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come here and get certain valuable instruction, and go away and 

 apply it. Our own profits are greater, we are better citizens for 

 it, we carry it back to our neighborhoods and those who do not 

 come here cannot help but profit somewhat from our own 

 improvement. Then we are more wealthy, we pay more taxes, 

 the State has more money to appropriate for such things, and 

 more citizens go away and come back and benefit their com- 

 munities, and they all get more wealthy and pay more taxes, and 

 so on. There is that same round of things and it is doing good 

 all the time. One hundred and twenty-five years ago, or there- 

 abouts, there were very grave doubts whether a nation would be 

 established on this side of the Atlantic. England was trying her 

 best to see that there should not be one, but it was established. 

 About forty years ago there were some very grave doubts, here 

 and elsewhere, as to whether the nation that was established 

 could still exist. Those doubts have been settled and it does 

 exist, and no one has any doubts now that a nation has been 

 established and it can live and will live here on this side of the 

 Atlantic. Its prosperity is so great that it is even making the 

 old nations tremble with fear. Why is it ? For the very causes 

 that I have enumerated, — because the people are studying such 

 problems as this, because it is the people and not the governments 

 that are taking hold of the problems of the world. They are not 

 leaving it to the legislators. 



May we have more meetings such as this. May we have them 

 often and more widely spread, until every man is not only a self- 

 supporting citizen but an apostle of industry to all his neighbors. 



