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with the great and menacing strike in the anthra 

 cite coal fields of Pennsylvania. On that commis 

 sion I appointed representatives of the church, of 

 the bench, of the army, a representative of the capi 

 talists of the region, and a representative of or 

 ganized labor. They published a report which was 

 not only of the utmost moment because of dealing 

 with the great and vital problem with which they 

 were appointed to deal, but also because in its con 

 clusions it initiated certain general rules in so clear 

 and masterful a fashion that I wish most earnestly 

 it could receive the broadest circulation as a tract 

 wherever there exists or threatens to exist trouble in 

 any way akin to that with which those commission 

 ers dealt. 



If I might give a word of advice to Omaha, I 

 should like to see your daily press publish in full the 

 concluding portion of that report of the Anthracite 

 Coal Strike Commission, signed by all the members 

 thereof, by those in a special sense the champion of 

 the wage-worker, and by those in a special sense iden 

 tified with capital, organized or unorganized ; be 

 cause, men and women of Omaha, those people did 

 not speak first as capitalist or as laborer, did not 

 speak first as judge, as army man, as church man, 

 but all of them signed that report as American citi 

 zens anxious to see right and justice prevail. No 

 one quality will get us out of any difficulty. We 

 need more than otic; we need a good many. We 

 need, as I said, the power first of each man's hon 

 estly trying to look at the problem from his fellow's 



