hereafter4 ,but the manhood1 the self-respect1 the enthusiasm of ,democracy do object and register a vigorous protest to permitting these deserters to assume places of responsibility with power to sell the people out again4 ,no one objects to the gold-bugs returning to our fold any more than we should to the blind regaining their sight or to sinners desiring to wash away their sins1 but we do object to these sinners returning at the price of giving our party organization over into their hands4 ,a ,,pertinent ,,illustration4 ,an ominous example of the methods being used to capture ,democracy by the money power was afforded by the lawless militarism brought into play by the gold bugs at the recent municipal ,democratic convention of ,st4 ,louis1 when1 their fraud being discovered1 and legitimately defeated by the people at the primaries and at the convention1 they appealed to the last resort of despotism everywhere1 the force of arms4 ,for many years a clique of unscrupulous politicians controlled ,st4 ,louis ,democratic conventions4 ,early in the ,april campaign1 ,mr4 ,hugh ,brady1 for many years ,chairman of the ,democratic ,city ,central ,committee1 stated in an interview published in the ,st4 ,louis papers that a clique of machine politicians had fixed the machine to nominate ,mr4 ,edwin ,harrison for ,mayor4 ,the street railway managers1 who last fall knifed ,bryan and the ,chicago platform1 came to the front as ,mr4 ,harrison's supporters4 ,mr4 ,c4 ,c4 ,maffitt1 who bolted the party last fall1 headed his delegation1 and in several other wards the ,harrison delegations were led by gold boltocrats4 ,the machine was for ,harrison1 and ,hugh ,brady declared the machine could nominate any man it wanted4 ,the men who supported ,mr4 ,lee ,meriwether for ,mayor were all aggressive ,bryan ,democrats and opposed not only the gold standard1 but also opposed street car domination in city affairs4 ,they appealed from the machine to the people4 ,they pointed out how the leading supporters of the machine candidate were gold boltocrats and street railway managers1 who use their political influence to escape paying hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxes legally due the ,city ,treasury4 ,they insisted that franchises to monopolize the public's streets ought to be sold1 not given away1 to private corporations4 ,and on this platform they secured enough delegates to control the convention4 ,on the morning following the primary election1 even the ,republic1 the organ of the machine1 admitted that ,mr4 ,harrison had but #acd delegates1 while the opposition had #aeca4 #a ,see ,republic1 ,march #bj1 #ahig4 ,when the delegates opposed to ,mr4 ,harrison united in supporting ,mr4 ,meriwether1 it was apparent that nothing short of fraud and force could prevent the defeat of the machine4 ,accordingly1 ,mr4 ,ed ,devoy1 ,chairman of the ,central ,committee1 called the convention to order and hurriedly announced as its governing officers ,messrs4 ,lutz1 ,barrett and ,wand1 the three campaign managers of the machine candidate4 ,scarcely was the announcement made when ex-,governor ,norman ,j4 ,colman rose and protested against the attempt to muzzle the convention1 and nominated for chairman ,mr4 ,sterling ,p4 ,bond4 ,upon ,devoy's refusing to put this motion1 one of the delegates1 ,r4 ,t4 ,brownrigg1 made the motion which was duly seconded1 and ,gov4 ,colman put the question to the convention and it was carried by a majority of the delegates4 ,in a similar way secretaries and sergeants-at-arms were elected1 the convention refusing to accept the slate prepared by the machine4 ,after the committees had been appointed and reported1 nominations for ,mayor were made1 and on the second ballot ,lee ,meriwether received #aee votes1 eleven more than a majority of all the delegates elected1 and he was accordingly declared the nominee of the ,democratic party4 ,thereupon ensued a scene more worthy of ,russia than of the ,american ,republic4 ,foiled in the attempt to carry the primaries2 foiled again in the effort to force their own tools upon the convention as governing officers1 the gold men and the street railway managers who were present on the floor of the convention1 played their last card in the game to defeat the candidate pledged to make them pay their taxes1 and ordered their servant1 ,devoy1 to do by force what he had failed to do by fraud4 ,a ,board of ,police ,commissioners lent themselves to this shameful assault upon ,american liberty1 and ordered three hundred armed police to drive from the hall the delegates opposed to ,mr4 ,harrison4 ,sterling ,p4 ,bond1 ,john ,j4 ,fitzwilliam and ,w4 ,a4 ,brandenburger1 the duly elected chairman and secretaries of the convention1 were brutally assaulted by the police4 ,mr4 ,bond was carted away to jail in a patrol wagon4 ,mr4 ,meriwether1 who had been called on to address the convention after his nomination for ,mayor1 was thrown from the platform by two policemen1 and1 in company with a majority of the delegates1 was forcibly expelled from the hall4 ,since the #ith of ,november1 #agii1 when ,napoleon's grenadiers drove the ,french deputies out of their convention hall at the point of the bayonet1 history affords no parallel to this outrage by the ,st4 ,louis boltocratic politicians4 ,that in claiming a convention has no right to elect its own presiding officers the gold boltocrats were utterly wrong in custom as well as equity1 will be seen by recalling the manner in which last year the ,chicago ,convention refused to accept ,senator ,hill1 the ,national ,democratic ,committee's suggestion for chairman1 and instead elected ,daniel1 a silver ,senator from ,virginia4 ,although the ,st4 ,louis papers subsequently supported ,mr4 ,harrison1 whose nomination was only accomplished by the illegal use of three hundred police1 those same papers did not hesitate to say1 the morning after the convention1 that the action of the machine was illegal and tyrannical3#b #b ,witness the following extracts3 ,police ,commissioner ,bannerman in ,globe-,democrat1 ,march #bb1 #ahig3 ,the trouble was all started by ,ed4 ,devoy refusing to allow ,bond's name to go before the convention as chairman4 ,the whole thing was a scheme on his 7,devoy's7 part to split the convention4 ,of course it was wrong to send ,judge ,bond to the ,four ,courts in a patrol wagon4 ,republic editorial1 ,march #ba1 #ahig3 ,committee ,chairman ,devoy made a mistake in surrendering the gave before the delegates had elected a temporary chairman4 ,a convention holds within itself the right to choose its temporary officers4 ,post-,dispatch editorial1 ,march #ca1 #ahig3 ,the blundering began with ,chairman ,devoy4 ,it was his duty to recognize any delegate who desired to move a substitute for the committee's report4 ,devoy failed in his duty and furnished provocation for all that subsequently occurred4 ,post-,dispatch editorial1 ,march #bb1 #ahig3 ,dr4 ,lutz had no right to a place on the platform until he was chosen temporary chairman by a vote of the convention4 ,he had no more right than any casual visitor to himself take the vote of the convention on himself as temporary chairman4 ,the plain fact is that the whole of these preliminary proceedings were in every particular irregular1 unparliamentary and void4 ,post-,dispatch editorial1 ,march #bc1 #ahig3 ,the delegates who asserted their right to choose their temporary officers were within their right in doing so1 and in fact only did their duty4 ,,the ,,right ,,is ,,sacred4 ,globe-,democrat1 ,march #bc1 #ahig3 ,the attitude of ,assistant ,chief ,kiely is regarded as having been strained in the interest of the ,harrison crowd and significant of the ,police ,commissioners' domination in ,democratic politics4 ,a ,,warning ,,for ,,the ,,future4 ,might never makes right4 ,the candidate whose nomination rests not upon ballots but upon the clubs and guns of three hundred policemen1 cannot be the rightful nominee of ,democracy1 which means people's rule1 not police rule4 ,when appeal was made from the outrage of the corrupt political machine1 the ,court of ,appeals decided that the matter was beyond its jurisdiction1 that no ,court has the power to review the action of the ,election ,commissioners1 even though they certify to the nomination of a candidate without a shadow of right to such nomination4 ,had the ,court consented to examine the evidence and gone into the merits of the case1 it could not but have decided that the rightful nominee for ,mayor was ,mr4 ,meriwether1 who had the affidavits of a majority of the delegates showing that they had supported him in the convention4 ,this high-handed attempt of the gold boltocrats to tyrannize over the convention resulted in ,democracy's defeat4 ,but despite the stinging rebuke administered by an outraged people1 the machine is again endeavoring to fasten itself upon the ,democratic party of ,st4 ,louis4 ,the same tactics1 and even more desperate and lawless ones1 will be used by the gold plutocrats throughout our country4 ,the people must be prepared to meet them4 ,what are the best methods of preparation8 ,it is to give some suggestions as to methods1 and to increase1 the vigilance of the patriotic ,democrats and friends of humanity in whose hands it may fall that this little volume has been written4 ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,,how ,,to ,,begin ,,work4 ,the immediate purpose of the ,democratic ,volunteers is to organize and carry on in the most effective way the campaign for #aijj4 ,they seek to build up and foster the ,democracy of ,jefferson1 ,jackson1 ,bryan and the ,chicago platform by seeing1 first1 that the common people remain in control of the ,democratic party2 and1 second1 that the ,democratic party1 representing the common people1 gets control of the country in #aijj4 ,it is further hoped that the ,volunteers thus organized and trained1 will become a permanent force in the history of our ,nation2 a power in the guidance of the forces behind the nation's progress2 a means of uniting the best intelligence of our race with that faith and deep religious purpose which permeate the common people1 and of expediting the conscious co-operation of individuals with those giant forces that are slowly but surely destroying the old1 and building up the new civilization4 ,our plan appeals principally to young men4 ,our methods are new1 at least to this generation1 and as we believe that the great battle in which we are engaged must be led by the most vigorous1 active and courageous amongst us1 we depend principally upon young men for leadership and work4 ,knowing that our principles are eternal1 and that in proclaiming them we have the support of the great common people of posterity1 and of ,god1 the ,volunteers are expected to assume1 upon all occasions1 an attitude of absolute confidence4 ,we are to utilize every force and every means that perception can discover or ingenuity devise for the forwarding of our movement4 ,we are to proceed1 not only by usual1 but by unusual methods1 taking possession of resources never before thought of in political campaigns or religious crusades4 ,our principles are to be declared both in public and in private1 and propagated methodically and persistently in every existing institution1 organization or association of men and women4 ,the church is the center of activity for many4 ,this class can be reached best by having our truths come to them through the channel by which they usually receive their opinion and ideals1 namely1 the church4 ,there are other hundreds of thousands whose lives center about the liquor saloons4 ,to reach these our speakers must go to the saloons4 ,in many agricultural communities1 it is customary to hold meetings in school houses1 while in good weather1 picnics1 barbecues and all day gatherings take place in the woods4 ,to these various customs our speakers must adapt themselves4 ,in some sections the camp-meeting lasts for a week or two1 in great tents1 or in special woodland resorts1 permanently constructed and kept for that purpose4 ,our ,volunteers will find here opportunities for effective work4 ,but for reasons of economy1 the greater part of our work will be done outdoors4 ,plutocracy can afford to hire a dozen halls where one drawing speaker can be secured4 ,our movement has a dozen speakers to every hall we can afford to hire4 ,we will consider first1 therefore1 methods of outdoor speaking4 ,,outdoor ,,meetings4 ,the easiest1 the most economical1 the most fruitful of the ,volunteer speaker's work1 will consist of unadvertised outdoor meetings4 ,there is probably not a city1 village1 or town in ,america in which a man with a strong voice1 mounting some emergency platform and calling out that he has something important to say1 cannot1 in a short time1 attract a considerable crowd4 ,if his message be direct1 condensed1 sincere and well delivered1 he can hold the crowd in any except the most inclement weather4 ,coming as a surprise does not lessen the effect1 if the words are well directed4 ,people who could not be induced to enter a hall to hear a lecture1 people who1 if the meeting had been advertised1 would purposely remain away1 will stop and listen to an outdoor speaker2 they will be interested1 and may even be converted if the truths are well presented4 ,of course1 many passersby will listen only for a few minutes and proceed on their way4 ,an outdoor crowd is always a changing one1 but this merely necessitates a special outdoor method of treatment4 ,indoors1 an address is expected to be continuous2 one point must lead up to another2 a line of thought must be followed so as to produce interest cumulative to the end4 ,outdoor speaking1 on the other hand1 must be made up of short1 concise points1 each complete in itself1 so that no person can listen for a single minute without getting something to carry away with him4 ,anecdotes should be freely interspersed1 but in condensed form4 ,as the audience is compelled to stand1 often on damp ground1 and in chilly or excessively hot weather1 it is necessary that outdoor speaking should never1 under any circumstances1 take upon itself the qualities of a pedagogical lecture4 ,on the other hand1 it must be made up of illustrations1 word pictures1 and pungent assertion of those fundamental truths known to be most essential4 ,,how ,,to ,,arrange ,,such ,,meetings4 ,the speaker arrives in a strange town1 having entered afoot1 by horse1 or by rail4 ,if he have friends in the town1 his work will1 of course1 be less difficult1 and it will be comparatively easy to procure a horse and carriage 7or a wagon74 ,the vehicle secured1 let him drive to the principal street1 stop at the corner selected as the meeting-place1 and1 standing on the seat1 let him announce 7his voice pitched high1 but not strained1 dwelling for at least two seconds upon each word7 that a meeting will be held in a few minutes at which the people will be told how our country can be freed from the curse of ,hannaism and monopoly 7or some similar striking expression74 ,then proceeding to the next corner let him repeat the announcement1 and so over the village1 or1 if it be a city1 over as large a section as he can conveniently cover4 ,by making a dozen or more of these announcements he can always gather about him the nucleus of an audience4 ,if unable to secure a vehicle he may go afoot1 carrying a chair to serve him as a speaker's platform4 ,as efficient work can be done in this way as in any other4 ,in addressing the five or the fifty men1 women and boys who compose this audience1 it is requisite that he should begin in the same high key and the same deliberate manner and tone in which he made his announcements1 addressing himself not to the few in front of him1 but to the listeners in front of their stores half a block away4 ,after speaking thus for five minutes1 more or less1 and arousing the enthusiasm and interest of distant listeners1 he should suddenly turn his eyes and attention from all who are more than fifty feet away1 and proceed in his natural tone of voice4 ,very often persons standing in front of stores and shops1 lining the streets for two or three squares1 when the speaker changes and lowers his tone and directs his remarks to his immediate audience1 will come near to hear1 if possible1 the completion of some interesting point4 ,in large cities where there is much noise from street cars and wagons1 this work is more laborious1 and from start to finish the speech will require all the energy the speaker possesses to keep his crowd together and to increase its number4 ,but in smaller places1 or in quieter neighborhoods of large places1 after the first announcements1 outdoor speaking can be reduced to a very moderate exercise4 ,the average man1 after a month's practice1 can speak outdoors two or three hours a day1 divided into three or four speeches1 without any great fatigue1 and keep it up the year round1 resting only upon days so rainy1 stormy or bitter cold1 that men will not1 for any inducement1 stand outdoors4 ,,pre-,,arranged ,,applause ,,one-,,half ,,of ,,oratory4 ,if friends can secure the free service of a drum corps1 a brass band1 or a quartette of singers1 to help draw the people together1 the speaker's work will1 of course1 be greatly lessened1 and much will be done toward saving the voice and energies otherwise necessarily expended in attracting an audience4 ,he will thus be enabled to concentrate all his powers1 convincing and teaching his hearers4 ,but in the absence of drums or music1 there is nothing so helpful to the speaker in getting a crowd and in holding it after it has congregated1 than a little skilfully pre-arranged applause4 ,if several men1 helped by a dozen boys1 take their places around the speaker1 and from the start take off their hats and cheer lustily about every three sentences1 not only does the noise attract attention and draw listeners1 but it impresses deeply those who are present1 so that each word of the speaker has its effectiveness multiplied4 ,a few men1 starting off in this way 7if the speaker is bright and forcible71 will be joined by half the audience1 and1 in outdoor speaking1 generous applause doubles the effect of oratory4 ,it not only adds weight to the speech1 but it strengthens and cheers the speaker1 stimulating him to his highest efficiency4 ,it infuses new blood into his veins and new breath into his lungs4 ,it quickens his heart beats and helps clear his voice4 ,it at once establishes a rapport between the talker and the talked-to1 and converts what might otherwise be a number of isolated units into a sort of organism1 the vital principle of which is one central enthusiasm voiced by the speaker4 ,to convince the friends of the movement of the necessity for loud cheering from the start by pre-arranged1 conscious effort1 is often quite difficult1 although it is important4 ,much tact and skill are required to select a dozen young men before the meeting1 and train them in a few minutes so that they will follow the cue of the man who is to lead the applause and cheer when he gives the word4 ,a very important point1 where young boys are concerned1 is to stop their cheering when the leader stops4 ,unless you have a confederate of tact and personality there is danger that the boys1 once started yelling1 will enjoy it so hugely that they will keep it up in a disorderly way1 and injure the meeting much more than they help it4 ,but properly drilled1 a dozen young boys are worth almost as much as a drum corps4 ,under proper leadership1 they will stop instantly at the pre-arranged signal1 and enjoy the military precision4 ,ten minutes training by an experienced man will suffice to complete their education in this regard4 ,,repetition ,,necessary4 ,the outdoor campaigner should never fear repetition4 ,the average outdoor listener is not averse to hearing something that he has heard before1 but is averse to anything dull1 statistical or requiring laborious mental effort4 ,in fact1 from the standpoint of economy1 three or five addresses made on the same street corner for three or five successive days1 will accomplish much more for the cause than the same number of addresses delivered each one in a different town or locality4 ,the apostle of the ,new ,democracy1 traveling from place to place1 should stop at least two or three days in each village1 even if he has only one speech and must repeat it over with variations each time4 ,if he is resourceful and has a few anecdotes and illustrations for each day1 it will pay him to stay a week in each town1 as it takes two or three days for new hearers to become familiar with his objects1 aims and attitude of thought4 ,the writer has often found that more real1 direct converts are made to the people's cause on the sixth or seventh day in a town1 than during all of the previous days combined4 ,thought is like seed4 ,whatever be the soil1 like all vegetable life1 it must undergo three stages1 planting1 developing and fruit bearing4 ,with the majority each stage of development requires a season2 one speaker sows1 another waters1 and another gathers the ripe fruit4 ,but a brain adjacent to an empty stomach1 idle arms or a bankrupt business1 offers a more fertile soil for new ideas1 and there are some such minds in every town wherein all these processes can be carried on under the tutelage of one man2 some such persons in despair at the beginning of the week1 who can1 by the close of the week1 be brought to the light1 their gloom dispelled1 and a nobler civilization ever after clearly pictured before their eyes1 the object of their life's endeavor4 ,there are many persons who1 by one series of meetings1 are actually converted from ignorant participants in existing injustice to active workers for the true state yet to be4 ,the whole tenor and ideals of their lives are transformed by knowledge vitalized by faith4 ,when a week's meetings are contemplated in country towns1 experience suggests that the best time to start is on ,monday and that the meetings all week should lead up to one or two grand demonstrations on ,sunday1 when the largest crowd of the week can be gotten together1 and when1 by the aid of a ,scripture lesson1 a prayer and a couple of patriotic songs1 the enthusiasm can be carried highest4#c #c ,special suggestions for ,sunday work see chapter ,,ix4 ,,literature ,,the ,,basis ,,of ,,the ,,movement4 ,no outdoor meeting can fill its mission nor make use of half its opportunities1 without the sale of literature1 which enlarges and completes the points touched on by the speaker4 ,the object of an outdoor speech is to interest1 to stir the emotions of men1 dispel their lethargy and despair1 plant in them hope and faith1 and prepare them to think out1 read out and study out the great ,national problem4 ,the attention of men1 that is1 the real1 serious concentration of their minds upon great things1 is so rare that when you once have it the opportunity should be utilized fully4 ,those who are interested by the outdoor speech should be urged to develop that interest into knowledge1 conviction and action4 ,this can only be done by inducing them to read some book or pamphlet1 explaining in detail the points suggested by you and backing up your assertions by careful arguments4 ,ten pamphlets1 or books1 sold at a meeting where men's hearts have been opened and their prejudices melted by enthusiasm1 are worth more to the cause than ten thousand books and circulars distributed from door to door4 ,the sale of ten small ten-cent pamphlets at a meeting is at least half the value of the meeting4 ,in this movement one chicken raised is worth more than a whole brood hatched2 one fighting rooster is worth three dozen eggs4 ,one campaigner1 armed with facts and possessing contagious faith in our creed1 necessarily becomes a permanent1 creative force in the community in which he lives4 ,literature is one element in the production of such centers of power1 not literature scattered wildly1 but literature placed carefully in the hands of those who have been prepared by the personal appeal of a sincere advocate to see and understand the points enunciated4 ,so bountiful has free literature become and so ocean-like is the flood upon political subjects1 that it is difficult to get men to open a pamphlet on political or social subjects when distributed to them in their normal condition4 ,but first arouse them by a stirring address1 and they will willingly study what otherwise they could not be induced to consider even superficially4 ,not only should the speaker try to sell as many books and pamphlets as possible at the meetings1 but he should try to leave in every community or section of a great city covered by him1 some worker who will get a stock of such literature and continue its sale until another impulse is given the movement by the visit of another ,volunteer4 ,,advertised ,,outdoor ,,meetings4 ,very often a little coterie of enthusiasts will think that with the aid of a few handbills they can get a great crowd of their stupefied1 over-worked and discouraged fellow beings to give up their other engagements and walk to some out-of-the-way place or corner of the town to listen to their speaker4 ,our friendly promoters do not know that to the eye of the multitude the bills suggest only an uninteresting harangue or the visionary proclamations of a dreamer that in no way concern them4 ,the result is that very often instead of a thousand greeting the speaker1 all eager for information and ready for a change of heart1 as anticipated1 there are a dozen or so already familiar with his teachings and sharing his opinion on all important subjects and half as many idle curiosity seekers without influence in the community4 ,the speaker is discouraged and the ardent reformers are chilled to the bone and despairingly admit to each other that the citizens of their particular community are more perverse and hardened against new ideas and reforms than the residents of any other locality under the sun4 ,if1 instead of the preparation for an out-of-the-way meeting and the laborious provision of seats for people who never came1 a few circulars announcing the meeting and containing two or three gems of thought had been distributed and the speaker had mounted a wagon or box in the center of town as heretofore suggested1 the meeting would probably have been a success4 ,except on occasions of great excitement1 when men are drawn together by some celebrated orator1 or on holidays1 when they expect1 under any circumstances1 to leave their homes and work and betake themselves with their families to the woods and fields1 it is important to hold outdoor meetings where an audience can be gathered largely from passersby4 ,,the ,,newspaper4 ,a speaker talks to one hundred1 one thousand or more hearers1 but by proper co-operation on the part of the press his words are often carried to tens of thousands more4 ,where the press is not absolutely united for the purpose of maliciously misrepresenting or suppressing the speaker's words1 at least half of his work consists in the silent appeal to auditors he never sees1 those who read his words as reported in the papers4 ,a few suggestions may1 in this connection1 be found of value4 ,first1 have printed1 typewritten1 or copied by hand1 all the essential points of your speech1 ready to be handed to the newspaper representative4 ,properly prepared manuscript1 written on one side of the paper only1 will often be published in full4 ,it may be thrown into the waste basket4 ,but any paper will publish more of a man's speech1 if he has neatly prepared his manuscript beforehand than otherwise4 ,next1 get personally acquainted with each editor1 entering into a pleasant conversation with him and trying to make him your personal friend4 ,by this means a ,volunteer can often use the press of the opposite