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Kipling says: 



If you can keep your head when all about you 



Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; 

 If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, 



But make allowance for their doubting you; 

 If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, 



Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, 

 Or being hated, don't give way to hating, 



And yet don't look too good or talk too wise; 



If you can dream and not make dreams your master, 



If you can think and not make thoughts your aim. 

 If you can meet with triumph and disaster 



And treat those two imposters just the same; 

 If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken 



Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools; 

 Or watch the things you give your life to, broken 



And stoop and build them up with worn-out tools; • 



If you can make one heap of all your winnings. 



And risk them on one turn or pitch and toss. 

 And lose, and start again at your beginnings. 



And never breathe a word about your loss; 

 If you can force your heart and nerve to sing 



And serve your turn long after they are gone, 

 And so hold on when there is nothing in you 



Except the will which says to them "Hold on!" 



If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, 



And walk with kings, nor lose the common touch; 

 If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, 



If all men count with you, but none too much; • 

 If you can fill each unforgiving minute 



With sixty seconds worth of distance run; 

 Yours is earth and everything that is in it. 



And, which is more, you will be a man, my son. 

 (Applause.) « 



We ask that for our sons, and we must have it for our boys, and it is 

 for us to set the example which will bring them to that fruition of man- 

 hood which makes a true and fine American. 

 I thank you! (Applause.) 



President-elect Scholfield: We will now hear the report of the 

 resolutions committee : 



E. W. Williams : 



REPORT OF THE RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE 



Your committee on resolutions beg to report the following: 



Resolved, That the Iowa Fair Managers in meeting assembled do re- 

 quest the American Trotting Association at its Congress to be held in 



