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majesty among their ranges. It is the vital current of the 

 activity of the people. Its strength is not in theory or in 

 petty technicalities. It is strong with the brain and brawn 

 of 82,000,000 citizens; with the varied resources of mine and 

 soil and forest and running waters; with the sheep and horses 

 on many ranches and the cattle on a thousand hills ; with coal 

 and iron and all their products; with wheat and corn and 

 sugar and cotton; with the inventive minds and skillful fingers 

 of efficient artisans; with forge and factory and dynamo and 

 motor, and not least, with school and college, with university 

 and church. Financial strength is in wealth of every kind, 

 but not less in the purest morality and the worthiest character. 



