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but some of it has also been due to the ability of 

 the men who are the industrial leaders of the nation. 

 In securing just and fair dealing by these men let 

 us remember to do them justice in return, and this 

 not only because it is our duty, but because it is 

 our interest; not only for their sakes, but for ours. 

 We are neither the friend of the rich man as such, 

 nor the friend of the poor man as such ; we are the 

 friend of the honest man, rich or poor; and we in 

 tend that all men, rich and poor alike, shall obey 

 the law alike and receive its protection alike. 



AT THE BANQUET OF THE SPANISH WAR 

 VETERANS, DETROIT, MICH., SEP 

 TEMBER 22, 1902 



Mr. Mayor, and you, my Comrades, and all of you, 

 my Fellow-Americans, Men and W omen of De 

 troit: 



While the war with Spain was easy enough, the 

 tasks left behind, though glorious, have been hard. 

 You, the men of the Spanish War, and your com 

 rades in arms who fought in Cuba and Porto Rico 

 and in the Philippines, won renown for the country, 

 added to its moral grandeur and to its material 

 prosperity; but you also left duties to be done by 

 those who came after you. In Porto Rico the duty 

 has been merely administrative, and it has been so 

 well done that very little need be said about it. 



I speak in the presence not only of the men who 

 fought in the Spanish War and in the Philippine 



