eir lives on the field of battle--I am
all right--I am a little sore. Anybody has a right to be sore with a
bullet in him. You would find that if I was in battle now I would be
leading my men just the same. Just the same way I am going to make this
speech.

"At one time I promoted five men for gallantry on the field of battle.
Afterward it happened to be found in making some inquiries about that I
found that it happened that two of them were Protestants, two Catholics
and one a Jew. One Protestant came from Germany and one was born in
Ireland. I did not promote them because of their religion. It just
happened that way. If all five of them had been Jews, I would have
promoted them, or if all five had been Protestants I would have
promoted them; or if they had been Catholics. In that regiment I had a
man born in Italy who distinguished himself by gallantry, there was a
young fellow, a son of Polish parents, and another who came here when
he was a child from Bohemia, who likewise distinguished themselves, and
friends, I assure you, that I was incapable of considering any question
whatever, but the worth of each individual as a fighting man. If he was
a good fighting man, then I saw that Uncle Sam got the benefit from it.
That is all. (Applause.)

"I make the same appeal in our citizenship. I ask in our civic life we
in the same way pay heed only to the man's quality of citizenship to
repudiate as the worst enemy that we can have whoever tries to get us
to discriminate for or against any man because of his creed or his
birthplace.

"Now, friends, in the same way I want our people to stand by one
another without regard to differences or class or occupation. I have
always stood by the labor unions. I am going to make one omission
tonight. I have prepared my speech because Mr. Wilson had seen fit to
attack me by showing up his record in comparison with mine. But I am
not going to do that tonight. I am going to simply speak of what I
myself have done and of what I think ought to be done in this country
of ours. (Applause.)

"It is essential that there should be organizations of labor. This is
an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must
organize. (Applause.)

"My appeal for organized labor is twofold, to the outsider and the
capitalist I make my appeal to treat the laborers fairly, to recognize
the fact that he must organize, that there must be such organization,
that it is unfair and unjust--that t