party to propagate his views4 ,the original purpose of a newspaper was to give news1 and very often1 even in these degenerate days1 the instinct of a newspaper man to give news1 if encouraged and stimulated a little1 will become strong enough temporarily to overcome his prejudice1 and possibly overcome his appreciation of the plate matter supplied by ,mr4 ,hanna's agents free of charge4 ,he may even give a column or a half-column1 describing the meeting of the ,new ,democracy1 quoting freely the words of the speaker4 ,in dealing with ,democratic1 ,populist and other friendly papers1 there is a secondary opportunity for useful work4 ,it is to show the editors how they can force the plate matter and ready-print establishments to furnish news concerning the ,democratic ,volunteers to all their customers1 by simply demanding information on that subject4 ,even request the editor to write a letter1 telling of the intense interest of his constituents in the ,volunteers1 and urging that his ready-print matter contain something weekly from the ,volunteer's ,national office4 ,a sufficient number of such letters cannot fail to have the desired effect4 ,let every ,volunteer aim to secure the co-operation of a few editors1 and the work is done4 ,the ready-print establishments that remain stubborn should lose their patronage4 ,,chapter ,,iii4 ,,speeches ,,and ,,meetings4 ,the ,volunteers are organized1 not to do the easy things that have been done in the past and are now being very satisfactorily done by others1 but rather to do what others have left1 and are leaving1 undone4 ,in communities where the ,new ,democracy is strong and the people are already in the habit of gathering periodically and during political campaigns nightly1 it requires no organization of ,volunteers to provide men to instruct and amuse them to their entire satisfaction4 ,our work is to do what others have not done and cannot do2 to gather crowds where others have failed2 to create interest where there is no interest2 to make friends where we have no friends1 and1 ,,where ,,we ,,are ,,already ,,strong ,,and ,,dominant ,,in ,a ,,community1 ,,to ,,teach ,,our ,,friends ,,and ,,brothers ,,to ,,so ,,systematize ,,their ,,efforts ,,and ,,enthusiasm ,,as ,,to ,,be ,,most ,,useful ,,in ,,educating ,,and ,,gaining ,,the ,,support ,,of ,,less ,,advanced ,,communities ,,elsewhere4 ,in arranging indoor meetings1 it is essential1 in order that our work may be fruitful1 to get out other than what is known as the same old crowd4 ,there are a few people of both parties in every community who are always interested in politics1 and who attend nearly all party meetings4 ,on such1 ammunition is largely wasted4 ,a speaker should never be satisfied to address a small crowd1 the majority of whom are already in accord with his principles4 ,his object should be to bring in new men1 to get in fresh blood4 ,the motto of each of us should be1 ,i came not to bring the righteous1 but sinners1 to repentance4 ,to secure the attendance of the non-political class1 it is1 therefore1 expedient1 in addition to the regular speeches1 to provide some form of entertainment1 such as vocal and instrumental music1 a dramatic rendition1 or a children's performance4 ,when an audience is assembled particularly to enjoy the entertainment and incidentally from curiosity to see and hear the strange speaker1 it is well for the speech to be built from materials furnished by the local performers4 ,if children have participated1 there is no happier way to begin than by telling how enjoyable were their songs and recitations1 how thrilling the thoughts born of their happy faces and hearts throbbing with youthful hopes4 ,the speaker might tell how1 looking into their bright eyes1 his thoughts turned toward the future1 where he saw the obstacles against which these children will have to contend1 the difficulties they will meet in getting started in life1 the unfair advantages over them possessed by the children of special privilege4 ,by taking the children who participate as a text and riveting the attention of the audience upon them instead of considering the rights of men in general1 he can gain at once1 not only the attention1 but the sympathy and the very hearts of those who listen4 ,if the entertainment is a musical one1 the speaker might begin by describing the state of mind produced by the sweet harmonies just listened to4 ,by recalling the difference between the discord produced by ten men tuning their musical instruments and the harmony resulting when they play the same instruments together1 he has an illustration applicable in several ways3 suggesting the harmony and orderliness of the state that we are fighting for1 the economy of concert in our political methods1 and numerous other points1 which1 if given in a conversational way1 will arrest the attention of even the women and the children4 ,let him then proceed with simple axiomatic truths that can be grasped by every hearer1 abundantly illustrated1 and the crowd will be induced to attend future meetings4 ,there are a thousand cues given and illustrations suggested by a preliminary entertainment that can be made the gateway to the sympathies1 affections and intelligence of those who listen4 ,convince the audience that the questions treated are neither abstract nor incomprehensible1 but simple and tangible1 and concern their personal welfare and the future of their families1 and self-interest will impel them to listen to specific arguments backed by facts and figures4 ,the ,volunteer who aspires to attract vast audiences and transplant the hopes and thoughts that flourish in his own mind to the fertile soil of other minds1 must first learn that the passion to instruct1 though a noble instinct1 must be curbed ruthlessly1 else instead of an orator the would-be will find himself a bore4 ,the passion to impart knowledge1 like the other human passions1 when given free rein to exercise itself unrestrained1 defeats its own ends and at last destroys itself4 ,how many old speakers we know who long ago looked forward1 as hundreds of young men now look forward1 to becoming orators1 with power to sway the multitudes1 to guide and lead them to higher things4 ,but instead of orators we call them fossils4 ,instead of attracting they repel4 ,they begin whenever permitted and never stop until so commanded4 ,they are brought out and used in emergencies when no one else can be obtained1 but never otherwise4 ,they are common hacks4 ,why is this8 ,not always because such men do not possess ability4 ,some of them have followed the world's greatest thinkers throughout their intricate reasonings and profound solutions of life's most serious problems4 ,but at the very start they conceived wrong notions concerning the function of a public speaker1 an erroneous impression as to the utility and object of a speech or popular address4 ,we have often noticed that superior minds are overlooked on popular occasions and some man with less capacity and knowledge1 far less endowed with mental treasures1 is called upon to do the honors of the occasion4 ,why8 ,because he has the faculty of addressing himself directly to the listeners and of adapting himself to their frame of mind4 ,,ten ,,commandments4 ,to those who would become speakers and avoid the mistakes that cause the majority of failures1 the following rules will be found valuable3 #a4 ,do not try to tell all you know at any one time4 #b4 ,do not try to appear deep1 learned or poetical4 #c4 ,do not try to prove every statement you make4 #d4 ,use statistics sparingly4 #e4 ,address yourself1 not to the kind of men and women you would have made had you been the ,creator1 but to the actual men and women who have been created1 who fill your halls and make up your audiences4 #f4 ,make your talk personal and apply every point to the wants1 woes and sentiments of your listeners4 #g4 ,never regret the half hour or the hour occupied by the music1 recitations1 drama1 or other entertainment preceding your speech4 #h4 ,do not manifest impatience at the time consumed in short talks by local speakers4 #i4 ,remember that generally all the good that it is possible for you to accomplish if your audience by preliminary exercises is brought into rapport and sympathy with you1 can be accomplished in half an hour4 ,if you can get the complete attention of your audience for half an hour1 they will have sufficient matter to fully occupy their thoughts the rest of the day and night1 and not only this1 if your talk is interesting and they go away hungry instead of satiated1 they will gladly attend the next meeting4 #aj4 ,be satisfied if you interest your hearers and be not greedy to instruct4 ,for those really interested by oratory will instruct themselves by means of literature which is the only source of real instruction4 ,oratory should win sentiment and stir interest2 literature performs the work of education4 ,the speech fulfils its mission if it persuades men to read aright4 ,,entertainment4 ,a meeting that is half entertainment or if illustrations1 anecdotes and stories be included under the head of entertainment1 a meeting that is nine-tenths entertainment and one-tenth direct statement of fact and reasoning therefrom1 is of far more value than a three hours' bombardment with facts1 figures1 arguments and the soundest reasoning1 directed by a master4 ,the average human mind1 as ,god made it and as our present unsocial life has unmade it1 will become wearied by such an effort and leave the meeting with the firm resolve not to attend another4 ,such meetings cannot be held often and do not win the sympathies and co-operation of men nearly so much as a meeting planned and arranged on the basis of adaptation to the capacities of the average listener and his multiform emotions and mental wants4 ,this is the secret of the success of the popular churches4 ,they do not try to teach the people too much4 ,they do not strain that organ1 very weak in the average human mind1 known as the logical faculty4 ,far more progress can be made in any community by instituting a successful series of meetings1 wherein serious reasoning occupies a minor portion of the time1 the rest filled in by entertainment1 than can be gained by meetings that furnish a perfect mine of wealth in the way of food for thought and intellectual feasting for the few who have the power to appreciate such things4#d #d ,of course the most effective methods of presenting our cause can only be hinted at in a text-book4 ,a month or several months of personal training is requisite to give the student a real understanding of the difference between the old method and the new4 ,it is1 therefore1 urged that as many of the younger speakers as possible attend and take direct1 personal instruction from the ,faculty of the ,volunteers' ,school in ,st4 ,louis4 ,,life ,,is ,,short4 ,the length of the man's speech should be measured1 not by his own physical endurance nor the time that his breath lasts1 not by the amount that he has to say nor even by the capacity of his audience to listen or to remain in the room1 but in every case it should be measured by the capacity of his hearers to enjoy4 ,most political meetings are too long4 ,very often two or three speakers are engaged1 each harboring the erroneous opinion that duty requires him to talk an hour4 ,now1 any speaker who cannot say something good1 useful and inspiring in fifteen minutes1 is incapable of saying anything good1 useful or inspiring at all4 ,except in times of great excitement or in out-of-the-way country districts where meetings are few and the hearers1 like savages in a forest1 must gorge themselves when they have a chance1 the speaking should never1 on any occasion1 last more than an hour and a half4 ,where there are three speakers1 not only should each be limited to half an hour but the chair should be filled by a man with pluck and personality sufficiently great to tap the speaker on the shoulder when his time is up4 ,i have seen more hoggishness displayed at political meetings than ever at a dinner table4 ,the man who sits down at a table and eats everything in sight before his friends arrive1 is a gentleman compared with the fellow who occupies the time of his colleagues at a public meeting2 because1 if by one man's greed all the food on the table is eaten1 other food can be obtained1 but when some oratorical hog monopolizes the opportunity of his fellow-speakers1 he takes from his colleagues what can never be replaced4 ,our volunteers will accomplish a great work for humanity indeed if one of their number succeeds in inventing a method to stiffen the backbones of presiding officers sufficiently to enable them to sit down on that species of bore who push themselves to the front1 ask to speak first by pledging to quit at a specified time and then talk on until the audience begins to disperse4 ,few people appreciate the great loss caused to a party or movement by the vacillating weakness of presiding officers and the greedy instincts of men who like to be heard and1 in order to satisfy this instinct1 hog everything in sight4 ,one mission of the volunteer speaker is to teach etiquette to the political speakers of our own party and when ,ex-,governor ,so-and-,so and ,prosecuting ,attorney ,other-man and ,judge ,dry-,bones and ,ex-,judge ,old ,fogy and ,the ,honorables and ,the ,colonels and ,the ,generals and the bulldozing youthful speakers assume to occupy time not intended for them1 to take the chairman by the arm and stand by his side until he redeems the pledge made before the meeting and stops the mouth of the insolent fellow who has not sense enough to regard the rights of his fellow-workers4 ,,an ,,ounce ,,of ,,prevention4 ,if a prominent man1 known to be long-winded and lacking in this one requisite of a gentleman1 is present and it is uncertain that the presiding officer has the courage necessary to call him down at the right time1 our voluble celebrity should be told that the position of honor being the last on the program1 it has been ,,positively given to him4 ,thus the other speakers will have a chance to plant a few ideas in the minds of their auditors before they are hopelessly wearied4 ,although the last speaker may injure the general effect of the meeting by his prolonged and drawn-out harangue1 the self-assertive and independent ones among the listeners can1 at least1 leave the room when they get fatigued1 without missing the opportunity of listening to those whom they came to hear4 ,this point is purposely emphasized1 and strong language not inadvertently used4 ,where more than one speaker participates1 there is nothing more essential for a successful meeting than that each speaker be limited in time by a pre-arranged plan1 and that each be forced by the presiding officer strictly to observe that limit4 ,,more ,,than ,,two ,,million ,,members4 ,the success of the ,christian ,endeavor movement in the ,protestant churches is due almost solely to their method4 ,the ,christian ,endeavor ,societies have no new message to the world2 they advocate no reforms2 they do not add anything to the teaching of the church2 do not even take it back to any of those sublime truths of the past largely ignored and forgotten by the modern church4 ,but there is one simple reform in the method of carrying on religious meetings to which the ,christian ,endeavor ,societies owe their success1 and by means of which alone they have gained more than two million members in little more than a decade4 ,this great and valuable secret is their system of two or three minute addresses1 and their requiring participation in the meeting by every member4 ,some of us are familiar with the old time ,protestant prayer-meetings1 composed of five or six old men1 from ten to thirty middle-aged and old women1 with a scattering boy or girl forced to attend by parents4 ,the prayers were long4 ,the talks were dry4 ,the presence of a young man or woman was always a surprise4 ,the ,christian ,endeavor ,society with the same theology1 the same message1 the same hymns1 not even having a new impulse1 a new moral ideal1 or a new hope for the betterment of the world1 but merely by requiring each member to say a few words and requiring that they say no more than a few words1 has succeeded in joining together over two million young people into a prayer meeting society4 ,young people and prayer meetings6 ,always before suspicious of each other6 ,presto change6 ,two million young people organize in fifteen years to attend prayer meeting4 ,the explanation of this miracle is ,,enforced ,,brevity4 ,short speeches1 the extinction of bores1 and the participation in each meeting in some way by every listener are so far as method goes the essentials for a great popular movement4 ,good manners that have been taught to most of the world as regards eating and drinking have begun to be introduced into the world of meetings1 religious and political1 and when we see a feature1 a little reform of this kind1 building up in a few years one of the largest and most formidable religious organizations in the way of numbers that the world has ever seen1 the organizers and workers of the new ,democracy should profit thereby and at least learn the lesson1 ,don't bore the people4 ,it were better that the long-winded talker were a ,republican or that he were thrown into the sea than that he should be allowed to destroy our meetings by his prolonged and learned discourses4 ,flee from the long-winded man1 or else turn on him and make him sit down when his time is up4 ,or do with him as you do with the man who displays swinish proclivities when you invite him to dinner1 ,,don',t ,,invite ,,him ,,again4 ,,the ,,bureau ,,of ,,volunteer ,,speakers4 ,a community feels that it needs to be awakened1 and desires to arrange a series of meetings4#e ,how can suitable speakers be had8 ,so often a mistake is made4 ,a speaker goes off on a tangent2 he carries his hearers into a labyrinth of statistics and details1 from which he cannot extricate them2 he makes one break that alienates more votes than his whole speech wins1 or in other ways proves himself incapable of accomplishing good for the community that he visits4 #e ,advertising methods3 ,tickets afford the best method of advertising meetings of all kinds4 ,it is a personal1 definite invitation1 and the surest crowd-gatherer4 ,in large cities it may be necessary to issue from fifty thousand to one hundred thousand1 and have them carefully distributed1 in order to get out two thousand persons4 ,in smaller places the percentage of waste is not so great4 ,get the co-operation of the press1 if possible1 but do not rely upon it4 ,to the last moment there is always danger of its deserting to the money power1 as the latter can bring almost irresistible pressure to bear upon it4 ,print on every ticket a short list of the best books1 i4 e41 ,lloyd's ,wealth against ,commonwealth1 ,ely's ,socialism and ,social ,reform1 ,ten ,men of ,money ,island1 ,coin's ,financial ,school1 etc4 ,heretofore such a man1 by bulldozing prominent politicians into giving him letters of recommendation1 might impose himself on one community after another1 and continue for years to injure the party4 ,by proper co-operation of the party with the ,bureau of ,volunteers ,speakers1 this evil1 in a large measure1 can be avoided1 because this ,bureau does not send a man to speak until it is thoroughly acquainted1 not only with his character1 but his capacities and judgment1 and knows his method of argument and what he is to advocate4 ,when young and comparatively inexperienced speakers are sent out1 it is known beforehand what is to be said1 as their speeches are prepared and rehearsed in advance4 ,they must know what they have to say1 and not trust to inspiration1 which often results in perspiration for the speaker1 and exasperation for the hearers4 ,every speaker sent out will present the great fundamental truths of our movement and not waste time in arguing details1 which only supplies our enemies with new weapons to use against us4 ,his speech beforehand has been pruned and criticised2 the dead branches lopped off2 the twigs and vines cleared from the trunk of the tree1 and he is prepared to do only such work as will make converts and deepen the convictions of those already with us4 ,there exists no other ,bureau or ,headquarters in ,america1 through which ,democratic organizations can obtain at all times the best talent1 and never fail to get a man who will strengthen their local organization4 ,again1 when meetings are held regularly in a town and a work of systematic education is carried on1 it often happens that one speaker following another repeats over again the same statistics1 the same arguments and even the same stories heard before1 thereby tiring the audience4 ,but when a community is supplied regularly by the ,national ,bureau1 each speaker takes up a different phase of the great problem1 recapitulating only the few fundamental truths on which our movement rests4 ,each presents also something new1 bright and spicy of his own4 ,by this arrangement every community can enjoy the benefits of a succession of good speakers every month or week during the whole four years1 and escape the persecution of those unteachable bores1 who think themselves speakers4 ,the crowds at these regular periodical meetings will increase1 because each time they will hear something just as good as the last time1 with added special features1 the result of individual genius4 ,at present1 when a speaker is wanted1 anybody is invited who happens to be available1 his abilities being measured by his own recommendation1 or by letters bulldozed from prominent men1 who1 for reasons of political prudence dared not offend so energetic a fellow4 ,a community in this way may secure a good speech occasionally1 but often the speaker is a positive injury to the cause4 ,one poor speech in a series does more to lessen the general interest and reduce the size of the crowds thereafter1 than can be overcome by half a dozen good speeches4 ,of course1 where the local ,democracy can secure the services of some one of our national leaders1 no bureau mediation is needed1 but our national leaders are few and the work before us limitless1 therefore the service of the ,volunteers' ,bureau in training1 equipping and guaranteeing a large number of new speakers who can be secured at any time1 by any community1 at a moderate expense1 is meeting with hearty response by ,democratic clubs generally4 ,the best way to make a strong club anywhere is to institute a series of meetings1 all the year round1 and1 by having at least one able speaker each time1 never to disappoint the audience4 ,let each town and village establish a lecture course at once1 and place itself in communication with the ,volunteers' ,bureau4 ,the more numerous and closer together such villages and towns are1 the smaller will be the expense to each community and the easier will it be to make up regular circuits for speakers4 ,,the ,,co-,,operation ,,of ,,constituents ,,necessary4 ,although every speaker sent out is guaranteed to do effective work1 the leaders of each community are urgently requested to report to headquarters at once1 the success or short-comings of each speaker and meeting4 ,without such co-operation1 the ,bureau cannot keep that oversight of its hundreds of speakers necessary to raise the standard of work to the highest efficiency4 ,it is assuredly the duty of local workers to give straight-forward reports to headquarters1 of the short-comings and breaks on the part of the representatives of our ,bureau1 who represent our party and for whom our party is responsible as well as to report the benefits resulting from each meeting4 ,the fact should also be emphasized that each representative of the ,bureau receives a letter of recognition and instruction once a month from headquarters1 and his standing with the ,bureau should be judged solely by such letters or by direct correspondence4 ,we must be able1 when any speaker fails on his part to fulfill our requirements1 to cease our connection with1 and our responsibility for him4 ,,chapter ,,iv4 ,,methods ,,of ,,travel4 ,for those very respectable speakers of the old school who go to a town only when sent for and speak only at meetings properly advertised and pre-arranged1 who are blessed with a goodly supply of that eminently obstructive article1 the chief burden on every popular movement1 commonly called dignity1 there is no advice needed as to methods of travel4 ,for such well regulated exponents of bimetallism and reform about the only advice that can be given is be sure that your car fare is sent to you before boarding the train4 ,but to another class of speakers1 those who make up the rank and file of ,democracy's ,volunteers1 those whose purpose and power of will are such that no obstacles1 no stumbling blocks1 no hardships can embitter or delay1 those in whom the fire of enthusiasm for humanity has burned up their dignity and who in starting out do not ask whether they have means to go respectably and comfortably and quickly or not1 but one question presents itself1 namely1 ,can ,i get to my destination in time to deliver my message8 ,the methods used by such will be various4 ,when we have the money to buy railway tickets and when cars go at the proper hour1 we will travel by rail4 ,otherwise we will drive when we can conveniently secure a horse and vehicle1 or we will gladly mount the saddle or a wheel4 ,but when car tickets1 carriages1 saddle horses and bicycles are alike impossible1 the man fighting for principle will rise superior to his dignity and dependence upon small comforts and taking a bundle of literature and a small bag will1 before starting1 ask himself only1 ,are my shoes good8 ,,experience ,,favors ,,traveling ,,two ,,by ,,two4 ,the early ,christian disciples went out preaching the gospel by twos4 ,throughout history and in the experience of those living1 it has been found that the will and intensity of purpose of the average man is better preserved and that he more easily overcomes obstacles1 troubles and disappointments if in traveling among strangers he has companionship4 ,therefore although1 at times the ,volunteers may travel as individuals1 lonely and homesick1 still1 wherever it is practicable1 we advise our speakers to travel by twos4 ,it is much easier to walk five1 ten1 twenty1 or even forty miles in a day1 from one town to another with a companion4 ,not only is loneliness overcome1 but two speaker and workers have more than twice the influence upon a community that either would exert separately4 ,besides it is safer1 and1 in case of sickness or accident1 there is some one to go for help or to tell the story4 ,,after ,,enrolling4 ,two young ,volunteers start out for a month's campaign in the cause of ,american liberty4 ,we have no money1 the extent of our capital being a bundle of ,democratic literature1 an appointment from the ,bureau of ,volunteer ,speakers and a good pair of shoes each4 ,we start at seven o'clock in the morning from town ,a4 ,it is twenty miles to ,b where we wish to speak at night4 ,we walk six miles by nine o'clock and are then overtaken by a farm wagon in which we are allowed to ride eight miles1 when it leaves our road4 ,we give the driver a pamphlet1 thanks and a blessing and we part4 ,it is now eleven o'clock and we walk six miles further when at one o'clock we reach our destination4 ,in ten minutes we have found a friendly ,democrat who1 after looking at our letters1 shakes our hands1 takes us to his house and provides food4 ,after resting a couple of hours after dinner1 we make an outdoor talk as suggested in ,chapter three1 and announce a night meeting4 ,if those who profess the name ,democracy in this village are overburdened with sham dignity and devotion to what is old and inefficient