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Show The Way of the Reformer Js Rough How rocky an i thorny is the way of po itical and economic econo-mic progress. Those patriots who stood in the forefront of the fight for so many of the progressive reforms that have come about in recent times had a very hard time of it. While William Jennings Bryan was not the first he may well be classed clas-sed among some of the pioneers. He came demanding the reforms for which he stood, and many of them have been enacted en-acted iuto law. And how the staedpat papers turned on Bryan They actually called him anarchist, blasphemer, Anti-Christ, crackpot, crack-pot, and told theii readers that anyone advocatingsuch reforms was of and for the criminal class and was o .t to assasinate America. The interests defeated him for office but most of his ideas could not be defea ted. They carried on and when the interests tried to save the government from the common people and eleeted Theodore Roosevelt he carried many of Bryan's ideas into practise, to the great dissapointment of the ones who opposed them. It is time people came to their senses. It is hi'jh time we try to forget how to make men rich and center on how to make them freer and better. |
