| Show o MER PRESIDENT I PRINCIPlES r l FOR WHICH HE STANDS i Janel Speaks at Madison I Square Garden in New NewYork NewYork York Continued from Pago Page 1 estall It b by tho the kind of a move move- I nt In hl which we V arc are now now engaged I I Our movement Is one of oC resolute In- In tence upon tho tiro rights and full of tho duties of every everyn in n n and ever every woman oman within this great d id of ours Wo Yo war against tho the ces of ot evil and the tho weapons we use the weapons capons of 01 right We 0 do not nott t t- t greed against greed g Or Ot hatred hatred Our creed Is one ono that la lis lisIS us IS bo be Just to all to feel teel sympathy r all in and to strive for an undo under of tho the needs of ot all Our purMo puree pur- pur Mo so ee Is to smite down wrong ronS But tord to- to 1 rd the VI a o Ti who h have done rinna MIA rho wrong rana 6 feel e only the i kindliest dItt ph charity I t th that t compatible with causing rousing tho the wrong wrong- w cease We preach hatred to no man and fc spirit in which we wo work wort is as far moved from vindictiveness as from akness ak e s. s We Vc are arc resolute to do away th the evil ll and we wo intend to prod pro- pro ed d with such wise and cautious san- san yas as n. n f will causo cause the er very minimum of or that Is compatible with our purpose ter t r Prime Factor We do not for forget et that we wc arc nt not t to substitute law for char char- ter We c are arc merely merch proposing to character by law We Ye fully cognize that as has been true truo In the tho st so It Is true truo now and ever will willoe wille oe e rue that the prime factor In each tan lan or womans woman's success must nort nor- nor t tally lally ll bo be that man or womans woman's own character character the sum of or man many u but above abO all of the tho qualities of or courage and of or common ense ease Nothing will avail a ration nation IfIl if Il micro liero ro is not the right type oC or char char- eter among the average n. men and ana omen the plain people the hard decent living right thinking cople ople who wake waIte make malto up the great lk of oC our citizenship I 1 know my I 1 know that they aro are 0 of liis type But It is in civil ci life lite as It Is Isi Isi isi i i war wat In war It Is the man behind the then theun theun un un n that counts most yet he cannot do doIs dois Is work unless he has the right kind hind f f gun In civil life In the every da day fe of our nation It Is 15 individual char char- eter which counts most and yet et the i U character cannot avail unis un- un is ss in addition thereto there lie ready r js J hand the social weapons which 1 can j 3 forged forge only by bj law and by public pinion operating through and operated POll pon b by law For Tor Human nJ night Again friends do not tor forgot forget et that were were we wo wore re proposing no new principles the golden We preach reach back to the tho rule and the sermon he on mount They Thoy reach rench back bacle to the commandments com com- delivered at Sinai Sina o All that we are aro fhe the doing Is l to aPPly t these peso cX doctrines In ln shape necessary ary ry to make mako them available for tor issued mooting the l sues of or our ur own ow day Wo We decline issues to be bound by the tho empty little t out and dried formulas or of b bygone e gone ne Philosophies Philosophic useful once Perhaps but 2 useless now Our purpose pur- pur pose poso Is to s greed greedy y cunning as we t Wot brutal ai fo and andare wo are aro a not to tn he h. diverted 1 from this Purpose u pose by the n appeal f to the dead dogmas of ot advanced n n past f Wo Yo propose to lift the tho burdens from Crom the lowly Jowly and tho the we weary wear from the poor and the e oppre oppressed lI ed d. d We propose to stand nd for tor or tho Si sacred e rights of childhood and find womanhood Nay more we propose to nee eo that manhood Is s not crushed out of or tho the men who toll b by excessive hours of or labor b by under payment by Injustice and oppression When this purpose can only be secured by b- tho collective I action or of our people I through h their governmental agencies we propose so to secure it We Va brush brusha a aside tho the ar arguments of or those who seek seck to bar action by the repetition of ot some formula about states rights' rights or about the history of or liberty being tho the history his his- of ot the limitation tory ton of ot governmental power or ot about the duty nt of or the courts finally to determine the meaning of or tho constitution T W Te c e arc are for human rights 11 and we Intend to work for fOJ them in n effi efti- efficient clent fashion rT Where There here the they can bo be best obtained b by the application of or tho doctrines doctrines doc doc- trines of ot states states' rights then wo we are for tor states states' rights tA Where In or order er to obtain them it Is 19 necessary to Invoke tho the power of ot the nation then 1 wo s shall Invoke to Its uttermost limits that mat mighty power Against Oppression We fie are for tor