COLONEL BRYAN'S ADDRESS

Hon. William J. Bryan addressed an enthusiastic Dartmouth gathering in Bissell Hall Friday noon, April 26. It had been intended to have Colonel Bryan speak to the College and the Town people from the porch of College Hall, but the rain made it necessary to have the speaking in the gymnasium and to restrict the attendance to men of the College.

"I'm always glad to talk to college students," said Colonel Bryan, "and the pleasure that I find in speaking to college students in general is increased at Dartmouth because of the fact that you who study here have the inspiration of large memories, for among your alumni are many great and laudable men who. have molded the thought and action of the world. I have upon the wall of my library a picture of your most famous son, given me as a reminder of my first visit to Dartmouth, and I have also a picture of your most illustrious living graduate, who is doing so much towards consecrating noble learning to the service of the people."

Coming to his main theme, Colonel Bryan said: "If you do a large work, you must have positiveness, ambition and faith. Knowledge and earnestness are essential to success and service. The wise man gets the idea into his head, the foolish man gets it in the neck. "Second, a worthy ambition is laudable. I believe in universal education. I repudiate any theory of civilization that decrees the refinement of the few. When God gave brains to all, He gave the best possible proof that all should use their brains. Education, when accompanied by a healthful purpose, will teach men that the only true ambition is that of devotion to others, by which men attempt to rise, not on the prostrate forms of their fellows, but by raising the level on which they themselves stand.

"Finally, if you do a large work you must have faith. You must have faith in yourselves. Without that you cannot be conscious of a moral purpose and enthusiasm. You must have faith in mankind. Be not afraid to trust the people of this world. It is better to trust and be occasionally deceived than to become cynical and trust none. Again, you must have faith in the form of government in which you live. It is the best form ever conceived. Its advantages have not only been proved by argument, but tested by experience, All over the world our political ideas are not only planted, but are growing. The party of the people is the growing party, and the party of the aristocracy is the dying party—that's true the world over. Moreover, our own effort to elect senators by direct vote is an effort to bring our government still nearer the people.

"And last, you must have faith in your God, faith in the final triumph of the truth. There is power in the man who has faith in that arm that will still do battle after his own arm has fallen lifeless. 'One with God shall chase a thousand, and two shall put ten thousand to flight.'"

Colonel Bryan left at 2 o'clock for North Stratford, where he spoke again in the evening.