Arizona republican., 1913-02-11

life than to have conviction. Some l times I wonder whether I have any myself Sometimes l have to put my own conduct, my own action, my own thought, my own feeling and purpose upon a dissecting table, and try to find out whether I have a conviction or not There is vast difference between a conviction and a prejudice. So many people in this country act from pure prejudice There are all sorts of prejudices there is the pre- judice of ignorance. and ignorance of our institutions is one of the most baneful influences in our civilization. There are people who gave Dr. John sons reason: 'I do not like you pr. Fell. the reason why l cannot tell; but this I know and know full well T do not like you Dr. Fell" Then there is the prejudice of party fealty. You will pardon me to this extent in referring to partisan politics. I do not want the democratic party to get any smaller than it is now. O4aughter) There is the prejudice of party feeling. Let me tell you what mean by that. l remember m 1896-I guess some more of you re- member that year too-there was delegate to the congressional conYen- tiOn in the state of Indiana who ad dressed an inquiry to the presented candidate for the democratic nomina- tion, and said: "Win you be kind enough to give me your views on the silver question?'' This was the answer he received: Surely, don't you lllsOW that our party when it held it's national convention determined what our views are on the silver question: Gaughter)
 Then there is the prejudice of personal interest, and that is the most difficult prejudice to overcome that we have in America.
 And we are determined that if 1 the legislation of this country is to be l so controlled as to benefit us indi- vidually. then of necessity it must l be such legislation as will benefit l the whole people. So I might go i on enumerating prejudices in this l country which people take to them | selves and assume to be convictions: ! Now. they are not convictions: they l are simply the. personal predilections | of the individual voter in the coun- l try. So that to obtain a conviction i in this republic of ours it requires ! vast learning. deep study of tn, problems of the government; and i 1 requires somathing more than that it requires an hour of peace that thu ; same sacrifices shall be made for tn, 1 good of the republic that he woult
 dare to make in an hour of war.
 Theoretically speaking, niney- fiv,
 
 are democrats. I do. not mean b.
 that, voting the democratic ticket. { am talking no partisan politics thi
 afternoon. say, theoretically speak
 ing. ninety five per cent of the peo
 pie of America are democrats
 democracy is what I conceive it t
 be. sentiment and attitude of minC
 an outlook upon the whole, rathe
 than the course and the conduct tha
 the average man assumes in a com
 munitS. From that outlook I mea
 that democracy is the christianity (
 politics. It's master is the golden rul
 which teaches that whatever yo
 would have men do unto you, yo
 should do even unto them.
 Ninety five per cent of the peep
 of tfis country agree that this prime
 pie should be put into force in u
 afnlrs of men in the republic, if if what? Ii thereby it did not brea
 lHD my party; if it does not put n
 Ndt of office. I never could unde
 stand why the man who made u dictionary made fir but one word 7 the word that should be the bigge | word in the English leXacon. It
 [ the ifs that we fear The theor . tical democrats of this country g - their democracy from Thomas Jeffe ! son. Thomas Jefferson got his i'd !. from French revolutions. He taug 1. what we have been teaching