liberty But wo we are arc for tho the liberty of ot the tho oppressed and not for the liberty of or tho the to oppress oppress op op- op- op press the weak and to bind burdens on on the shoulders of ot tho the heaY heavy laden It Is idle to ask us not to exercise the power lower of ot the government gO when only b by the power of ot government can we curb tho the greed that exists in high places when only b by the exercise of tho the government can we exalt the lowly Jowly and t give Ivo heart to the humble and tho the down lown trodden We Ye care for facts ft and not for tor formulas Wo Yo care car for deeds eeds and not for tor words Wo We reco recognize no sacred acred ri right ht ht of ot oppre oppression slon Wo Ve r recognize cog cog- nize no divine rl right ht to work injustice We 0 stand for tho constitution Wo Vo recognize that one of er Its most useful functions I Is tho protection of property But Jut we will not consent to make o of ot the tho he constitution a fetich for tho protectIon protection pro- pro of fossilized wrong tonS We Ve call tho ho attention of these who thus internet interpret inter inter- pret net it to tho the fact tact that in that great instrument of ot junco life lito and liberty are ore put on a full tull level with property indeed are enumerated ahead of ot It In Inho Inthe inthe the ho order o of their Importance Courts Court ire Are Wo Ro stand for an m upright judiciary But where the judges claim tho right to o make our laws by finally InterpretIng Interpret Interpret- Ing ng them b by finally deciding whether or r not we have havo the power to mako make them then hen wo we claim tho the right ourselves to exercise that power We Yo forbid any men nen no matter what their official position position po- po ma may b be to usurp usurp tho the right which Is s ours the right which is tho the peoples Vo We 0 recognize in neither court nor congress congress congress con con- gress nor president any divine right to override the tho will of the people expressed expressed ex- ex pressed with due deliberation in ord orderly fashion Cashion and through h the forms of law Ve We progressives hold that the words of ot the declaration of independence as is t given effect to b by Washington Va and as fiB construed and applied b by Abraham Lincoln Lincoln Lin- Lin coln oln aro are to bo be accepted as real and not as aM empty phrases We Ve believe that Inen in very ery truth this Is a fi government b by tho the people eople themselves that the constitution constitutions Is s theirs That tho the courts are aro theirs that hat all tho the governmental n agents and a are arc theirs We nil all true tr leaders ot of tho believe that people eople must stand for tor ht honesty fearlessly t a 5 and must what toll 11 the he ther p and honor r demand But we no less strongly for tor the peoPle Insist that I it t Is themselves decide all Questions finally to to have theIr decision or of policy and n made effective to n De Kept In the platform formulated b by the tho party We and our faith In ri clearly and n o- o every vital at Issue before this have point declared people We have OUr position on the trusts and on the tho tariff on the tho securing genuine popular machinery for tor on the method ot of government of ot the tho farmer of the meeting busIness the needs and man of the man who In time the mine tolls with his hn 1 s or on the railroad In the factory on the shops There Thero Is not a promise be kept o wo we 0 Our have r n made that will not platform Is ls n n- covenant with the tho r oni people fe l Ot of tho the United States and if we a are given tho the o power wor will live to ohn we wo w wIn up that covenant in letter Jotter and In spirit We Vo know that thoro there are aro In life lite Injustices Injustices in In- In justices s which Mh wo no arc powerless to remedy but w tt wo c know also that there I s much injustice Which can be rome- rome and this Injustice wo we Intend to remedy Recognize Xo No Sectionalism Sc We know that the tho long long- path leading lealIn upwards upwards o tray to Oho light cant cannot he be trav- trav at onto oneo nc or In ln a. a a da day or In ln a year but there thero are certain steps that can be bo taken at once These rhese wo we Intend to take Then having having- taken these first steps we shall see Bce more lore clear clearly how to walk valk Still further or with a 1 v a stride Wo Wn do not l- l t Intend to att attempt Pt the tho Impossible But there Is much ver very m much lV that Is ls possible In the way Vay of ot righting righting- wrong wrong- and remedying Injustice injustice tice and all that Is la possible wo we Intend to do A Ae We e intend to strike down to equalize opportunity to wrest Justice from the hands that do injustice tice to hearten and strengthen men tacit and women for tor the hard battle of ot life Ufe Vo Wp stand shoulder to shoulder In a spirit of real brotherhood Wo We reco recognize nize no difference of or class clas creed or oJ birthplace Wo Ye recognize no section section- Our appeal h is made to time