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I referred in the beginning of this address to the fact that 

 when we started to school our ambitions were set high, and I re- 

 member the first day that I entered school a very good old man in 

 that district addressed us on the first morning in school, and urged 

 us to work up and build up. He said he might be talking to the 

 future President of the United States, That raised my ambition 

 greatly. I thought maybe that was me that he was talking to. 

 As I grew older I learned that we just elected one president every 

 four years, sometimes they served eight years, and some wanted 

 to serve more, and I became convinced that it was useless for me 

 to wait and wish to ever become President of the United States, 

 and then I thought that maybe sometime I might be Speaker of 

 the House, but after I got married I soon found who was the 

 speaker of the house. 



Again I say to you that I thank you for this opportunity, and 

 to say to you that my whole interest is to upbuild every institution 

 or industry in this State, and the one big interest is our agricul- 

 tural interest. Our great undeveloped section from which I come 

 is now attracting the attention of men from every state in the 

 Union and almost every civilized nation on the globe. We expect 

 in a few years to develop down there a country that will be as rich 

 as the famous Valley of the Nile. We invite men from all places 

 to come and help us to make good citizens of Missouri, and if meet- 

 ings of this kind can be held in every section of this State it will 

 redound to the future greatness and glory of Missouri. 



