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W. J. BRYAN. IMPASSIONED ORATOR.
William Jennings Bryan, whose audden. death at Dayton, Tennessee, on July 26th, made a worldwide sensation, was one of the most notable figures in Amerions political life during the last 30 years No
FLOWER SUPERSTITIONS. SOME QUEER NOTIONS THAT
PREVAIL
[BY BASSETT DIGBY.]
· LABOUR AND THE EMPIRE.
PREFERENCE PROBLEM.
The Right Hon. J. Ramsay MacDonald, M.P, welcomed the delegates to the first British Commonwealth Labour. Confer- The women who love the countryside Parliamentary Association Room at the once, which opened in the British Empire
other sin exorcised such a prolonged may be interested to know how curious House of Commona on July 17th." Dale were the old-time- superstitions about gate attended from Australia, British and commanding influence in the Demo Bowers and plants. Many of these quear Guiana, Canada, India, Newfoundland. cratic Party No party policy could be. inaugurated and no political move made aotions still prevail in the remoter villages Palestine, South Africa, and Ireland, the British representatives including Col. without due consideration of what Bryanf the West Country raight say or do Yet no man was pursued St. John's wort was the blossom with the Right Hon. J. C. Welgwood, M.P with such intense antipathy from members which to banish evil spirits. Indeed, its J. R. Davice, M.P., the Right Hon. of his own party, and Bryan, although alternative name was devil's flight, and Arthur Henderson, M.P., Mr. à. A. generally able to command the support even Pliny, in the long aga, declared Purcell, MP. Mr. G. Lansbury, M.P. of the majority of the Democrats in the that it scared demons. Its yellow flowers B Spoor, M.P. and Mr. J. Marion, Mr. R. Smillio, M.P, the Right Hon.
country, was a disruptive force, and all are still picked on St. John's day and EP asumption in
his power and influence were insuficient to win him victory at the polls and the fruits of office
hung over the post walled cabin door by Irish peasants In the low-lying country side of Somerset great faith was reposed in myrtle, That's the luckiest plant to have in your window” you will will be assured, by many a goodwife,” “Water it every morning and be proud of it !'",
There seemed to this country, said Mr. MacDonald, thas the Tory party were the only party that cared anything about the Empire. This Bryan's political career is one long story
was all fudge and humbug (Hear, hear.) For failure Three times he was the
As a matter of fact, the first party that national candidate of the Democrats for
took any keen interest in the Empire- he used the expression in the sense of the Presidency and each time he went
A POTENT CHARM down in defeat, the majorities against him
the co-operative unity of nations-was increasing at each muccessive election. He
the Labour party. Long before either Country folk looked decidedly askance the Tories or the Liberals ever dreamt was an unfailing champion of lost and losing causes, and as each sank into at moonwort, rooting it up wherever they of doing anything except talking of the oblivion he was willing and ready to for encountered it. It was one of the night Empore for political purposes, the get and had others to defend with equal hags, most potent charms, declared Labour party was studying the Empire Chancer. Armed with a talisman of it, for the purpose of creating a unified passion and fervour. He had such con adence in himself that defeat mattered witches removed the shoes from horses movement. The core the Labour party little, and where others, more sensitive, and unlocked barn doors, thus letting the built up a democratic state, not only in might have succumbed to despair, he re cattle stray. It was very unlucky to pick the sense of political liberty, but in the turned smiling to the battle with his own elder blossoms, and gleaners of frewood sense of industrial and economic power, influence nad his followers' trust unimooked carefully through the faggots lest the more their party pursued that policy," a stick of elder should have found its way thought he could say that in every the more successful it became He paired.
into the bundle, because the Holy Cross Dominion and also in this country the A powerful voice, an impassioned dewas believed to have been fashioned out Labour movement had reached the stage livery, and an impressive personality of a giant elder tree.
when they now had to build up a pro- made him a tremendous force in a party convention, and the larger his audience An odd Hertfordshire saw was that gramme of practical Action which would the greater was the influence that he rosemary flourished only where the enable them to realise their ideals, could wield by his vigorous oratory. Hemissie is master." Vervain was though: Referring to the question of preference, was a great campaigner, eager and un- very highly of. It beautifed the features, Mr. MacDonald said in Great Britain. tiring as Roosevelt, nada greater kept adders from biting you, foiled wit Speaker, with a more devoted following, shes, and cured freckles Vervain and but without the charm and magnetic dil hinder witches of their will ran the old couplet. Monkshood was a pet power, and therefore less a national
Bower of witches, and on no account was figure.
it te be brought indoors. Its other name, wolfsbane, was bestowel in Anglo-Saxon days, when arrows were dipped in a de action of the leaves they are highly poisonous and £red at wolves.
Born in 1880 at Salem, Illinois, Bryan was essentially a Westerner. He belong ed to the Radical wing of the Democratic Party, and in America there are often greater diferentes within the parts, thán between the parties. When he first, emerged into political ile he was the mouthpiece of the extreme fiberal views to rely on idle catchwords and phrases then current in the Middle West, and by of the moment. As a pacifist convinced the Democrats of the East, hound as they and sincere, he thought that he could so often were to, Wall-street or Tammany and war for all time by a series of Hall, he was looked on as an arbitration treaties which he brought int archist. Throughout his political career he was probably more often engaged in fighting against his fees with hackward tendencies in his own party than against bis party opponents, the Republicans.
being. It was an idle dream, for war was close at hand, at the very moment.
