Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-10-15
WILSON TELLS IRISH
IT IS TIME To- FIGHT
Addresses Famous Fighting
Seventh in Armoy at Chi
cago-Great Crowd

CHICAGO. Oct. 11.-Down in the
stock yards district of south Chicago
last night Governor Wilson faced an
other audience of gigantic proportions.
There were at least 15.0 900 in the audi
ence that found its way through mud
smeared streets to the Seventh regi-
ment armory. Profitfng by the expert
ences that he has had in the last few
nights with such vast concourses, the
governor made the shortest speech Of
the present tour. He spoke for twenty
minutes. He realized that it is impos-
sible to attempt am elaborate. presen-
tation of the issues in place where
not more than rs per cent of the
throng is within ear-shot and accord
ingly fitted his talk to the circum-
stances. Dundley Field Malone, whose
voice was fresher than that of the gov
ernor, jumped into the arena and sailed
into Roosevelt with both fists. The
crowd liked his line of attack and kept
him going for pretty near an hour.
THE FIGHTING IRISH"
The armory where the governor spoke
is the drill hall of what is popularity
known as "the Fighting Irish Seventh"
and that furnished the governor with
text in which he discussed the rea-
sons why the Irish and others left the
other side to settle in this country.
He said that while they had escaped
tyranny of arbitrary government on the
other side, they had not escaped the
private power of ,pfiyilege in this coun-
try. His speech ~. part, follows:
IT have in me avery Interesting and
troublesome mixture Of blood. got
all my stubborness from the Scotch.
and then there is something else that
gives me a great deal of trouble, which
/ attribute to Irish, At any rate 1t
makes me love scrap and so 1 know
that if 1 was to be privileged to speak
in this armory would be forgiven for
speaking in a somewhat militant man
ner."
CAS- 1 reflect upon the great bodies
Of people that have come to this great
country Of ours with the love of lib
erty in their hearts, not only the great
Irish people, but the great liberty low
ing men and women from every civil
ICED country on the globe; the great
people of liberty loving ireland, where
so much blood has been spent in the
cause of human rights; the ancient
italian people, whose love OF liberty
runs back to the days of the Roman
republic, the great slavic people, the
great people out of Sicily, the great
people from every quarter Of the globe,
who have come to America, in order to
be free, reflect upon this question.
what did they come to be freed
from? What was there that they want
ed to get rid of in the countries which
they took refuge. and made new home
for themseIvesY
WHY THEY CAME
What was it that these militant
people come to fight for? Why, they
came to fight for a release from arbi-
trary power Of every kind, and of every
degree; they came to fight against the
arbitrary power OF governments; the ar
fHeftfrE control of aristocracy; the arbi-
TRAY privilege of classes that did not al
low their privileges TO be interfered
with by the general interests of the peo-
pie. and when 1 thought whether they
had found what they came to seek or
not, l reflected upon the present CIR
cumstances of our political life. and 1
was glad that 1 was to be with some
representatives of the fighting seventh,
because it comes to me that there is
a great deal to fight for, If we are to
satisfy the expectations and the hopes
of mankind.
while these people have escaped the
open and avowed tyranny of special
classes and of arbitrary governments,
they have, not escaped IN America the
private power, of. privilege and Of, bor-
row SAA etAAAA wv - ~
ca we have found this that privilege
has crept upon us in the. dark, that priv
ilege has laid its hand secretly on the
government that men: who grow power
full, because of the very freedom of the
land in which we live, men who grow
powerful because of the very opportuni-
ties which the world has sought to share
with us, found presently that under the
shadow of the governments patronage
they could control the government itself,
found that the secret ways of power
were possible in America, where public
ways of power would have been i'm
possible in America.
What 1 have to ask myself as
States is this: DO the people of the
United States see distinctly what 1T is
that they have to fight, and have they
made up their minds that they are go
ing to tight it to the finish? For my
own part, it is perfectly evident what
there is to fight in the United States.
am not one of those who believe that
those who have maintained secret pow
ers in America are all bad men, who
mean to do a malevolent thing and to
change the character of government in
the United States. Many, of them are
men who havt been bred In a system
now perfectly obvious and patent to the
eye of every man to which they have
grown so accustomed, that they have
honestly come to believe that the gov
eminent of the United States is safe
only under the aegis of their influence
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