The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-04

seeing that they are entitled to something
more of political rights than the privilege
of casting their votes and standing Loyalty
by the partys platform and candidates.
The government is for service to them as
we'll as they the servants of the govern
ment The day is passing when the peo-
pie will surrender for party eXpediency
their rights or follow blindly leaders who
use the party name merely because that
name best serves their personal inter
ests. You have right to a decent govern
ment and decent conditions under which
to live, but that right will not be granted
without continual fighting. 1t is no easy
task to which you are called, but it is
cause worth fighting for. | appeal to
the young manhood of the south. Wait
not until the hardest battles for good gov
ernment have been fought, but be in the
forefront and give to your native section
that position of leadership she has the op
portunity to clam--leadership in a cause
which will make for a better nation and
a freer people.
You and your age have right to better
social and industrial conditions under
which to live. We have been a rural peo-
pie, and however much some of us may
wish that for the peace and happiness Of
our section we might so remain, we must
recognize the fact that the die is cast
and that the south of the future must be
pie fail to heed the call that comes with
| these changing conditions. 1t is humanity
| that speaks in the demands of those who
| toll
| "The social service movements of the
present day are in answer to that call.
You have right to demand that the south
| take hold of these problems now which
must grow more complex as our prosperi-
| ty increases. We must prove to the world
that the men of wealth and the men
! whose fortunes are in Drawn and muscle
can live together in peace and good will;
| that the new industrialism does not mean
| the closing of the door of hope to multi
tudes of men and women; that more i'm
portant than the making possible larse
dividends are the lives of those who toll,
| and that every child has a right to a
physical and moral environment that viii
| give him a chance to live and to grow to
useful citizenship. 1 am not speaking of
that ideal condition when poverty will be
| banished from our land, but | do speak
| of the coming of a day when we will
deal with problems of health, of santa
ton. of housing, of hours of labor, of the
work of women and children, of vice and
| the agencies leading men astary, with the
| conviction that what counts most in the
| development of country is the saving
of Metaphysical, moral and spiritual.
Never before in our nations history
|
| place in the discussions of public affairs;
never before have moral issues been so
generally recognized as being the real
| questions of the day. Righteousness eX-
alteth a nation was not a message alone
for Isareal from Isarael's God. 1t is the
message for America in her day of an
awakening conscience. The fundamental
| principles of progress are moral and re-
ligious, and we fail of our duty to our
nation, fail to contribute our share in
helping to make permanent her leader
ship among the nations, If we use not this
| opportunity to keep before our age those
questions which deal with the moral and
| religious life of our people 1t is to tasks
such as these you have been called, you
who are strong; you who have right to de-
mand for your own age and for those
unborn that the battle against evil, how
ever strongly entrcnched, be kept up to
| the end.
| II ask not that there may be given a
| clearer understanding of wnat is the
right Your inheritance, your equipment
the ideals kept before you by this institu-
tion which has been used of Him in
whose name it's foundations were laid, to
the making free of many-all these have
contributed to the sum of your knowledge
of the right. 1 only ask that, knowing the
right, you may have the will to use the
strength that is yours
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