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the success which makes honest men uneasy or in 

 dignant in its presence. Then there is the- other 

 kind of success the success which comes as the re 

 ward of keen insight, of sagacity, of resolution, of 

 address, combined with unflinching rectitude of be 

 havior, public and private. The first kind of success 

 may, in a sense and a poor sense at that benefit the 

 individual, but it is always and necessarily a curse to 

 the community ; whereas the man who wins the sec 

 ond kind, as an incident of its winning becomes a 

 beneficiary to the whole commonwealth. Throughout 

 its history the Chamber of Commerce has stood for 

 this second and higher kind of success. It is there 

 fore fitting that I should come on here as the Chief 

 Executive of the Nation to wish you well in your 

 new home; for you belong not merely to the city, 

 not merely to the State, but to all the country, and 

 you stand high among the great factors in building 

 up that marvelous prosperity which the entire coun 

 try now enjoys. The continuance of this pros 

 perity depends in no small measure upon your sanity 

 and common-sense, upon the way in which you com 

 bine energy in action with conservative refusal to 

 take part in the reckless gambling which is so often 

 bred by, and which so inevitably puts an end to, 

 prosperity. You are men of might in the world of 

 American effort; you are men whose names stand 

 high in the esteem of our people ; you are spoken of 

 in terms like those used in the long-gone ages when 

 it was said of the Phoenician cities that their mer 

 chants were princes. Great is your power and great, 



