injury
against the men who try to hold what they improperly have won, when
that day comes, the most awful passions will be let loose and it will
be an ill day for our country.

"Now, friends, what we who are in this movement are endeavoring to do
is to forestall any such movement by making this a movement for justice
now--a movement in which we ask all just men of generous hearts to join
with the men who feel in their souls that lift upward which bids them
refuse to be satisfied themselves while their fellow countrymen and
countrywomen suffer from avoidable misery. Now, friends, what we
progressives are trying to do is to enroll rich or poor, whatever their
social or industrial position, to stand together for the most
elementary rights of good citizenship, those elementary rights which
are the foundation of good citizenship in this great republic of ours.

"My friends are a little more nervous than I am. Don't you waste any
sympathy on me. I have had an A1 time in life and I am having it now.

"I never in my life had any movement in which I was able to serve with
such wholehearted devotion as in this; in which I was able to feel as I
do in this that common weal. I have fought for the good of our common
country. (Applause.)

"And now, friends, I shall have to cut short much of the speech that I
meant to give you, but I want to touch on just two or three of the
points.

"In the first place, speaking to you here in Milwaukee, I wish to say
that the progressive party is making its appeal to all our fellow
citizens without any regard to their creed or to their birthplace. We
do not regard as essential the way in which a man worships his God or
as being affected by where he was born. We regard it as a matter of
spirit and purpose. In New York, while I was police commissioner, the
two men from whom I got the most assistance were Jacob Ries, who was
born in Denmark and Oliver Van Briesen, who was born in Germany, both
of them as fine examples of the best and highest American citizenship
as you could find in any part of this country.

[Illustration: X-Ray Photograph Showing Bullet as it Remains in
Theodore Roosevelt.]

"I have just been introduced by one of your own men here, Henry
Cochems. His grandfather, his father and that father's seven brothers
all served in the United States army and they entered it four years
after they had come to this country from Germany (applause). Two of
them left their lives, spent th