The Art of Public Speaking - Section 40 | by Dale Carnegie & J. Berg Esenwein

Section 40 of the Art of Public Speaking. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Paul Adams. The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and Joseph Berg-Eisenwein. Section 40. Appendix D. Speeches for Study and Practice. Alton B. Parker. The Call to Democrats. From a speech opening the National Democratic Convention at Baltimore, Maryland, June 1912. It is not the wild and cruel methods of revolution and violence that are needed to correct the abusive incident to our government as to all things human. Neither material nor moral progress lies that way. We are called upon to do battle against the unfaithful guardians of our constitution and liberties, and the hordes of ignorance which are pushing forward only to the ruin of our social and governmental fabric. Too long has the country endured the offences of the leaders of a party which once knew greatness. Too long have we been blind to the bacchanal of corruption. Too long have we listlessly watched the assembling of the forces that threaten our country and our firesides. The time has come when the salvation of the country demands the restoration to place and power of men of high ideals, who will wage unceasing war against corruption in politics, who will enforce the law against both rich and poor, and who will treat guilt as personal and punish it accordingly. What is our duty? To think alike as to men and measures? Impossible, even for our great party. There is not a reactionary among us. All Democrats are progressives. But it is inevitably human that we shall not all agree that in a single highway is found the only roads of progress, or each make the same man of all our worthy candidates his first choice. It is possible, however, and it is our duty to put aside all selfishness, to consent cheerfully that the majority shall speak for each of us, and to march out of this convention shoulder to shoulder, intoning the praises of our chosen leader. And that will be his due. Whichever of the honourable and able men now claiming our attention shall be chosen.