Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1900 — WORK OF PROGRESS. [ARTICLE]

WORK OF PROGRESS.

“Talk not to me of crises * through which we can not pass ‘ or obstacles too great to over- • come. »I know none such. A . patriotic people are ready to ; meet every emergency as it ' rises, and as each generation • follows each/I believe it will be better fitted to perform,, the work of progress than ever before.” This is not an extract • from a Republican speech of the present day, much as it sounds like it. but is from an address made by Wiliam Jennings Bryan *on the 15th of July, 1890, on the occasion -of a reception to him in. Salem, Ills.