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that the people love, the honor of a
position in that body will be re
served as a people's prize with which
to roward those who have proved
themselves capable of discharge
of public duties and men to bo
trusted with the people's interests.
(Applause.) Is it not worth wait
ing a while to win such a victory as
thjs?
"I must not talk longer. I think
I have said enough to show that I am
enjoying the present conditions.
"A few years ago they called me
a dreamer. I remember there was
a sort of an epidemic of charges of
that kind. (Laughter.) I think
that within two or threo months
there were three or four public men
who made that in speeches. I think
Speaker Cannon was one. (Laugh
tor.) I think Senator Cummins was
another, and I think the governor of
Indiana was another. And Senator
Beveridgo came to my own town and
made that statement that I was a
dreamer, that I just dreamed things.
"Well, I do not pay much attention
to every charge that is made against
mo (laughter) I haven't the time
but this was made by several men, so
I thought that I ought to take notice
of it, but when I did attempt to take
notice of it I understood in what po
sition I was, how futile for mo to put
my feeble denial against the charge
of four great men, so I looked up
the subject of dreamer and I found
that the dreamer is not so bad a
man after all.
"I found many dreamers spoken
of in history. I found, for instance,
that Joseph was spoken of as a
dreamer. Not only that, but it was
said his brothers scorned him be
cause he was a dreamer. (Laugh
ter.) And, if you remember, when
his fathei sent him out where his
brothers were keeping their flock they
saw him coming and they said: 'Be
hold, the dreamer is coming,' and
they plotted against him and they
put him into a hole. I suppose that
is the language in which they de
scribed the feat. (Laughter.) And
then they sold him to the merchant,
showing that the merchants have
not changed much in all this time.
They carried him down into Egypt,
and they got rid of the dreamer.
xiiuu to uic na; iiivjr aiwu.j'O get
rid of dreamers. That is the way
they think they get rid of them
just carry them eff where they can
not be heard of.
"But after a while there was a
famine in the land and they went
down to Egypt to buy corn, and when
they got there they saw the dreamer
there, and ho had the corn. (Laugh
ter and applause.) And so, I con
cluded that it was not so bad after
all to be a dreamer, if you have the
point.
"I think it was John Boyle O'Reil
ly who said that the dreamer lives
forever, while the toiler dies in a
day. Someone has said that if you
visit the great cathedrals of the old
world you will find that back of
every cathedral there was a dreamer,
atid sometimes it took centuries to
build his dreams into a structure, but
that when it was done people would
travel from all over the world to see
the building, and the name of the
dreamer was remembered, while
those who did merely the toiling
were forgotten. (Applause.)
"No, it is too much to be a dream
er. My work has not been suffi
ciently important to put me in the
class with the dreamer. I have not
originated. I have simply taken the
things that I thought were good.
I tested them in evey way I could,
and when I felt that they were things
that were true I have had faith in
them and have been willing to hold
on to them. (Applause.)
"I have done the best I could
since I began, but I have been so in
terested in the building that I have
counted the number of those who
worked, and not the time when they
began to work, and I rejoice tonight
that in this country we have people,
regardless of party name, who are
building according to the plans of
justice, who are trying to make this
government more and more a
people's government, who havo faith
in the people. They do not beliovo
the people will bo free from mistakes
if they control their government, but
they believe that the people havo the
right to make their own mistakes,
and that no few peoplo havo a Cod
given right to make mistakes for the
rest of them. (Applause.)
"Lot the peoplo make mistakes,
if they will. They will not make as
many against themselves as others
will make against them. (Applause.)
And when they make mistakes, they
will bear them moro patiently be
cause they made them and they will
correct them moro quickly because.
they are the ones who suffer by
them.
"I can not tell you how happy I
am to see what has taken place in the
last few years. You know I can not
illustrate this situation as it looks
me let me tell you how it looks.
It looks like a great criminal trial,
whore the defendant was a man of
means and influence and enabled to
employ the best counsel. The case
went on, the defendant contesting
every inch of the ground, not only
disputing every point raised, but
breaking down tho character, if pos
sible, of every witness introduced by
tho prosecution.
"And after employing all the tac
tics known to criminal law, tho caso
is finished, and then the attorney for
tho defendant arises and says: 'Your
honor, I desire to withdraw the plea
of 'Not guilty' and enter a plea of
'guilty;' the defendant throws him
self on the mercy of the court.' (Ap
plause and laughter.)