the easterner no no loss less than to the westerner Our appeal Is mado made to tho the southerner no less than to tho time northerner Wo We 0 appeal to the men who wore tho limo gra gray Just as fiS we appeal to the mon men who wore the blue 11 Wo Ve a appeal to the sons Bons of ot the themen themen themen men who followed Lee Lee- Leeno no less than to the thc sons of or tho mon who followed Grant for the tho memory of tho the great preat deeds of both Is 15 now not part of the common common common com com- mon heritage of ot honor which belongs to all our people wherever they dwell Seek Seck Justice for All We Wo firmly believe that the tho American I people feel teel hostility to no man who has lias honestly won success R We e e firmly believe behove that the tho American people ask ash only Justice Justice each for aims himself if and justice each for tor all others They rho are against wickedness In rich men and and poor ioor mon men alike They are against lawless and murderous violence exactly as they fire are against the sordid naturalIsm naturalism naturalism natural- natural Ism which seeks seek wealth by trickery and cheating whether on a a. largo large or a asman small scale They wish to deal honestly honestly honestly hon hon- estly and in good faith with all men They recognize that the prime national need Is for tor honesty honest honesty honest In public life lito and in private life honesty in n business business business busi busi- ness and In politics honesty In the broadest and deepest ee significance of or tho the word ord Wo Wro e progressives pro are trying to represent represent rep rep- resent what we tte know to bo be the highest Ideals and the deepest and most moyt Intimate Intimate intimate Inti Inti- mate convictions of ot the tho plain man and woman of the tho good men and und women who work for tho the home and within tho the home lome Our people work hard and faithfully faith falth- fully they do not wish to shirk their work They must feel teel prIde in the work for tor the works work's sake sako But there those must be rift bread for the tho o Ther n a must must 1 bo 0 a time i for o i pi play wh when th the tho men find and women art aro young oung When they grow row old there must be tho certainty of or rest under conditions free tree from the tho haunting care of ot utter poverty We Wo 0 believe that no Ufo life Is 18 worth anything unless It Is a life lito of ot labor and effort and endeavor Wo we believe In the Joy that comes with work erk for tor ho lie who labors best Is really happiest Wo Vo must shape shap conditions conditions conditions condi condi- so BO that no one can own tho spirit of the man who loves lo his task taek and gives Ives tho the best there is in him to that task and It matters not whether this man reaps and sows sowa and wrests his livelihood from the rugged reluctance of or tho the soil Boll or whether with hand dr brain ho he plays his Isla part in the tremendous tremendous tremendous dous Industrial activities of ot our groat great cities We 0 are striving to meet tho time nee needs s of ot all these men and to meet them In such fashion that t all alike shall feel bound together In tho the bond of or a common brotherhood whore where each works hard for tor himself and for tor those dearest to him and yet et feels that ho must also think of or his brothers brother's rights because he I is In very truth that brothers brother's keeper Seven Soven months ago o In this city almost at nt the beginning of the present campaign cam cam- I spoke as follows The leader for tor the tho time being whoever whoever who who- ever fer he lie ma may be is but an Instrument to tobe tobe tobe be used until broken and then to bo be exist cast aside and If lr he ho is worth his salt he ho will care no more when ho ha Is hs broken than a soldier cares when ho he is sent Bent where his life lite Is forfeit In order that the victory may be won In tho the long iong fight for tor righteousness the tho watchword for tor all Is 18 spend and be spent It Is la of ot little matter whether any man falls fails or succeeds but tho time cause causo shall not fall fail for Cor it Is Js the tho causo cause of or mankind Wo We hero here in America hold in our hands s the tho hope of ot tho the world the faith of or tho the coming coming- years und and shamu shame and raco will bo oura ours if It In our eyes OOS tho the light of or high resolve Is dimmed If It we wo trail Inthe in inthe inthe the dust tJust the golden hopes of ot men Friends w what lat I said Bald then I say now Surely there thero n never vcr was a greater opportunity than ours Surely there thur never was as a fight better worth making than this thiN I 1 believe wo t shall hall win but butwin butwin butwin win or lose I am glad Iad be beyond ond measure that I am ono one of or the tho many who in n this fight have o stood ready to spend and bo spent pled pledged ed to fight while life lito lasts the great fight for rl righteousness and for tor brotherhood an and d for tor tIt tho o welfare of ot mankind |
