The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-10-12


So. friends here are the two cardinal
principles of the new nationalism which
I have illustrated. in the first place.
honesty efficient honesty; in the next
place. the right of the people to rule.
Now I emphatically believe that the
people show selfcontrol. self-mastery
No people are ne for self government
who can't show self-oontrol and self
mastery. and ne Is the worst enemy of
popular government who appeals 10 the
spirit of mob violence and seeks 90 in.
cite class or sectional hatred ANY man
who tries 10 rise 90 power by making
some of his fellow Americans hate other
of his fellow Americans Is an enemy 90
the body polite All that can lse done
io get our people as whole 20 think
coolly. To Go Justice. 10 dwell upon their
duties even more than upon
their rights. all that ought To lc done.
and 1t must Zoe done by the people for
4 themselves. and not by somebody else
: for the people Nou sceg That Is why
| I am against the boss especially I'm my
own state. daughter and applause
Some people say 60 me. Wei what
does the boss dor The boss prevents
them from doing anything that is
I wrong I say. An right hut don Q
want him 60 prevent them. want them
90 prevent themselves from doing any
thing wrong I believe that the people
should lse controlled. but I believe that
they should Doe controlled by themselves
not by any outsider not hy amy man
who says either hy trickery or 10y force
that he is going to see that they DO
what is right Nou cant run this
government permanently on that
hasis The only way you can
run this government permanently
il to appeal Go the conscience and the
will of the American people So that
thcy shall themselves insist upon doing
what N right The boss is ncgation ot
democracy. and you can't have real
republican form of government where
the boss fiourishes especially 3D. as in
mas own state. You find the boss plus
Wall street IL i, had combination.
and the first duty of an good citizens Is
to overthrow such combination
Now you take Wall str,-ef The men
who are honest in Wall street. and who
do mot want something to which they
ARE mot entitled. have nothing To fear
from the ncw uationalism. hut the man
in Wall street who wishes O. make "a
fortune hy selling Co somebody else pa
per which IN NOT worth anything that
man h perfectly right in drosding th,
new nationalism More than that th,
fhone~t but narrow rnindcd and mis-
guided man of great wealth who has
unfortunately grown to feel as IT hi.
lpo>ition AZ a man of great wealth sets
him aside from other men and give
him peculiar rights and peculiar powers
that man IL right i'm dreading the new
nationalism for we intend to shear hin
of thc power that doe, not belong q,
him Applause
! want YOU to remember. even so th'
p cost of repeating g. Let me SAY q
. You. my countrymcn. ~ that mar
was wronged. don care 10y whom,
would night for his rights. and hop
YOU would Too don't care hoy
wealthy he is. / would fight for IA
; rights 81 lac Is Wronged That man %
, "a hundred millions IL entitled % Jus
az good treatment as If he didn't hav
anything hat he il not entitled to ana
( better treatment Nou see the point
want 70 make, / don't want o. rob hir
10 of one single right that belongs o. "a
= American citizen. hut SAY he is %,
n entitled 20 any right that every othC
American citizen does not have or
e not entitled 20. Tina, Is what / moa
hy the new nationalism Nou can 81
IL simply means The application of ol
! morahtis-s 60 new conditions.
Nou viii meet worthy people VI
y, viii SAY. Well. why wasn't the systei
[, that was good e0ough for oar forefatl
n ers go,d enough for usg' Nou migl
A. Just Is we'll ask why You find 10 niece
: sary to usc farming implements th'
: We're not used hundred years ago ;
! your fOrefatherS here A hundred yea
~ ago the farmer could afford 10 do
: great many things that the farmer can
"a afford 10 30 now. The changed nee'
II have neceSSitatel the application
:" changed methods
I, 80 II ~ in our government life. Nhs