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imaginary and that are not cured by the simple light 

 of day it will give us an intelligent appreciation 

 of the methods to take in getting at them. We 

 should have, under such circumstances, one sover 

 eign to whom the big corporations should be respon 

 sible a sovereign in whose courts a corporation 

 could be held accountable for any failure to comply 

 with the laws of the legislature of that sovereign. 

 I do not think you can accomplish that among the 

 forty-six sovereigns of the States. I think that it 

 will have to be through the National Government. 



TO THE BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE 

 FIREMEN, CHATTANOOGA, TENN., SEP 

 TEMBER 8, 1902 



Mr. Grand Master, Governor McMillan, Mr. May 

 or, my Brothers, my Fellow-Citizens: 

 I am glad to be here to-day. I am glad to come 

 as the guest of the Brotherhood. Let me join with 

 you, the members of the Brotherhood of this coun 

 try, in extending a most cordial welcome to our 

 fellows from Canada and Mexico. The fact that 

 we are good Americans only makes us all the better 

 men, all the more desirous of seeing good fortune 

 to all mankind. I needed no pressing to accept 

 the invitation tendered through you, Mr. Hanna- 

 han, and through Mr. Arnold, to come to this meet 

 ing. I have always admired greatly the railroad men 

 of the country, and I do not see how any one who 

 believes in what I regard as the fundamental virtues 



