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recollections of old associates for things in this line that did not 

 involve infidelity in any direction. The foreman struggling to keep 

 liquor out of his camp, the scaler maintaining his integrity against all 

 comers, the cruiser working day after day with no man's eye on him — 

 nowhere will you find finer examples of competence, loyalty, and 

 courage than among these classes. Physical ruggedness, of course, 

 went along with it that was ready for any hardship. Twenty-five 

 years from now it won't be believed that there ever were such men 

 as the old New England and Lake States lumbermen. 



Of course I know there's another side to all of this. I have, in 

 fact, suggested it; but the useful thing, I take it, oftentimes is tQ a 

 certain extent to idealize. It is worth while, and desirable in this 

 case, to see the good points in a class of our fellow-citizens. What 

 I believe myself is that lumbermen have contributed a distinct and 

 valuable element to what President 'Wilson has been cailing the 

 "spiritual capital" of this country. 



The third point I wish to emphasize is the necessity, the indis- 

 pensableness of industry, and here again I can enter the subject best 

 from a personal reminiscence. On one of those expeditions I spoke 

 of at the start, I remember our noticing the scarcity of local help to 

 properly man a contemplated enterprise. "That's all right," said one 

 of the men along. "That will take care of itself. There is never 

 any trouble but that when you get to doing business men will come 

 to you." And that, when you think of it, is a very significant thing. 

 The fact is, men must work to live — it is a part of the law laid down 

 for mankind at the start — -and man's forebears, too, had to do what 

 represented it. Work not only supplies the necessities of life, but it 

 fulfils the necessity of our natures, and in these times men without that 

 particular capacity flock to the one who has the genius of organization 

 for production. 



And if industry is good every way for the worker, nO' less are its 

 products necessary for society, and in fact, looked at one way, society 

 in relation to any one industry is only the balance of the workers 

 massed together. And wealth, the accumulation or surplus of in- 

 dustry, is good for some things, too. One thing it does is to main- 

 tain us here in our places. 



Last in this branch of the address I think I will venture to 

 mention a matter that might in some companies cause disagreement 

 and contention — the present form and organization of industry. T 



