Life — September 10, 1914 — page 37: what you’re looking at

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nine ppar- dded ities. € on , the laid d up “I'm Why after ‘T've this ll go old What Is the Matter with Mr.- Bryan? GREAT many people have ex- pressed, and doubtless will con- tinue to express, dissatisfaction with Mr. Bryan. His personality, which car- ries upon its surface certain undoubted crudities, offers a fair mark for hostile critics, especially when so many of these critics have been lying awake nights trying to locate soft spots in the present administration. But after all the sweeping denun- ciations of Mr. Bryan, most of them as general as they are defamatory, is there anything accurately definite enough to constitute a sum total of charges to his discredit? The counts against him seem to be about as follows: That his foreign appointments were grounded in personal and _ political motives. That he has neglected his official duties in order to deliver undignified Chautauqua lectures for money to increase his income. That he has bungled our foreign re- lations. That he has been indifferent to the rights of American citizens in Mexico and abroad. That, in general, he is entirely un- fitted for his job. None of these charges, which have all been exploited in the press, appears to be substantiated by facts. It would require but a superficial survey of the history of former Republican adminis- trations to discover that tactical Dlunders, errors in political appoint- ments, double dealing, incompetence and chicanery are by no means new in our political history. On the other hand, nobody has any reason to doubt that Mr. Bryan is honest, that he is clean, and that he has been one of the most potent factors for peace on this continent. There is, indeed, noth- ing to show that our foreign relations are not to-day upon a better basis than ever before. 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His very simplicity has a certain inelegance; his curves are such that no cosmopolitan veneer sticks to him, and he appears to be deficient in a certain sort of useful Machiavel- lian: hypocrisy. He lacks a sense of the public fitness of things, and his errors in taste ‘are often intensely exasperating. He is also doubtless de- ficient in that sort of clerical applica- tion which comes from long appren- ticeship to commercial technique. But every diplomat in Europe has these qualities, and in the tug of war what do they amount to? And isn't Mr. Bryan's scorn of dissembling, his insistence upon peace, his moral sim- plicity really worth while reflecting upon just now as a very important asset of no mean value to: Uncle Sam? comicbooks.com