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impair the value of their own government obligations.

April 25.

While capital waits outside the factory, the machinery within is silent, labor is unemployed and poverty prevails about the firesides of the men who toil.

April 26.

We must not be misled by phrases nor deluded by false theories.

April 27.

We are not a nation of classes, but of sturdy, free, independent and honorable people, despising the demagogue and never capitulating to dishonor.

April 28.

We should permit none to participate

in the advantages of our civilization who do not sympathize with our aims and form of government.

April 29.

After the lapse of a century since its utterance, let us, at length and forever hereafter, heed the admonition of Washington: "There should be no North, no South, no East, no West, but a common country."

April 30.

We want to stand by the great incorruptible judiciary of the country, which is our bulwark of safety in every hour of trouble and peril.

May I.

Our revenues should always be large enough to meet with ease and promptness our current needs and the principal and interest of the public debt.

May 2.

I am glad of the opportunity to offer without stint my tribute of praise and respect to the missionary effort which has wrought such wonderful triumphs for civilization.

May 3.

If, by mere fiat, whether it be fiat to the extent of fifty cents or to the extent of a hundred cents-if the government by

a mere act of Congress can make money -then all the work of Washington and Jefferson, Hamilton and Clay, and all of the financiers and statesmen of this country was mere idleness and folly.

May 4.

I do not care what you may choose as your occupations, there is nothing that will count so much, or mean so much, or wear so well as good habits and a spotless

name.

May 5.

It is in the quiet and peaceful walks of life where woman's power is greatest and most beneficial.

May 6.

Our national development will be onesided and unsatisfactory so long as the remarkable growth of our inland industries remains unaccompanied by progress on the seas.

May 7.

The guaranties of life, liberty, and of civil rights should be faithfully upheld; the right of trial by jury respected and defended.

May 8.

Our growing power must not be used to invite conflicts nor for oppression, but for the more effective maintenance of those principles of equality and justice, upon which our institutions and happiness depend.

May 9.

Honesty, capacity and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.

May 10.

A depreciated currency would work disaster to the interests of the people, and

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