The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.

The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and scarifice?

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

We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.

The army of Grant and the army of Lee are together. They are one now in faith, in hope, in fraternity, in purpose, and in an invincible patriotism. And, therefore, the country is in no danger. In justice strong, in peace secure, and in devotion to the flag all one.

Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.

Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.