and refuse to recognize or aid the appointed speakers of the people's cause1 we must be ready to rely on other resources4 ,our afternoon collection may amount to ten cents or it may reach fifty cents or a dollar4 ,the crowd may1 however1 refuse to contribute anything4 ,we may sell literature sufficient to supply our wants1 or the gold standard and the trusts may have caused such a scarcity of cash that we cannot sell anything4 ,we may be compelled to get our supper and maybe breakfast by trading a pamphlet to a grocer for crackers and cheese4 ,after speaking in the afternoon and evening if we should meet with no success or recognition1 expediency would suggest that we shake the dust from the soles of our feet and proceed on our journey toward a more friendly community1 while the oppressor prepares the way for the work of education later4 ,in some places friends will supply car tickets2 in others they will procure a carriage or wagon and deliver us to the next town4 ,from other villages or towns we may have to proceed as we started and as the apostles used to travel1 walking along the dusty road1 the frozen ground or through mud or snow4 ,this method of travel is not only now practiced by many of our speakers1 but can and will become the method of thousands more4 ,it is a thoroughly practicable and sensible method of teaching truth against great odds and adds to the force of the speakers' message by proving him sincere4 ,that this plan of campaigning is altogether feasible the writer can personally attest from actual experience4 ,years ago1 as a mere boy1 ,i became intensely interested in the principles of the ,new ,democracy and starting without money1 without friends or any organized assistance1 impelled merely by enthusiasm for humanity and hatred of that tyranny through which my race and family had suffered1 ,i traversed in this way every county in the ,state of ,kansas1 circulating thousands of pamphlets in which were pointed out the way to a nobler civilization4 ,while still a boy ,i also walked or rode with friends through ,missouri1 ,illinois1 ,indiana1 ,ohio1 ,pennsylvania and ,new ,york4 ,i was often interfered with by persons disposed to disagree1 but at every village and town and city through which ,i passed1 ,i stood up in the open street in a carriage1 on a dry-goods box or a chair and proclaimed my faith that the poor people need not suffer as they do if they would but unite in behalf of their own interests and use the ballot against oppression and tyranny4 ,very often ,i was without money1 and ,i then discovered that my early study of hygiene could be turned to good account4 ,i found that the great capitalists1 aided by ,edward ,atkinson and the soup house reformers1 in trying to devise a diet for the poor that might enable them to work for less wages1 though failing in this1 had at least given me a pointer4 ,i found that their bill of fare lacked but one ingredient to make it very endurable1 and that was enthusiasm and youthful hope and fire4 ,i added this ingredient and was independent of the world4 ,,hygiene ,,as ,a ,,war ,,measure4 ,those ,volunteers who intend not only to try to speak for the cause during the next four years1 but have determined to fight for the continuation of our ,republic in spite of all obstacles1 should learn how independent the body really can be of what are usually termed the necessaries of life4 ,as an invalid child ,i attended a course of lectures delivered by one ,dr4 ,o',leary4 ,this distinguished gentleman1 with the theatre stage1 which he used as his platform covered over with polished skeletons1 manikins1 human heads in chloroform and colored pictures of the various parts of the human frame1 impressed my young mind deeply4 ,at that time1 ,i remember ,i had been given up by my parents and the doctor1 as a child who could not possibly be raised4 ,i was accustomed to thoughts of death and for years constantly expected a visit from the dreaded monster4 ,no memory is more distinctly engraven on my mind than the nights when1 with eager eyes fastened on this wonderful man and his mysterious skulls and manikins1 my heart throbbing1 my face aglow1 ,i listened in rapt attention1 that possibly ,i might catch some secret that would help me defeat death and add strength to my frail body sufficient to do battle with life's hardships4 ,after describing a boy who died at about my own age because his nervous system had been deprived of the proper life-giving elements which had been taken from his food by modern processes1 the ,professor took up a handful of wheat letting it fall repeatedly through his fingers1 stating that each grain of wheat contains in it all of the elements required to sustain human life4 ,he said that civilization1 by taking away the outside1 the most nutritious part of the wheat1 had struck a blow at the physical development of our race4 ,he declared that man can live for years on whole wheat requiring no other article of diet1 and that the outside of the wheat especially1 now thrown aside as bran and fed to the cattle1 contains the elements of bone and nerve fibre1 that1 while the lady who eats only the choicest white bread1 made of the finest flour1 has to substitute gold for parts of her teeth1 the teeth of the cattle that eat the bran are perfect4 ,he gave as an illustration the march of ,caesar and his legions through ,gallia1 when ,caesar's soldiers often for weeks at a time were without provisions and were compelled to feed on whole wheat alone which they would snatch in handfuls from the fields as they marched1 thresh in the palms of their hands and grind with their molars4 ,the crushing of the hard wheat grain gave the teeth exercise while the crushed bran and surface of the grain supplied those elements required in the construction of bone and teeth4 ,at the present time1 nineteen centuries after1 so this doctor said1 there are numerous skulls of these same soldiers of the great ,caesar to be seen in the ,london ,museum and as a result of their wheat mastication1 every tooth is as sound in these skulls1 as whole and free from decay as when heathen ,rome was ,mistress of the ,world and ,caesar was ,king4 ,a ,,personal ,,experience4 ,whether this astounding statement of the learned doctor has any basis of truth or not ,i do not know1 but that the lesson he sought to impress by it is true1 my own experience can attest4 ,during a period of several years1 with another young enthusiast1 ,i subsisted on a diet of bread and apples except when these could not be had1 when we repaired the waste of our bodies by eating whole wheat1 a bag of which we constantly carried with us for emergencies4 ,often we have subsisted on whole wheat and clear water alone for several days1 and even a week at a time4 ,during these periods we did not notice that we lost flesh4 ,of course we had very little to lose1 but our vigor and the intensity of our enthusiasm and faith in our powers1 all of which depend largely upon the amount of nutriment carried from the stomach to the brain1 and various nerve centers1 were not in the least diminished4 ,later on we found that when convenient1 we could obtain more nourishment from the wheat with less chewing by having it boiled1 but when boiled1 we could not carry with us a week's rations without fatigue1 and boiled wheat will become sour in the summer time while whole dry wheat will keep for years1 and1 like feminine beauty1 remain ever fresh4 ,it is the most condensed form of digestible food known to man4 ,of course where men have dissipated and their powers of digestion have been undermined by intoxicating liquor1 tobacco1 or the habitual use of highly spiced and over-prepared foods1 any coming down to a natural diet like this is a severe hardship4 ,but for a young man with firm faith and good health1 ,,not ,,to ,,be ,,impeded ,,in ,,his ,,desire ,,to ,,become ,,an ,,essential ,,factor ,,in ,,the ,,greatest ,,movement ,,of ,,history ,,by ,,the ,,mere ,,fact ,,that ,,he ,,has ,,no ,,money ,,with ,,which ,,to ,,pay ,,car ,,fare ,,and ,,buy ,,good ,,food ,,and ,,clothes1 the suggestions here given will be found helpful4 ,i would not advise others to do1 what ,i have not done or am not willing to do myself4 ,the fact is1 however1 that any young man1 in good health1 and formed of the right kind of dust1 can travel1 without any money from one end of the country to the other speaking daily1 and accomplish much for our cause1 even if he does not meet more than one true friend in a thousand miles4 ,but the comforts and vices and follies of civilization he must be able to do without4 ,this austere and ascetic mode of life is not commended for its own sake4 ,the suggestion is merely thrown out as one possible way of beginning work1 so that no young man in good health can claim that he would have done wonders for the cause had he not been prohibited by poverty4 ,no such excuse exists4 ,healthy single men can live and thrive if buoyed up by hope and faith and manly purpose1 and travel the world over on a quarter of the wages of a day laborer4 ,,not ,,civil ,,but ,,military4 ,to those persons who may possibly criticise these suggestions as tending to encourage a lower standing of living1 thereby indirectly aiding in the lowering of wages1 ,i will simply say that ,i am not giving suggestions for methods of civil life but only military suggestions to be acted upon in time of war4 ,the battle is now on4 ,no conflict of the past ever appealed more strongly to the sublime qualities in human nature than the present war of the people against the united plutocracy of all countries4 ,it is therefore appropriate and timely to give any and all suggestions that may be of value to those bearing the brunt of the people's battle4 ,can it be urged against the half starved ,cuban patriots that because they have learned how to subsist through months on roots and berries1 and sugar cane their habits are likely to lower the standard of living in ,cuba8 ,in answer the smallest boy would say that the ,cubans eat berries this year in order to eat watermelons next year1 that they chew slippery elm and sheep sorrel to-day in order to have roast beef1 oysters and plum pudding to-morrow4 ,they are now eating the food of the animals and sleeping in the open fields with the beasts and dying1 as the cattle die1 by order of a butcher1 that their countrymen and their children and their children's children hereafter may live as free men1 enjoying the heritage of a free ,cuba and all the varied gifts of civilization4 ,did our forefathers of the ,revolutionary ,war lower the standard of living and decrease wages or injure the cause of labor or of trade-unionism1 because1 in fighting for country they were willing to go without shoes1 staining with blood from their wounded feet the projecting icy rocks that gashed them as they marched against the ,british8 ,oh1 no6 ,our forefathers went without shoes that we might have them4 ,they went hungry and cold and gave up their individual comforts and lives1 that we1 their descendants and fellow-countrymen1 might have greater comforts1 increased liberties and life more abundant4 ,,general ,,marion4 ,when ,general ,francis ,marion with his brave soldier boys was lying in at ,snows ,island on the ,pedee ,river1 ,north ,carolina1 preparing to make another one of his surprising and brilliant raids on the enemy1 an officer from the ,british post at ,georgetown was dispatched to visit him to treat for an exchange of prisoners4 ,the blooming ,britisher was blindfolded and carried by a circuitous route into camp4 ,the bargain arranged1 he accepted an invitation to dine4 ,the meal was served on pieces of bark and consisted entirely of roasted potatoes of which ,general ,marion ate heartily1 requesting his guest to profit by his example1 repeating the old adage that ,hunger is the best sauce4 ,but surely1 ,general1 this cannot be your ordinary fare said the well fed adversary4 ,yes it is1 replied ,marion1 ,for months at a time my men have lived on roasted potatoes1 and we are especially fortunate on this occasion to be able to provide a double allowance to set before so honorable a guest4 ,the young foreigner was so overcome with admiration for the brave patriots fighting for their country in such a spirit that on his return to ,georgetown he retired from the service1 declaring his conviction that men who could with such cheerfulness1 endure the privations of such a life1 could never be subdued4 ,the blooming ,britisher was right4 ,the ,god of ,william ,tell1 of ,cromwell1 of ,washington and ,marion1 of ,garrison and ,lincoln1 of ,moses and of ,bryan1 never has and never will permit such enthusiasm and faith and patriotism to go unrewarded4 ,men with purpose so intense1 whose flame of patriotism burns so brightly as to consume their love of comfort and dependence upon external things1 can never be subdued by hired ,hessians nor the combined forces of opulence1 ease and greed4 ,going out in such a spirit1 demanding three full square meals each day for every human being born into the world1 yet to obtain this end willing ourselves to live like ,marion's band on roasted potatoes1 like the ,cuban patriots on sugar cane and berries1 or on graham bread and apples1 or to ease our hunger if necessary by grinding with our teeth dry whole wheat1 we will in the name of ,god and humanity take this country and rescue our world from those who now make of it a living hell4 ,this unconquerable1 independent spirit that rises above physical conditions1 social limitations1 comforts and luxuries1 is and always has been the conquering spirit of the world1 always the sure omen of victory4 ,if ,marion and his band could rise superior to physical appetites in fighting for thirteen little colonies away off from the great centers of civilization2 if the followers of ,gomez and the immortal ,maceo can march over perilous mountains and through deadly marshes1 suffering continually for want of food and drink1 and for years swing with almost supernatural skill their deadly machetes against the brutal hordes of ,spain1 in order to free one little ,west ,india isle1 then surely we1 who see the brutal arm of a united world plutocracy striking down and destroying all that has been bought so dearly by ,washington1 ,marion1 and ,lincoln1 about to enslave the world's home and refuge of freedom for a hundred years1 we should not be unwilling to make any sacrifice1 take any risks1 perform any drudgery4 ,in defending our country we decide the destiny of the human race4 ,we fight to make seventy millions of people free and eventually to free the world4 ,ours is the most sublime1 the most terrific1 the most inspiring of all historic struggles4 ,in fighting we will take the advice and learn what we can from any source however humble4 ,we will listen to the hygienist1 the vegetarian1 even to the soup house reformer1 if their words will help free us from those chains of poverty that paralyze the arm of the ordinary slave and make him impotent to strike back against his oppressors4 ,the man who1 because he earns his bread by labor1 is looked down upon by the companions of his youth and1 because of his helplessness and his clothes1 is fenced out of respectable society1 such a man requires condensed and highly spiced food4 ,he craves wine and beer and whiskey and every condiment and stimulant that can raise his spirits1 depressed by failure1 disappointment and the slow plodding life that offers no advancement4 ,continual drudgery1 without opportunity for promotion1 engulfs man in a gloom uncheered by a ray of hope4 ,the reformer1 the friend of labor1 the idealist1 the true ,christian believe that such victims should not only have the best food and drink1 better clothes and better homes1 but that they and their children should also have a chance to rise1 should never be debarred from opportunities for advancement or for utilizing any talent or genius before discovered or that may hereafter be discovered1 that might lift them to a plane of distinction and honor4 ,we believe in luxury2 so much so that we believe every poor man's family should have an opportunity to enjoy all those healthful and normal luxuries which invention and progress have placed within the reach of men4 ,but the greatest of all luxuries1 that which is more appetizing than pepper or salt or cinnamon or garlic1 that which is more stimulating than beer or whiskey or even champagne1 and which must precede in the hearts of the masses the procurement of all these other and lesser luxuries1 is that divinest gift of ,heaven--hope4 ,give a man all the other luxuries that the world affords1 and take away hope1 and his blood thickens1 his eye becomes dull1 his color heavy and his pulse irregular4 ,but allow him only dry bread in the open air and sunlight by a flowing brook1 and give him hope1 and his eye flashes1 his heart throbs quicken1 his face flushes1 his muscles harden and all his physical and mental powers are ready for instant application4 ,we1 the ,volunteers of the ,new ,democracy1 have an abundant supply of this stimulant more powerful than any liquor1 more appetizing than any condiment1 more soothing than any narcotic1 giving power and increased facility without reaction4 ,we have hope4 ,we have faith4 ,we have purpose4 ,we have absolute knowledge that our cause is just4 ,we know that we shall win4 ,we cannot be suppressed4 ,we cannot be put down4 ,the world is ours4 ,,we ,,are ,,invincible4 ,,no ,,railway ,,passes4 ,in starting out to destroy plutocracy1 the first thing the average weakling does is to approach some senatorial or congressional tool of the very plutocracy that he thinks he is opposing1 and ask him to beg plutocracy for a weapon to fight it with1 free of charge4 ,in other words1 in opposing the trusts and monopolies1 among which the railroad monopoly is one of the most tyrannical and corrupt1 he asks for a free railway pass4 ,the railroad pass is the most corrupting instrument in ,american politics to-day4 ,it buys for a small price our congressmen and senators1 our county and state committees of both the ,democratic and ,republican parties1 our bosses in both parties1 our editors1 ,democratic and ,republican1 our preachers1 ,democratic1 ,republican and ,prohibition1 and many of our ,democratic lecturers and speakers4 ,even many of our labor leaders make themselves impotent in this great struggle by accepting railroad passes4 ,our labor statisticians1 from the ,national office in ,washington to the smallest ,state branch1 aid in smothering facts and giving life to fiction in order to ride on railroad passes4 ,our speakers1 in accepting the gage of battle laid down by plutocracy in the late campaign1 must neither ask nor accept favors of our enemies4 ,we must defy them4 ,rather than ride on railroad passes we should walk4 ,we should learn from that venerable ,cuban patriot1 ,maximo ,gomez1 who1 when offered a sop by the brutal despotism against which he was fighting1 although it was presented to him by those two eminent yet despicable toadies of ,european tyranny1 ,messrs4 ,cleveland and ,olney1 refused point blank to consider their degrading propositions and answered3 ,we do not accept favors of ,spain4 ,we hate ,spain4 ,our business is not to ask favors but to fight4 ,,defy ,,the ,,railroads4 ,during the late campaign the railroad corporations united not only to aid in continuing the gold standard by the use of corporation funds but in robbing our people of a free ballot by the most treasonable acts of coercion and intimidation4 ,there is not a giant stock jobber1 tax dodger1 labor skinner or other law protected thief in the country who has stolen more than one million dollars from widows and orphans and other unsuspecting investors1 who has not been aided and abetted in his nefarious schemes by the railroad corporations4 ,there is not a single monopoly nor trust that preys upon legitimate trade and commerce but has been fostered in its unnatural growth by railroad discrimination4 ,there has not been a single reform advocated for the benefit of the common people during the last thirty years1 but has been fought bitterly by the railway officials4 ,we cannot destroy plutocracy1 we cannot fight the trusts1 we cannot fight the gold standard unless we are willing to defy the railroads4 ,if1 during our coming ,congressional campaign1 the railroads continue their habit of monarchical coercion and intimidation1 depriving ,american citizens of their right to a free ballot1 we must be sufficiently intelligent and determined to co-operate with the enraged and long-suffering people who will then be forced to declare for government ownership of all public highways thus destroying1 at a single blow1 this most dangerous and tyrannical form of plutocratic despotism4 ,we cannot afford to ask for railway passes4 ,if we cannot pay our fare and cannot secure a horse1 ,,we ,,must ,,walk4 ,,bryan ,,wagons4 ,before describing our method of fitting up and sending out ,bryan wagons1 something should be said about the use of the word ,bryan1 and of ,mr4 ,byran's request that his name should not be used by clubs and organizations4 ,the word ,bryan no longer belongs to any one man4 ,it has become the common property of all who love liberty4 ,the word ,bryan became the cry of exultation at the birth of the ,new ,democracy4 ,at this most momentous historic event of the present century when an ideal was grasped from the upper realm of books1 of hope1 of morality and religion1 brought down to the world of fact and embodied in flesh and blood2 when what before was a dream1 a philosophy1 an aspiration1 suddenly allied itself with physical agencies and created a political power that surprised the world1 the one cry into which the long oppressed millions breathed their joy1 their hope1 their hate1 their devotion to their fellows1 their defiance of their enemies was the magic word1 ,bryan6 ,bryan6 ,as this one word was repeated and cheered and cried aloud to express both hope and anger1 promise and defiance1 it became sacred4 ,it flitted from the possession of the single human mite whom it had pleased ,god to appoint as the herald of the new dispensation1 and became the common heritage of humanity4 ,at the ,chicago ,convention one citizen lost his name1 but the world found it and the word ,bryan became the battle cry of all who fight for freedom or strive for justice4 ,as this individual citizen of ,nebraska cannot by any act or blunder in the future1 efface the mark that he has made upon history's scroll nor smother the fire of enthusiasm his eloquence has lighted nor imprison again in his single breast the wondrous truths breathed out of it that now fill the whole world1 so neither shall he rob us of the one magic word1 once his own1 ,,now ,,ours1 which1 wherever uttered1 kindles lethargy and inertia into enthusiasm and fills the abode of gloom with the light of hope4 ,the people need a key-note1 a battle cry1 one single word that expresses all they believe and feel and hope4 ,we have such a word4 ,it is ,,bryan4 ,we intend to keep it and utter it wherever and whenever it will cheer us or help our cause4 ,and if again one individual citizen's modesty prompts him to interfere with our rights1 our only answer will be3 ,hands off1 honored sir1 or1 in the immortal words of ,pennoyer of ,oregon1 ,you tend to your business and we1 the people1 will tend to ours4 ,,best ,,way ,,to ,,start4 ,where one or two or three persons are willing to start on a trip from town to town1 and1 with the co-operation of their friends1 can secure a large covered wagon and two horses with a supply of condensed food1 we would commend this as the most economical and efficient method of campaigning as it affords not only means of transportation1 but supplies a dwelling house to the occupants1 and at the same time1 by the proper application of paint to the covered wagon1 the wagon itself and the horses may become living missionaries1 continuous and convincing speeches in themselves1 by their presence protesting against the continuation of existing political barbarism4 ,if at the top of the cover is painted in large letters1 the words1 ,bryan wagon1 every child1 every woman in the farthest country district1 every passerby1 whatever be his race1 religion or education1 will know instantly that this wagon1 now passing through the country1 is one of the army of wagons being used in the work preparatory to the decisive battle of modern times to be fought in #aijj4 ,a few well-chosen sentences painted on the wagon and ,american flags at the top1 will make it serve as the best possible advertisement for meetings4 ,,make ,,your ,,enemies ,,advertise ,,you4 ,the moment this wagon arrives in town every gossip1 every old woman1 every street gamin1 every enemy of ,democracy is converted at once into an advertising medium for the propaganda of our cause4 ,the wagon1 the horses1 the dried beef1 the apples1 the whole wheat1 the literature and everything that the wagon contains become subjects for conversation in the village4 ,the ,bryan wagon is the center of interest and the ,volunteers who live in it are objects of curiosity4 ,by meeting time the people are prepared to listen with open eyes and open mouths1 drinking in every word of the speaker's message4 ,its work done1 the wagon moves on to the next town but the sight of it is a powerful aid to the memory of every inhabitant of the village4 ,each will recall time and time again the character of the speakers and the words and prophecies that they uttered1 so that when the next speaker1 traveling on his shoe leather or maybe in a palace car wearing silk hat and patent leather shoes1 arrives and tells the people how they can free themselves from the money power1 they will remember the wagon and the men who lived and traveled in it and spoke from it4 ,it is well to have the wagon so constructed that1 when the time for meeting arrives1 by removing the top it can be used as a speaker's platform and the announcements made from the front seat as it is driven from corner to corner4 ,,forward1 ,,march4 ,let a thousand such wagons be started out at once and kept on the road for four years visiting every country school district every village from ,maine to ,new ,mexico and from ,texas to ,oregon1 each carrying an abundant supply of literature4 ,let every ,democrat patronize the ,volunteers liberally1 purchase from each a quantity of literature for distribution and sale and throw in a piece of silver as the hat is passed around4 ,when possible supply them with substantial and well-cooked meals so that they can better stand their heroic diet when they find no friends4 ,start the hat agoing at once in each community1 and let the town or the county that purchases a ,bryan wagon put the name of such county1 town or village on the cover4 ,let counties in ,colorado1 ,arkansas and ,texas fit out such wagons and start them toward the heathen territory of ,ohio1 ,indiana1 ,kentucky and ,maryland4 ,,abolish ,,nakedness ,,at ,,home ,,before ,,going ,,abroad4 ,let the money heretofore sent by our religious friends to teach the naked savages of foreign islands to be ashamed of their nakedness and to desire clothes1 be applied now to the conversion of ,america to the conviction that every citizen of our own country who wants clothes should have a chance to earn them4 ,if ,america is destroyed by that arch-devil worship1 gold idolatry1 if our ,republic goes down amid the horrors of a violent revolution and military despotism1 following in the footsteps of ,rome and ,greece and ,egypt1 what will result from our missions in foreign lands8 ,they will become relics of the past because no possible teaching can then convince the poor heathen that our religion is a saving power4 ,when the very country from which the missionaries come is the helpless victim of greed1 avarice and organized crime1 how are