Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-13
here and there IN this country.

here and there IN this country /
have sympathy wish what some of the
men are saying, hut / have no sympa-
thy with the men that take punish
ment into their own hands; and
want to say TO every man who does
join such mob that ! do not recog-
nize him as worthy of the free institu-
tions Of the United States. There are
some organizations in this country
whose object is anarchy and the de-
struction of law, but / would not
meet their efforts by making myself
a partner in destroying the law.
despise and hate their purposes as
much as any man but i respect the
ancient processes of justice and j
would be too proud not to see them
done justice, however wrong they are.
And j do want to utter my earnest
protest against manifestations of the
spirit OF lawlessness anywhere or in
any cause.
Why, gentlemen, look what IL
means: We claim TO be the greatest
democratic people in the world and
democracy means first of all that we
can govern ourselves. If our men
have not self-control then they are
not capable of that great thing which
we call democratic government. A
man who takes the law into his own
hands is not the right man to CO.
operate in any form of. or develop
ment 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. l do not mean for a moment
TO compare them with what / have
just been speaking Of, but ! want you
to see that they are gradations of the
manifestations of the unwllngness to
cooperate, and the fundamental les
son of the whole situation is that we
must not only take common counsel
but that we must yield to and obey
common counsel. Not all Of the in
strumentalities for this are at hand.
am hopeful that in the very near
future new instrumentalities may be
organized by which we can see TO IL
that various things that are now going
on shall not go on. There are various
processes of the dilution of labor and
the unnecessary substitution of labor
and bidding in distant markets and
unfairly upsetting the whole competi-
ton of labor, which ought not to go
on mean now on the part OF EN-
ployers-and we must interject into
this some instrumentality of co-opera-
tipn by which the fair thing will be
done all around. ! am hopeful that
some such instrumentalities may be
devised, but whether they are or not,
we must use those that we have and
upon any occasion where II Is neces-
sary, to have such an instrumentality
originated upon that occasion, II
necessary.
And so, my fellow citizens, the rea-
son that l came away from Washing
ton is that l sometimes get lonely
down there. There are so many peo-
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 to talk to men who are up
against the real thing and say to
them, 81 am with you II you are with
me-" And the only test OF being with
me is not to think about me person
ally at all, but merely to think OF me
as the expression for the time being
Of the power and dignity and hope OF
the United States.