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nj-kakn to lahok. ? ? ... ? Mu.l U? BMha Before I'wwr is KtMWUhiA N. Y., Aov. 12 ? President f ju ii forceful ttddrw# here U> f before tbe American Federation tbor, m waling to the working tlw state* tor ooopera m riio conduct of the war, made it fifrully tleur that, he oppose* until the war aguiust Germany been wuil text of the l'reaMent'u speech iH'fotv the American Federation Labor foUi?vtf : k|7. i'nwldent, iK'legates of the rtcan hVfh'iuMoii of Labor,, Indies Ueuth*men 1 esteem it u prlv , Mud mil honor to be thua ad ped to your public counsels. When ur executive committee i>ald me the '" 4 * ojjliaeut - ltvelm,l the invitation because itj t0 i ui> that this above all other1 lu 0ur history is the time/for run cvuiiMd for the drawing not jt tho energies but of the minds tbe nation disclosing to yqu ?pme Ae thoughts that have been gatfc in uiy mind during the last mo ?nous mouths. I aiu introduced to you as the Pres et of the I'nlted States, and yet [would be pleased If you Would put thought of the office into the back ed ami regard me as one of your jllow citizens who has come hero ajxwk, not the words of authority, the words of counsel, the words jch men should Hpeak to one an jjer, who wish to be frank in a mo ?t more critical perhaps thau the u lory of it he world lias ever yet nown. A moment when it is every u's duty to forget himself, to forget own interests to till himself with nobility of u great national and _;ld conception and act upon a new (la (form elevated above the ordinary .airs of life, elevated to where men ave views of the long destiny of nankind. "I think that in order to realize lust what this moment of counsel is is very desirable that we should re nlnri ourselves just how this war came iibout aud just what it is for. You an explain most wars very simply, ut the explanation of this is not so ihuple. Its nx?ts run deep into all he obscure soils of history and iu my I view this is the last decisive issue between old principles of power and tbe new principles of freedom. 'The war was started by Germany Her authorities deny that they started it. Hut 1 am willing to let the state ment I have just made await the ver dict of history. And the thihg that needs t?> !?? explained is why Ger | many started the war. Remember what the |Misition of Germany in the f world was ? -ji x enviable a position a*; any nation has ever occupied. Tho whole world stood. at admiration of lior wonderful Intellectual and ma teria! a< liifvi-ments and all the in telleetnal men of the world went to school her. As a university man, I have heen surrounded by meil twined in (Jermauy men who bad CB sortH Germany l>ecause nowhere of inviting me here I glad Look Your Best ? ? . j j Every woman should make the most of her personal appearance. 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Well, those HtatlNtlea do uot match the recent atatUtlcn of Germany. Her old cities took on youth grew faster than any American cltlea ever grew ; her old industries opened their eyea aiul saw a *uew world, and went out for Its conquest ; and yet the authorities of Germany were not satisfied. You have one part of the answer to the ques tion why she was not satisfied In her methods of competition. There is no Important industry In Germuny upon which the government has not laid Its hands to direct it, ami, when neces sary, control it "You have only to ask any man whom you meet, who Is familiar with the conditions that prevailed before the war In the matter of international competition, to find out the methods of competition which the German man ufacturers and exporter# used under the patronage and support of the gov ernment of Germany. You will ilml that they were the same sort of ^com petition that wQ-have trted to prevent by law within o%$M*n borders. If they could not sell fheir goods cheaper than we could sedlv ours, at a profit to themselves, they could get a sub sidy from the government which made it possible to sell them cheaper any how ; and the conditions of competi tion were thus controlled in large measure by the German government itself. But that did not satisfy the (Jerman government. ??All the while there was lying be hljhl Its thought, in lt? J reams of the future, u political control which would enable It In the long run to dominate the labor and the Industry of the world. They were not content wit success by superior achievement; they wanted success by authority. SUP pose very few of, you have thought much about the Berlln-to-Bagdad ? wav The Berlin to Bagdad Kailwaj was' constructed in order to . :un the threat of force down the flank* of to Austria 1 undertaking, of half a dosen countries, so that when G?-? eoin petition come In It would I not be resist, Hi too far because there was always the possibility of gett g ? man armies Into the heart of that country quicker than any other armies couunjr i Ti(Mvir ?t the map of Tropf now" Germany, In thrusting upon us again and again the discus Jon of peace, talks about what. Talks about ltclglum, talks al>ou Northern France, talk, about Alsace Jjorralne. Well, O.ose orc 'le.