Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-11-13
CAPITAL AND LABOR.

NOW TO STAND the ground mean
| that nobody must interrupt the pro
| cesses, of our energy, If the interrup
ton can possibly be avoided withou
the absolute invasion of freedom. TX
put it concretely, that means this: No
body has right to stop the processes
of labor until all the methods of con
Citation and settlement have been ex
hausted; and might as well say right
here that am not talking to yor
alone. You sometimes stop the
courses of labor, but there are others
who do the same. And I believe thai
I am speaking not only of my own ex.
perience but of the experience of 9th
ers, when say that you are reason.
the capitalists.
ARBITRATION NOT DIFFICULT.
"a settlement is always hard to
avoid when the parties can be brought
face to face. can differ with man
much more radically when he is not in
the room than l can when he is in
the room, because then the awkward
thing is that he can come back at me
and answer what / say. And therefore
we must insist in every instance that
the parties come into each others
presence and there discuss the issues
between them. We are all Of the same
clay and spirit and we can get togeth-
er if we desire to get together. There
fore my counsel to you is this:
LET us show ourselves Americans
by showing that we do not want to go
off in separate camps or groups by our
selves, but that we want to cooperate
with all other classes and all other
groups in common enterprise which
IS to release the spirits of the world
from bondage.
DEPLoREs MOB SPIRIT.
THE mob spirit is displaying itself
here and there in this country. I have
sympathy with what some men are
saying but I have no sympathy with
the men that take their punishment in
their own hands; and want to say to
every man who does join such mob
that do not recognize him as worthy
of the free institutions OF the United
States. There are some organizations
in this country whose object is an
archy and the destruction of law but l
would not meet their efforts by max
ing myself partner in destroying the
law
1--WE claim to be the greatest demo
cratic people in the world, and democ-
racy means, first of all, that we can
govern ourselves If our men have not
self-control they are not capable OF
that great thing which we call demo-
cratic government. The fundamental
lesson, Of the whole situation is that
we must not only take common coun-
sci but that we must yield to and obey
common counsel.
FORECASTS NEW FACILITIES.
mot all the instrumentalities for
this are at hand. am hopeful that in
the very near future new instrumental
tiles may be organized by which we
can see to it that various things that
are now going on shall not go on.
"And so, my fellow citizens, the rea-
son that came away from Washing
ton is that / sometimes get lonely
down there. There are so many PEG
pie in Washington who know things
that are not SO, and there are SO Few
people in Washington who know any
thing about what the people OF the
United States are thinking about, ]
have to come away to get reminded OF
the rest of the country; have to come
away and talk to men who are up
against the real thing and say to them
7 am with you If you are with me-.