The Masonic Fraternity is one of the most helpful mediating and conserving organizations among men, and I have never wavered from that childhood impression, but it has stood steadfastly with me through the busy, vast hurrying years.

I sincerely hope that the incoming Congress will be alive, as it should be, to the importance of our foreign trade and of encouraging it in every way feasible. The possibility of increasing this trade in the Orient, in the Philippines, and in South America is known to everyone who has given the matter attention.

The scope of modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the principles laid down by the old "laissez faire" school of political rights, and the widening has met popular approval.

There is no "but" in it. The way to be an administration Senator is to vote with the Administration.

That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.

Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!

We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.