-ply ln terestmg subjects to us and to them, ?t they .arc not talking about the heart of the matter. "Take the map aud look at ' many haa absolute control of Austria Hungary practlcal coi"1? " black stretched all the way from Ham ^, M BMdad-the bulk of German! power inserted Into >^rt ^ world. If W can keep '""''J? nower can dtstorb the world that, her power a. ,t_alwayg pro ^nKfoar I feel ?>und to put this in. always provld?l the ?nt Influences that control the oer roan Government conOnue tocontrolU; . believe that the spirit of free ~ into the hearts of Ger d?m C <1 a^flnc a welcome there Z7Z Z In W other hearts. But the splrlt of freedom, does notsrft ?P pan-Germans. Power the pa concentrated force * ?t * '^rCow how many tot, nations rome to us from one of the Oeotgl come more anxioU8 for Powers tlmt Power; ??> ? ?? ""lj: ?* > ? rT,"? C ??? " sr, 3" rrsr- - b*r nsrrrr. that they ? nationality to be and proper spirit a nau Lo absorbed fcnd dominated. J "Germany la determined before. Tliey Ueve been lu pert realised. Hut uever before have thoae imbitiooa been bused upon ao exact and precise and scientific u plan of domination. MAI?y 1 not ?a y that it in aiuaaiiig to me that any group of people ahould Ih' ho ill Informed an to auppose, as Home groups in Kuaala appa reutly suppose, tlmt any reforms planned In the interests ?f the i)wiite cau live in tho presence of a Germany i>owerful enough to undermine or overthrow thetu by Intrigue or force. \n| L\xly of free men that coMjHmi"** with the present Gorman government 1* 'Com pounding fur its own destrucu >11. Hut that Is not the whole of the story. Any man lu America, or anywhere e.ae who au pinnies that Uie frtxj Industry anil enterprlHe of the world tnu con tinue If the pan-Ueruian plan lu ' achieved and German power fitstOUC 1 upon the world, Is an fatuous aa the j dreamers of Russia. "What I am opposed to Ik not tho feeling of the pacifists, but their 1 stupidity'. My heart is with them, but 1 my mind has a contempt for thviu. I want iKtuee, but 1 know how to get It, , ami they do not. < "You will notice that I sent a friend of mine, Col. House, to Euroi*?, who U 1 as great a lover of peace as any man In the world ; but 1 did not Hend him on a peace mission ; I sent him to tako pnrt In a conference as to how the war was te be won, and he knows, as I know, that that is the way to got I>eace, If you want it for more than a few minutes. "All of this Is a preface to the con ference that I referred to with regard to what wo are going to do. If wo are true friends to freedom ? our own or anybody else'ac^-we will see that that power of this country and the productivity of this eountry la' raised to Its absolute maximum ami that ab solutely nobody Is allowed to stand In the way of it, . >Jr,i , ~ "When 1 say that nobody Is allowed to stand in the way, I don't mean that they shall be. prevented by the power of the government, but by the power of the American spirit. Our duty, if we are to do this great thing and show America to be what we believe her to be, the greatest hope and en ergy of the world, then must Ik? to stand together night and day until the job is finished. "While we are fighting lor freedom we must wee, among other things, that lalK?r is free; and that means a num ber of interesting things. It means not only that we must do what we have declared our purpose to do see that the conditions of labor arc not rendered more onerous by the war ? but also that we shall see to it that the instrumentalities by which the conditions of labor, are improved are not blocked or checked. That we must (1<>. That has been the matter about which I have taken pleasure in con ferring from time to time with your president, Mr. Gompers. And, if I may be permitted to do so, I want to ex press* my admiration of his patriotic courage his large vision and his statesmanlike sense of what is to be done. I like to lay my mind along side of a mind that knows how to pull in harness. The horses that kick over the traces will have to be put in a corral. ?"Now to 'stand together' means that nobody must interrupt the processes of our energy, if the interruption can possibly be avoided without the abso lute Invasion of freedom. To put it concretely, that means this: Nobody has a right to stop the processes of labor until all the methods of concil iation and. settlement have been ex hausted ; and I mi?ht at> wel1 my rlgUt here that I am talking to you alone You sometimes stop the courier of labor, but there are others who do the same, and I believe that I- ?n speaking of my own experiences not only but of the experience of others when I say that you are more reason able in a large number of cases than the capitalists. ??I am not saying things to them per sonally yet, because I haven't had a chance. But they have to be said, not In any spirit of criticism}' because