The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-01

traditions run back into other national soils and there are some songs that stir us. There are some historical recollec- tions which engage our affections and stir our memories.
 We cannot forget our forebears. We cannot altogether ignore the fact of our essential blood relationships and at the outset of this war it did look as if there which might lead us to some errors of judgment and some errors of action. But l for one believe that that danger is past. I never doubted that the dan ger was exaggerated because I had learned long ago, and many of you will corroborate me by your experience that it is not the men who are doing the talking always who represent the real sentiments of a nation I for my part always feel a serene confidence in wait ing for the declaration of the principles and sentiments of the men who are not vccferous. do not go about seeking to make trouble, do their own thinking, at tend to their own business and love their own country and, therefore, have at no time supposed the men whose voices contain, seem to contain, the threat of division amongst us, were really utter ing the sentiments even of those whom they pretended to represent
 'T for my part have no jealousy of family sentiment. I have no jealousy of that deep affection which runs back through long lineage. It would be a pity if we forget the fine things that oar an- cestors have done. But I also know the magic of America. I also know the great principles which thrill with emotion in the great body polite to which we be- long in the United States. I know the impulses which have drawn men to our shores. They have not come idly. They
 have not come without conscious pur- pose to be free. They have not come without voluntary desire to unite them selves with the great nation on this side of the sea, and I know that when ever the test comes every mans heart will be first for America. And wherever they come from, it was the principle and affection and ambition and hope that drew men to these snores. And they are not going to forget the errand upon which they came and the America which they have made their refuge and their hope will not suffer by any forgetful- ness on their part. The troublemakers have shot their bolt and it has been in- effectual Some of them have been very vocferous.
 TALK IS CHEAP
 "All of them have been exceedingly Talk was cheap and that was all IL cost tHeIl, they uiu ioI iio NO to do anything But you will know with out my telling you that the man who for the time being you have charged with the duties of President of the United States must talk with deep sense of and he must remember, above all things, the fine traditions oi his office.
 'There is misapprehension that l want to remove from your minds. Don't think bou n talk about these things because l doubt whether they are going to be done or not-I don't doubt it for a moment-but I believe that when great things of this sort are going to be done the people of this country are entitled to know just what IS pe- ing done As a friend of mine sald am not arguing with you; am telling you.' l am not trying to convert you to anything, because l know Tn your hearts you are converted already. But I want you to know the motive TOT what is proposed and the character or what is proposed in order that we should nave only one attitude and counsel With regard to this great matter
 oIt is being very sedulously spread abroad in this country that the impulse back of all this is the desire of the men who make the materials of war to get money out of the treasury of the United States. I wish the people that say that could see meetings like this. Did you come here for that purpose! Did you come here because you are interested to see some of your fellow citizens make money out of the present situation?. Ot course you did not. l am ready to ad- init that probably the equipment Of those men whom we are training will have to be bought from somebody; and know that if the equipment is bought 1t will have to be paid for, and dare say that somebody will make some money out of it.
 "It is also true that there are men now, a great many men in the belliger- ent countries who are growing rich out of the sale of the materials needed by the armies of those countries If the government itself does not manufacture everything that an army needs somebody has got to make money out of 1t, and l, for my part, have been urging the Con- gress of the United States to make the necessary preparations by which the government can manufacture armor plate and munitions. So that being in the business itself and having the ability to manufacture all that it needs, if it :- pit upon business arrangements, it can at any rate keep the price that it pays within a moderate and reasonable limit
 NOl lO DC lNkI OOCD O4N
 "The government of the United States is not going to be imposed upon by any body and you may rest assured, there- fore, that while I believe you prefer that private capital and private initiative should bestir themselves in these mat ters, you will, nevertheless. believe that 1t is also possible. and I assure you that It is most likely, that the government of the United States will have adequate means of controlling this matter very thoroughly indeed So there need be no fear on that side. Let nobody make you suppose that this is a money making agitation. I would, for one, be ashamed to be such a dupe as to be engaged in 1t if it had any suspicion of that type.
 But I am not as innocent as I look and I believe that I can say for my col | leagues in Washington that they are just as watehful in such matters as you | would desire them to be.
 1T know that there are some things | which stir every heart in America, no natter what the racial derivation, or the