other races to be tempted to follow our example8 ,let us rather turn our missionary money for the next four years1 ,,all ,,of ,,it1 into the coffers of the ,new ,democracy1 and start our wagons toward the doubtful states from every ,democratic and ,populist stronghold4 ,let the more civilized people of ,missouri1 ,kansas and ,nebraska1 where the creed of progress has reached the greatest altitude in earth's history1 share their increased physical1 intellectual and moral development with the less progressive and more barbarous states that fringe the ocean uniting us with decaying ,europe4 ,such friendly action will not only be rewarded by the satisfaction that always follows a righteous act1 but the givers will be blessed of ,god4 ,nothing that a man can do1 or a woman1 or a child1 will accomplish more good in this world or gain greater reward in the land of the hereafter1 than the giving of their dollars and dimes and pennies for the starting of ,bryan wagons4 ,in this way the western and southern centers of thought and unselfish patriotism may uplift and educate those states where greed1 political corruption and the infamies of ,hannaism still hold undisputed sway4 ,let the churches of the ,western states hold entertainments1 let suppers1 masked balls1 ice cream socials1 cider picnics and barbecues be held by the good women of every village and the proceeds devoted to the equipment of ,bryan wagons4 ,and after they are started out1 each well provisioned with literature1 blankets and food1 and containing two good speakers and workers1 the good women who raised the money to start them should continue their benign activities and proceed at once to raise a fund to keep on hand1 so that when our missionaries send tidings of persecution1 accident or neglect1 they can be answered at once by a generous remittance4 ,in order to insure the permanency of the venture1 and that the wagon and horses may continue to serve the cause even if the men traveling with them desert their posts1 a bill of sale or transfer of the wagon and horses should be sent to our ,national headquarters or to our state officers on the day of departure4 ,the friends of the organization would then be communicated with in advance wherever the wagon went1 and in case either one or both the speakers tired or deserted1 the vacancies would be filled at once from headquarters1 and in the meantime the horses and wagon would be cared for4 ,,outdoor ,,music4 ,there can be no greater aid to the success of a ,bryan wagon than for the volunteers to carry with them and be able to play a banjo1 guitar1 violin1 or small organ4 ,music is one of the world's forces and as rare music1 like all rare things1 is a very small part of the whole1 it is not necessary that our music be of that sort4 ,if we have the best arguments1 we can afford to let the other side have the best music4 ,but we must not1 for this reason1 give up music altogether4 ,therefore a man who is proficient in any musical instrument that can be played out doors1 is a valuable acquisition to a ,bryan wagon4 ,but by far the most popular and most effective music in the world1 if well rendered1 is the exercise of the human voice in song4#f ,to open a meeting with music always strikes a sympathetic chord with the people4 ,it aids and strengthens every word that follows4 ,if our speakers do not know how to sing when they start out1 they should practice singing our songs until they do know4 ,this should be part of the young speaker's education4 #f ,a volume of songs1 prepared for our volunteer work1 and for all sorts of ,democratic meetings1 will be ready shortly1 and can be obtained of our ,national ,bureau or from any of our volunteers4 ,,stereopticon ,,pictures4 ,another advantage of the ,bryan wagon is that it can carry a certain amount of baggage the shoe leather traveler cannot possibly take with him4 ,for those who do not possess an unusual oratorical talent1 a small stereopticon or magic lantern with views picturing the principles of the ,new ,democracy in effective colors1 will prove a valuable aid4 ,reform stereopticon views have been produced in great variety1 and the method of enlisting the eye wherever possible to strengthen the impressions made through the ear is sound policy4 ,in securing collections for the payment of expenses1 the average citizen is more likely to give his nickel or dime towards the support of the travelers if he has heard a dime's worth of music or seen a dime's worth of comic and interesting pictures in addition to instruction gotten through the medium of the speaker's voice4 ,,bicycles ,,and ,,democracy4 ,where a man doesn't care to walk1 and where it is inconvenient or distasteful to travel by means of the ,bryan wagon1 that most modern and popular conveyance1 the bicycle1 should not be despised as a means of disseminating truth4 ,the bicycle is one of the revolutionary factors of our age4 ,it is the enemy of tobacco1 liquor and all other vices that arise from abnormal desires created by a sedentary life4 ,it is the friend of health1 strength1 red cheeks and clear heads4 ,where there are good roads it is an excellent means of travel1 and a strong wheelman can easily speak every night at a different town by using the wheel1 and still have plenty of time to advertise each outdoor meeting4 ,a bicycle1 too1 is an excellent companion to a ,bryan wagon1 because while the wagon is slowly moving from one village to another1 the wheelman can be scouring along the side roads distributing small circulars to the scattered countrymen1 telling them of the meeting in the next town the coming day or night4 ,in fact1 one of the most important truths for every friend of the ,new ,democracy to learn while very young1 is that our enemy1 plutocracy1 utilizes every invention and element of civilization for the perpetuation of its power4 ,in opposing plutocracy we cannot be narrow1 prejudiced1 superstitious1 nor allow preconceived ideas as to dignity1 custom1 personal appearance or respectability1 to interfere with our free motion and our energetic conflict4 ,we fight with every weapon that by any honorable means can be secured4 ,we travel by every means that will emancipate us from the limitations of time1 space and poverty4 ,we accept as allies every friend who will aid in impressing upon our fellow mortals the solemnity of the opportunity that confronts them and the malignity of the enemy that is destroying our common race and country4 ,grasp every force in earth1 in sea1 in air1 which by ingenuity1 wisdom1 persistence1 or heroism can be utilized in lessening human pain or adding to human joy2 which can be of service in forwarding these grand principles that will1 by one social and political transition1 abolish the primary sources of human misery4 ,,chapter ,v4 ,,saloon ,,meetings4 ,a young man1 of splendid physique1 of bright and formidable eye1 the very picture of strength and courage1 who became an admirer of ,mr4 ,bryan during the late campaign1 and1 after careful and extensive reading forsook the ,republican party1 embraced the ,new ,democracy and enlisted the week following the election as a ,volunteer ,speaker and worker4 ,he is an active member of the ,young ,men's ,christian ,association and of the ,christian ,endeavor ,society4 ,the first meeting he was asked to attend was held over a saloon4 ,this image of youthful power and courage walked through the bar-room of the saloon with a disparaging air1 sat down at a table beside the writer1 answered a few questions in a gloomy and dissatisfied manner and said diplomatically that he had an engagement at another end of the city and could not remain4 ,he had promised to help arrange another meeting a few blocks away and the next day partly fulfilled that promise by carrying a bundle of circulars from the printing office to two men who were to distribute them4 ,he then suddenly dropped out of sight and has never1 so far as the movement is concerned1 shown up since4 ,it has been learned that to a fellow churchman he remarked that he had been attracted by the high and noble ideals of ,mr4 ,bryan1 had expected to work for the cause1 but that his attendance at a meeting in a saloon was so offensive to him that he lost all heart and had given up participation in the movement in consequence4 ,this man is only the type of a considerable class who would like to have their fellow beings clean but would never help wash them1 who would dearly love to have them good but are too narrow to help save them2 who admire the poetry of patriotism but who cowardly shrink from those sterner duties of which patriotism consists4 ,think of a follower of ,jesus ,christ refusing to preach patriotism to men because they are gathered in or over a saloon1 after having been denied the opportunity of meeting in a church or even a church yard4 ,if ,jesus ,christ had been so squeamish and gentlemanly as to have confined his services to the respectable people1 the early church would have died before it was born4 ,in no age has there been sufficient vitality in the classes that call themselves respectable to give permanent form to any social or religious movement4 ,those who wish to do great things only in a respectable manner never do great things4 ,a man cannot at the same time be both great and respectable4 ,in order to be respectable1 he must stifle genius and cover with the ashes of artificiality all the deepest passions of the soul4 ,he must destroy his individuality and trim his sympathies as he does his beard1 like the barbarous ,northmen when they entered ,rome4 ,love for humanity that can be checked or dissipated by inartistic surroundings1 contact with vice or the coarse companionship of intemperate men is not love at all1 it is a mere fad1 a fitful remnant of a religious instinct long since eaten out from within4 ,imagine a mother talking about how she loves to have her baby clean and sweet and wholesome1 and then picture her refusing to undergo the hardship required in making her child sweet and clean and wholesome4 ,such a mother would be no mother at all1 unless1 perchance1 a stepmother or mother-in-law4 ,the young man referred to is a typical specimen of a sniveling1 impracticable and worthless counterfeit of religion1 the only function of which is to emasculate and weaken our youth4 ,it serves to ease their consciences and displace the instincts that prompt to goodness4 ,for courageous self-sacrifice1 it substitutes the mumbling of prayers2 instead of active1 righteous contact with the world it demands the attendance at meetings in which love is expressed toward a phantasy millions of miles up into the stars1 while the ,living ,god of ,heaven and earth is forgotten1 and where imprecation1 denunciation and charges of wickedness are dealt out to those manly and courageous persons who lift out a helping hand to the poor instead of praying for them and who fight to make this world and this life heavenly instead of paying their debts to their fellow creatures with mansions in the skies4 ,the refusal of this young man who1 according to his own statement1 believed that the future welfare of the ,nation depended upon the triumph of the principles represented by ,mr4 ,bryan1 to assist in spreading those principles in saloon meetings1 means that his religious and social training had unfitted him to do any great or noble thing1 unless in conformity with his ,sunday-school manufactured tastes as to nicety and elegance4 ,the young man sees the giant tree1 injustice1 and offers to assist in cutting it down but1 when we hand him an ax1 refuses to take off his coat and returns it saying that his little hatchet at home has a blue ribbon around it and that he won't cut with any other4 ,he sings ,rescue the ,perishing at the ,christian ,endeavor meeting1 a pretty girl with pink cheeks and cherry lips on each side4 ,the cheeks and lips and song are so pleasing1 he thinks he will go further and help rescue the perishing4 ,after careful study he is satisfied that people are perishing for want of his friendly services and the services of others like himself4 ,yet1 when he is assigned a place to work1 he abruptly leaves his post of duty and goes back to prayer meeting1 because1 poor boy1 no carpet is on the floor1 no angel pictures grace the wall1 and the tobacco smoke about him is offensive4 ,innocent creature6 ,let him continue to sing his hymns and say his prayers surrounded by pretty girls ,in the ,christian ,endeavor meeting and pretty boys who should have been born girls1 while the great forces of reform fight the battles of the living ,god1 conquer evil1 destroy injustice and lift up the fallen4 ,we can do without him and without his kind4 ,not that we want to4 ,we do not4 ,we need all possible help4 ,we will not judge harshly all those who now are given over to such innocent amusements4 ,for the delicate white hand1 the girlish student face1 the timid mamma's boy1 taken from the prayer meeting and the ,christian ,endeavor ,society1 once taught to see the great truths of social salvation and human progress1 does not always retreat in holy horror when confronted with conflict and the smoke of battle4 ,on the other hand1 such timid1 singing1 praying boys often become ,national heroes4 ,before manhood is discovered by the growth of hair on the face1 manly character sometimes reaches maturity1 with qualities developed1 not only superior to tobacco smoke at a saloon meeting1 and the naughty cuss words of the fellows who drink there1 but to the smoke of powder and the thunder of cannon4 ,do not overlook nor belittle soft men1 but ignore only those who stay soft after you have tried the hardening process4 ,for where one heart may be formed of milk and water1 the liquid state of another may be that of molten steel1 and may only require the cooling process of an outdoor breeze to make it withstand the continuous persecution and conflict of years4 ,there is no unholy place where men should not go who are fired by a passion for justice4 ,it is a fact that one of the centers of the social life of the great cities of ,america and of ,europe is the liquor saloon4 ,how much we may deplore this fact or the evil results that we see flowing from it1 is entirely another question4 ,the fact remains in spite of our deploring1 our shocked ideals or our sympathies wrung by the desolation and death caused by it1 that the center of the social life of our great cities1 the place where society meets1 7not that floating1 top-heavy buoy that calls itself society1 but real society1 the people7 is the liquor saloon4 ,at present it is managed in ,america1 not with any reference whatever to its social function1 but merely for the private profit of individuals4 ,in order to increase their private profits and to defend their special interests1 the men who manage these saloons1 as a general rule1 abuse their powers and add inconceivably to the horrors of the vice of intemperence trying1 by unnatural and vicious methods1 to increase their gain4 ,not only this1 but as the saloon is the center of the social life of our ,american cities1 the proprietors of saloons and the manufacturers of liquors1 who have associated their interests1 have a terrible and unnatural advantage in controlling the political power of the people with whom they come in contact4 ,they do not have to go where the people are because the saloon keeper1 in the natural and usual performance of his business1 is already in the midst of the people4 ,he always has a crowd4 ,he is the greatest preacher of modern times4 ,he does not have to invent new methods for ,,reaching ,,the ,,masses4 ,he does not have to scratch his bald head and say1 ,o1 ,lord6 why are my sheep deserting me8 ,the saloon keeper always has a congregation1 always a choir1 is always surrounded by men in need of a friend1 and1 like other members of the human family having a strange mixture of greed and sympathy1 cruelty and fellow-feeling1 he exercises his charitable instincts and lends a material helping hand to the members of his congregation quite as often as do the five thousand and twenty thousand dollar a year ministers who preach not to men drinking1 but often to men who have already drunk their fill4 ,the saloon keeper preacher1 however1 lacks one advantage possessed by his more fortunate compeer of the church pulpit1 for1 where a member of the saloon congregation has a perfect right to answer back and correct misstatements1 slanders and unjust vituperation1 the friend of the common people who happens into the fashionable city church service must bite his lips and remain silent while the name of ,jesus1 the revolutionist1 the poor man's friend1 is used to strengthen vile calumny against ,his brave modern apostles who are fighting to realize practically in government the principles represented by the cross4 ,therefore1 one of the most promising fields for the social reformer1 for the man who drinks beer and the man who drinks water1 for the man who smokes cigars and the man who washes his teeth before every meal with charcoal powder and lives on vegetables1 is the liquor saloon4 ,it is always open and you can go in without buying4 ,you can take a seat free of charge and you can talk4 ,you have as much right to talk as the bartender1 and even if opposed to your principles1 good business judgment1 if no other motive1 prompts the average saloon keeper to be tolerant4 ,he cannot afford to drive away any large percentage of his customers4 ,you have a right1 and even in the ,republican saloons you can get permission to declare the gospel of monopoly's downfall in the back room1 in the hall upstairs or in the main saloon1 once a week1 without paying anything for heat1 light or hall rent4 ,these are already furnished for the people who now go there4 ,you do not need to advertise the meeting1 for there is always a crowd about the saloon4 ,after you have held two or three meetings they will grow in size and draw the frequenters from other resorts4 ,the average saloon crowd is as open to conviction and as ready to be taught concerning the moralizing of government and the establishment of justice in the world as the average church congregation1 and they will treat you as civilly and listen as attentively even though every man present disagrees with you4 ,let the hundreds of saloons throughout our great cities be selected as a mission field for the new gospel of manliness and brotherhood4 ,christ went among publicans and wine-bibbers4 ,we can afford to go among wine-bibbers1 even when they are ,republicans4 ,our crowd may be small at times but the kind of work that moves the world and builds up civilization is work that is regular and continuous4 ,let the ,volunteers organize by twos1 and the one1 two or three evenings a week that they can give to the cause1 let those who choose this work go to a saloon and tell the fellows there that under a proper social system1 each one of them can afford to have a home as sociable and homelike and comfortable as a saloon2 that1 after they declare their independence of the party whip1 and1 instead of obeying parties1 command them to do their bidding1 they can soon have such opportunities that they won't have to drink to forget their troubles1 because they will have no troubles2 that they won't have to drink in order to imagine that they are happy1 because they will have real happiness2 that after the gold standard and monopoly are overthrown1 there will be a hundred different pleasures and opportunities opened to them1 that these will produce intoxication just as delicious as that produced by wine and beer1 and that every poor man who wants to drink will be allowed to drink1 not slops and refuse1 but the same fluids that now give the gout and dropsy to die millionaire4 ,the way to get up a saloon meeting is to see the proprietor1 tell him you are a ,democrat1 not a fraudulent1 makebelieve hypocrite1 using the ,democratic name to defeat ,democratic principles1 not an agent of the gold bugs trying to corrupt the ,democratic party1 not an attorney for monopoly attempting to pervert the ,democratic organization to help millionaires rob ,democratic voters1 but that you are a real dyed-in-the-wool1 anti-monopoly1 ,jeffersonian1 ,jacksonian1 ,bryan ,democrat1 standing with all fours on the ,chicago platform1 the enemy of its enemies1 the foe of its traducers1 and the opponent1 uncompromising and implacable of every man who upholds the infamous ,british ,rothschild gold standard of money4 ,tell him that you would like to talk to his customers and a few others in his place every week1 and show them how1 by united political action in the ,democratic party1 they can be made just as happy as if they were drunk seven days each week4 ,he will let you come1 and if you talk straight from the shoulder1 you will have a larger crowd at the second meeting than at the first4 ,if you keep the work up a year continuously1 you will not only have your name enrolled in the book of heroes1 kept by the ,democratic leaders1 but also in the book kept by the ,divinity who guides the ,nations4 ,you will be rewarded in this world for your sacrificing labor if you live until the people crush monopoly1 and if not1 you will at least have that consciousness of duty done which knows no time nor space4 ,,chapter ,,vi4 ,,the ,,heroic ,,and ,,prosaic4 ,heroism and the spirit of martyrdom and of self-sacrifice are historical factors as real1 as tangible and as much a part of human nature as greed or hunger4 ,the young ,volunteers who forsake home1 business and personal ambition to help save our ,nation from the money power1 starting in the name of humanity astride bicycles1 horseback1 afoot and in ,bryan wagons1 preaching the new gospel of glad tidings without money and without price1 eating whole wheat1 dry bread and apples1 with a square meal only now and then to remind them of the good times coming1 are not impelled by any strange or new force in society4 ,they are not the disciples of a new cult or ism1 the latest off-shot from the great tree of life4 ,they are not a new product of civilization but on the other hand they are the real conservative and belong to the true nobility of the human race1 that brotherhood of heroes1 patriots and martyrs of all ages and nations1 as old as the human family itself4 ,on the other hand1 the essentially ,,new ,,product of our civilization is the man who does not believe in heroism1 who has stifled the nobler instincts with which nature originally endowed him1 and fills his whole mind's horizon with the one image of gold4 ,those in whose minds avarice has devoured all other instincts and desires to the point of moral insanity1 are the only strange or new off-shoots4 ,they alone are the special and characteristic product of our particular period1 distinguished above all else by its complete surrender to the one passion--greed4 ,the real cranks and monstrosities are not those who are in line with historic humanity1 but rather those who have crucified their humanity on a cross of gold in accord with a temporary social perversion4 ,,heroism ,,and ,,something ,,more4 ,some say it is the weakness of our movement that we depend too much on heroism and patriotism and other of the weaker instincts and uncertain qualities of human nature and therefore the movement must fail4 ,successful movements appeal to the more substantial motives and instincts1 such as cupidity1 sectional pride1 etc4 ,while it is true that we appeal first of all to the patriotism of our citizens1 to the heroic in man and to those deep religious and moral sentiments of which heroism and patriotism are the highest product1 and while it is true that we regard these sentiments when fully drawn out and properly applied1 and during great occasions of ,national peril1 as being stronger than cupidity1 sectional pride1 or even regard for life1 and that the exercise of these qualities by vast bodies of men have repeatedly1 during each century throughout the history of our race1 saved the dominance of the ,caucasian race and all those principles and institutions that give value to the modern world1 and1 while we intend during the four years to come1 preparatory to the greatest crisis of history1 to continue to appeal first and foremost and all the time to patriotism and heroism1 love of justice and fellow feeling1 still1 we intend to utilize every force and every means that will aid in bringing about the better world for which we hope4 ,we recognize that while in a moment of enthusiastic ardor1 a man will give his life for a principle1 and that during hours of deep religious fervor1 brought about by the preaching of gifted orators1 people renounce their old ways of living and often divide up their property with the church and the poor1 that such occasions are comparatively rare1 while every man born of woman desires food about three times a day1 that he desires clothing and suffers for the want of it during every one of his sleeping and waking hours1 that during a large portion of his life intense feelings and regard are turned toward some woman1 and that nearly all men are at nearly all times vain1 not in any bad sense1 but that they desire the respect and the confidence of their fellow men1 and when opportunity offers1 strive to be conspicuous and influential1 and desire to be feared and loved and admired for unusual qualities1 possessions or acts4 ,therefore1 to make our movement completely and wholly successful1 we appeal first to patriotism and heroism1 the noblest and highest qualities produced by centuries of religious and moral training1 but secondarily we appeal to men's ambition1 their love of gain1 their desire to eat1 to be clothed1 to marry1 to become influential1 their vanity1 their imagination1 their love of activity and all the qualities that they possess4 ,it does not lessen a soldier's courage for him to know that if victorious in battle he is to be promoted1 or that if a city is taken or a country conquered1 he is to have a plantation where he can rest in peace when his gray hairs come with his children healthy and happy about him4 ,there is no need to dissect with the surgeon's knife of close analysis the motives and minds of men in order to separate every little vanity from the noble and unselfish impulses with which it is interwoven1 nor to cut away and lay apart from the strong patriotic desire to serve one's country1 every little individual and personal hope that in the event one's country is served and saved1 those who bear the brunt of the battle will be especially favored and secure first recognition in the universal enjoyment consequent upon such victory4 ,by taking human nature as we find it with its admixture of the heroic and prosaic1 its mingling of selfish and altruistic aims1 we seek to make every impulse serve the cause of humanity by contributing to the one end--triumphant ,democracy4 ,,the ,,roll ,,of ,,honor4 ,the most important feature of the ,democratic ,volunteers' organization1 is the honor roll1 on which is recorded the work done by each ,volunteer4 ,to all faithful workers are issued semi-annually certificates of honor1 and to those who perform services of unusual merit special medals and other awards of recognition4 ,one copy of the honor roll is kept by the ,national leaders in a safe-deposit in ,st4 ,louis1 and a duplicate copy by the great leader of ,democracy at his home4 ,by this system1 each worker knows that everything he does is recorded at headquarters1 and is kept there for all future time for reference by our national leaders1 when they wish1 either in asking for services or bestowing favors1 to find the real1 deserving1 fighting material in our party4 ,each worker knows1 also1 that it is the end of the unjust custom1 whereby one or two loud-mouthed adventurers1 who have done nothing but who claim all1 in the hour of victory cast aside the unselfish workers1 whose years of