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1705038925 So we must put heart into the people by taking the heartlessness out of politics, business, and industry. We have got to make politics a thing in which an honest man can take his part with satisfaction because he knows that his opinion will count as much as the next man’s, and that the boss and the interests have been dethroned. Business we have got to untrammel, abolishing tariff favors, and railroad discrimination, and credit denials, and all forms of unjust handicaps against the little man. Industry we have got to humanize, —not through the trusts but through the direct action of law guaranteeing protection against dangers and compensation for injuries, guaranteeing sanitary conditions, proper hours, the right to organize, and all the other things which the conscience of the country demands as the workingman’s right. We have got to cheer and inspirit our people with the sure prospects of social justice and due reward, with the vision of the open gates of opportunity for all. We have got to set the energy and the initiative of this great people absolutely free, so that the future of America will be greater than the past, so that the pride of America will grow with achievement, so that America will know as she advances from generation to generation that each brood of her sons is greater and more enlightened than that which preceded it, know that she is fulfilling the promise that she has made to mankind.

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1705038927 Such is the vision of some of us who now come to assist in its realization. For we Democrats would not have endured this long burden of exile if we had not seen a vision. We could have traded; we could have got into the game; we could have surrendered and made terms; we could have played the rôle of patrons to the men who wanted to dominate the interests of the country—and here and there gentlemen who pretended to be of us did make those arrangements. They couldn’t stand privation. You never can stand it unless you have within you some imperishable food upon which to sustain life and courage, the food of those visions of the spirit where a table is set before us laden with palatable fruits, the fruits of hope, the fruits of imagination, those invisible things of the spirit which are the only things upon which we can sustain ourselves through this weary world without fainting. We have carried in our minds, after you had thought you had obscured and blurred them, the ideals of those men who first set their foot upon America, those little bands who came to make a foothold in the wilderness, because the great teeming nations that they had left behind them had forgotten what human liberty was, liberty of thought, liberty of religion, liberty of residence, liberty of action.

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1705038929 Since their day the meaning of liberty has deepened. But it has not ceased to be a fundamental demand of the human spirit, a fundamental necessity for the life of the soul. And the day is at hand when it shall be realized on this consecrated soil—a New Freedom—a Liberty widened and deepened to match the broadened life of man in modern America, restoring to him in very truth the control of his government, throwing wide all gates of lawful enterprise, unfettering his energies, and warming the generous impulses of his heart—a process of release, emancipation, and inspiration, full of a breath of life as sweet and wholesome as the airs that filled the sails of the caravels of Columbus and gave the promise and boast of magnificent Opportunity in which America dare not fail .

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1705038931 Notes

1705038932

1705038933 conquest of Constantinople by the Turk . In 1453, after a stirring siege, Constantinople fell to the Turks under Mohammed II.

1705038934

1705038935 unknown sea at the west, the Atlantic Ocean.

1705038936

1705038937 Columbus, Christopher （1436? or 1446-1506）, Genoese sea captain who discovered America in 1492.

1705038938

1705038939 Cathay, an old name for China; Cataya, of Tatar origin, from the Khatan or Kitan, who ruled in northern China in the 10th and 11th centuries; an old name said to have been introduced by Marco Polo.

1705038940

1705038941 half the globe, the American half of the globe.

1705038942

1705038943 the race, the human race, the people of Europe, in this particular case.

1705038944

1705038945 to found, to take the first steps or measures in erecting or building up;furnish the materials for beginning; originate.

1705038946

1705038947 delectable, highly pleasing; delightful.

1705038948

1705038949 pellucid, being transparent; clear.

1705038950

1705038951 defilement, pollution, foulness, dirtiness, uncleanliness.

1705038952

1705038953 vouchsafed, bestowed, conceded.

1705038954

1705038955 choke in the throat . Why?

1705038956

1705038957 the bright shores, of America, bright because the immigrants are happy at the thought that they have now arrived in a country where the future is bright with hopes.

1705038958

1705038959 steerage deck, in a passenger vessel the section occupied by passengers paying the smallest fares and receiving admittedly inferior accommodations, now usually on the lower deck in the bows.

1705038960

1705038961 an earthly paradise, a place of bliss on this earth; a place of supreme felicity or delight on this earth.

1705038962

1705038963 the oppressed, the people who have been oppressed in their own home land.

1705038964

1705038965 defraud, cheat.

1705038966

1705038967 tenet, any opinion, dogma, belief, or doctrine, held as true.

1705038968

1705038969 beacon, a signal, especially a signal fire on a pole, building, or other eminence, to notify of the approach of an enemy; hence, enlightenment, inspiration.

1705038970

1705038971 widen, make wider, enlarge, expand.

1705038972

1705038973 fuse, unite or blend, as if melted together.

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