Let every Democrat patronize the Volunteers liberally, purchase from
each a quantity of literature for distribution and sale and throw in a
piece of silver as the hat is passed around. When possible supply them
with substantial and well-cooked meals so that they can better stand
their heroic diet when they find no friends.
Start the hat agoing at once in each community, and let the town or the
county that purchases a Bryan wagon put the name of such county, town
or village on the cover. Let counties in Colorado, Arkansas and Texas
fit out such wagons and start them toward the heathen territory of
Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Maryland.
ABOLISH NAKEDNESS AT HOME BEFORE GOING ABROAD.
Let the money heretofore sent by our religious friends to teach the
naked savages of foreign islands to be ashamed of their nakedness and
to desire clothes, be applied now to the conversion of America to the
conviction that every citizen of our own country who wants clothes
should have a chance to earn them. If America is destroyed by that
arch-devil worship, gold idolatry, if our Republic goes down amid the
horrors of a violent revolution and military despotism, following in
the footsteps of Rome and Greece and Egypt, what will result from
our missions in foreign lands? They will become relics of the past
because no possible teaching can then convince the poor heathen that
our religion is a saving power. When the very country from which
the missionaries come is the helpless victim of greed, avarice and
organized crime, how are other races to be tempted to follow our
example? Let us rather turn our missionary money for the next four
years, ALL OF IT, into the coffers of the New Democracy, and start our
wagons toward the doubtful states from every Democratic and Populist
stronghold. Let the more civilized people of Missouri, Kansas and
Nebraska, where the creed of progress has reached the greatest altitude
in earth's history, share their increased physical, intellectual and
moral development with the less progressive and more barbarous states
that fringe the ocean uniting us with decaying Europe.
Such friendly action will not only be rewarded by the satisfaction that
always follows a righteous act, but the givers will be blessed of God.
Nothing that a man can do, or a woman, or a child, will accomplish more
good in this world or gain greater reward in the land of the hereafter,
than the giving of their dollars and dimes and pennies for the starting
of Bryan wagons. In this way the western and southern centers of
thought and unselfish patriotism may uplift and educate those states
where greed, political corruption and the infamies of Hannaism still
hold undisputed sway.
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