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is the one which seeks to array labor against capital, employer against employed.

May 29.

Business life, whether among ourselves or with other peoples, is ever a sharp struggle for success.

less so in the future.

It will be none the

May 30.

There is nothing so essential in a free government resting upon the people as education.

May 31.

Commerce is a great diplomatist. Fair trading makes fast friends. Commerce, like a circulating library, carries enlightenment wherever it goes.

June 1.

Education is one of the indispensable steps of mission enterprise and in some forms must precede all successful work.

June 2.

If you can make money out of nothing by the mere breath of Congress, then it is idle to impose taxes upon the people to bear the burden and expense of conducting the government.

June 3.

The young men are always an inspiration to me. They are the hope of the community, the State and the nation.

June 4.

Patriotism is not bound by State or class or sectional lines.

June 5.

Not only have some of the brightest pages of our national history been illumined by splendid example and noble efforts for public good, but her influences in the home, the church, the school and the community in molding character for every profession and duty to which our race is called has been potential and sublime.

June 6.

Our growing power brings with it temptations and perils, requiring constant vigilance to avoid.

June 7.

What is in the hearts and consciences of the people touching any public question

is not effective until it is written in public statute, and this can only be done through the exercise of the elective franchise in the choice of a Congress of the United States which makes our public laws.

June 8.

No flag ever triumphed over the American flag. It was never degraded or defeated, and will not now be when more patriotic men are guarding it than ever before in our history.

June 9.

Party lines are not strong enough to hold any patriot within them who believes that his party has ceased to represent the highest and best interests of our glorious republic.

June 10.

Our diplomacy should seek nothing

more and accept nothing less than is due

us.

June 11.

Reforms in the civil service must go on; but the changes should be real and genuine, not perfunctory or prompted by a zeal in behalf of any party, simply because it happens to be in power.

June 12.

From the plain American home, where virtue dwells and truth abides, go forth the men and women who make the great States and cities which adorn our republic.

June 13.

The home market is the best friend of the farmer. It is his best market. It is his only reliable market. It is his own natural market.

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