OCTOBER 25, 1912
The Commoner
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and not expect that brutal and
violent characters, especially when
the brutality is accompanied by a not
too strong mind, they can not expect
that such natures will be unaffected
by it.
"I am not speaking for mynelf at
all. I give you my word, I do not
caro a rap about being shot, not a
rap. I havo had a good many experi
ences in my life, and this is only one
of thom. What I do caro for is my
country. I wish I wore ablo to im
press upon our people the duty to
feel strongly but to speak truthfully
of their opponents. I say now I have
never said one word against any op
ponent that 1 would not defend in the
laboratory. I have said nothing I
could not substantiate and I have
said nothing that I ought not to
havo said, nothing that looking back
at I would not say again.
"Now, friends, it ought not to bo
too much to ask that our opponents.
"I can not toll you of what infi
nitesimal importance I regard this
incident, as compared with thu great
issuos at stake in this campaign, and
1 ask It not for my sake, not for the
least In the world, but for the sake
of our common country, that they
make up their minds to speak only
tho truth, and not to uso tho kind of
slander and mendacity which, if
taken seriously, must lnclto weak
and violent natures to crimes of
violence.
"Don't you make any mistake.
Don't you pity me. I am all right,
and you can not escape listening to
tho speech, cither.
"Now, friends, what we who are
In this movement are ondeavonng to
do is to make this a movement for
justice now, a movement In which
we aBk all just men of generous
hearts to join with tho men who feel
In their souls that lift upward which
bids them refuse to bo satisfied
thomsolvcs whilo their follow coun
trymen and countrywomen suffor
from a verltablo mlsory. Now, frlonds,
what wo progressives aro trying to
do Is to onroll rich or poor, whatever
their social or industrial position to
stand together for tho most elemen
tary rightsof cood citizenship In this
groat republic of ours.
"My friends aro a little moro
nervous than I am. I have had an
A! time in life, and am having It
now
"I never In my lifo had any move
mont in which I was ablo to b tvo
with such whole-hearted devotion ae
In this, In which 1 was able to fool
as I do In this, that common weal.
I have fought for tho good of our
common country. (Applause.)
"And now, friends, I shall havo to
cut short much of tho speech that I
meant to glvo you, but I want to
touch on just two or threo of tho
points.
' In tho first place, speaking to you
hero in Milwaukoo, I wish to say
f.hat tho progressive party In making
its appeal to all our fellow citizens,
without any regard to their crucd or
to their birthplace
"Wo do not regard as essential tho
Tvay In which a man worships his
(cd or as bolng affected by where ho
was born. Wo regard It as a matter
of spirit and purpose.
"In Now York, whilo I was pollco
commissioner, tho two men from
whom I got the most assistance were
Jacob Hlls, who was horn In Don
mark, and Arthur von IJrioHon, who
was born In Germany, both of them
as fino examples of tho best - and
highest American citizenship as you
could find In any part of this coun
try. "I havo Just been Introduced by
one of your own men, Henry Coch
oms. His grandfather, his father
and that father's brothers sorved in
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