As the war went on his position in the Cabinet. had become irksome, store the President took more and more into his own handy the direction of foreign "CROSS OF GOLD" „SPEECH
nfinire. After the sinking of the Luni- maia in 1913 Brymi protested against the He was trained in the law du Illinois, severe tone of one of the Notes to Ger attending the State University, but soon many and resigned his position in the after he had qualified he went out West Cabinet, thinking the Note might lead to and settled in the growing town of Lin-war. He was then largely a spent force coln, Nebraska He practised there for in politics and the President had usurped a time, but soon his interest turned to his position as a popular figure. Still polities, and he had served a term in probably he has never, yet gained fall Congress before he won fame at the Decredit for the part he played in securing mueratie convention in Chicago in 1896, the remarkable legislation passed during The country was then experiencing had the first two years of the Administration times; the second Administration of Bryan thenceforward devoted his atten- Cleveland was feebly drawing to its close.tion to the causes of Prohibition and Bryan, ever ready with a panacea for all Fundamentalism, both of which bad their the country's and the world's ills, found orign and chief strength in his own Mid one ready to hand in bimetallism and dle West. At the recent trial at Dayton delivered the famous spreek which swept of a school teacher for teaching doctrines the delegates off their feet and won the nomination quite unexpectedly for him, young and unknown man. His peroration is offen quoted: "You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown
of evolution contrary to the State laws he again appeared in a rôle he had long neglected, a counsel for the prosecution For days he fought a forensic battle and the trial eventually ended with the
of thorns. You shall not crucify man conviction of the defendant. Bryan had kind upon a erong of gold. He had then indicated his intention to lead carried the Democratic convention by a great national movement of Fundament majority, but he did not carry the party alists. For a brief period in 1924 he with him and he suffered defeat in the emerged again in national politics, but election.
at the New York Convention he was unable to exercise his old spell over the delegates and it was only with dfaculty that be gained a hearing; the party re funed his nomince Mr. McAdoo and selected Mr. Davis.
The Spanish War broke out before, an- other election came, and Bryan, like many other politicilins, offered his services being awarded the rank of Colonel, but he got no nearer the front than Florida For the election in 1500 Bryan was again the Democratic candidate. There was little on which to attack the Repub licans save the Imperialism which had come to life since the war. Bry was defeated by nearly a million vot. and in 1804 his opponents gained control of the convention and secured the nomination of Judge Parker of New York The result was an even more crushing defeat for the Democrats, and in 100% Bryan was recalled ne candidate only to meet with a third defent. ⠀⠀
IN WILSON'S CABINET
LECTURES AND JOURNALISM.
little work at the Bar. He was tigaged During his political career Bryan did
chiefly in journalism and in lecturing, He long owned and edited a newspaper, the Commoner, at his home town of Lan- colo, and in it set forth his political views. He was greatly in demand as a lecturer and people never seemed to tire of listening to him as he discoursed, even on the most uninteresting, subjects. He amassed a fair fortune from his work as lecturer and journalist, and some years sears ago retired to make his home at
At the Baltimore convention of the Miami, in Florida Democrats in 1912. Bryan once again." "Bryan' was no orginal thinker, sud had showed his influence with the party dur; no clearly defined or thoroughly, worked ing, a deadlock, when by his championship ( out position in politics. He was essen of Woodrow Wilson and bis denunciation tially a Democrat, in a wider than the of the reactionaries he swept the conven- party sense of the word, often narrow tion and secured the nomination of Wil and crude in mir outlook. He knew little rom. The split in the Republican Party at the compromises of politics, : He made fed to a Democratic victory aud, when no appeal to the wider spirit of national- Wilson became." President, Bryan, wae ism ;, in that he failed, and to that was summoned to Washington and given the due his repeated ill-success" lán political position of Secretary of State. The office campaigns and in his short spell in the facludes other work beaiden the duties of Calinot. He was a wonderful orator, a Foreign Secretary, but Bryan neither and his power of speech was perhaps the by training nor tampersment was fitted | most remarkable of his generation. No for the post. He lacked the dignity ana | one had such skill in moving vest andi- ecomposure required inp Forgignences ofte by sheer oratorical effort Minister, and he did not apply kumselt he could win over a hostile crowd and diligently to master the problems of the carry them along loudly choering his olice. He/shocked many in the country words: lie was hardly a great leader, by continuing to deliver his popular, and yet in the West among farmers and lectures on Chautauqua cirenits. Instead people in mall towns he had a loyal
fering deeply on his problems in and devoted following search of a real solation, he was too spt | He was married in 1884 to Miss Miry
(Continued on next ColumA).
Elizabeth Baird, of Perry, Illinois.
had become purely party issue. There was an idea that the Union Jack was a sort of trade mark to be used in every great national Imperial, or in- ternational matter, to enable certain actions to trade who perhaps would not with the Union Jack. This was not good trade but for the propaganda associated enough for Labour, who did not want merely to nie the Empire to benefit cer- tain sections of capital. Their concep tion of Empire was very much wider, deeper, and higher than that. The foundation of successful co-operation be ween different peoples living under different conditions was the power to he sympathetic so that they could under. stand each other's point of view. What we had to do was to devise some means by which these preferences, whatever form they might take, were given for the benent of the whale community. He could see no way out of that difficulty except by large wholesale purchases by committeece) under Government "control. In this matter of bulk purchases the Dominion Governments must be willing to cope into the scheme, and our Govern- ment must do the same." In that way goods produced under âne Labour condi- tions in such a way that the production maintained a high standard of working clam body, mind, and soul, should be handled so that the whole of the coun- tries co-operating would benefit as a com. munity, and not merely in capitalist sections. This was a problem which had to: be worked out, and which he hoped would very soon be worked out.
After referring to the Geneva Protocol, Mr. MacDonald said their experience in foreign affairs would mase the Labour party very unwilling to take any further responsibilities if they could avoid them." The idea that we were going to be the policemen of the world and put our TOBES mito other people's affairs was a profound mistake, and the sooner we gut back to limited responsibility and a trust to the self-development of peoples the better it would be for the Dominions and for this country-
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