Mohave County miner., 1916-10-14

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 And so the argument, the material argument, the argument about mar kets and crops and the products of the mines sink into relative unimportance when you consider the spiritual work that you are doing in making roads. You know there is an old saying that the lines between sections are oblit- erated only by the feet that cross them. There is a very genial saying of a great writer that he never could hate a man he knew. And sectional ism is based upon the radical danger of every nation, namely, ignorance. The only thing that really binds us is not knowing what we are talking about. The only thing that binds a nation together is the knowledge of it's several parts of each other.
 'My fellow citizens, I need not tell you that I did not come here to talk politics, but there is one thing that is pertinent in this connection which l cannot deny myself the privilege of saying. Any man who revives the is sue of sectionalism in this country is unworthy of the confidence of the ma tion. He shows himself provincial, because he himself does not know the various sections of his country, he shows that he has shut his own heart up in a little province and that those who do not seek the special interests of that province are to him sectional, while he alone is national. That is the depth of anti-patriotic feeling.
 "And that is my interest in good roads for my fellow citizens, my pres ent interest is chiefly in the national ization of America. We have creat- ed a great people. At least, if I may put it so, we have brought together all the elements, all the component parts, all the necessary characters and industries and all resources of a great nation. And we suddenly find that we are face to face with the problem of assembling these elements in the sense in which the mechanic assemblies the part of a machine. And having as- sembled those elements, we put them together for the creation of one union, to which the world shall look for it's example, for the great ideas of lib- erty.
 "Now, my Fellow citizens, we have had time and opportunity until the present to do pretty much what we wanted in America and to do different things in different parts of America. But just so soon as this great Euro pean war is over, America has got to stand for one thing, and only one thing, in the world, and she must be ready with united force. We can't play with the elements of our life any more.
 America came into existence not in order to show the world the most mo- table example it had ever had of the accumulation and use of material wealth, but in order to show the way to mankind in every part of the world to justice and freedom and liberty. So that the words I want you to carry in your mind in connection with this good roads cause are these: First, nation alization, getting all the flores of this great vital people united in a single organism; second, mobilization, get ting them so related to each other, so ordinated, so organized, so united that when they move they move as sin gle great irresistible force. And the third word that I want you to consider is the word I spoke that affords the key to doing these things. That word is the word cooperation. We have been trying to do things by combina- tion, by setting off one powerful group against another, by setting up groups in particular industries or speeches of our life which try to eX- clude all other groups by the power or by the method of their destroying contemplation. That is not the way to build a nation together. That IS the way to build it up into warning elements.
 "Instead of exclusive combinations, I want to see universal cooperation. There are good signs in the air. Have you not noticed how almost every great industry, every great profession, every year holds a congress of some sort. Why, even the advertising men, who, we thought, were the sharpest competitors in America, have a na- tional association in which they CO., operate. For what purpose? For the purpose of getting ahead of each Oth- CT? No. For the purpose of guiding one another and setting up standards,