patient labor gained the victory4 ,with an account kept of the sacrifices made1 the clubs organized1 the members secured by each party worker in our country1 there can be no more climbing into favor on the shoulders of others1 but1 instead1 each man stands on his own bottom1 reaping the fruit and recognition of his own work1 and is assigned to leadership as the result of the exercise of his own genius and talents4 ,at present1 every ,congressman1 ,governor or ,president elected to office1 is punished sufficiently to offset all the pleasures and satisfactions of having been successful by the impossible task of trying to disentangle the various claims of the men who helped elect him4 ,but no such discordant scramble need ever recur1 for the ,volunteers will1 in the future1 keep an exact history of the service rendered by every party worker1 and1 in ,congressional parlance1 each fellow will know exactly where he is at4 ,the system is as carefully thought out and perfected as that of any standing army4 ,the roll of honor appeals to the strongest instincts in man1 which have been utilized in every successful social or religious movement since the dawn of history4 ,if he is vain1 it appeals to his vanity4 ,if heroic1 it stimulates his heroism4 ,if ambitious1 he sees the way to get place and position is to merit them by faithful work and that they cannot be had by cheating the rightful owners out of the fruits of their victories1 to which he has not contributed4 ,in the ,catholic ,church and in many other institutions through all the centuries1 as among the followers of ,napolean and ,caesar1 men have often given up their lives for a medal or a bit of ribbon4 ,for such rewards ,england to-day gets almost as much service as from her vast pay-roll4 ,by proper organization1 vanity can be made to offset cupidity4 ,it is as strong an instinct1 and we have the means of satisfying it4 ,to-day the name of ,england's ,queen cannot inspire as great enthusiasm in the majority of the ,english speaking race1 as does the name of ,william ,jennings ,bryan4 ,the enthusiasm now aroused has sufficient force to accomplish all our ends4 ,what we need is simply to harness this ,niagara1 organize this power1 and apply it systematically and continuously4 ,it can be done4 ,it is being done4 ,never in the history of our country has the year following a great political campaign been the scene of such a rejuvenation of the defeated party as has taken place since our late repulse4 ,as every plant must shoot down two roots for sustenance1 before putting forth a new twig1 so we have decided to plant the roots of our organization prolifically throughout the ,southern and ,western states1 where our cause is strong1 thereby securing the support for a continuous and aggressive campaign before sending our ,volunteers into the doubtful states and those still given over to the idolatrous worship of the golden calf4 ,each congressional district in the ,southern and ,western states can be made by contributions of one cent1 five cents1 ten cents at a time1 collected by the ,volunteer ,speakers1 to support permanently one organizer in ,republican territory4 ,there are many different ways to work4 ,one is by educating and agitating and by advancing our principles indoors and outdoors upon every possible occasion by public speeches4 ,another is to go to work quietly1 and1 by personal man-to-man solicitation1 to organize regular ward or precinct clubs in one's own town or county4 ,this is the first thing to be done1 where no regular ,democratic club exists independent of boodling bosses4 ,but1 anyhow1 get five true and tried workers enlisted and forward their names to headquarters4 ,they will then receive monthly instructions for carrying on and enlarging the work4 ,when a club is already formed1 the ,volunteer is to build it up by increasing its membership and educating its members1 and defeating1 as club officers1 any man who is known to apologize for the existence of any monopoly whatever4 ,after this try to establish a league of the clubs in the county1 city or state1 known to be formed on right principles4 ,in the centuries to come1 there will be no prouder title to boast of1 no higher family honor1 no more distinctive mark of aristocracy1 than this record in black and white that one's forefather belonged to the band of patriots who1 through four years of persecution and struggle1 succeeded in driving from ,american soil1 that last representative of historic tyranny1 organized plutocracy4 ,,chapter ,,vii4 ,,practical ,,politics4 ,in a cause as holy as ours1 false modesty is as unwise as false dignity4 ,when we realize that money represents human effort1 that it gives multiplied power either in war or peace and that the possession of money1 with its accompanying power to an almost unlimited extent1 is enjoyed by our enemies1 it is well for us to admit at the start that we1 every ,volunteer of us1 must make constant efforts wherever speaking or working1 to raise funds1 on however small a scale1 for the great work before us4 ,one humble but time-honored method1 which has proved useful in every popular movement1 recorded in history1 is that of taking up a collection4 ,people may laugh at it and the collections be small but we must not be deterred by ridicule nor discouraged by the apparent insignificance of the returns4 ,this is the only way to give all the people systematically and persistently a chance to contribute according to ability to the cause that means liberty and the opening of opportunity to them4 ,therefore1 let no speaker listen to advice from the timid and over-modest1 who shrink from the sneers and taunts of the over-nice1 but at every meeting let them pass around the hat after the manner of our forefathers4 ,we must also remember that in every audience1 however small1 there may be some penitent ,croesus awake to existing evils but as yet with no clear vision of a remedy1 with power and will to help but lacking knowledge as to where such help should be given4 ,sudden conversions are not unknown where the message of truth is delivered with sincerity and simplicity4 ,there are thousands of rich men at this moment who1 if properly appealed to1 would give liberally to the cause that to them seemed likely to promote the general welfare4 ,there are many human hearts now waiting1 like the ,pool of ,bethesda1 for the angel's touch1 which shall trouble their calm and transform them into sources of healing for the woes of humanity4 ,no speaker knows but he may be the one destined to open up these closed fountains of power4 ,the heights and depths of human nature lie beyond our ordinary vision4 ,a man's power of response to an appeal in behalf of those who suffer is not always graven on his forehead1 so that he that runneth may read4 ,in any audience there may be some listener1 apparently indifferent1 in whom all the preliminary processes of conversion have already taken place1 and who needs only the warm breath of an atmosphere charged with unselfish enthusiasm to complete the work of regeneration4 ,such cases are on record4 ,within a few years1 the gift of a million dollars was received by the promoters of a reform movement in ,new ,york1 not from an habitual contributor to such enterprises1 but from a sudden convert1 a man ordinarily cold and indifferent to humanitarian movements1 and before unresponsive to his brothers' needs4 ,perhaps it was not the need that previously had failed to stir his heart1 but only the methods of helping that had not satisfied his mind4 ,there are rich men and women to-day1 honestly desirous of bringing about better social conditions and willing to make sacrifices to that end1 but who1 so far1 have found none of the methods suggested practicable4 ,to such we may appeal with certainty of response1 thereby being furnished with the sinews of war by those who owe their wealth to the very system we oppose4 ,and why not8 ,because a man has been thrown into a brutal and wasteful contest and has come victorious from the struggle is no reason why he should wish his children and humanity at large to be forced into another of the same kind4 ,such a man well knows that he1 too1 in spite of apparent success1 is also a victim4 ,he sees the possibilities of life under a better social system--the order1 the beauty1 the harmony1 the possible development of higher faculties and extinction of those that link him with the brutes4 ,all this he sees1 and even while scrambling with the rest for possession of the booty1 he would hail with joy any change that promised to relieve his children from a like sad necessity4 ,starve fifty ,sunday school teachers for a week1 lock them in a cage together1 throw in a roast of beef1 a plum pudding1 a pitcher of soup1 a plate of pickles and a pot of beans1 at the same time telling each to get what he can1 as no more will be furnished for a month2 and a swinish scramble will at once ensue1 in which two thirds of the food will be wasted1 and in the end one man will have a pocket full of plum pudding1 another a handful of pickles1 and the strongest the roast beef to himself in a corner4 ,let it be understood that he who gets the roast beef is no worse than the others1 nor will he1 because of his success1 ,,necessarily favor an indefinite continuation of such brutal scrambling4 ,the difference between him and the least successful is a difference in strength1 ,,not ,,necessarily ,a ,,difference ,,in ,,aim4 ,to-day1 most men are actuated by the same spirit4 ,to desire success and a share of life's gifts is right and normal4 ,it is the political system under which we live that has transformed this natural and healthy impulse into a devilish desire to absorb not only all wealth but all opportunities4 ,to remedy this radical evil1 it is not enough to change individuals2 we must change the system4 ,it is1 of course1 to be expected that the impulse to change our present barbarous monopolistic methods will come from those who have failed in the scramble for riches4 ,for the possession of wealth naturally tends to promote in the minds of those who possess it1 a certain degree of satisfaction with the methods by which it has been acquired and a tendency to oppose any change4 ,a spirit of toadyism and fear of social ostracism also induces many to sacrifice their highest ideals4 ,great fortunes often destroy the independence which it might be supposed they would secure to their possessors2 yet1 in spite of the temptations of wealth and the unwritten1 but none the less rigidly enforced mandates of a heartless society1 not a few are ready to make the required sacrifices in order to advance the interests of our common humanity4 ,to such partially awakened minds1 it ought not to be difficult to show that the times are ripe for a solution of existing problems other than that offered by charitable associations4 ,for eighteen centuries the ,good ,samaritan has been the working model of the church and society1 yet the number of the wounded and robbed on the world's highway has so increased that the gigantic systems of modern charity are inadequate to meet the increasing demands upon them4 ,why8 ,the answer is clear4 ,no very keen intelligence is required to see that one very important duty has been neglected by the ,good ,samaritans of all times4 ,occupied with caring for the wounded1 they have neglected to hunt down the thieves1 who have accordingly increased in numbers and boldness4 ,it is time for us to leave effects and study causes1 to organize at once to hunt down the thieves1 for1 when these are routed1 there will be fewer victims on whom to exercise charity4 ,why plan educational and charitable institutions in the slums when the causes that produce the slums are left untouched8 ,why add another to the five hundred churches of a great city1 when the influence of the money power makes the preaching of the real gospel well nigh impossible1#g thus largely destroying the usefulness of those already built8 ,instead of new homes of charity1 let us organize to end the need for charity4 ,instead of building one new school1 the true educator will ally himself with those forces that seek1 through public action1 to place education within the reach of all4 ,instead of building a new church1 the devout ,christian or ,jew will divide his substance with the party that aims to make possible the application of the principles of religion to the everyday affairs of life and to all social institutions4 #g ,a letter lies before me now from a talented and earnest young minister of the ,episcopal church1 in which the writer despairingly declares that he dare not preach the social and economic doctrines of ,christ1 lest he bring ruin upon his wife and children4 ,the money-power1 he declares1 has control of the church and ,christ's ministers must either trim their sails to catch the wind of its favor or suffer temporal shipwreck4 ,it is easy to say that the ,christian should be ready to meet any martyrdom1 but it is equally true that it is not from within the bosom of the church that such trials should come4 ,never was there a cause that appealed more strongly than ours to a man's generous instincts4 ,in the middle ages all ,europe was fired by the idea of wresting the ,holy ,sepulchre from infidel hands2 to-day ,greek and ,cuban patriots are laying everything upon their country's altar for the sake of national honor and freedom4 ,our cause is nobler1 larger than any of these4 ,not ,christ's tomb1 but the race ,he died to redeem2 not an insignificant nation1 but humanity is through us pleading to be rescued and restored to liberty4 ,our appeal is not to a class1 a church or a nation2 it is to ,,men for ,,man4 ,,one ,,dollar ,,given ,,to ,,our ,,cause ,,will ,,accomplish ,,more ,,for ,,the ,,alleviation ,,of ,,human ,,suffering1 ,,for ,,the ,,development ,,of ,,true ,,civilization1 ,,than ,,five ,,hundred ,,dollars ,,spent ,,for ,,any ,,college1 ,,charity ,,or ,,church4 ,as hundreds of poor men have sacrificed all they possessed1 given up home and the comforts of family life1 to travel from town to town urging the principles of the ,new ,democracy2 so will there be rich men1 who1 feeling their ,,relationship ,,to ,,humanity ,,to ,,be ,,more ,,binding than any ties uniting them with a selfish class1 will also give up the larger part of what they have and lay it on the altar of their country4 ,those who feel the divine impulse to give to this movement will give double by giving promptly1 and will have the added personal joy of seeing some of the results of their generosity4 ,not all the results1 because each dollar given to this cause starts a train of consequences for the happiness of men and for the peace of society that will continue as long as this old earth is inhabited by mortals4 ,the effect of every penny1 given by the smallest child or the poorest servant girl1 may produce results for good that will be felt by mankind through all the generations to come4 ,it is not unreasonable for us to ask for constantly1 and to expect to receive a single donation of a million dollars sometime during the coming four years4 ,such donations have many times been given to causes less holy than ours1 and in emergencies not to be compared to it in importance4 ,we can in reason hope for several gifts of not less than twenty-five thousand dollars each1 and many of not less than one thousand dollars1 and thousands of lesser gifts proportionate to the purses of the poor who will regard it not as a duty1 but as a privilege to thus co-operate with ,god4 ,such amounts have been subscribed to a single college and to a single religious denomination within the memory of the youngest reader4 ,can we not rationally expect that even more will be given to the movement which is to multiply many times the usefulness of all colleges and churches8 ,but do not trim your sails nor adapt your arguments to the rich1 in order to secure donations1 but speak bravely and fearlessly in behalf of justice and the rights of the people1 and1 if special selfish interests are thereby alienated1 unselfish interests will be drawn to us4 ,although generous help may be expected from those who have been enriched by the very system that we seek to destroy1 nevertheless it is a fact that1 as a class1 the rich are satisfied with the system of injustice that has given them their riches1 and1 as a class1 will oppose now1 as they have opposed during all history1 every reform or change that promises improvement to the masses4 ,therefore the bulk of the money to be raised for the people's cause must probably be given by the people themselves according to their means4 ,we should for this reason not only call for donations and pass around the hat at meetings when the people are enthusiastic1 but1 in forming clubs in every township throughout our country1 we should try to induce each to appoint its most active and popular man as ,treasurer1 and especially to instruct him to collect every week or month1 a regular subscription1 ,,however ,,small1 from every friend of our movement in his community4 ,in this way1 we can establish a system similar to ,peter's ,pence1 and the missionary contributions of the ,protestant churches1 and raise a fund during the coming four years that will be a wonder to ourselves and a menace to our enemies4 ,it may be asked1 if the ,volunteer ,speakers work without pay1 many of them living on heroic diet and traveling on foot1 what need of money8 ,to this it may be replied that the legitimate and honest uses for money in promoting any cause are too many to enumerate4 ,the field is large and workers of many kinds are needed4 ,though many of our speakers will travel and work continuously without compensation and the vast majority will give their time without any reward even for their expenses1 still1 to utilize properly the ,volunteer work of the thousands who are willing to make such sacrifices1 it is very desirable that we have at least one paid organizer in each ,congressional ,district1 and1 if possible1 in each county one who will receive a moderate salary and who will be held responsible for all the routine work required in his territory4 ,the ,volunteer workers and speakers in any locality can be made many times as effective1 if there is some one man responsible to the national office for the methodical arrangement of the work and the systematic utilization of their services4 ,it is also highly desirable that every ,volunteer be given a bountiful supply of the very best literature on economic subjects4 ,money is also needed for our central school for ,volunteer ,speakers in ,st4 ,louis1 where those with hearts afire to speak for ,democracy can come1 and within one1 two or three months1 be trained and equipped with a practical knowledge of the details of the work in which they wish to engage4 ,but it is folly to enlarge further upon the need of money4 ,every person who appreciates the nature of our struggle knows that everything we do can be done more effectively with additional funds4 ,,chapter ,,viii4 ,,fundamentals4 ,to educate the people1 the first essential is that the educators know exactly what they wish to teach and the ultimate purpose of such teaching4 ,in the previous chapters are outlined methods of reaching and persuading people4 ,more important1 however1 than any manner of speaking1 traveling1 advertising or gaining an audience is it that our speakers never lose sight of the few great basic principles of our movement1 and that they keep these central truths steadily before the eyes and minds of the people4 ,the principal danger to be overcome in every popular movement is that in the adaptation of the central truth of the movement to local and temporary requirements1 the truth itself may be lost in a multitude of petty intricacies4 ,in the beginnings of the great religions when they spread irresistibly over the world1 their teachers held firmly to a few great salient truths4 ,but the influence of every religion waned when its ministers1 forgetting its real object1 gave themselves up to details of worship and church government4 ,this is also the history of nearly every ,christian denomination4 ,in their vigor and youth1 they dwelt principally upon the great primary themes4 ,when these were forgotten or neglected1 the movements themselves lost their power4 ,the weakness of the people's movement to-day is that our leaders abandon too often the center of the stream1 drawn away by the side currents and little eddies4 ,the intricacies of finance1 statistics and details of administration1 often absorb their whole attention4 ,those who would guide the crowd to a higher civilization forget the object of their endeavors1 the crowd forgets2 then medley and ,babel4 ,instead of marching toward the goal1 the multitude halt by the wayside1 and go to arguing over the incidents of the journey4 ,the compass1 governed by fixed and universal laws1 that acts regardless of the turns in the road1 no longer directs them4 ,they are at the mercy of the local1 the incidental and temporary4 ,when they give up the main road to wander off in bypaths1 unity and progress cease2 division1 disorder and disintegration begin4 ,the silver question1 the question as to the power of the ,supreme ,court ,justices1 the railway question1 are all merely incidental to the one great fundamental conflict that has been waged for centuries1 the conflict of the general welfare resting on right against the special interests that thrive by wrong1 of liberty against tyranny2 the people against plutocracy4 ,this conflict should be kept in the forefront by every ,volunteer1 who should urge continuously and repeatedly upon his hearers the few great simple truths of ,democracy1 holding these out in bold relief1 like mountains above the rolling slopes and projecting crags that lead up to them1 keeping the popular mind centered on the goal of their efforts1 the ,north ,star1 as it were1 of progress4 ,revolutions and special evolutions are brought about in human affairs1 ,,not ,,so ,,much ,,by ,,the ,,dissemination ,,of ,a ,,great ,,multitude ,,of ,,ideas1 ,,as ,,by ,,the ,,concentration ,,of ,a ,,multitude ,,of ,,minds ,,upon ,a ,,single ,,idea4 ,this single idea1 however1 cannot be of a local or temporary nature4 ,it must1 on the other hand1 be comprehensive and of sufficient import to stir the very souls of the masses4 ,a mere question of currency1 transportation or judicial powers1 however important1 even if absolutely requisite to further progress1 is not capable of producing the universal enthusiasm required to institute any fundamental innovation4 ,the truths on which the popular mind is to be focused1 must be self-evident1 general1 and their application not limited to a short time or a special locality4 ,with the people's attention fixed upon a great moral truth universally applicable1 their faces all turned toward1 their eyes fixed on one star of deliverance1 it is easy to convince them that to realize their goal no sacrifice can be too great4 ,men are prepared to act intelligently concerning currency1 transportation or other incidental reforms when their enthusiasm and purpose are fully aroused and their attention is fixed upon universal laws about which there can be no doubt1 hesitancy or confusion4 ,absorbed in great things1 the petty causes of strife and dissension disappear4 ,we can gain unity only when1 leaving details to tried leaders1 the people concentrate their attention on those simple realities1 self-evident and capable of being understood by all1 the attainment of which forces the righteous settlement of details and of all questions dependent and incidental4 ,,the ,,world ,,big2 ,,god ,,good2 ,,man ,,alone ,,responsible4 ,the first such central truth1 self-evident to every man1 to be proclaimed tirelessly by the ,volunteers1 is that the earth is large enough and rich enough to supply all the good things of life to every human being born on it4 ,urge that especially since the triumphs of modern science is it possible for man to satisfy every natural craving1 every healthy desire1 every reasonable hope and dream1 without any man being compelled to sacrifice another human being to his purpose4 ,the great and the humblest mind alike can see this truth4 ,it stands out an impregnable tower of strength above all minor and subsidiary questions4 ,it is unanswerable1 incontravertible and ,,dynamically ,,irresistible4 ,the earth is large enough and rich enough and human energy sufficient to produce in abundance everything required to supply every natural1 healthful human desire4 ,this means that the world1 now made hell by human greed abetted by ignorance and prejudice1 might just as well be heaven4 ,the misery caused by poverty1 tyranny and neglect1 can be displaced by happiness1 plenty and liberty for all4 ,following this and demonstrable from it by the eternal laws of ,logic is the conclusion that the one primary and all-important duty of every man seeing it is to do all he can1 after providing for his simplest physical wants1 to help systematize and civilize human effort and overcome prejudice so as to obtain this result4 ,the immediate effect of the practical acceptance of this one self-evident truth is almost inconceivable4 ,once convince men that their sufferings are unnecessary1 that science has placed in their hands all the power and materials needed which rightly applied will give to all men the satisfaction of all their normal desires1 and you at once transform the world4 ,the most formidable obstacle in the way of further progress is not that men are insufficiently versed in political economy or lacking in intelligence1 but it is that the people are without hope4 ,popular effort has so often been thwarted by selfish cunning1 great moral enthusiasms dissipated by the science and superior organization of tyranny1 that men have lost heart4 ,despair is the chief opponent of progress4 ,our greatest need is hope4 ,the people must have faith that something can be done4 ,the majority of men know of public measures that would be beneficial if an upward step were possible1 but they are overwhelmed by a multitude of incidental obstacles and petty disappointments that cloud their small horizons and shut off from sight the great universal and historic forces that are slowly but surely working out their destinies4 ,convince men that our country is large enough and rich enough to give them all an opportunity to work and earn sufficient to support their families and educate their children properly1 convince them that their present poverty and sufferings are wholly the result of social crimes1 and1 if they can believe that this change is actually to be brought about1 you change the whole base of their operations and revolutionize their attitude of mind4 ,they are then ready to co-operate with those bold thinkers who have studied out the details of social progress4 ,our speakers cannot dwell too long upon1 cannot repeat too often1 this one all-important1 fundamental truth1 the basis of all right political thought and action1 namely1 that the world is all right1 nature is lavish1 ,god ,almighty is generous1 and that human invention has multiplied many times the gifts that ,god originally gave to man1 and now the human family might just as well sit down amid merry-making to the great feast steaming before us1 prepared through ages of endeavor1 but for a miserable dog in the manger4 ,proclaim everywhere that organized greed is this dog4 ,teach that the highest patriotism consists in striking it1 that the only martyrs are those devoured by it1 that to kill it is the sublime mission of this generation4 ,do not try to teach many things1 but urge with all the passion of your being at all times and in all places1 the self-evident and fundamental truth that our world contains everything required to make men happy4 ,if want exists1 it is the result of crime4 ,those