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and vigorous body. I believe still more in the vig 

 orous mind. And I believe most of all in what 

 count for more than body, for more than mind, and 

 that is character. That is the sum of the forces that 

 make the man or the woman worth knowing, worth 

 revering, worth holding to. Play hard while you 

 play, but do not mistake it for work. If a young 

 fellow is twenty it is a good thing that he should 

 be a crack half-back; but when he is forty I am 

 sorry if he has never been anything else except once 

 at twenty a good half-back. Keep the sense of pro 

 portion. Play hard ; it will do you good in your 

 work. But work hard and remember that this is 

 the main thing. 



Finally, in closing, I think it is a safe thing to 

 take a motto that I heard from the lips of an old 

 football player once: "Don't flinch, don't foul, and 

 hit the line hard." 



AT MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., APRIL 4, 1903 



My Fellow-Citizens: 



At the special session of the Senate held in 

 March the Cuban reciprocity treaty was ratified. 

 When this treaty goes into effect, it will confer sub 

 stantial economic benefits alike upon Cuba, because 

 of the widening of her market in the United States, 

 and upon the United States, because of the equal 

 widening and the progressive control it will give to 

 our people in the Cuban market. This treaty is 

 beneficial to both parties and justifies itself on sev- 



