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those pink little bodies, those millions of children, that appeal to us for 

 help? If we are able to stand upon our own feet and yet not do what 

 ought to be done without fear or favor of any man whatsoever, — if we 

 cannot do it for them, God knows what kind of blood runs in our veins. 

 And what do I want for her? What do I want for her? I know she is one 

 of the 26 million now, 50 million by the time she comes to womanhood, 

 and I want her to have every opportunity because she is going to share in 

 government; I want her to do her share and have the right spirit, for 

 you fair men are engaged, not only in producting products, and your fairs 

 are a success only insofar as you are organized, but you are engaged in 

 building character in the state of Iowa and in this old nation of ours. 

 McCauley said, referring to America, one hundred years ago: "America, 

 I appeal to the twentieth century." And today, in the great industrial 

 era that has come upon the world, it would try men's souls as it would 

 try our economic systems, but it is the duty of each one of us to be true 

 and sweet and fine and strong so that we may go out and we may say as 

 the poet said: 



"My task accomplished, and the long day done. 



My wages taken, and in my heart some little lark singing." 



Character, gentlemen, is something more than our fairs, it is more than 

 anything in the world. Character has given us the great line of states- 

 men whom you and I remember today with such endearment. Character, 

 nothing but character, gave us the boy in the back-woods of Kentucky, 

 who brought us through four years of fratricidal strife, that great name 

 that stirs with increasing power within us, that name, L.ncoln, of whom 

 Ingersoll said "He has the sweetest spirit in our world." (Applause.) Jan 

 Smuts gave forth a great sentence when he said "The tents have been 

 struck, and the great caravan of humanity is once more on the march." 

 It is on the march! The backward places of the world are stirred as 

 they never before were stirred; this nation is stirred as it never before 

 was stirred; this is a time of flux. But remember, we live under no 

 tyrannical government. We live under the flag that has always looked out 

 upon the turmoil of the world with ideals of brotherhood and fellowship. 

 We must suppress our grumbling, for of all nations we are the most 

 blessed, and it is for us to see every morning, as we look at the golden sun- 

 rise of another day, the blessings and privileges of being a part of our 

 American life. 



I am going to tell you a story in closing. In the old days the great epi- 

 grammitist Antipater of Sidon prepared a list of the seven wonders of the 

 world, and I wonder if I can tell you what they were. Now, note the 

 character of these wonders, for they came down to my time as the seven 

 wonders of the world. First, there were the pyramids of Egypt, built to 

 commemorate the life, and to act as a tomb, for some tyrant king. Next, 

 there were the wonderful hanging gardens of Babylon. Legend has it 

 that King Ninus married Semiramis, a hill woman, and on the plains of 

 Mesapotamia where she lived she became lonely for her native hills, and 

 so King Ninus built her those gorgeous hanging gardens. That is two. 

 Then there was the Statue of Zeus by Pheidias at Olympia. That was 

 three. And the fourth was the Temple of Diana at Ephesus. When Paul 



