The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-14
TELLS HOW
NATION STANDS

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movement of the age are now about
to yield their argument. l will not saw
their Will. They seem to be acting I'M
DER compulsion; they are beginning to
yield their argument to the common
judgment of the nation. Because I find
In discussing questions of business
contrary to the impression which pre-
walls in some editorial rooms-that in
speaking to men of business, | am
speaking to men whose vision is
swinging around to the path which the
nation has marked out for itself.
This nation is full of honorable
men who have been engaged in large
business in a way in which they
thought they were permitted to do,
both by their conscience and the laws.
But they have had their eyes close to
their ledgers; they have had their en-
ergies so absolutely absorbed in the
undertakings with which they were
identified industriously that, until the
nation spoke loud, they have not
raised their eyes from their books and
papers and seen how the things they
were doing stood related to the for
tunes of mankind.
Beginning to See.
Now they are beginning to see
these relationships, and to feel the
refreshment of men who look away
from a particular task and extend
their eyes to the fortunes of men ~
ing outside their usual ken, beyond
tfeir touch-the great bodies of men
who, along with them, hope and strug-
gle and achieve. l believe that l am
not mistaken in seeing these new pur-
poses come into the hearts of men
who have not permitted themselves
hitherto to see what they now look
upon.
You cannot whip a nation into
line. You cannot drive your leaders
before you. You have got to have Il
spirit that thrills the Who body, and
l believe that that spirit now is be-
ginning to thrill the whole body. Men
are finding that they will be bigger
business men as they spend some of
their brains on something that has
nothing to do with themselves, and
that the more you extend the use OF
your energy, the more energy you have
got to spend even upon your own af-
fairs-that enrichment comes with the
enlargement and that with the enrich
n.ent comes the increase of power
Men, in the last analysis, even in the
narrower field of business, ave a griL
upon their fellow men in proportion
as they enjoy the confidence and adj
miration of their fellow men. \ mar
can accomplish a great deal more il
business by the belief that the people
have in him, than by the fear that hi
Inspires. And some men have made
the profound mistake, so far as theil
individual success is concerned, of try.
ing to succeed by fear and not b.
persuasion.
Il suppose some people have tn
idea that 1 love to fight just for TIL
fun of it. Now that is not in the leas
my temperament. l am really a yer.
tame, amenable person; but l do low
to feel in my blood the splendid sat
isfaction of fighting for something
something that is bigger than myself
and trying for the time at least, t.
think I am as big as the thing i an
fighting for. That is solid satisfac
ton. And when l can for the tim
being, represent the democratic part,
and find that the nation as a Who'll
is more and more coming to believ
that the democratic party can DO tn
thing the country has been waiting
for, then l enjoy the immense salts
faction of being a part of the thini
that is So much bigger than l am tina
l can dream at any rate, that l al
taking my own measure by the thin
belong to.
Now that is the kind of thought w
are permitted to indulge in today
swearing allegiance to one anothe
that we are not going to allow our
selves to be caught in the old entangle
ments. hat is what l have sworn t.
And the enterprise is easy, because a
| told some gentlemen in Chicago, w
have asked for and obtained a chang
of venue. The jury is not now the sc
kSSeSo Jei IA"S ""S i"o W -
summoned and always consisted Of tn
same persons-but it is a jury consist
ing of all of the people of the Unite
States, n that jury will stand by a
to the last ditch.
And with that jury back of yol
you can smile at all the gentleme
who meet in corners and in privat
rooms and arrange to beat YOU. TIL
thing cannot be arranged. The gam
cannot be set up. Because all tn
walls are taken dow now and you ar
cut in the pen If you want to set u
your game, come here in the center c
the ring and let us see you set it III
And if it is the right kind of settin
up, you will not mind setting it u
here in our presence Inc in the pres
ence by representation, of all the pee
pie of the United States.
Il feel no bitterness for anythin
that has happened. There are som
gentlemen, who fear, think ! have en-
tertained bitter feelings toward then
whom I would like TO see and graS