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progress has been so rapid, and in which the changes 

 for good have been so great, has also inevitably seen 

 the growth of certain tendencies that are not for 

 good, or at least that are not wholly for good; and 

 we in consequence, as a people, like the rest of civ 

 ilized mankind, find set before us for solution dur 

 ing the coming century problems which need the 

 best thought of all of us, and the most earnest de 

 sire of all to solve them well if we expect to work 

 out a solution satisfactory to our people, a solution 

 for the advantage of the nation. In facing these 

 problems, it must be a comfort to every well-wisher 

 of the nation to see what has been done by your 

 organization. I believe emphatically in organized 

 labor. I believe in organizations of wage-work 

 ers. Organization is one of the laws of our social 

 and economic development at this time. But I feel 

 that we must always keep before our minds the 

 fact that there is nothing sacred in the name itself. 

 To call an organization an organization does not 

 make it a good one. The worth of an organization 

 depends upon its being handled with the courage, 

 the skill, the wisdom, the spirit of fair dealing as 

 between man and man, and the wise self-restraint 

 which, I am glad to be able to say, your Brother 

 hood has shown. You now number close upon 

 44,000 members. During the two years ending 

 June 30 last you paid in to the general and bene 

 ficiary funds close upon a million and a half dol 

 lars. More than six and one-half millions have been 

 paid in since the starting of the insurance clause in 