I would like to see all the critics ex ported, Bit In order to clear the at mosphere and come down to business, everybody on - both -sides has got to transact business and the settlement is never impossible when both sides want to do the square and right thing. Moreover, a settlement Is always ha to avoid when the parties can be brought face to face. I can differ wim a man much more radically when Is not In the room than I can when he Is In the room, because then the awk ward thing is that he can came back at me and answer what I Kay- ** ** always dangerous for a man to haw the floor entirely to himself. And* therefore, we must insist in every stance that the parties come into each other's presence and there disouss the issues between them. . "Therefore, my counsel to yoe# this: Let us show ourselves Ameri cans by showing that we do not want to go off in separate camps or groups 10,000-T0NS- 10,000 VELVET BEANS IN POD We will buy them or grind them for you. Will pay highest market price. They must be properly cured. Can be gathered in bunches, not necessary to pick each pod separately. Also in market for corn, either shelled or ear corn State whether your corn is white, yellow or mixed. Ask for prices when you are ready to ship nam ing uantity you have. Call us over long distance phone or wire us at our expense. ADLUH MILLING CO. COLUMBIA, S. C. by ourselves, but that we want to co pperas with all other clause* aud all other groups' In a common enterprise, which Is to release the spirits of the world from bondage. "I would be willing to sot that up as the final test of an American. That is the meaning of democracy. 1 have been very much distressed, ray fellow citizens, by some of the thlugs that have hapi?ened recently. The mob spirit is dismaying Itself here aiid there In this country. I have sym patliy with what some men are say ing, but I have no sympathy with the men that take their punishment Into their own hands, and I want to say to every man vyho does join such a iuol> that I do not. recognize him as worthy of the free institutions of the United States. * * * And ho 1 want to utter my earnest proUvst against any manifestations of the spirit of law lessness anywhere or in any cases. "Why, gentlemen, look what it means: We claim to Ik; the greatest democratic j>eople in the world and democracy means, first of all, that we can govern ourselves. If our men have not self-control, then, they are not capable of thpt great thing which we eall democratic government. A man who takes the law into his hands is not tins right, man to cooperate in any form of or development of law and institution. And some of the pro cesses by which the struggle between capital" and labor is carried on are processes that Oome very near to tak ing tt*o> law into your own hands. I do not mean for a moment to compare them with what I have just been speaking of, but I want you to see that they are mere graduations of the unwillingness to cooperate and the fundamental lesson of the whole sit uation is that we must not only take common counsel, but that we must yield to and obey common counsel. "Not all of the instrumentalities for this ate at hand. I am hopeful that in the very near future ' new instru mentalities may be organized by which W? can see to it that various things that are no^r going on shall not go on. There are various i>rocesse? of the dilution of labor and the unneces sary : substitution of labor and trfd dlug in distant markets and unfairly npftetting tty? whole competition of labor, which ought ij^t to go-on-^I inatui^ no\y jnx tho part of employers ? aji& we ifiusi^terjoct Into this some Instrumentality of cooperation by wliieh the fair thing will be <loue all around,- I am hopeful that some such Instrumentalities may be devised, but whether they are or not we must use that we have, and upon every occasion whore it Is necessary to have such Hit Instrumentality organized upon that occasion If necessary. "And so, my follow citizens, the rea son that I came away from Washing ton Is thtot I sometimes get lonely down there. There are ko many j>eo pie iii Washington who know thing* that are not ao, and thero are ho few people in Washington who know any thlng about what the people ot tho United Htatotf are thinking about, I have to come away to scot reminded of the rent of the country ; I huve to come away and talk to men who are up against the real thing and day to them : *1 am with you if you tiro with mv ' - A hd the only teat of being with me it* not to think about me person ally at all, but merely to think of mo a? the exprewdon for tho time being of tho power nml dignity and hope of ?the United State*." , PERSONAL ADORNMENT Every normal woman desires to be attractive. The desire is natural and laudable. ? In the effort to render oneself attractive, there is nothing that affords as much aid as suitable JEWELS Jewelry, judicibusly selected, enhances every wo man's beauty. 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