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because your own sense of self-respect and self- 

 loyalty compels you to fight. Is not this so ? 



If in Georgia and throughout the South we have 

 conditions as intolerable as those that surround you 

 in New York, can you not realize why I make war 

 upon them? 



Tammany itself has grown great because mis- 

 taken leaders of the Southern Democracy catered to 

 its Kellys and Crokers and feared to defy them. 



The first "roast" I ever got from the Democratic 

 press of this State followed a speech I had made de- 

 nouncing Tammany, and denouncing the craven 

 leaders who obeyed Tammany. 



It is astonishing how one honest man may hon- 

 estly misjudge another. 



My creed does not lead me to dislike the men who 

 run a bank, a factory, a railroad, or a foundry. I 

 do not hate a man for owning a bond, and having 

 a bank account, or having cash loaned at interest. 



Upon the other hand, I think each should make 

 all the profit in business he fairly can ; but I do be- 

 lieve that the banks should not exercise the sov- 

 ereign power of issuing money, and I do believe that 

 all special privileges granted, and all exemption from 

 taxation, work infinite harm. I do believe that the 

 wealth of the Republic is practically free from fed- 

 eral taxation, and that the burdens of government 

 fall upon the shoulders of those least able to bear 

 them. 



If you could spend an evening with me among 

 my books and amid my family, I feel quite sure 



