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to the utmost limit of his possible use. I say this 

 to you of this university because we have a right to 

 expect that the best trained, the best educated men 

 on the Pacific Slope, the Rocky Mountains and great 

 plains States will take the lead in the preservation 

 and right use of the forests, in securing the right 

 use of the waters, and in seeing to it that our land 

 policy is not twisted from its original purpose, but is 

 perpetuated by amendment, by change when such 

 change is necessary in the line of that purpose, the 

 purpose being to turn the public domain into farms 

 each to be the property of the man who actually tills 

 it and makes his home on it. 



Infinite are the possibilities for usefulness that lie 

 before such a body as that I am addressing. Work ? 

 Of course you will have to work. I should be sorry 

 for you if you did not have to work. Of course you 

 will have to work, and I envy you the fact that before 

 you, before the graduates of this university, lies the 

 chance of lives to be spent in hard labor for great 

 and glorious and useful causes, hard labor for the 

 uplifting of your States of the Union, of all man 

 kind. 



AT MECHANICS' PAVILION, SAN FRANCISCO, 

 CAL., MAY 13, 1903 



Mr. Chairman, and you, Men and Women of San 



Francisco : 



Before I came to the Pacific Slope I was an ex 

 pansionist, and after having been here I fail to un 

 derstand how any man, convinced of his country's 



