The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-15
WARDS FOR PROFIT

'The board of directors has sat Tn Chi cago, and again resolved that they are the country. They have adopted the doc Urine of foreordination and predestination, but have made it applicable only to them selves.
 ''The rest of the people are their wards for profit.
 Ambition is noble attribute. but when it is adulterated with greed cataclysm is inevitable. We have recently witnessed the painful spectacle of two great Amer ican parties in Chicago putting self in place of ideals; self glorifcation, in place of national honor republicanism and pro- gfessvism, so called, in place of our only ism '-Americanlsm.
 We have witnessed the drab spectacle of two groups of men, trading principles like competitors in fish market in the hope that some compromise would win public support. They have not come to- gether-they have fallen out over the 'swag' For the sake of victory, many of these men, essentially opposite in prin- ciples, have been willing to become friends with false faces. The result is inevitable divided they fall. We are proud in the thought That united we stand We well come the pent up Americanism of the real progressives individually to our ranks, offering them haven in a princi- pie. Their leader has abandoned them with crass cruelty.
 ONE FOR ALL, ALL FOR ONE
 'The gentleman from Oyster Bay in al recent letter to Chicago quoted Abraham Licoln as saying: May not all having a common interest, reunite in a common ef- fort to save our common country?' La dies and gentlemen, I beg to call your attention to the word reunite.' The words Save the country have been the disguise of the opposition for years. There t11o in tc try, but that war only exists between factions Why did the gentleman quote the words of Lincoln in the hope of re- uniting Americans? No! Americans are reunited as never before. He meant by reuniting that two factions of his party should reunite. These two factions orl parts of them hoped to join for self az grandzement Leaders of these two fac tions-factions powerless as entities hoped to join hands, however strained and however divided, on irreconcilable le principles for the insidious purpose of overthrowng a third entity which for the past four years stood united in a common cause; whose shiboleth is one for all, and all for one, equal rights and special privileges to none; whose chief tenet of faith is that America is American and Americans are America.
 This is a crucial hour in the history of the world. It is an hour when every man should take stock of himself and his principles This is an hour when every one should see whether in his inner con seriousness he squares with the ideals of 1776, and the later periods of dramatic episode when this country resolutely maintained peace with honor.
 "The democratic party in the face of scandalous and vicious attacks has main- tained this great American ideal. While for peace, it has steadily and surely worked for continued and powerful pre- paredness It has maintained a solemn, calm dignity in the face of circumstances which might have drawn it into the masked vortex of a world destruction. Though villied by self seekers, it has maintained friendly relations throughout the world it has been true to the spirit of America: it has been true to the great principles of Washington, Jefferson. Mad ison and Jackson: it has allowed no sell fish interest to blind it to the fundamen- tals of it's faith. and the country has found that it's confidence has been we'll bestowed.
 'The democratic party has proven itself a party of principles, a party of construc-' tive ability, party of performance. It has proven that ideals can be realized. United we stand for America.
 Ladies and gentlemen of this great convention the elephant is dead. the moose is dead. Long live the American ca gle ''