The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, November 16, 1917, Image 7
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? 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
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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
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* ^lier, uuwi of *ote*ice lmd made hat
lnduetrloua perhaps the moat competent
Industrie* lit the wond, and the label
'wad* tn Ownrtu' v?a a guarantee
of good workmanalftp and of ma tor la I,
Hhe had tieeeea to all the markets of
the world and every other man who
traded La. those market* feared Ger
many because of her effective ami al
most Irreslstable competition. She* had
a phiee In the huh. Why waa alio not
satisfied? What more did ahc want?
There waa uothliiK 1" the world of
peace that she did not ol ready have
and have in abundance.
"We boast of the extraordinary pace
6f American advancement. We show
with pride the statistic* of the In
jereaee __of our Industries and of the
Imputation of our cltlea. 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;
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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
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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*." ,
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