Another advantage of the "Bryan wagon" is that it can carry a certain
amount of baggage the "shoe leather traveler" cannot possibly take
with him. For those who do not possess an unusual oratorical talent, a
small stereopticon or magic lantern with views picturing the principles
of the New Democracy in effective colors, will prove a valuable
aid. Reform stereopticon views have been produced in great variety,
and the method of enlisting the eye wherever possible to strengthen
the impressions made through the ear is sound policy. In securing
collections for the payment of expenses, the average citizen is more
likely to give his nickel or dime towards the support of the travelers
if he has heard a dime's worth of music or seen a dime's worth of
comic and interesting pictures in addition to instruction gotten
through the medium of the speaker's voice.
BICYCLES AND DEMOCRACY.
Where a man doesn't care to walk, and where it is inconvenient or
distasteful to travel by means of the "Bryan wagon," that most modern
and popular conveyance, the bicycle, should not be despised as a means
of disseminating truth. The bicycle is one of the revolutionary factors
of our age. It is the enemy of tobacco, liquor and all other vices that
arise from abnormal desires created by a sedentary life. It is the
friend of health, strength, red cheeks and clear heads. Where there are
good roads it is an excellent means of travel, and a strong wheelman
can easily speak every night at a different town by using the wheel,
and still have plenty of time to advertise each outdoor meeting.
A bicycle, too, is an excellent companion to a Bryan wagon, because
while the wagon is slowly moving from one village to another, the
wheelman can be scouring along the side roads distributing small
circulars to the scattered countrymen, telling them of the meeting
in the next town the coming day or night. In fact, one of the most
important truths for every friend of the New Democracy to learn while
very young, is that our enemy, plutocracy, utilizes every invention
and element of civilization for the perpetuation of its power. In
opposing plutocracy we cannot be narrow, prejudiced, superstitious, nor
allow preconceived ideas as to dignity, custom, personal appearance or
respectability, to interfere with our free motion and our energetic
conflict.
We fight with every weapon that by any honorable means can be secured.
We travel by every means that will emancipate us from the limitations
of time, space and poverty. We accept as allies every friend who
will aid in impressing upon our fellow mortals the solemnity of the
opportunity that confronts them and the malignity of the enemy that is
destroying our common race and country.
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