Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-07-28 | Page 5 | Bryan's Speech in Proof Form Editor's Prize

BRYANS BRYAN'S SPEECH IN PROOF FOH FORM EDITORS EDITOR'S PRIZE Corrected by Con Con- on- on moner Sheets Are re Highly 1 Cherished eras e Tenn July 28 By The Associated Press Press Repos Repos Reposing ing Ingo in the deck of George F. F Milton president and e editor 1 or of cf the Chattanooga Chattanooga Chattanooga Chat Chat- News Is a document that many believe today will go down in history as one of the most masterful master master- ful glorifications of revealed re religion re- re ligion ever written n since Bible days It Is the Commoners Commoner's last proof It Is veritably Bryans Bryan's call to Christian arms from the great be be- be yond There are nine sheets of It galley length each sheet bearing the corrections corrections cor cor- In pencil penell made by the great Nebraskan himself but a few short hours before he went to meet the God he labored lifelong to glorify PRAISE OF MAKER MAKER Here and there are interlineations bearing words of praise of his maker and the people here about he loved On the first sheet one sees written after atter the words calm s serenity of the country this meed to the faithful he loved It Is a tribute that rural life Ufe has fully fun earned Down at the bottom of the page a careless printer b bad d set Godliness Godliness Godliness Godli ness The hand th that t was soon to tobe tobe tobe be still In death corrected it to read Godlessness 1 Further as the defender of the faith read on into what was was- to be bethe bethe bethe the last work for his mighty voice he has written as as' an afterthought this A child into whom a mother has poured her life Ufe and for whom a father has labored Another passage passage he would have omitted and with bold lines he had I directed that it be stricken from the text CAREFUL MARKINGS Throughout the homely sheets from the printers printer's proof press are the careful markings of the careful editor It was the first proof of his hi's last speech His God called caned him home before he had the opportunity to make the the revision after these corrections had been made This task was entrusted to Mr Milton by Mrs Bryan who knew 1 ew of his devotion to the Commoner and to to the principles for which he fought his last gr great at fight To Mr Milton also was entrusted the task of ot distributing distributing distributing dis dis- dis- dis to the press of America the proof sheets the words from which today are being read by millions millions millions mil mil- lions in America of all faiths and of no faith Mr Milton cherishes th the rugged proof he has begrimed with the the fresh printers printer's ihk ink smeared by bythe the hands of the peerless leader statesman states states- statesman man rian man Journalist lecturer le and teacher as as he carefully ch checked his last I words in defense of the faith of his fathers I