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carriages, dressed in the most costly cloth- 

 ing and wearing the richest furs and jewel- 

 ry, living in the finest houses and taking the 

 most prominent places in finance and muni- 

 cipal government of the city. This is as it 

 should be, for we got the best things we 

 ever got from the Jews — ^namely, Christ and 

 the Bible. And the fact that they can rise 

 to their opportunities is a proof of the lib- 

 erty granted to American citizenship inde- 

 pendent of nationality. 



One of the saddest sights I have beheld is 

 to see the grand old pioneers who braved 

 hardships to come here and who hewed out 

 fine homes by hard work and industry. 

 Those fine people, a race typical of Western 

 America only, those uncles and aunties of 

 pioneer times, whose latchstrings were al- 

 ways out, the passing of whom will leave 

 ne plus ultra. When foreign competition 

 drove the bushel of wheat so low in price, it 

 vitiated their very existence, drove them 

 from their homes and their children from 

 their heritage. In many instances the hired 

 man owns the farm. 



The Eastern manufacturing centers have 

 taken from the agricultural districts of the 

 United States an unjust proportion of 

 wealth, and all classes have suffered in the 

 agricultural districts with the farmer. The 

 East owes the West millions of dollars. An 

 export bounty of 25 cents on a bushel of 

 wheat will bring about the only equitable 



