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benefit to the community as a whole ; and among all 

 the excellent objects for which men and women com 

 bine to work to-day, there are few indeed which 

 have a better right to command the energies of those 

 engaged in the movement, and the hearty sympathy 

 and support of those outside, than this movement in 

 which you are engaged. 



AT ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY, ST. LOUIS, 

 MISSOURI, APRIL 29, 1903 



Cardinal Gibbons, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



It is indeed a pleasure to be received here as a 

 guest of the first and oldest university founded in 

 our country west of the Mississippi River in the Lou 

 isiana Purchase. I know your work. I have myself 

 been much in the West, and I have come across the 

 traces of your work, both among the communities 

 of our own people and among the Indian tribes. 



I thank you personally for your kind allusions to 

 me, and would hold myself recreant to the principles 

 upon which this government was founded did I not 

 strive as Chief Executive to do fair and equal jus 

 tice to all men without regard to the way in which 

 any man chooses to worship his Maker.^ 



AT THE DEDICATION CEREMONIES OF THE 



LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION, 



ST. LOUIS, APRIL 30/1903 



Mr. President, Ladies, and Gentlemen: 



At the outset of my address let me recall to the 

 minds of my hearers that the soil upon which we 



