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for or against him than I can recognize the fact 

 that he is a Protestant or a Catholic, a Jew or a 

 Gentile, as being for or against him. 



In the communications sent me by various labor 

 organizations protesting against the retention of 

 Miller in the Government Printing Office, the 

 grounds alleged are twofold: i, that he is a non- 

 union man ; 2, that he is not personally fit. The ques- 

 tion of his personal fitness is one to be settled in the 

 routine of administrative detail, and can not be al- 

 lowed to conflict with or to complicate the larger 

 question of governmental discrimination for or 

 against him or any other man because he is or is not 

 a member of a union. This is the only question now 

 before me for decision; and as to this my decision 

 is final. 



OYSTER BAY, N. Y. 



August 6, 1903 

 MY DEAR GOVERNOR DURBIN: 



Permit me to thank you as an American citizen for 

 the admirable way in which you have vindicated the 

 majesty of the law by your recent action in reference 

 to lynching. I fed, my dear sir, that you have made 

 all men your debtors who believe, as all far-seeing 

 men must, that the well-being, indeed the very 

 existence, of the Republic depends upon that spirit 

 of orderly liberty under the law which is as incom- 

 patible with mob violence as with any form of des- 

 potism. Of course mob violence is simply one 

 form of anarchy; and anarchy is now, as it al- 



