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member that and remember that when we use the 

 large terms of the government and nation, we only 

 mean the town on a large scale, there would be much 

 less danger in our thinking that perhaps by some 

 queer patent device or some scheme, the state, the 

 government, the town, can supply the lack of indi 

 vidual thrift, energy, enterprise, resolution. It can 

 not supply such lack. Something can be done by 

 government, that is, by all of us acting together to 

 protect the rights of all, to accomplish certain things 

 for all. Something can be accomplished by helping 

 one another. He is a poor creature who does not 

 give help generously when the chance comes. But 

 finally in the last resort the man who wins now will 

 be the man of the type who has won always, the 

 man who can win for himself. Do not make the 

 mistake of thinking that it is possible ever to call in 

 any outside force to take the place of the man's own 

 individual initiative, the man's individual capacity 

 to do work worth doing. 



AT WHEELING, W. VA., SEPTEMBER 6, 1902 

 My Friends and Fellow-Citizens: 



It is a pleasure to come here to your city. I wish 

 to thank the Mayor, and through the Mayor all of 

 your citizens, for the way in which, upon your be 

 half, he has greeted me; and I wish to state that it 

 is a special pleasure to be introduced by my friend, 

 Senator Scott. I have known the Senator for some 

 time, and I like hin^ because when he gives you his 

 word you don't have to think about it again. 



