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individually guilty corporation officials.
Continuing be said:
Anything that is wrong must have
originated with some person in particu-
lar. When you have found that person
in particular and given him reason to
think it over in the penitentiary zap
pIause5 that sort Of thing is going TO be
stopped, and business is going to be re-
Iieyed of the embarrassment Of breaking
up his organization in order to stop the
practices. Do you see any other way of
interrupting the natural and normal
processes Of America business2 II you
will do that then all the prohibitions Of
your day will work, man will not use
corporations in restraint Of trade. and
item by item we can put in our statutes
what constitute restraint of trade, not
leaving it to courts for CONCENTRATIONS
which may fit some cases and not
others.
HOPE OF THE COUNTRY.
We have got TO wake up to the things
that are to be feared, and then divise the
particular methods by which they are
to be corrected. We are not yindictiye,
but determined men, with open eyes.
For, in the meantime, what is going on2
When / hear gentleman say that pol
itics ought TO let business alone, feel
like inviting the gentleman to first con-
slider whether business is letting politics
alone. 1t is a two-sided business; if
you will quit we will
II you want to find whether a nation
is prosperous or not, 60 to the country
districts and ask anxious fathers who
are looking for openings for their
sons, where they expect to get them in
where they find doors open and where
they find doors shut; 60 through the
places where men are making earnings
and see whether they dread or conf
IDENTIFY look forward to the future, and
then you will find whether America is
waxing or waning-for, il these men
are confident, full Of hope, if they know
they are going to have free chances, if
they know that the doors Of opportunity
are open to them, IL they know they are
going to get fair treatment wherever
they 60. then America can conquer the
world of enterprise in their hope. But
il you find, what you do find, men
everywhere are asking thems selves
whether the doors Of opportunity have
not been locked in their faces, then you
will have to take new reckoning as To
the future Of America. =
RELATION OF PEOPLE AND BUSINESS.
Il am the friend OF American bust
ness, because / know where its founda-
lions are laid and where they are weak,
and those foundations are solid only
when laid in the confidence Of the COM
mon people. Great applause.)
A Democrat Why, man does not
understand history who isn't a Demo-
GRAFT A man doesn't understand enter
prise who isn't Democrat. And let
me tell you this, Democracy is not
merely matter Of programmes is a
matter OF sympathy and insight. 1t
depends upon whether your heart is in
connection with the great heart of the
people or not. 1t does not depend upon
whether you can cunningly devise a
platform that looks firm and good or
not You can build flimsy platform
and stand on it successfully, provided its
basis is in the right kind or spirit. IT
is a matter OF seeing not from yonr
eyes out, but from the eyes of other men
in. Getting the vision that is in the
back OF the other mans head is the
thing, getting the hope that is the uni
versal hope; getting that impulse that
is the common human impulse, for
ward. And this world has been swept
by wave after wave of Democratic inn
pulse. It is being swept by it now.
The great waters are rising, rising, and
nothing prevents their fertilizing the
valleys except that stubborn, stupid
stand-pat dam. Great applause }
You can spell that word with three or
four letters, as you please. Uaughter.)