1 62 Presidential Addresses 



hinted in the general figures I gave you, at how 

 much has been done, but it still remains true in the 

 Brotherhood, and everywhere else throughout Amer 

 ican life, that in the last resort nothing can supply 

 the place of the man's own individual qualities. We 

 need those, no matter how perfect the organization 

 is outside. There is just as much need of nerve, 

 hardihood, power to face risks and accept respon 

 sibilities, in the engineer and the fireman, whether 

 on a flyer or a freight train, now as there ever was. 

 Much can be done by the Association. A great deal 

 can be accomplished by working each for all and 

 all for each; but we must not forget that the first 

 requisite in accomplishing that is that each man 

 should work for others by working for himself, by 

 developing his own capacity. 



The steady way in which a man can rise is illus 

 trated by a little thing that happened yesterday. I 

 came down here over the Queen and Crescent Rail 

 road, and the General Manager, who handled my 

 train and who handled yours, was Mr. Maguire. I 

 used to know him in the old days when he was on 

 his way up, and he began right at the bottom. He 

 was a fireman at one time. He worked his way 

 straight up, and now he is General Manager. 



I believe so emphatically in your organization be- 

 cause, while it teaches the need of working in union, 

 of working in association, of working with deep in 

 our hearts, not merely on our lips, the sense of 

 Brotherhood, yet of necessity it still keeps, as your 

 organization always must keep, to the forefront the 