who profit by this crime try to convince us that nothing can be done to prevent it4 ,our work is to create hope and courage and let the people know that this crime can be stopped1 the criminals caught and punished1 and the purposes of ,god and nature be permitted to proceed unmolested4 ,tell the people they can put an end to their sufferings1 that misery results from human1 not from natural causes1 and that it need not be4 ,teach and preach and cry aloud this one fact4 ,repeat it indoors and out1 with all the fire and intensity within you4 ,each convert will become a center1 and our cause will spread irresistibly4 ,therefore1 ,volunteers1 do not weary your hearers with statistics and historical or legal minutiae2 do not cram them with detailed arguments relating to questions of a local or temporary nature2 do not confuse them by trying to explain all the intricacies of a financial system soon to perish from off the earth4 ,rather even let the sophistries of an opponent go unanswered4 ,but concentrate all your energies upon helping turn the attention of the people away from petty and vexing intricacies to these few great central truths1 which1 if once clearly seen1 make all else plain4 ,the man who comprehends fully the truth that our world1 since the discoveries of modern science1 is capable of giving every human being all the good things of life1 that as civilization is now blessed and glorious to some so it can be made to all--such a man will forsake all small purposes at once and devote himself thereafter to the realization of his ideal4 ,nothing else in the world can compare to this work in importance4 ,when he learns that there is but one great party that stands for progress1 he will immediately ally himself with that party4 ,,chapter ,,ix4 ,,the ,,church ,,as ,a ,,field4 ,though in large cities the shelter admitted to be the most accessible to the poor1 who wish to discuss methods for improving their condition1 is the corner saloon1 yet in country districts it will be found that the churches still cling to many of their ancient virtues and will be found open and hospitable to every traveler who has a suggestion to make for the good of the community4 ,whatever a speaker's prejudices may be against any church or against all churches1 when he consecrates his life to the cause of humanity through the ,democratic party1 he must suppress such prejudices and regard all buildings as existing for use4 ,and a true ,volunteer is always certain that the highest use that can be made of any building in the world is to have taught in it the truths of human brotherhood and progress as embodied in the ,new ,democracy4 ,in securing a church building for purposes of instruction1 it is best not to mention the name of our movement4 ,the name that we have adopted being an old name and used by various people for various purposes has been used upon numerous occasions by bad people for bad purposes4 ,even the word politics1 which1 in reality1 means the science and art of government1 has come to mean1 in the minds of many1 a mere personal contest for gain and position4 ,the sacred banner of ,democracy has often been dragged into these degrading brawls and the principles designated by the banner and name lost sight of4 ,for these reasons and on account of the limitations of the average human judgment1 it is well in dealing with church committees to discard all political names and to ask only for permission to speak in behalf of human brotherhood1 social improvement or methods of helping the poor4 ,the fact that human brotherhood can only be realized by men through the establishment of ,democratic principles need not be told the committee1 but had better be reserved for the audience4 ,the fact that justice is a mere dream1 intangible and unreal1 unless1 by political action on the part of the many1 the few who profit by injustice are deprived of their privileges 7or1 in other words1 until the ,democratic program is carried out71 makes it eminently proper that church buildings be opened to our speakers as often as possible4 ,of course1 when the churches of a town are controlled by scribes and ,pharisees1 as they were when ,paul was a volunteer speaker some centuries ago1 unless some other building can be had1 we must follow ,paul's example and make our rostrum in the open street or field2 but where the church buildings are controlled by ,christians instead of gold worshippers1 by sincere men who desire justice and brotherhood and to help the poor1 then1 however different our prejudices1 our personal likings or our superstitions may be1 we should grasp our newly acquainted brothers by the hand and arrange with them for meetings in the church for the examination of methods whereby religion can be made practicable and applied to human affairs4 ,to the charitable who are really to be found here and there in the village and agricultural churches1 we must make plain that no amount of teaching or preaching1 applied internally or externally1 can ever benefit the poor1 until organized society recognizes men's rights1 women's rights and children's rights as equal to money rights4 ,buildings owned by ,catholics1 the different ,protestant denominations1 by ,jews1 both reform and orthodox1 and by free-thinking societies1 can all be secured for the promulgation of these moral truths1 if our workers will divest themselves of prejudices and don a tactful address4 ,the success of this plan lies altogether in the judgment1 personality and breadth of mind of the ,volunteer who attempts the task4 ,when you approach the trustee of a ,methodist1 ,episcopalian1 ,catholic or a ,jewish church1 remember that the building1 the use of which you ask1 has been paid for by contributions given at a sacrifice by earnest men and women1 with minds turned towards the solemn and higher things of life4 ,however mixed with ignorance1 superstitious fear or motives of vanity1 these buildings1 in the smaller towns and agricultural communities1 are associated with thoughts above and separated from personal controversies and material things and1 if you can convince those in control that you wish to present facts1 views and ideas of a helpful nature to the community1 not incongruous with the teaching of their faith1 you will generally receive an affirmative answer4 ,,lay ,,preaching4 ,it is common in country districts for laymen1 persons neither ordained nor licensed as ministers1 to speak from ,christian pulpits at regular church services4 ,this custom should be utilized4 ,a lecture in a church building on a week night may attract the more studious or the more curious of the community and supply them with rich materials for right thinking2 but a lay sermon to a regular congregation1 backed by the regular services and the presence of the minister1 carries with it a force and authority possible on no other occasion4 ,a ,volunteer1 by reciting1 under such auspices1 a simple story of the crimes against ,god and humanity perpetrated by the money power1 and describing feelingly the effect of unnecessary poverty on the souls and characters of men1 will not only stir the congregation to a new sense of patriotic duty1 but will furnish material to the country minister enabling him to add a new flavor to the food of his flock for months to come4 ,in those outlying districts where ,god has not been entirely superseded by gold in the church1 a large part of the educational work of our movement can be accomplished in this way4 ,the farmers compose a large part of our country's population and vote4 ,they still believe in healthful religion and its power to affect human life4 ,they can best be reached on ,sunday and very often better through the church than in any other way4 ,the reason that the great cities have not responded so quickly and so enthusiastically to our movement as the country districts is that vice1 crime and disease in the great cities have1 to a large extent1 eaten away the capacity for appreciating justice and brotherhood1 and destroyed in a large class the fundamental virtues of courage1 manliness1 patriotism and belief in the supremacy of good4 ,it is to the country1 where these virtues are still fresh and normal1 that our movement must appeal principally4 ,in the city there are a thousand places of amusement and dissipation for every idle hour4 ,the boy coming from school or work1 the mechanic after his day's labor pass the open saloon1 filled with music and merry-making1 the theatre1 with its novelties1 laughter and appeals to all the emotions1 the gambler's den1 the game tables1 the dives and a hundred other places1 always open1 some positively and immediately hurtful to both health and morals1 others absorbing time1 attention and vitality4 ,in the country1 however1 work or study done1 a man or boy has not so many places of amusement4 ,there is much more inducement than in the city to attend some church entertainment1 some healthful neighborhood ball1 and much more time and energy left for meetings at the school or church for the discussion of social problems and questions of national or class well-being4 ,thus the ,volunteer who would teach farmers and villagers must accept the church as one very promising field of work4 ,,sunday ,,work4 ,no day is more appropriate for effective work in behalf of human brotherhood than ,sunday4 ,by common consent it has been set aside by the majority of civilized races for serious thought1 meditation and worship1 and what is more befitting this day than to think out1 study out and talk out the solution to the great problem of human justice and brotherhood4 ,to speak for the ,new ,democracy on ,sunday is no more than to gather in the fruit of all the great religions that have come down to us4 ,the ,new ,democracy is not religion and those who proclaim its truths are neither preachers nor priests1 but it is religion's highest product4 ,the great religions of the world1 nurtured by ,god's hand and growing out of the fertile and sympathetic souls of the men and women of all climes and all centuries1 have at last produced a practical ideal capable of being realized in actual life4 ,this product is the ,new ,democracy4 ,it is the answer to the prayers of the ages4 ,it is ,god's gift granted in answer to the cries of suffering of injustice and poverty throughout the world4 ,it is ,god's method of redeeming society1 of saving our nation1 now well-nigh unto death1 from greed and sin4 ,let each retain his attachment to his own sect and religion1 but instead of quarreling about sectarian differences1 let us unite in realizing our common dreams of brotherhood4 ,instead of building new walls to separate us1 let us make one platform so large that on it all earnest sons of ,god can stand erect1 confident of ,his presence4 ,centuries before ,jesus ,christ traversed the plains of ,galilee and bathed in the troubled waters of the ,jordan1 there was one ,buddha who1 despising the superstitions of his time1 gathered about him others who1 like him1 believed that the larger part of human suffering was unnecessary and could be extinguished by human agency4 ,this band traveled throughout the most populous districts of ,western ,asia teaching the great truth that the object of life's endeavor should be to lessen pain and to increase joy4 ,their one command was cease causing pain2 do not kill or cause to suffer any man or animal4 ,and within two hundred years1 from this little band and from this one whole-hearted man1 an enthusiasm for mercy and love and justice overspread a third of the human race4 ,buddha's teachings were free from the multitude of miserable superstitions that haunt the people who bear his name to-day4 ,his teachings1 with those of ,zoroaster1 ,confucius1 ,mencius1 ,moses and ,christ1 in their purity1 attempted primarily to induce men to live as brothers1 to teach men that individual good is social good and that both duty and true happiness consist in devotion to others--to the commonwealth4 ,some preachers1 however1 get so in the habit of prophesying that1 when their prophecies are fulfilled1 they think it wicked and heretical to believe it4 ,they refuse to believe their own eyes when they see the answer to their prayers4 ,so deep-rooted has grown their habit of prayer that the means has become an end4 ,they ask no longer to get what they ask for but for the exercise of asking1 which they call pious4 ,their prayers answered1 they are astounded4 ,now that their prophecies are fulfilled1 they open their unbelieving eyes in wonderment and condemn those who stop asking for what is already given4 ,,don',t ,,ask ,,for ,,what ,,you ,,have4 ,christ many times used the relation of a child to its father to represent the relation of man to ,god4 ,when a boy begs his father for a sleigh and pony1 and1 after much pleading1 the father grants his request1 the boy stops asking1 accepts the gift with thanks and proceeds to take a ride4 ,if he were to continue on his knees pleading for them after being told they were in the back yard subject to his orders1 we should call him a simpleton4 ,what is the use of his saying1 ,oh1 papa1 please1 dear papa1 give me a pony and sleigh1 when papa has already given it and is anxious to see it driven past the house4 ,if the boy has any sense at all1 upon first seeing his father drive his new pony toward home1 he will stop praying1 take off his hat1 throw it up in the air1 and hallo a ,hurrah for pop4 ,he will jump into the sleigh1 go for his best girl1 and not show up again till two o'clock in the morning4 ,for centuries the human race has longed and prayed and hoped for a time when justice would be possible on earth1 when the reign of brutality would be superceded by the triumph of justice and brotherly love4 ,this desire1 this deep yearning1 has taken definite expression in the ceremonials and prayers of all religions1 and in the grand prayer given us by ,jesus ,christ3 ,thy kingdom come4 ,thy will be done on earth as it is in ,heaven4 ,the soul of the universe has found expression in the ,divine ,hand that guides the course of nations1 and has answered the prayers of the churches and the heroes and the saints4 ,and that justice1 which for centuries has been an object of prayer1 has become1 for the first time in history1 a tangible1 definite thing1 capable of realization4 ,what we have asked for1 ,god has made possible4 ,why now crawl longer in the dust like worms beneath the feet of tyrants1 when ,god bids us rise and stand erect8 ,why continue to pray and plead for what ,god has already placed within our reach8 ,tell the preachers to stop praying for this gift1 already ours1 and accept it as ,god gave it4 ,,this ,,simple ,,act ,,of ,,accepting ,,god',s ,,answer ,,to ,,the ,,prayers ,,of ,,the ,,good ,,and ,,the ,,true ,,of ,,all ,,past ,,centuries1 ,,is ,,the ,,program ,,of ,,the ,,new ,,democracy4 ,i ask father for a horse and sleigh4 ,now that he brings it to me1 ,i stop asking for it1 and take a ride4 ,we have prayed during centuries for an era of justice4 ,the ,new ,democracy is the fulfillment of ,god's prophecy4 ,it is the greatest moral tidal wave that ever thrilled with new life this old world of ours4 ,it embodies the practical program by means of which the ,infinite ,intelligence is leading humanity to its inheritance4 ,,humanity',s ,,scouts ,,have ,,found ,,the ,,way4 ,a body of pioneers lose their way in the wilderness4 ,after days of weary trudging and hunger1 they kneel and pray to ,god for guidance to food and shelter4 ,in the midst of their devotions1 a scout returns and rudely interrupts them1 crying1 ,get up1 boys1 stop your prayers2 ,i have found the main road1 and we are only ten miles from town4 ,what should our pious travelers do8 ,if they have an ounce of common sense1 they will jump to their feet1 brush the dust from their trousers1 and follow their deliverer4 ,should we not call them insane1 on the other hand1 if1 accustomed to hunger and thirst1 they had come to believe prayer and privation the ends of life1 and1 if instead of rising up and accepting ,god's answer to their prayers1 they should continue to grovel and pray on8 ,after eighteen centuries of prayer and privation1 of hunger and thirst1 the couriers and scouts of the human race have returned1 and to their kneeling1 miserable brothers they cry aloud1 ,arise1 cease your prayers for already they have been answered4 ,we have found the road and the promised land is near4 ,hunger and thirst are no longer necessary4 ,let thanksgiving and praise to ,god now take the place of begging petitions for that which ,he hath already granted us4 ,as true religionists1 is it our duty to say to these scouts1 ,stop1 you infidels1 you interfere with our devotion8 ,such a policy is insanity4 ,these teachers are not infidels4 ,they are not enemies of religion4 ,otherwise ,god would not have revealed to them ,his plan for answering the prayers of the millions and fulfilling the prophecies of past ages4 ,we have been praying3 ,lead us aright4 ,show us the way to realize ,heaven in this world4 ,humanity will now stop asking and accept1 as a child from its father1 ,god's last and greatest gift4 ,the weary travelers of earth will see that the privations of centuries are no longer necessary4 ,they will stop pleading with ,heaven for the manna to be had by simply putting forth their palms4 ,,prisoners ,,of ,,the ,,bastile4 ,for an explanation of the action of those poor1 irrational creatures who are so accustomed to privation and prayer that when relief comes they only continue to pray1 failing to recognize that their prayers are answered1 we can only point to the last poor inmates of the ,french bastile4 ,the most prominent and intellectual citizens of ,france1 they had been torn from their homes without a trial1 thrown into dungeons containing not a single ray of light1 fed there on bread and water from year to year until lonely and in torture their hair turned prematurely white and their bodies withered4 ,when1 at the first stroke of that most glorious of revolutions1 the bastile doors were opened1 and the soldiers of the people broke down the huge iron gates and doors1 crying aloud in the name of liberty1 ,you are free1 you are free1 come out long imprisoned brothers1 the populace were astounded to find that many of the poor1 white-haired1 white-bearded1 pale-faced prisoners1 instead of walking out into the long-wished for sunlight1 clutched the walls of their cells1 clung to their prison floors and cried in fear4 ,they had to be torn from their gloomy haunts by main force by their rescuers4 ,their years of trouble1 of darkness and gloom had destroyed their power to enjoy the light of freedom4 ,many of the brightest intellects of ,france had thus been dimmed4 ,their souls1 once afire for freedom1 had burned out in despair4 ,they had become maniacs4 ,so now there are devotees of religion1 so inured to the gloomy slavery of poverty and injustice1 so in the habit of praying for relief1 that when the bold servants of ,god strike down with their ready hammers the prison walls1 and freedom's air and sunlight stream in1 these poor souls are horrified1 paralyzed by the very light and atmosphere for which they have been praying4 ,go away1 they say1 and1 crying1 they clutch their cell walls refusing to be free4 ,they1 too1 have become maniacs4 ,but the majority of the human race will not refuse freedom's balmy breeze or the sunshine of liberty4 ,at the call of the ,new ,democracy they will throw down their broken chains of poverty1 leap through their open prison doors1 and cheer with might and main as the majority of the prisoners of the bastile cheered a century ago when they were given freedom's light4 ,,the ,,commandments ,,grown ,,with ,,the ,,world4 ,if men claim that we are to be forever satisfied with the commands1 ,thou shalt not steal1 and ,thou shalt not kill1 we will answer that these commands have grown1 and that under the banner of the ,new ,democracy we shall declare in thunder tones to all the world1 thou shalt not be killed1 thou shalt not be robbed1 and not only this but also1 thou shalt not allow thy brethren to be killed1 and1 thou shalt not allow thy brethren to be robbed4 ,these commands have developed still further1 so that the cry shall go up from sea to sea that our present and past systems of thievery1 robbery and murder shall be swept away1 that the teaching of the churches against thievery1 robbery and murder1 through all the centuries1 has borne fruit1 and that now1 not only shall the poor1 dependent teachers of abstract truth proclaim between hymns and prayers1 thou shalt not steal1 and thou shalt not kill1 but that the whole people shall ,join in one mighty chorus1 and declare that public thievery1 robbery and murder must cease from off the earth and that our social and political systems shall be made to conform to the teachings of our religion4 ,to those who oppose us in the name of religion1 let our answer be1 ,we do not fight the church2 without the church and its teachings for nineteen centuries1 the ,new ,democracy would have been impossible4 ,the ,new ,democracy is an outgrowth of all religions4 ,religion has protected and kept alive1 through the barbarous past1 the great moral truths that we are now applying to actual life4 ,even if the church or any part of the church or priesthood or ministry attempts to oppose us1 we will simply laugh with ,god at every futile effort to stem the flood1 the source of which is their own teaching through nineteen centuries4 ,for the church1 or any part of it1 to oppose or belittle or criticise the ,new ,democracy1 is for the tree to disclaim its own fruit1 for the rivers to disown the sea1 for the fountain to dry up its stream1 for the mother to cast aside her child4 ,the founders and prophets of all the great religions taught the principles of justice and brotherly love4 ,the ,new ,democracy makes possible their realization4 ,what nobler work can any man engage in on ,sunday than the proclaiming in open air or behind closed doors these eternal truths1 or tell of the new impulse that is fast taking hold of men to weave these truths into the texture of our social institutions4 ,,chapter ,x4 ,,only ,,two ,,parties ,,in ,,the ,,world4 ,another of the few foundation truths upon which the structure of the world's present progress is being reared1 a truth that cannot be too often told nor too continuously urged1 is that ,,there ,,are ,,only ,,two ,,parties ,,in ,,the ,,world4 ,one party consists of those who1 seeing wrong1 try to end it2 seeing injustice1 strive to abolish it2 and1 being told of possible improvements1 investigate and ,,experiment1 hoping to attain them4 ,the other party is made up of those who cannot see wrongs when practiced upon others1 who are blind to injustice for fear of the unjust1 and who1 being told of possible improvements1 antagonize their instructors1 in defense of the private interests of themselves or their masters1 that might by change be jeopardized4 ,one party represents the cause of the people2 the other the selfishness of kings1 nobles and plutocrats4 ,the fight now is not simply a continuation of the old fight that has been going on from ancient times1 but is the world climax1 the end of the struggle4 ,those who produce and trade and teach1 earning their money by honorable exertion1 are forming all along the line1 against those who are too lazy to work1 too stupid or too proud to trade or teach1 but who wish to grow rich by acquiring other people's property4 ,the honest masses who believe in law1 order and progress1 are approaching a decisive contest for permanent supremacy with the dishonest classes who1 in order to defend their systems of plunder1 utilize in their service the combined forces of ignorance1 superstition1 toadyism1 lawless cunning and the force of arms4 ,if the lawless1 irresponsible dictators of industry and commerce are successful1 then liberty1 constitutional government and personal security are at an end1 civilization is derailed into an abyss1 and retrogression displaces progress through another age of barbarism4 ,gold becomes the only ,god1 and bayonets the only prod to duty4 ,the university1 the press and the pulpit will all be made permanent attachments to the one despotic machine which is to control every source of communication and instruction1 and stifle all thought and aspiration that does not strengthen the ruling power4 ,on the other hand1 the people's victory will end class rule forever1 and gradually abolish all special privileges and monopolies by means of which one man holds an unjust advantage over another4 ,the people holding the reins of power will apply the best talent1 experience and energy possessed by man to the establishment of justice1 order and public achievement4 ,this is the situation confronting our country and the world4 ,it is the situation as it confronts every individual man4 ,the war is universal4 ,there are no non-combatants4 ,everyone is affected by the outcome4 ,each has the power to help decide the result4 ,whether in compliance with or against our will1 each of us must participate and assist one side or the other4 ,which shall it be8 ,the party of the people or the party of tyranny4 ,this question presents itself alike to the citizen of ,america and the inhabitant of ,europe4 ,since the historic people's victory at ,chicago1 ,july #f1 #ahif1 the people's party in ,america has taken the name ,,regular ,,democratic4 ,in ,germany1 ,france and ,england it is known as the ,social ,democracy2 in the ,balkans and ,asia ,minor it is the ,greek2 and in the ,west ,indies1 the ,cuban ,army4 ,when once the masses realize that the same class of adventurers1 tax-gatherers and oppressors of labor who in this country have gotten absolute control of the ,republican political machine1 are the present friends1 the advisers and colleagues of the despots1 plutocrats and military leaders of ,europe1 that their families are intermarrying1 their interests being pooled1 their cause becoming one1 their interests identical1 all their plans and hopes one and inseparable1 then will it be impossible for designing demagogues to mislead or confuse them further4 ,when it becomes generally understood that the forces of reaction throughout the world are one1 then will the common people come into closer union and bind themselves together as a unit4 ,the union of those who profit by tyranny necessitates the union of all who believe in liberty4 ,the internationalism of millionaires is creating an internationalism of the common people4 ,the situation is being so simplified that all may comprehend clearly the two forces whose conflict extends over the modern world4 ,all minor and secondary divisions and issues are swallowed up4 ,the international aspect of the problem does not1 as one might at first suppose1 confuse the mind1 but1 on the other hand1 simplifies the issue so that none can mistake concerning it4 ,old prejudices1 reverence for party names1 sectional hatreds1 sores left by historic feuds1 religious differences and affiliations with local political machines1 in which self or friends are interested selfishly1 all tend to cover up the real issues1 when only the local end of the fight is studied4 ,but1 when we learn that the same class that induced the governments of ,europe and ,america to co-operate with ,spanish murderers in starving1 killing and torturing tens of thousands of our patriotic brother ,americans in ,cuba to protect the value of their ,spanish bonds and got these so-called ,christian governments to assist the ,turk1 supply him with arms and drill and general his soldiers for the massacre of hundreds of thousands of defenseless ,armenians and ,greeks1 to secure the continued payment of interest on their ,turkish bonds2 that this class is made up of the same individual bondholders who are gaining control1 through syndicates1 of our ,american breweries1 