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are the same people all through. That is not merely 

 a unity of section, it is a unity of class. For my 

 good fortune I have been thrown into intimate re 

 lationship, into intimate personal friendship, with 

 many men of many different occupations, and my 

 faith is firm that we shall come unscathed out of all 

 our difficulties here in America, because I think that 

 the average American is a decent fellow, and that the 

 prime thing in getting him to get on well with the 

 other average American is to have each remember 

 that the other is a decent fellow, and try to look at 

 the problems a little from the other's standpoint. 



I thank you for coming out here to greet me. I 

 wish you well with all my heart for the future. 



AT SAN BERNARDINO, CAL., MAY 7, 1903 



Mr. Chairman, Mr. Governor, and you, my Fellow- 

 Citizens: 



It is half a century since the early pioneers found 

 ed this place, and while time goes fast in America 

 anywhere, it has gone fastest here on the Pacific 

 Slope and in the regions of the Rocky Mountains 

 directly to the eastward. If you live in the presence 

 of miracles you gradually get accustomed to them. 

 So it is difficult for any of us, and it is especially 

 difficult for those who have themselves been doing 

 the things, to realize the absolute wonder of the 

 things that have been done. California and the 

 region round about have in the past fifty or sixty 

 years traversed the distance that separates the found- 



