Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-13


vision and his statesmanlke sense of
what is to be done. | like to lay my
mind alongside of mind that knows
how to pull in harmony The horses
, that Kick over the traces will have
TO be put in corral.
10 stand together means that no.
! DC dy must interrupt the processes of
| cur cnegy II the interruption can pos
| sibly be avoided without the absolute
invas son Of freedom. To put it con-
cretely that means this: Nobody has
a right to stop the processes of labor
, until all the methods of Cancellation
and settlement have been exhausted ::
! ana | might as we'll say right here that
am not talking to you alone You
sometimes stop the courses of la Dor,
! Tut there are others who do the sa me-
l believe | am speaking of my own ex-
periences, not only but of the expert
ences of others, when | say that YOU
are reasonable in larger number of
cases than the capitalists. | am not
saying these things to them PERSONAL
~ yet because | haven't had a chance
But IN order to clean the atmosphere
ana come down to business, everyone
on poth sloes has got to transact bus
mess ana the settlement is never i'm
possible when both sides want to do
the square and right things Moreover.
Il settlement is always hard to avoid
When the parties can be brought face
TO face. | can differ with a man much
more radically when he isn't in fine
room than ! can when he is in the
ROOM because then the awkward
thlnG IS that he can come back at me-
ana answer what | say. 1t is ALWAYS
dangerous Tor a man to have the toor
entirely to himself Therefore, we muct
| ilSlst IN every instance that the nar-
tleS come into each others presence
ana there discuss the issues between
them ana not separately in places
Whlch nave no communication win
each other
always like to remind myself Of
Il delightful saying of an Enslishman
OF a past generation. Charles Lamb Ha
! was with = group of friends. and ba
! NpoFt Very harshly of some man who
. was not present. | ought to saw rha,
Lam" suffered little bit. And one
ct his friends said: Why. Charles T
old not know that YOU knew so-and-so ,
On he said, I don't. can't hate
man know
lhHre Is great deal of human ma
lure oI very pleasant human nature in
that saying. II is hard TO hate a man
YOU know may admit parenthetical-
~ that there are some politicians whose
hethods 90 not at all believe in bur
they are Jolly good fellows and If they
only would not talk the wrone, kind of
politics with me L would love to be with
&c all ,ro
III serious matters and things less seri
Jus we are All of the same clay and
spirit ana we can get together if we de-
sire 70 get together Therefore, my
counsel to YOU is this: Let us show
ourselves Americans by showing that we
90 not want to go off in separate camns
or groups by ourselves but that we want
TO cooperate with all other classes ana
IAN other groups in common enterprise
which is to releas the spirit Of the world
from bondage
Condemns Mob Violence
would be willing to set that up as
the final test of an American That is
the meaning of democracy | have been
very much distressed. my fellow citizens
pened recently The mob spirit is dis
playing itself here and there in this
country. ] have sympathy with what
some men are saying, but / have no
sympathy with the men that take ther
punishment into their own hands; and
| want to say to every man who does
Join such a mob that ] don't recognize
him rs worthy of the free institutions
of the United States There are some
organizations in this ountrv whose OBJ
iect is anarchy and the destruction Of
law, bat ! would not meet their efforts
by making myself a partner in destroy
ing the law
Il despise and hate their purposes as
much as any man, but | respect the an
cient process Of justice and | would be
too proud not to see them done Justice
however wrong they are. And so want
to utter my earnest protest against any
manifestation of the spirit OF lawless-
ness anywhere or in any cause. Why.
gentlemen, look what it means I claim
this TO be greatest democratic people in
the world and democracy means. first Of
al. that we can govern ourselves. IF
our men have not self-control then they
are not capable of that great thing which
call democratic government.
n man who takes the law into his
hands is not the right man to CO.
operate in any form Of or development
of law and institution. And some Of
the processes by which the struggle
between capital and labor is carried
on are processes that come very near
TO taking the law into your own
hands. | do not mean for a moment
to compare tAem with what | have
Just been speaking of. but | want YOU
to see that they are mere graduations
of the manifestations of the unwilling
ness to cooperate and the fundamen-
tai lessons of the whole situation is
that we mus, not only take common
counsel. hut that we must WELD to and
obey common counsel.
Not all Of the instrumentalities for
this are at hand. but l am hopeful that
in the very near future new instrument
talities may be organized by which we
can see to it that various things that
are now going on shall not 90 on
There are various processes of the
dilation of labor and the unnecessary
substitution of labor. which ought not
to 20 ONT mean now on the part Of
we must interieCt into