434 Presidential Addresses 



and they fought to put a stop once for all to any 

 effort to sunder this country on the lines of sec- 

 tional hatred; therefore their memory shall be for- 

 ever precious to our people. We need to keep ever 

 rn mind that he is the worst enemy of this country 

 who would strive to separate its people along the 

 lines of section against section, of creed against 

 creed, or of class against class. There are two-sides 

 to that. It is a base and an infamous thing for the 

 man of means to act in a spirit of arrogant and 

 brutal disregard of right toward his fellow who has 

 less means; and it is no less infamous, no less base, 

 to act in a spirit of rancor, envy, and hatred against 

 the man of greater means, merely because of his 

 greater means. If we are to preserve this Republic 

 as it was founded, as it was handed down to us 

 by the men of '61 to '65, and as it is and will be, 

 we must draw the line never between section and 

 section, never between creed and creed, thrice never 

 between class and class; but along the line of con- 

 duct, the line that separates the good citizen wherever 

 he may be found from the bad citizen wherever he 

 may be found. This is not and never shall be a gov- 

 ernment of a plutocracy ; it is not and never shall be a 

 government by a mob. It is as it has been and as it 

 will be, a government in which every honest man, 

 every decent man, be he employer or employed, wage- 

 worker, mechanic, banker, lawyer, farmer, be he 

 who he may, if he acts squarely and fairly, if he 

 does his duty by his neighbor and the State, re- 

 ceives the full protection of the law and is given 



