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not be done until every farm house in the broad land is united by a 

 highway so well constructed that the common wagon is equal within 

 the limit of its work to the exclusive car, until the railroads of the 

 country shall cease to arrange their schedules to see how much they 

 can wring from toil, but how much they can contribute to a nation's 

 wealth; until our work shops are supplied with such marvelous 

 machinery, handled with such skill and economy that in every in- 

 dustry we shall not only supply the wants of our own people, but we 

 shall successfully invade every market of the world; until every 

 wage-earner shall be a skilled craftsman and a free man in his own 

 home, and feel a yeoman's pride with a yeoman's privilege; until 

 every farmer and planter shall be so well instructed that he will 

 mold the soil to his profit and the seasons to his plans, till he shall . 

 be free from the vassalage of mortgage and the bondage of debt ^ 

 and become a toiler for pleasure, for home, for knowledge, and for 

 country; until capital and labor shall unite under the leadership of 

 knowledge and equitably divide the increment of gain. Your mission 

 is to solve the problem of poverty, to increase the measure of happi- 

 ness, and to the universal love of country add the universal knowl- 

 edge of comfort, and to harness the forces of all learning to be useful 

 and needful in human society." 



Silence the bugle and the huzzas; lower the banners, we are 

 only half civilized. We should not under-value that half. What 

 infinite labor has it taken to secure it. Through what wreckage has 

 the car of liberty passed. It has required thousands of years of 

 conflict to establish law and order upon the present basis; to evolve V 

 the modem nation from patriarchal chaos. At each the stronger 

 individual, the more powerful tribe, the wealthier and more populous 

 city or district fought to maintain its prestige and sullenly yielded 

 its vantage ground to national necessity. We paused and called our 

 attainments, liberty, civilization; when the greatest war known to 

 any age is still going on; the war of labor and capital, of employed 

 and employer." 



What a glorious conception of the ' ' democracy of man " ! "^ 

 What an opening up of opportunity he contemplated for the 

 craftsman and farmer! He hoped to see them free from 

 mortgage and debt, and ''toilers for pleasure, for home, for 



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