The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23
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 Spirit of Civic Duty.
 Tn addition to each man caring for ms own well-being and the well-being of his family he must have that spirfs of civic duty. So with our nation. First, and as a foundation, we must have ma terial well-being, and I congratulate this state, and 1 congratulate the southern states, l congratulate the entire nation | upon the extraordinary prosperity which as nation we have achieved. We have our ups and downs. No law and the administration of no law can save any body of people from their own folly. If there is reckless over-speculation, just as sure fate there will be a partial collapse to follow 1t. There has been trouble in the stock market. in the high 1 financial word, during the past few months. The statement has frequently been made that the policies for which I stand, legislative and executive, are re- l sponsble for that trouble. Now, gentle | men, those policies of mine can be summed up in one brief sentence They | represent the effort to punish successful I dishonesty. l doubt if those policies have had any material effect in bringing about l the present trouble, but if they have it will not alter in the slightest degree my determination that for the remaining Is | months of my term those policies shall be l preserved unswervingly.
 Wrong Doing Unearthed.
 If to arose that type of civic manhood | III Oul IdtlOu IL WeIc IttCssdly tO SuiltT | any temporary commercial depression should consider the cost but small. All we have done has been to unearth the wrongdoing. It was not the fact that | it was unearthed that did the damage. | All l did was to turn on the light. am responsible for turning on the light, l but I am not respectable for what the I light showed. 1t is impossible to cut | out cancer without making the patient al gA.. Inx ..Aft t.Ar rfAI AIrAp tLa.. | he felt before. No material wellbeing l can save this nation if it loses the lift | toward higher things. I am well aware | that in any such movement as that in | which we have been engaged there are | sinister men who take advantage of the l movement to do away with the wrongs of | wealth themselves to inveigh against wealth.
 I will permit neither the demagogue l upon one side nor the reactonary on the | other to drive me away from the course or policy which I regard IS vital for | the well-being of this nation. And the ] thing most important to remember is ! that that policy has two sides. It would | indeed be evil day for this nation, it 1 would indeed mean the beginning of the | end of our national greatness If We ever | permitted in this republic there to grow | up a spirit which would discriminate
 
 business success There Is nothing baser and meaner than the hatred of the man who prospers honestly, simply because he has prospered, and I challenge the spirit of every good American when I say that the honest railroad man, the honest | banker and the honest business man, | the man who makes a fortune because | his exceptional business ability enables | him to render exceptional service to the hal ho snfr r,t nf every good American citizen when I say | he shall receive the amplest protection and be safeguarded against all injustice. l If ever there should be any temporary | gusts of popular feeling that would de- l mand what was wrong, what was un- righteous then the true servant of the people, the man who truly serves the interests of the people is the man who