The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12

over the traces will have to be put
in corral.
.'Now to stand together means
that nobody must interrupt the pro-
cesses of over energy if the inter-
ruption can possibly be avoided with
out the absolute invasion of freedom.
To put 1t concretely, that means
this:
Nobody has right to stop the
processes Of labor until all the
methods Of Cancellation and settle
ment have been exhausted and I
might as well say right here that
am not talking to you alone. You
sometimes stop the courses Of labor,
but there are others who do the
same. And that l am speaking of
my own experience rot only, but that
am speaking of others. when say
that you are reasonable in larger
number Of cases than the capitalists.
am not saying these things to them
personally. yet because I have not
had chance. But they have to be
said not in any spirit OF criticism,
because / would like to see all the
critics exported. But in order to
clear the atmosphere and come down
to business. everybody on both sides
has got to transact business, and the
settlem ent is never impossible when
both sides want to do the square and
right things. Moreover, settlement
is always hard to avoid when the
parties can be brought face to face
II can idffer with a man much
more radically when he isn't in the
room than / can when he is in the
room, because then the awkward
thing Is that he can come back at
me and answer what I say It is
always dangerous for man to have
the floor entirely to himself. And
therefore we must insist in every in
stance that the parties come into
each others presence and there dis
cuss the issues between them and
not separately in places which have
no communication with each other.
II always like to remind myself of
a delightful saying of an Englishman
of past generation. Charles Lamb.
He was with a group of friends and
he spoke very harshly Of some man
who was not present. I ought to say
+ that Lamb suffered a little bit. And
one of his friends said, why Charles,
II didn't know that you knew So-and-
SOP
"'Oh,' ne said, don't. l can't
hate a man don't know
There is a great deal of human
nature, of very pleasant human ma
nature in that saying. 1t is hard to hate
a man you don't know. / may admit
parenthentically that there are some
politicians whoes methods / don't all
believe in but they are Jolly good
fellows If they would not talk the
wrong politics with me, / would love
to be with them.
and 80 it is along the line in seri-
GUS matters and things less serious.
! We are all of the same clay and
spirit and we can get together If we
desire to get together. Therefore my
counsel to you is: Let us show our
selves Americans by showing that we
do not want to get off in separate
camps or groups by ourselves, but
that we want to cooperate with all
other classes and all other groups in
a common enterprise, which is to re-
/ lease the spirit of the world from
bondage. 1 would be willing to set
that up as the final test of an Amer
lean. That is the meaning Of democ-
racy. I have been very much dis
tressed, my fellow citizens, by some
of the things that have happened re-
Gently. The mob spirit is displaying
itself here and there in this country
have no sympathy with what some
men are saying, but I have no SYM
pathy with the men that take their
punishment into their own hands;
and ! want to- say to every man who
dares join such mob that do not
recognize him as worthy Of the free
institutions Of the United States.
! There are some organizations In