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for the operators or for the miners. They were 

 trying to do justice to both the operator and the 

 miner, and to secure justice for the general public. 



Legislation to be thoroughly effective for good 

 must proceed upon the principle of aiming to get 

 for each man a fair chance to allow him to show the 

 stuff there is in him. No legislation can make some 

 men prosperous; no legislation can give wisdom to 

 the foolish, courage to the timid, strength to the 

 shiftless. All that legislation can do, and all that 

 honest and fearless administration of the laws can 

 do is to give each man as good a chance as possible 

 to develop the qualities he has in him, and to protect 

 him so far as is humanly possible against wrong 

 of any kind at the hands of his fellows. That is 

 what legislation can do, and that I think I may say 

 we have successfully tried to do both by legislation 

 and by the administration of the law. 



I have seen you grow up. I am proud of you. 

 I can assure you that so far as in me lies the efforts 

 of the National Government, legislative and admin 

 istrative, will be to help you and all others of our 

 people in the only way in which they can be helped 

 to help them to help themselves, to help them so 

 that each man shall have the fairest field to show 

 the stuff that there is in him, the qualities that he 

 has at his command. 



