The way to get up a saloon meeting is to see the proprietor, tell him
you are a Democrat, not a fraudulent, makebelieve hypocrite, using
the Democratic name to defeat Democratic principles, not an agent of
the gold bugs trying to corrupt the Democratic party, not an attorney
for monopoly attempting to pervert the Democratic organization to
help millionaires rob Democratic voters, but that you are a real
dyed-in-the-wool, anti-monopoly, Jeffersonian, Jacksonian, Bryan
Democrat, standing with all fours on the Chicago platform, the enemy of
its enemies, the foe of its traducers, and the opponent, uncompromising
and implacable of every man who upholds the infamous British Rothschild
gold standard of money. Tell him that you would like to talk to his
customers and a few others in his place every week, and show them how,
by united political action in the Democratic party, they can be made
just as happy as if they were drunk seven days each week.
He will let you come, and if you talk straight from the shoulder, you
will have a larger crowd at the second meeting than at the first. If
you keep the work up a year continuously, you will not only have your
name enrolled in the book of heroes, kept by the Democratic leaders,
but also in the book kept by the Divinity who guides the Nations. You
will be rewarded in this world for your sacrificing labor if you live
until the people crush monopoly, and if not, you will at least have
that consciousness of duty done which knows no time nor space.
CHAPTER VI.
THE HEROIC AND PROSAIC.
Heroism and the spirit of martyrdom and of self-sacrifice are
historical factors as real, as tangible and as much a part of human
nature as greed or hunger. The young Volunteers who forsake home,
business and personal ambition to help save our Nation from the money
power, starting in the name of humanity astride bicycles, horseback,
afoot and in Bryan wagons, preaching the new gospel of glad tidings
without money and without price, eating whole wheat, dry bread and
apples, with a square meal only now and then to remind them of the good
times coming, are not impelled by any strange or new force in society.
They are not the disciples of a new cult or ism, the latest off-shot
from the great tree of life. They are not a new product of civilization
but on the other hand they are the real conservative and belong to the
true nobility of the human race, that brotherhood of heroes, patriots
and martyrs of all ages and nations, as old as the human family itself.
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