distilleries1 railroads1 street car companies1 gas companies and other manufacturing and commercial institutions2 that they are ever ready mercilessly and barbarously1 by murder or giant fraud1 to advance their interests1 regardless of duty to humanity1 country or to ,god1 all of which they deny2 and1 when we prove that this class now controls absolutely the machinery of the ,republican party in ,america1 and is trying again to control ,democracy1 the masses1 in their fury against it will1 regardless of historic prejudices or past or local political affiliations1 unite in common defense of home and country to stamp it out4 ,,the ,,party ,,of ,,experiment4 ,our enemies say ours is a party of ,,experiment4 ,we admit it4 ,no forward step in the world's history1 no achievement in science1 art1 literature or politics has ever come but by ,,experiment4 ,we are not1 however1 the only party of ,,experiment4 ,the plutocrats1 who now control our country1 also believe in ,,experiment1 only their experiments are in the direction of further despoiling the people without adding to popular rage1 and of tightening their grip upon our property1 our lives and liberties without inciting to rebellion4 ,one man experiments with surgeon's knife upon the body of another1 chloroformed or a corpse4 ,but suppose the chloroform ceases to act or the corpse proves a case of suspended animation1 rises up snatches the surgical instrument1 ties his tormentor to the couch and begins to experiment on him4 ,the ,,experiment in either case may be equally beneficial to science1 equally dangerous to the victim4 ,but the personal value of the ,,experiment to either of the principals depends1 in a large measure1 upon ,,whether ,,he ,,is ,,the ,,experimenter ,,or ,,the ,,man ,,experimented ,,on4 ,the millionaires united are at present experimenting on the people4 ,the records of their discoveries are doubtless of great value to political science but when the unfortunate public1 heretofore thought dead or safely hypnotized1 arises and with ghastly alacrity1 begins to ,,experiment on its doctors1 not only will science be equally benefited1 but the corpse will enjoy the operation hugely4 ,this outcry on the part of the plutocrats against political experimenting means simply that they want to do all the experimenting themselves4 ,,our ,,enemies ,,are ,,the ,,innovators4 ,a family1 sheltered for many years to their entire satisfaction by an old homestead1 that also protected their property1 suddenly discovers that their silverware is fast disappearing with many heirlooms1 jewels and valuable papers and pieces of furniture4 ,they discuss a plan for changing the locks and1 with the aid of a skilled mechanic1 make an examination of every wall1 floor1 door and window with a view to a general overhauling and repairs4 ,a neighbor makes serious objection and in a solemn manner appeals to his friends not to interfere with the ancient landmarks nor lay an irreverent hand upon the old homestead1 that served their father so well and that sheltered them and protected their property so long4 ,his only object in thus warning his friend against dangerous innovation being grateful reverence for which has been so useful in the past4 ,supposing the owner to be possessed of common sense1 his answer will be3 ,yes1 my friend1 the old homestead has served me and my fathers well for a long period of years and ,i had never intended to irreverently destroy it4 ,but ,i have discovered that some stranger has already laid an irreverent hand upon our home and broken the locks of our doors and windows4 ,we find that he has cut a hole in the floor of our side closet and effected entrances through the roof and the cellar window4 ,the home which once protected us serves no longer as a protection1 because mutilated by an intruder4 ,if the house still protected us as it did our fathers we should be satisfied2 but1 since others have changed it1 we1 in self-protection1 must adapt ourselves to the changed conditions4 ,it is not the old house that protected our fathers that we are changing1 but the new house1 the changed house1 the mutilated house--this it is that we wish to renovate and re-adapt1 so that it may again be made to serve us as did the old one4 ,the same outside framework1 the same old flag-pole1 brown front and corner stone remain1 but many of the foundation stones are gone1 the strength of the house1 its power to serve and protect us have been taken away so that we are in constant fear of its caving in upon us4 ,therefore1 we shall repair it thoroughly or else remove to another4 ,our government for many years served the people well4 ,its past is sacred4 ,it protected our fathers1 made our lives and our fortunes possible and we are tempted to give weight to the arguments of a compatriot when he says to us3 ,touch not the ancient landmarks2 do not lay irreverent hands on our government2 do not seek to change its laws or institutions2 it has served us well and we should show our gratitude by protecting it and by opposing innovation4 ,in answer1 however1 we are forced to say that1 although we have the same flag-pole and flag1 the same brown front and corner stone1 an enemy has for years been removing one foundation stone after another4 ,he has removed the vital parts from the locks of our doors and windows2 made entrances through the roof1 the floor and cellar1 so that our silver is now disappearing1 our jewels and our heirlooms are missing1 and our liberty1 our lives and our property are in danger4 ,,we ,,are ,,not ,,the ,,innovators4 ,,we ,,are ,,the ,,victims ,,of ,,innovation4 ,we seek to battle against the invaders who have mutilated our government and would destroy us4 ,we strive to make our government1 of which now only the shell remains1 serve us as it served our forefathers1 capable of affording us that shelter and protection1 which is the true function of government1 and which our forefathers intended we should have4 ,,two ,,governments ,,in ,,mortal ,,combat4 ,we have two distinct governments in our country1 whose interests are antagonistic and irreconcilable4 ,one government is the ,united ,states2 the other1 the ,united ,trusts and ,syndicates4 ,the former is democratic2 the other despotic4 ,this inner-treasonable despotism controls our industry1 commerce and means of life and pleasure4 ,it is using the ,united ,states government as a machine to enforce its decrees and extend its dominion1 hoping soon to abolish the last vestige of popular rule4 ,it is world-wide in its extent1 and only uses local and national governments as means of power4 ,the ,united ,states enacts laws openly4 ,the ,united trusts and syndicates enacts laws secretly4 ,disobedience to our state laws is punished only after a public trial1 but the merchant who breaks a trust law is ruined without a trial1 the laborer who ignores it is secretly blacklisted2 the minister who defies it is forced out of the church1 and the lawyer disregarding it loses his profitable practice4 ,the nation enacts a law and the trust officers laugh at it so far as it applies to them1 and then1 by gaining control of the law-enforcing power1 use this law as an additional club in the subjugation of their victims4 ,when the people attempt to defeat a new aggression on the part of the trusts by carrying out the plan of some renowned thinker1 known to be uninfluenced by special interests1 the emissaries of the trusts scatter the people by crying3 ,,experiment4 ,an untried and ,utopian scheme1 ,innovators4 ,while the patriots argue as to whether their plan is really an ,,experiment1 the enemy captures a new position4 ,the ,united ,trusts and ,syndicates1 by experimenting constantly and pushing forward all along the line and at the same time by convincing the ,united ,states not to ,,experiment1 succeeds in approaching the same relation to its rival government that a live ant sustains to a dead worm4 ,by incessant and fearless activity1 and by using our constitution1 traditions and flag as a blind1 this irresponsible despotism is fast nearing the time when it hopes to throw off its mask and publicly usurp supreme power4 ,not a day passes but these organized conspirators try some new ,,experiment1 attempt some new aggression never dared before1 attack some nearer outpost of the people's liberties heretofore thought impregnable4 ,often these ,,experiments fail4 ,the people are sometimes bull-headed1 and repulse the attack with loss to the ,united ,trusts and ,syndicates4 ,but failing once1 twice or a hundred times1 do they cease to ,,experiment8 ,even though they lose millions in attempting some audacious act1 do they therefore refuse to attempt another act equally bold8 ,never4 ,they see clearly that all enterprise1 all progress1 all victory1 all increase in power and dominion1 result only from repeated ,,experiments4 ,the boldest of all ,,experiments was the hatching of the conspiracy that gave their present organization birth4 ,,experiment gave them all they have4 ,they live and grow by it4 ,to stop ,,experiment is to stop action1 for the modern world is a new world and in it there are no tried and beaten paths4 ,the floods and glaciers of innovation have carried away the ancient landmarks1 and by raising new barriers and structures largely shut off from all progressive peoples1 even the kindly rays from the lamp of experience4 ,not agitators1 but science and invention1 have pushed us away from the ancient world1 with its well-worn roads and lighthouses1 and where we walk now human feet never trod before4 ,the light from our foreheads is our only lamp1 and eternal truth our only guide1 prefer to ,,experiment1 ,,or ,,to ,,be ,,experimented ,,on2 ,,to ,,be ,,the ,,surgeon1 ,,or ,,the ,,corpse4 ,the ,democratic party in power in #aijj controlled by the common people will1 without doubt1 ,,experiment boldly4 ,it will lead our government into new and untried ways1 as our enemies very clearly and very truthfully predict4 ,it will1 without doubt1 commit blunders and make mistakes4 ,the one thing that above all and in spite of all it is pledged to do1 is to arouse the ,united ,states government from its paralysis1 stupor and corpse-like state of being experimented on1 and declare that whatever the ,,experiments of the future1 instead of being made ,,on ,,the ,,united ,,states1 ,,they ,,shall ,,be ,,made ,,by ,,the ,,united ,,states4 ,the important question for the citizens of the ,united ,states to answer is simply this3 ,do you prefer to ,,experiment1 or to be experimented on2 to be the surgeon1 or the corpse8 ,when the victimized people declare their independence1 through their own government1 of the despotism of the trusts1 it will necessarily be an ,,experiment4 ,every time ,general ,grant ordered an attack on the forces defending negro slavery1 he tried an ,,experiment4 ,never could he tell exactly what the result would be4 ,there might be more dead ,union men than ,confederates1 or there might possibly be more dead ,confederates than ,union men4 ,the one thing of which he was certain1 however1 was that his duty consisted in going ahead1 and1 when defeated1 he gathered his troops together and tried again4 ,he knew that1 if followed long enough1 his plan would crush the ,confederacy4 ,so each attack on the white slave power to-day is an ,,experiment4 ,we cannot at any time foretell the immediate result4 ,an attack on a special monopoly may fail4 ,many times we may be repulsed with loss1 but by constantly renewing the attack and continuing to press forward we shall eventually triumph4 ,during the late war1 the southern states defended black slavery4 ,they lost4 ,black slavery was abolished4 ,to-day1 the southern states1 dominated by the common people1 have espoused the cause of liberty and to the oppressors of the ,north and ,east they say1 ,white slavery also must be destroyed4 ,both parties are parties of ,,experiment4 ,the only difference is that we avow ours openly and write them in our platform1 while the experiments and aggressions of the ,republican party are planned in secret and executed in dark corners where only traitors and adventurers are allowed admittance4 ,to hesitate and refuse to ,,experiment is to tie our hands and remain inactive1 while our enemies harass us1 rob us1 and assault us from all directions4 ,it is as important to weaken the enemy as it is to strengthen your own forces4 ,therefore1 when by an extensive literature the money-power instill in the people a horror of ,,experiment1 they palsy their limbs and incapacitate them for defense4 ,therefore1 the ,democratic ,volunteers will frankly admit the charge that they favor ,,experiment and will boldly proclaim that ,,experiment is one of the foundation stones of their creed4 ,by ceaseless and tireless repetition in every community of our nation we will ask the people to begin to ,,experiment on their own account1 instead of permitting ,,experiment to longer remain a monopoly in the hands of those who continually decry it4 ,we will ask them to decide whether they will longer remain objects of ,,experiment1 or1 by government action1 begin to ,,experiment on their persecutors4 ,,chapter ,,xi4 ,,witnesses ,,for ,,plutocracy ,,discredited4#h #h ,for part of this chapter credit is due to ,carl ,vrooman4 ,when the nature of the present world conflict is understood1 those who favor the people's cause will cease to receive any further instruction or advice whatever from their enemies or the allies or agents of their enemies4 ,if ,america declared open war upon ,britain should we put the slightest confidence in any statement1 emanating from ,english sources as to the best line of attack8 ,and1 if a coterie of young ,britishers were to enter our camp and advise our soldiers to open fire in a northward direction1 should we not rather suspect an attack from the enemy on the south8 ,is it not a rule in war always to fire in the direction opposite to that advised by your enemies8 ,in all business and other practical affairs of life is it not universally recognized as the extreme of folly to accept as facts the statements of those who may profit by our discomfiture8 ,most assuredly6 ,and it is time for the merchants and workingmen of ,america to apply to their political struggle these simple maxims so well established elsewhere4 ,,worthless ,,testimony4 ,imagine a courtroom filled with spectators and a group of culprits being tried for wholesale theft4 ,the strongest evidence has been produced by both the prosecution and defense and the result is in doubt4 ,anxious crowds are waiting in suspense for some decisive stroke that shall give an advantage to one side or the other4 ,the counsel for the defense arises and plays his last card by an eloquent appeal in behalf of the prisoners1 basing his plea entirely on the superiority of his witnesses4 ,he shows that they stand much higher in the community than the witnesses for the prosecution1 who are poor1 untutored countrymen4 ,my witnesses1 says he1 include the leading men in your community--your parson1 the principal of your high school1 and the editor of your paper4 ,yours are mere yahoos and ignoramuses1 not capable of exercising judgment in such a case as this4 ,a murmur of assent passes around the room4 ,there is a cheer of confirmation1 and the jurors nod their heads significantly4 ,the prosecuting attorney1 instead of making a speech1 plays his last card by taking the jury to the stable1 where they discover that the horse on which the teacher rode to court is one of those stolen from ,farmer ,hayseed's stable1 and further he proves that the suit of clothes worn by the parson on the witness stand was made of the very piece of woolen goods taken from the country storekeeper1 and that the coins that fill the purse of the respected editor are the same identical marked coins accumulated by ,widow ,jones for her old age and taken from her money drawer on the night of the crime in question4 ,no speeches1 no arguments are necessary after this4 ,the jurors purge their memories of the testimony for the defense1 and the culprits are sent to prison4 ,in the great case of ,the ,people versus ,monopoly1 now being tried at the bar of ,public ,opinion1 the defense1 beaten upon every other point1 bases its last plea upon the superiority of its witnesses4 ,it is claimed that the authorities on finance1 the press and the pulpit are witnesses in defense of ,monopoly4 ,we acknowledge this1 and in answer wish only to take the jury1 who are to decide this case1 to the homes of these witnesses1 where they can see for themselves that they are sharers in the plunder that has been taken from the plaintiffs4 ,,the ,,press4 ,the first important witness in behalf of the defense is the great metropolitan press1 the peculiar and special product of the dying years of the present century4 ,now1 the modern newspaper is a corporation1 formed for the one purpose of paying dividends to stockholders4 ,in order to make money it must serve the people who have money1 for now all the profits of the great dailies are derived from the sale of space in their columns1 the receipts for the sale of papers not covering expenses4 ,the business manager1 with a few exceptions1 controls the editorial department and dictates all policies4 ,so we poor wayfarers1 hungry for information concerning some important interest1 seize upon a learned editorial in a great metropolitan daily1 and while we think we are being instructed by the weighty opinion of some friendly and scholarly writer1 we are in fact reading ,,the ,,paid ,,advertisement of our enemies1 placed in the paper to confuse us4 ,when1 in the news department1 we read a speech or an interview1 it is often so garbled that the meaning is quite changed4 ,and what we consider to be a simple statement of fact is often a doctored narrative1 containing fictitious figures1 and printed for the sole purpose of misleading the public4 ,the attempt of the gold press to array the agricultural producers against the city laborers1 and the mechanics against the agriculturists is cruel and deliberate4 ,and this power to deceive and mislead carries with it the power of life or death4 ,suppose ,i were to go to ,mr4 ,jones and tell him that ,mr4 ,smith had declared to me that he was going to shoot him on sight1 and that ,i had seen him purchase a revolver for that purpose2 and then ,i should go to ,mr4 ,smith and tell him that his friend ,jones had just armed himself to the teeth for the purpose of killing him1 stating that ,i had heard him swear and curse and declare before heaven that ,smith should not live another day4 ,now1 suppose these two neighbors1 heretofore warm friends1 were to approach each other1 and ,smith1 as a precaution1 would reach his hand toward his hip-pocket1 and ,jones1 in order to save his life1 would pull out his weapon and fire1 both men shooting each other at the same time4 ,the result would be ,,two ,,dead ,,fools1 the victims of ,,one ,,live ,,liar4 ,the power to deceive great masses of people by simultaneous and premeditated conspiracy on the part of the papers owned by monopoly1 carries with it the power to weaken the masses by dividing them in a struggle over false issues2 and while they fight among themselves1 to rob them and legislate their children into slavery4 ,here are the words of the great journalist1 ,john ,swinton1 before the ,new ,york ,press ,association1 in response to a toast1 ,the ,independent ,press3 ,there is no such thing in ,america as an independent ,press1 unless it is in the country towns4 ,you know it and ,i know it4 ,there is not one of you who dare express an honest opinion2 if you express it1 you know beforehand that it would never appear in print4 ,i am paid one hundred and fifty dollars a week for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper ,i am connected with4 ,others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things4 ,if ,i should permit honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper1 like ,othello1 before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone4 ,any man who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street hunting for another job4 ,the business of the ,new ,york journalist is to destroy the truth1 to lie outright1 to pervert1 to vilify1 to fawn at the feet of ,mammon1 and to sell his country and race for his daily bread1 or for about the same thing--his salary4 ,you know this1 and ,i know it2 and what foolery to be toasting an ',independent ,press4' ,we are tools and the vassals of rich men behind the scenes4 ,we are jumping jacks2 they pull the strings and we dance4 ,our time1 our talents1 our lives1 our possibilities1 all are property of other men4 ,we are intellectual prostitutes4 ,in the case of ,the ,american ,people versus the ,banks and ,trusts1 we have found1 by personal examination1 as also by the confession of a member of the family1 ,john ,swinton1 that the money which inflates the purse of the prominent editorial witness consists of the marked coins that made up a portion of the booty in question4 ,no sane juror will believe the testimony of such a witness4 ,,clergy ,,needs ,,sympathy1 ,,not ,,blame4 ,it is also claimed that ,god's ministry has offered its testimony in behalf of the defense4 ,it is not my purpose to say anything against the clergy1 because if there is an abused and ill-treated class of men on the face of the earth to-day1 who need pity and prayer and succor1 it is the men who have dedicated their lives to the ,christ who was killed by the rich of ,his time1 and who are now dependent for their living1 their children's food and their wives' clothing1 upon the blended piety and pride1 the virtues and vanities of the rich of to-day4 ,in all that inconsistent barbarism1 which we call civilization1 there is no man who needs sympathy so much and deserves blame so little as he who is attempting at the same time to preach for ,god and to get his living from ,god's enemies1 to build monuments to the ,christ who lived and died for the poor1 and gain the material and cost of these monuments by flattering those who are grinding the faces of the poor4 ,many clergymen have told me how their hearts have bled for the victims of social injustice2 how in anguish they have wept over the piteous cries for help uttered by their dying brothers and sisters in ,jesus ,christ2 how1 bursting with indignation1 they have longed to strike a blow against the brutality that crushes ,christ's little ones in order to grind from their bones and blood colossal and unnatural fortunes4 ,but they said1 ,we must conceal our tears and swallow our indignation1 though it chokes us4 ,we dare not speak out--we could neither destroy the tyrant nor save the victims4 ,we would only succeed in dragging down our own wives and little ones into that dark stream of poverty1 from which those who have once fallen in can never hope to rise4 ,first of all1 we must live--and then do what little we can to temper the reign of injustice and oppression4 ,the overthrow and destruction of this system of injustice rests upon the shoulders of ,god and the common people4 ,i would ask the workmen of the country who are rapidly leaving the churches not to judge the clergy harshly1 because the majority are dumb in your behalf and because a few openly and blatantly champion the cause of the oppressors4 ,but ,i must also ask you to place no confidence in their testimony in this political trial1 for their lips often utter words their hearts fain would withhold1 and they often pray for success to the banner for which they cannot fight4 ,let us not condemn them because they are bound with chains of dependence1 but let us rather include them among those whom we shall liberate when we establish a ,,political ,,system ,,which ,,shall ,,set ,,all ,,men ,,free4 ,in the case of ,the ,american ,people versus the ,money ,lending and ,bondholding ,class1 we find that the long1 flowing garb of the ministerial witness1 that at first inspired our confidence in his testimony1 because of the holy office it suggested1 is made of the very cloth1 a part of the plunder1 the disapperance of which is the basis of the present trial4 ,the testimony of such a witness1 cajoled1 terrorized1 and a sharer in the booty taken1 is also without value4 ,,the ,,testimony ,,of ,,the ,,college ,,authorities4 ,now1 as to the college professors3 ,from the earliest times down to the present day1 learning has been fostered1 patronized and supported by wealth4 ,the kings and nobility of various times and nations1 too stupid or lazy to acquire distinction in the field of scholarship themselves1 have vied with each other in gathering around them the greatest scholars1 musicians1 poets and minstrels1 as well as the greatest athletes1 the most beautiful and voluptuous women1 the fastest horses1 and the most interesting curios of every description4 ,some of the patrons of learning and art have been really serious in their devotion to the beautiful and true4 ,it is1 perhaps1 one of the greatest encomiums that we can pronounce upon the wealth of the world1 that in all ages it has supported learning as the stalk supports the flower4 ,this condition of affairs has not existed1 however1 without causing an undesirable dependence on the part of the beneficiaries4 ,who has passed through the great art galleries of the ,louvre at ,paris1 and beheld the acres of canvas1 covered with the work of the immortal ,rubens1 without being filled with anger and disgust as he thought of the genius and years of toil which1 instead of being devoted to conceiving and executing new masterpieces to delight and inspire all future ages1 were applied to daubing the vain and cruel countenance and the unattractive person of the patroness who gave him his bread8 ,the first and greatest universities in this land were founded1 have been built up1 and are at present supported by the bequests and donations1 the gratuitous contributions of the rich4 ,the vast undying benefits that have flowed from this wealth1 which have been devoted to learning1 ancient and modern1 cannot easily be overestimated4 ,what the world would have been without the enlightenment which has come from this source it is not easy to imagine4 ,we should hold in high esteem the solitary student who1 in past ages and to-day1 gropes his silent1 difficult way towards those hidden truths in science1 in history or in art which will one day enlighten and beautify the world4 ,we should be lovers of all that is beautiful1 and all that is true1 and all that is lovable in this great world of ours4 ,music1 painting and sculpture1 the sciences1 literature and history1 should be to all sources both of inspiration and of light4 ,with all our hearts let us welcome these products of man's talent and genius4 ,the historian is the hinge linking the present to the past4 ,his office is not only a useful1 but a sacred one4 ,scholarship is like womanhood--one of the most holy and sacred things in the world4 ,but1 like womanhood1 when prostituted1 it becomes the most debased4 ,he who muddies with error and personal prejudice the fountain of pure truth is an enemy to his race4 ,but let us not attempt to blame nor censure individuals4 ,we know that wealth has been the friend of learning2 that in all times past those who have devoted their time to the pursuit of truth or beauty have been dependent upon the support of the rich and powerful4 ,you say that if wealth has been the friend of learning1 it is only natural that learning should be the friend of wealth4 ,yes1 this is exactly the fact in the case4 ,learning is the friend of wealth for two reasons3 ,one1 because she feels grateful for past favors2 the other1 and greater1 because she is hopeful for favors to come4 ,it is well known in educational circles that any college found propagating heresies like free silver or government ownership of the railroads--in other words1 any institution