Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-10-24
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BIG CROWDS ON THE
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shall agree with nations that the rights
of humanity are greater than the rights
of sovereignty.
Therefore, modern society has new
set of problems to meet. 1t has to say
if the employer will not voluntarily es-
tablish the proper conditions of labor
the law must oblige him to establish the
proper conditions OF labor. If he will
not voluntarily be human and fair, ht
must be obliged to be human and fair"
The president made complimentary
reference to the big manufacturing COM
pany which recently voluntarily estab
lished an eight-hour day without re-
ducing pay and continued:
THE spirit of the thing is even bet
ter than the thing itself. 1t is the rec,
ignition of their partnership as human
SPIRITS with the men who are doing their
work
, 81 am happy to say that all
over the United States men have begun
to have that sort of enlightened hu-
manitarianism that il you treat
a man like a human being he will work
for you with heart as well as hand.
II have said before, and I say again,
.rat one of the things that mos;
deeply distressed me in the recent
conference of the heads of the rail-
ways and their employees was to find
that there was a profound mutual mis-
understanding, distrust and hostility.
something is wrong when the men
who are working together at the same
thing do not trust one another and
that wrong thing rests, l am profound
ly convinced. upon ignorance: it rests
upon not associating with each other
i'm the kind of conference which will
enable them to understand one an
other.
politics, my friends, consists of
something that you can almost ex-
press in the formula get together.
Try to understand what the common
task is, and all take part in it in
the same spirit, because politics is moth
ing but a systematic attempt to keep
the law adjusted to the real facts, keep
the law behind the real handsome, help
full constructive forces of society and
you cannot do that unless you under
stand society. When l see some
gentlemen running amuck I am perfect
ly aware that they do not see that they
are destroying the delicate fiber of the
very thing upon which their business
depends namely, the social structure
itself, and that by running recklessly
against the interests of other people
they are really checking the enterprise
which they think they are promoting.
"If you are wrong you will get II
knocked out of you and if you are right
you will help knock it out of other peo'
pie.
what difference does it make that
you think a thing as a Republican, If II
is wrong? What difference does it make
a thing as a Democrat, If it is not true
. And what difference does a party
make, or party's interests make, as
compared with the interests of the ma
tion itself?
A demonstration lasting more than
FIVE minutes greeted the president al
the meeting of the New Citizens al
lance at the stock yards pavilion to-
night. Men stood on chairs and cheer
ed, waving their hats. The president
stood and bowed again and again.
The preliminary speakers were con-
stantly interrupted by shouts Of will
son, Wilson" When the president
rose the crowd. led by Governor
Dunno, stood and cheered unroariously.