personal convictions that I would like to see operating in the United States and this convention, but it isn’t the time and I am not going to bring them up here.  I don’t want to say anything that will keep all of us from pulling together like a military army for the great things that this convention in the future is going to stand for.  So my final word is this:  That this day, we get right down to business and that we omit everything that we can omit pertaining to the permanent policy of this organization that we cannot all immediately agree upon.

“If there is going to be anything discussed here to-day that everybody in this convention won’t immediately agree upon and would hinder us from sending out to the nation word that we stand together and that we are going to pull together, that we caught a mighty vision and that we have gained the great spirit, then, brethren, let’s carry that thing over until November when all the boys come home and then we will discuss it there.  There are many things to-day that we can discuss that are important and fundamental and that are urgently needed in our nation this hour.  Let’s take those things up and get down to business on it to-day.  Every Executive Member from each State pledged the chairman last night that he was going to act as a sergeant-at-arms in his delegation and hold the convention in order to-day.  We are going to do the right thing and we won’t be ‘busted’ by anything or by anybody, and when anything comes up that isn’t the right thing for us to do to make a great impression on America, and the world, we will say hold that thing over until the baby is strong enough to do it right.

“I beg you to do those things.  Somebody said:  ’What are the things we can do to-day?’ We mentioned them last night.

“Jack Sullivan has problems out there that we must meet this very day.  One of those is this Bolsheviki business.  We are going to pass resolutions this very day, I believe, asking the United States in Congress to pass a bill for immediate action of deporting every one of those Bolsheviki or I.W.W.’s out yonder.” (Prolonged Applause.)

“Gentlemen, I know what I am talking about.  You don’t know how badly I do hate some of those guys.  If it hadn’t been for them I would have gotten on the boat in Newport News in 1918 for France, but because of those rotten scamps I was sent to Seattle, Washington, and had to stay there for seven months guarding the interest of the shipbuilding in the Western States.

“I was naturalization officer for our regiment and that division out there and I have had those scamps stand up and say:  ’Yes, I have been here fourteen years and have lived on the fat of the land, but we don’t want to fight,’ and they would deny citizenship papers or cancel their first papers.

“Now that the war is over, they are in lucrative positions and our boys haven’t got jobs; we’ve got to say, send those scamps to hell.”  (Prolonged Applause.)