Mohave County miner., 1916-10-14

that men have been exceedingly slow to learn, slower than any other lesson of cooperation in America. l pray God that their eyes may be opened and that they may see that the future of this country lies in their cooperation opinion, cordial, candid and not in their antagonism. Sometimes it is necessary in order to arrest attention to pull men up with a round turn and say: Stop, look, listen,' because, pres ently, if you don't, the great forces of society will correct the things that have gone wrong. Society is the jury. The parties are not going to settle. The nation is going to settle, and l am confident for the nation.
 "We have got to know each other. We have to cooperate with each other. We have got to stand together. That is all that politics is for. In a con test for office, it is contemptible, but as a combination of thoughtful peo- pie to accomplish something for the nation, it is honorable. If I could not be associated with a congress that did something I would quit.
 "Now talking through the hat,' ought to be a dead industry. It ought to be discouraged by silence and empty halls; and every man ought to have as a motto over the stage from which he speaks these simple words Put up or shut up.' I am ready to take my own medicine; if I don't put up, l am ready to shut up.
 q want to leave a very solemn thought in your minds. America is now about to experience her rebirth. We have been making America in pieces for the sake of the pieces. Now we have got to construct her entire, for the sake of the whole and for the sake of the world, because, ladies and gentlemen, there is a task ahead for us for which we must be very soberly prepared. I have said, and shall say again, that when the great present war IS over it will be the duty of America to join with the other nations of the world in some kind of league for the maintenance of peace. Now, America was not party to this war, and the only terms upon which we will be admitted to the league, almost all the other powerful members of which were engaged in the war and have made infinite sacrifices when we ap- parently made none, are the only terms which we desire, namely, that America shall not stand for national aggression, but shall stand for the just conceptions and bases of peace for the competitions of merit and for the gen. eral rivalry of liberty.
 Are we ready always to be the friends of justice, of fairness, of lib- erty, of peace and of those accommo- dations which rest upon justice and peace? In these two trying years that have just gone by we have foreborne, we have not allowed privation to dis turb our judgments, we have seen to it that America kept her poise, when all the rest of the world seemed to have lost its boise. Only upon the terms of retaining that poise and using the splendid force which all ways comes with boise can we hope to play the benefcent part in the history of the world which have just now in timated; so, my fellow countrymen, build upon these new roads in the con struction of which the federal govern ment is now to play so large a part, the spirit of nationality, the spirit of cooperation, the spirit of liberty, the power which only a free people knows how to acquire"