"That is the situation today. To
day the defendants havo admitted
their guilt. Today tlie predatory
wealth stands confessing before the
bar of public judgment that It has
disgraced the name of business, and
what President Wilson is trying to
do is to separate honest business
from dishonest business, so that
honest business will not bear the
odium of dishonest business. (Ap
plause.) "His election has already accomp
lished a great deal. It has answered
one threat that was brought up every
four years since I remember, and
that is: 'If you interfere with tho
pickpockets, they will bring on a
panic' (Applause.)
'.'Here we have a president elected,
a senate elected in harmony with
him and a house overwhelmingly
democratic, and yet business goes
right on. And today the American
'people understand that reform does
not mean the destruction of pros
perity. It means the monopoly that
the few have had of that prosperity
shall be broken and that the people
who produce shall have their share.
(Applause.)
"Do you think 'that the country is
going to suffer if we have a more
equitable distribution of the proceeds
of toil? How can it suffer? You can
not by any sort of logic, you can not
by any sort of of arithmetic convince
yourself that the country is going to
suffer by a more widely distributed
prosperity, and if President Wilson's
election means anything it means
that the government is to be ad
ministered by the people's represen
tatives in their behalf and for the
benefit of all the people, and that
privilege shall not have the advan
tage it has had in the past, but that
equal rights to all and special privi
lege to none will be embodied In
every department of this government.
If I thought that it was to mean
that this country was to suffer, I
would not be in favor of it.
1 "I believe that no theory is good
which is not good in practice, but
I have been taught in tho old school
that morality Is as important In busi
ness and In government as it is in
privato affairs. (Applause.) If I tell
ray boy that ho ought not to steal or
must not steal, I do not then enforce
that commandment upon htm by tell
ing him he is likely to be caught. I
tell him that ho can botter afford to
havo something stolen from him than
to steal from anybody olso, and it is
an attempt to inject a little morality
into this life of our country that
caused such a commotion when the
peoplo did not understand what it
was about.
"If I talk any longer, I will mako
a speech (applause) and I am not
hero to make a speech. I belong to
that department of the government
where secrecy is enforced (applause)
and if I have not been able to keep
quiet entirely Just remember that I
am tap.ering off and that if you think
I am talking long, then please re
member how long I used to talk and
give me credit for it. (Laughter
and applause.)
"I havo told you that I am not
to blame for these things, but I get
much more credit than I deserve.
And let mo tell you that If I have
done anything at all, if I have even
In any small part been instrumental
in helping this great cause, I owe It
all to the advice I received when I
was a boy.
"My father did not leave me much
money, but he left me a little pieco
of advice that I think was worth
moro than any fortune that he could
have left mo. Ho died before I was
21, but even at that early age he
had impressed upon my mind one
maxim, one piece of a'dvice, and I
would like to Impress it on all that
aro hero, and through you impress
it upon tho minds of thoso with
whom you may come in contact, and
if I am entitled to any credit at all
I give him tho credit. If I havo done
anything at all, it is because ho
taught mo this way of doing It.
"He told mo I could afford to be
In the minority, but that I could not
afford to be wrong on any question.
He told me that if I am in the mi
nority and right I would some day bo
in the majority, but if I was in tho
majority, and wrong, I would some
day be in the minority. (Applause.)
"He helped mo to have faith in
tho triumph of righteousness, and,
my friends, if any of you lack faith
now in the triumph of righteousness,
you Just wait until Mr. Wilson has
carried out his plan, and every man
will be converted to the doctrine.
There is nothing in this world that
is certain except the triumph of the
truth, and if it were not for that
there would be nothing to inspire us
to strive.
"And, back of it all, what differ
ence does it mako whose name Is
taken upon the people's lips today?
Wo are not compelled to render an
account of these things, but all that
God requires of us is that wo shall
do each duty as it comes, and if we
do our duty we contribute toward
the end, whether it comes now or later
on. Fortunately for us, it is coming
In our lives, and wo can rejoice to
see about us these evidences of the
triumph of those fundamental ideas,
and in their triumph a new genera
tion will find inspiration for better
things, and when their work is done
they will see more progress even
than wo have been able to observe.
I thank you." (Long continued ap
plause.) "The Henry Clay of the present
administration," is the way Cardinal
Gibbons characterized William Jen
nings Bryan, in expressing his re
grets that he was unable to attend
the dinner given in honor of the
secretary of state by Mr. Grasty.
"My engagements were so press
ing," said the cardinal, "that, much
as I desired to take part and meet
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