which does not distort and curtail its teachings so as to bias the student in favor of the single gold standard and the eternal reign of monopoly--will be cut off without a dollar by plutocracy and doomed to a future of comparative impotence and uselessness for lack of funds4 ,,the ,,result4 ,what is the result8 ,the president of a large private university1 knowing that his reputation for success or failure depends upon the growth of his university as compared with that of neighboring universities1 continually trims his sails to secure favors of those who have money to dispense4 ,it is a common thing for a college president to make what he calls a begging tour4 ,he endeavors to show to those who are supposed to have money to bestow that his university is in great need1 and can make the best possible use of sound money in propagating sound ideas4 ,a good illustration of this is the tour which ,brooker ,washington1 the famous colored orator1 the ,president of the ,tuskegee ,institute1 made in #ahif1 through the ,north and ,east4 ,he is a man of intellectual power4 ,he is1 no doubt1 thoroughly devoted to the enlightenment of his race2 but the way he flatters and cajoles the rich1 advocates the gold standard1 overlooks and keeps silent about their corruption and crimes1 and assents to their plans for further aggrandizement1 is a lesson which every patriot can study with profit4 ,he has become a pet and fad among the wealthy classes of ,new ,york and ,new ,england4 ,even ,harvard in #ahif conferred upon him an honorary degree4 ,he has doubtless gotten heavy endowments for his college1 but he has had to fawn and flatter and stultify his manhood to do it4 ,and he has given a striking example of what almost every college president must do to a greater or less extent4 ,the fact is1 that ,,private ,,universities1 ,,depending ,,as ,,they ,,do ,,upon ,,the ,,charity ,,and ,,conscience ,,money ,,of ,,the ,,rich ,,for ,,support ,,and ,,growth1 ,,like ,,all ,,those ,,who ,,live ,,by ,,charity1 ,,have ,,acquired ,,the ,,fawning ,,spirit ,,of ,,servitude ,,and ,,dependence1 ,,and ,,faithfully ,,lick ,,the ,,hand ,,that ,,feeds ,,them4 ,verily the ox knoweth his master's crib4 ,many college presidents dare not use any but orthodox gold standard text-books1 and professors who dissent from the views of these books are forced to swallow their own opinions and propagate error4 ,many of our great authorities are mere sycophants of wealth1 creatures of the millionaire1 placed by him in the same category as his musician1 his ballet dancer or chaplain1 all valuable dependents4 ,the money lord of creation often builds the college 7,chicago ,university1 for example71 places the poor book-worm in the position that makes him a recognized authority1 and the authority must dish up statistics as a cook dishes up his delicacies to suit the taste of his master4 ,if he refuses he loses his job1 and is no longer a recognized authority4 ,young men are not only taught in many instances that the rights of monopoly and money are more sacred than the rights of men and women1 but are shown frequently that if they want to make a success in life1 and be an honor to their family and their college they must ally themselves with the powerful corporations and trusts and keep their skirts clear of all popular and reform movements4 ,the recent action of the ,yale students who brutally attempted to insult the honored guest of their city1 ,mr4 ,wm4 ,j4 ,bryan1 is not without significance4 ,the authorities and the respectable element among the students were no doubt1 deeply humiliated by such a disgrace4 ,yet it is fairly plain that the dogmatic1 uncharitable and violent opposition to ,free ,silver indulged in by the professors1 has contributed its part toward causing this exhibition of anarchy and puppyism4 ,there is a wide distinction however1 between professors and professors4 ,there are numerous truly great men who are aristocrats at heart1 who love luxury and culture and refinement1 whose friends are principally among the rich1 whose sympathies are with the rich1 and whose interests in life are bound up with the prosperity of the wealthy classes4 ,these men oppose popular rights as conscientiously as did the old ,feudal ,lords4 ,they all oppose the ,new ,democracy4 ,there are many others--men of splendid intellect1 but utterly without principle--who are mere dishonest1 mercenary tools of the highest bidder1 willing to distort and manufacture history1 tamper with statistics1 and lie like shyster lawyers4 ,as1 for instance1 the learned professor of the ,chicago ,university1 who declared with brazen effrontery that whatever might be charged against ,mr4 ,rockefeller of the ,standard ,oil ,trust1 no one could say that he had accumulated his millions in any way that interfered with the accumulations of others4#i #i ,see detailed account of the lawless ,anarchistic methods used by ,standard ,oil ,trust to destroy competitors in ,wealth ,against ,commonwealth by ,h4 ,d4 ,lloyd4 ,again there are a few university authorities who1 at the risk of their living and the success of the institutions they represent1 have told the truth fearlessly4 ,they oppose monopoly and the gold standard4 ,but their testimony is buried beneath the overwhelming mass of prejudice1 sophistry and misinformation supplied by their colleagues4 ,very distinct from any of these classes is that swarm of cowardly pusillanimous book-worms1 who1 as underlings in the large universities1 and as full-fledged professors in the small colleges1 retail at second-hand with stupid pertinacity and pig-headed bitterness1 all the errors of the authorities1 together with new ones of their own special brew4 ,it is by the prejudiced and purchased testimony of such men as these that the monopolies of the country try to prove that empty stomachs are full1 bare backs clothed1 and that a constantly growing and appreciating dollar is an honest one4 ,it is with such untrustworthy witnesses that they attempt to prove to us that the men who have stolen our property are more honest than we4 ,the teacher witness for the defense may be more respectable and learned than the witnesses of the prosecution1 but when we see that the universities are built and professors' salaries paid from the booty wrung from the people--in other words1 that the teacher rides to court on one of the very horses taken from ,farmer ,hayseed's stable it does not take us long to decide that this testimony is misleading and false4 ,therefore1 the workmen1 merchants and tax-payers who compose the jury1 which is to hand in its verdict in #aijj1 must refuse to consider the testimony of these collegiate1 pulpit and editorial witnesses1 who are proven to be sharers in the tribute forced from the people by that gigantic and almost sublime system of world exploitation carried on scientifically and persistently by those powerful trusts which have cornered the world's gold and monopolized nearly every necessity and comfort of life4 ,the pivotal point in this campaign is the question of the reliability of witnesses4 ,not only do opinions differ1 but the history1 statistics1 and facts1 advanced by the defenders of monopoly and the gold standard contradict the history1 statistics and facts discovered by the champions of the people4 ,there can be only one truthful history of the crime of seventy-three1 and the seventy-three other crimes of the shirkers against the workers4 ,figures do not lie4 ,only one set of statistics1 as to the rise in the value of the gold dollar1 can possibly be correct4 ,facts do not conflict4 ,when men contradict each other upon a question of fact1 one side is wrong4 ,whose history and statistics are we to believe in this campaign8 ,are we to believe the interested1 prejudiced1 purchased witnesses of corrupt wealth1 or are we to believe the testimony of the witnesses of the people--men who have sacrificed and suffered in order to tell the truth4 ,it is because the classes who have the advantages of culture and leisure1 always care more for their own comforts than for truth and justice1 that these problems1 my reader1 must be worked out1 by the millions made of the same identical common mud that you and ,i are4 ,as ,william ,e4 ,gladstone has said1 all the reforms brought about in ,england during the last century1 and of which all her citizens now boast1 were at first merely impossible ideals in the minds of the ignorant and fanatical poor1 and were carried through by the working people in opposition to the cultured and leisure class4 ,it is because those who possess the power and the learning to lead mankind aright have always proven recreant to the trust imposed upon them1 that ,god1 in directing the course of human history1 has invariably swept this class aside and accepted as ,his instruments the poor1 the simple-minded and uncorrupted4 ,from the birth of the primitive church among the poor fishermen of ,galilee to the abolition of chattel slavery by an agitation instituted by social and political outcasts1 the hand of ,god moving in the world has invariably brushed aside the rich and powerful with the intellectual parasites that swarm about them1 and in building nations1 religions1 or instituting great reforms1 has uniformly chosen the normal1 healthy material at the base of society still uncorrupted by luxury4 ,,chapter ,,xii4 ,,vote ,,yourselves ,,rich4 ,those who have been voted rich1 not by their own votes1 but by our votes1 the votes of the common people1 are now engaged in proving to us ,,that ,,what ,,we ,,have ,,already ,,done ,,for ,,them ,,we ,,can ,,by ,,no ,,possible ,,means ,,do ,,for ,,ourselves4 ,having accumulated immense fortunes by means of vote enacted legislation1 ,,they ,,preach ,,to ,,us ,,the ,,utter ,,folly ,,of ,,our ,,hoping ,,for ,,any ,,gain ,,from ,,the ,,same ,,source4 ,so interested are they in our proper economic education1 that they are willing to supply both text-books and teachers4 ,they love learning and from purely philanthropic motives seek to make us wise4 ,but what is their wisdom so willingly imparted8 ,from what follies are they so anxious to guard us8 ,,to ,,vote ,,our ,,enemies ,,rich3 ,,this ,,is ,,wisdom4 ,,to ,,attempt ,,to ,,vote ,,ourselves ,,rich3 ,,dangerous ,,folly4 ,their science teaches that ,,it ,,is ,,impossible ,,for ,,the ,,instrument ,,which ,,is ,,the ,,source ,,of ,,their ,,wealth ,,to ,,be ,,of ,,any ,,effect ,,in ,,behalf ,,of ,,those ,,who ,,wield ,,the ,,instrument4 ,text-book in hand they say to the people1 ,it is impossible for you to vote yourselves rich4 ,strictly speaking1 it is unnecessary for the people to vote themselves rich4 ,,we1 ,,the ,,people1 ,,are ,,already ,,rich4 ,we are rich by the gift of nature and the will of ,god4 ,each scientific discovery and invention1 wrung by toil1 genius and martyrdom from the strange earth and firmament that greeted primeval man1 has added to our riches4 ,we are now rich1 but are debarred by force from the possession of our own4 ,we are heirs1 not only to the riches of the earth as originally created1 but to all those opportunities for utilizing these natural treasures1 resulting from the accumulated knowledge and skill of the centuries4 ,but we are kept from our inheritance4 ,we have been deprived of our wealth by vote-enacted legislation1 and it is vote-enacted legislation that will again give us possession4 ,our enemies say contemptuously that government can no more increase wages by legislation than it can increase the size of your foot or the length of your arm1 for the increase or decrease in both cases is governed wholly by natural law4 ,let the poor1 they say1 stop agitating and hoping to become prosperous through legislation1 and instead let every man go to work building his own home and fortune1 and all will be well4 ,the ,government cannot legislate a single dollar into existence4 ,the remedies for poverty are industry1 frugality and temperance4 ,these are the things they say4 ,but suppose we watch their acts instead of listening to their words4 ,then we learn that1 while for us they point in one direction to the road that leads to fortune they seek this road themselves by going the opposite way4 ,we1 who have followed their advice1 have been impoverished2 they1 who imitated their acts1 have been enriched4 ,,potatoes ,,and ,,political ,,economy4 ,i ride to market with a load of potatoes1 the result of sweat and labor for half a year4 ,a ruffian knocks me off my wagon1 takes my seat and drives away4 ,questions3 ,shall ,i ask a policeman to help me catch the despoiler1 or shall ,i cease agitating and go to work8 ,shall ,i arm myself and1 with the help of friends1 take back my own1 or shall ,i return to the farm and practice industry1 frugality and temperance8 ,is it nobler1 manlier1 more courageous of me to get possession of my potatoes by fighting1 or1 forsaking them1 to go to work and raise another crop for the next thief8 ,honest and contented labor under these circumstances is dishonorable4 ,,when ,a ,,man ,,is ,,robbed1 ,,the ,,way ,,for ,,him ,,to ,,get ,,money ,,is ,,not ,,to ,,work ,,for ,,it ,,but ,,to ,,fight ,,for ,,it4 ,to tell a man that he cannot possibly make any money by talking nor get any potatoes by agitating police officers is absolutely true1 ,,provided1 the man has been loafing all year and has not been robbed of his crop4 ,but these demonstrations of the economists go into the waste basket1 when the fact is made plain that the man1 seeking by government aid to get potatoes1 has already earned them by hard labor1 but is deprived of them by the criminal act of another4 ,under such circumstances1 the man who1 instead of fighting and pursuing1 applies himself to honest toil1 is a coward4 ,men who1 wrongfully deprived of their property1 go to work to earn more1 thus providing additional booty for their despoilers1 are unworthy a better fate4 ,honor impels a true man to fight1 not work1 when a wrong is suffered either by himself or friends4 ,to quietly plow while another eats the result of last year's plowing1 to contentedly plant while another reaps1 to submissively bow one's head beneath a yoke and receive the kicks and jeers and sneers of the drivers1 are not the acts of a man nor the duties of a citizen1 but the follies of an ass4 ,when a true man1 after gathering his harvest1 sees his product taken by another1 he mounts his horse1 before planting again1 and with pitchfork1 shotgun or other efficient weapon1 starts in hot pursuit4 ,he seeks to recover last year's product before trying to raise another crop4 ,therefore1 when government-made millionaires try to persuade the working people1 small tax-payers and business men to stop meddling with politics and instead to work harder in the hope of laying by something for old age1 they really desire them to cease defending their property and to continue creating more for others to enjoy4 ,the learned professor teaches that the government cannot legislate into being a single dollar1 nor a dollar's worth of wealth4 ,from this premise1 he reasons that a dollar legislated into one man's pocket must necessarily be legislated out of another man's pocket4 ,he then concludes that the poor cannot legislate themselves comfortable without to the extent of their gain depriving another class of their earnings4 ,if my neighbor accompanied me to market with a load of potatoes and ,i were to ask a policeman to help me take his load from him1 the economists' words would apply4 ,the government1 through its agent1 the policeman1 could not double my wealth without robbing my neighbor4 ,but this is not the situation4 ,i came alone4 ,a stranger assaulted me and took both wagon and potatoes1 leaving me very poor4 ,now1 in spite of the professor's words1 the state1 in the person of its officer1 can abolish my poverty and give me a wagon filled with potatoes without doing injustice to any one else4 ,i can be made happy without depriving any other being of what he has earned1 and ,i do not ask the state to legislate into existence a single potato4 ,i simply ask that the potatoes already existing as the result of my labor be taken from the highwayman and returned to their rightful owner4 ,this is what the masses ask4 ,not that the government give them anything produced by others1 not that the government attempt to create anything independent of the labor of its citizens1 but that it return to them their own4 ,we demand the capture of the highwayman1 monopoly1 and that the opportunities taken from us by him be restored to us4#aj #aj ,when a monopoly becomes a government monopoly1 its nature changes entirely1 and all that was objectionable disappears4 ,the evil pertaining to a monopoly is its exclusiveness4 ,when private monopoly becomes government monopoly1 it is no longer exclusive1 for the whole people enjoy its benefits alike4 ,unity of administration is not an evil if the resulting benefits are shared by all4 ,the only possible way to destroy the great monopolies is to convert them into government functions1 and administer them as the post office1 the army1 navy1 weather service1 the public schools and parks are now managed4 ,there is no other way to destroy our new industrial despotism4 ,read ,socialism and ,social ,reform1 by ,prof4 ,r4 ,t4 ,ely2 also ,wealth against ,commonwealth1 by ,h4 ,d4 ,lloyd4 ,we not only demand but we are actually organizing for the pursuit4 ,the ,democratic ,volunteers are superintending the preliminaries and in #aijj law and order are to be established1 the adventurers suppressed1 and restoration made4 ,the issuance of the nation's money1 now a private monopoly1 controlled by bankers1 will again be made a function of government1 and the people will be permitted to exchange their products without paying revenue to their enemies for the means of exchange1 which is their own creation4 ,other wrongs will be righted with equal facility4 ,each victim1 however1 must be taught that his vote is both horse and hound for pursuing1 and both gun and rope for punishing and reclaiming4 ,our vote is our one weapon1 our one means of defense1 and source of power4 ,the value of legislative control to our enemies is shown by the desperation with which they oppose any effort on the part of the people to recover it4 ,they know it to be the true creator of their fortunes1 and they look to it alone for future fruits of labor and rewards of genius4 ,we are rich1 but we have been ousted from our patrimony4 ,how shall we recover it8 ,by the same means through which we lost it1 namely1 legislation4 ,the oppressions that curse man are all entrenched in1 and owe their power to1 legislation4 ,if we are to be freed from them1 it will be by legislation4 ,in primitive times1 government was openly1 frankly exercised for the enrichment of a class at the expense of the mass4 ,for ages the right divine was believed in honestly4 ,later when its justice was denied1 its benefits were seen to be too valuable to be relinquished4 ,so duplicity was employed1 and the art of plucking the goose without making it squeal was invented4 ,money-making heretofore has not been so much a function of government as money-taking1 and this function can be made to work one way as well as another4 ,if thieves by government action can despoil honest men1 honest men by government action can despoil thieves4 ,if legislation has been made the instrument of crime1 it also can be made the instrument of restoration4 ,no personal temperance1 thrift and industry can enrich men so long as the power to legislate rests in other hands4 ,labor makes wealth but legislation decrees how it shall be divided4 ,when the people legislate directly and intelligently the division will be in accord with justice4 ,by the ballot we can enter upon our inheritance4 ,poverty exists and we are told that it is the natural order1 with which legislation has nothing to do4 ,there has been told no more transparent lie4 ,wealth is created by the union of man's labor with nature's gifts4 ,what is it but legislation that keeps apart in unnatural divorce these two that ,god hath joined together8 ,what but legislation can remove the barriers and allow them again to come together8 ,legislation ,,can make money2 so lavishly that no man need want4 ,how8 ,by making conditions favorable to labor1 and securing the laborer in the fruit of his toil4 ,,we ,,can ,,actually ,,vote ,,riches ,,into ,,existence4 ,our instructors say1 ,government cannot legislate a single dollar into existence4 ,let us see4 ,while riding to market with a crop of potatoes1 ,i am dispossessed4 ,in the struggle a portion of the crop is injured4 ,the highwayman1 in escaping1 lames the horses by overdriving4 ,instead of going to work the next day1 in company with an officer1 ,i start in pursuit4 ,the robber1 alert1 removes to another state at an expense of half his booty4 ,whether successful or not1 my time1 the officer's time and the thief's time are all wasted1 in addition to three-fourths of my product4 ,now1 my neighbors and ,i1 who together make up the government1 suppress brigandage4 ,instead of three fourths of my crop being wasted by struggle for possession1 it is all sold the very day it is carted to market4 ,instead of exchanging my hoe for a gun and chasing another man1 ,i plant another crop of potatoes4 ,instead of helping me in the chase the policeman grows a crop of his own1 and the bandit1 knowing beforehand that it is impossible to live by robbery1 ceases to watch for possible victims and raises his own potatoes instead of taking mine4 ,without proper governmental interference the three of us have only a portion of one crop of potatoes between us4 ,,as ,,the ,,result ,,of ,,governmental ,,action1 ,,we ,,have ,,three ,,full ,,crops4 ,,the ,,government1 ,,by ,,legislative ,,edict ,,or ,,fiat1 if you please1 ,,creates ,,two ,,and ,,three-,,quarters ,,crops ,,of ,,potatoes4 ,,we ,,can ,,vote ,,ourselves ,,rich4 ,and of each dollar voted into our pockets1 not more than fifteen cents will be stolen property reclaimed4 ,the other eighty-five cents will be a new product1 rescued from waste or destruction4 ,the saddest feature of our present industrial cannibalism is that where one dollar is stolen at least seven dollars are wasted4 ,,the ,,preventable ,,wastes ,,of ,,civilization ,,can ,,make ,,earth ,a ,,paradise4 ,,prosperity1 ,,the ,mc,k,i,n,l,e,y ,,and ,,other ,,brands4 ,we can vote our country prosperous4 ,but it is very essential that we understand clearly ,,whom we mean when we say country4 ,we have been voting for one kind of prosperity for a long time1 even before the ,mc,kinley brand1 was on the market4 ,our mistake has been in not asking the ,advance ,agents to tell us whose prosperity they represented4 ,if a burglar is emptying your wife's jewelry box1 and filling his trousers pockets with the contents of your safe1 prosperity to him means ruin to you1 and your success means the burglar's death4 ,so1 in the larger affairs of our nation1 the kind of prosperity hoped for by the plunderers of the people means ruin to their millions of victims1 while good times for the workers1 the farmers1 the merchants1 mean hard times to our despoilers4 ,we now have the best times the world has ever seen4 ,mr4 ,rockefeller1 or ,robafellow--one is his name1 the other ought to be--has an income of forty thousand dollars a day1 and it is increasing4 ,no country in the world has ever produced so much2 never were there barns so bursting with grain1 or warehouses so filled with clothing1 furniture and jewels2 never before so many men making from five to forty thousand dollars a day4 ,this great ,national ,joint ,stock ,company of ours1 with its seventy million stockholders1 is doing a thriving business and making barrels of money4 ,there is only one objectionable feature4 ,it is that after the labor of these seventy millions of people1 their genius1 their suffering and their sweat1 are converted into wealth1 the dividends are given to a few hundred men1 while the rest of us pay the assessments4 ,we do not need better times4 ,anybody who wants to make more than forty thousand dollars a day is a hog4 ,the real issue is not whether we shall have hard times or good times1 prosperity or panic in the abstract1 but it is whether that prosperity and good times1 now monopolized by the few1 shall become the inheritance of every child of ,god4 ,,thieves ,,take ,,panic ,,when ,,pursued ,,by ,,honest ,,men4 ,if a select company of burglars and safe-blowers were to enter your village and relieve a number of your merchants of the contents of their safes1 their stocks of jewels1 silks and clothing1 and were to secure all of the finest horses from half the neighboring farms1 and utilize them in getting the booty safely to the nearest forest1 they would no doubt1 while unpacking their wealth and feeding their horses1 after their hasty trip1 congratulate one another upon their remarkable prosperity4 ,they would be very apt to brag about the unusual good times4 ,but if1 as the sun rose over the tree-tops and they were repacking their goods they saw suddenly the glistening pitchforks of half a hundred angry farmers and the determined furious faces of as many brawny workmen and merchants1 bent on reclaiming their property--there would be a ,,panic4#aa #aa ,if you want legal evidence to prove the existence of gigantic steals and robberies1 read ,lloyd's ,wealth ,against ,commonwealth1 ,harper ,bros41 and the ,seven ,financial ,conspiracies4 ,the plunderers of the world are enjoying good times at the expense of the masses4 ,their profits are as fabulous as their methods are cruel4 ,but in the midst of their celebration feast1 their crime is discovered1 and the pitchforks of five million farmers glistening in the morning sun1 the angry faces of four million city workmen loom up in the distance1 and the result is ,,panic and loss of confidence--7among the revelers47 ,as we approach ,november1 #aijj1 this panic will increase4 ,but as there wells up the sound infernal of their weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth1 there will be heard still louder1 the voices of millions singing their chorus of deliverance4 ,as these offenders look into the grave where lies buried their every plan for selfish aggrandizement1 to us1 their innumerable victims1 that same grave will be the open window through which we behold the land of promise4 ,,index4 ,chapter ,page ,i4 ,introductory #e ,,ii4 ,how to ,begin ,work #bc ,,iii4 ,speeches and ,meetings #dc ,,iv4 ,methods of ,travel #fe ,v4 ,saloon ,meetings #aja ,,vi4 ,the ,heroic and ,prosaic #aae ,,vii4 ,practical ,politics #abg ,,viii4 ,fundamentals #ada ,,ix4 ,the ,church as a ,field #aea ,x4 ,only ,two ,parties in the ,world #aga ,,xi4 ,witnesses for ,plutocracy ,discredited #ahi ,,xii4 ,vote ,yourselves ,rich #baa ,the ,volunteers' ,training ,school ,for ,speakers4 ,opens at ,st4 ,louis ,september #ae1 #ahig4 ,young men of moderate attainments can become ready speakers in from one to three months time4 ,practice both indoors and outdoors every day by every student1 under the direction of experienced campaigners4 ,all the arts and secrets of successful oratory taught in the most expeditious manner1 accompanied by the daily application of every truth learned4 ,tuition per month #a4 ,text books1 good for one year1 #e4 ,especially ,cheap ,rates at ,volunteers' ,boarding ,house4 ,address ,joseph ,hoffman ,mgr41 #dgac ,page ,avenue1 ,,st4 ,,louis1 ,,mo4 ,in preparing for this course read any of the following3 ,wealth ,against ,commonwealth1 ,henry ,d4 ,lloyd1 ,pub4 by ,harper ,bros4 ,socialism and ,social ,reform1 ,prof4 ,richard ,t4 ,ely4 ,social ,aspects of ,christianity1 ,prof4 ,richard ,t4 ,ely4 ,ten ,men of ,money ,island1 ,norton4 ,merrie ,england1 ,robert ,blatchford4 ,seven ,financial ,conspiracies4 ,the ,new ,democracy1 ,vrooman4 ,coin's ,financial ,school4 ,the ,first ,battle1 ,bryan4