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unlike former times when the speaker was usually a lawyer, 

 doctor or other professional man, the speaking is usually 

 done by the tanners themselves. This is a feature that 

 the organization will do well to extend, and spare no efforts 

 to cultivate the talent which its ranks afford. It is upon 

 the honest, intelligent manhood of the hardy sons of toil, 

 that success in all the affairs which render a nation happy 

 and prosperous depends. 



