H4 Presidential Addresses 



problem, but, on the contrary, deferring indefinitely 

 its proper solution, would be to act in a spirit of 

 ignorance, of violence, of rancor, in a spirit which 

 would make us tear down the temple of industry 

 in which we live because we are not satisfied with 

 some of the details of its management. 



I want you to think of what I have said, because 

 it represents all of the sincerity and earnestness that 

 I have, and I say to you here, from this platform, 

 nothing that I have not already stated in effect, and 

 nothing I would not say at a private table with any 

 of the biggest corporation managers in the land. 



AT DALTON, MASS., SEPTEMBER 3, 1902 



Governor Crane, and you, m$ Friends and Fellow- 

 Citizens: 



It seems to me that in a town like this we not only 

 have but ought to have a better standard of citizen 

 ship and a more thorough appreciation of the rights 

 and duties of the individual citizen and of the pos 

 sibilities of government than in almost any other 

 community. Here is a town where you have both 

 farming and manufacturing, where you have on a 

 small scale all the elements that go to make up the 

 industrial life of the nation as a whole the capital 

 ist and wage-earner, the farmer and hired man, mer 

 chant, men of the professions, you have them all; 

 you see the forces that have built up the nation and 

 that are at work in the nation, in play round about 

 you in the farms, in the factories, in the houses, right 



