Show JEFFERSON NOT A jefferson though he lived in a period of our count rys history when disagreements with england greatly embittered the american people was not the english hater that our B ryan is although the latter assumes to be the reincarnation of the writer of the declaration of independence in october 1823 wrote a 1 letter in which the following occurs by ac ceding to her En glands proposition we her from the band of despots bring her mighty bulk In scale of free government and emancipate a continent at one stroke great britain Is the nation which can do us the most harm of any one or of all on earth and with her on our side we need not tear the whole world were jefferson alive today he would in effect repeat those in something like this the administration of president in endeavoring to promote a friendly feeling between the english speaking people Is enlarging the field of labor tor the an glo saxon race and aiding the spread of the highest form of civilization he is advancing the brotherhood of man and setting before the world a lesson in international amity that will event bally be enlarged upon by all civilized nations drawing closer together and fraternizing that humanity as a whole may cease to be clannish arid come to know one another as the people of one nation know and trust each other jefferson would never subscribe his name to a document of race hatred such as was promulgated by the kansas city convention nor would he lend his talents to an interpretation of the boer plank of that platform in such a manner as to offend the citizens of english birth in this country as bryan has done of late bryan Is not a jeffersonian democrat he is purely a populist were he a follower of that great statesman he would be an expansionist and a man of less prejudice than he is |