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working- splendidly there to aid all of us. Here we have the 

 banks getting together and co-operating through the Federal 

 Reserve Bank. Here we have the railroads co-operating' through 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission, or we have the farmers 

 co-operating through the Agricultural Department. Everything 

 has the spirit of co-operation, and here you are getting it down 

 here, teaching us about these good lands that may be made so 

 useful by co-operation. No lumberman, no owner of cut-over 

 lands, can do anything by himself; but with his neighbor and 

 that spread out through all the state, much can be done. 



It is a pleasure to have been here. I want to say to you 

 that the great vital thought I will carry away is this : The men 

 who had the vision, the understanding and the spirit to conceive 

 this thought, and then work it out in a masterful way, and make 

 manifest their purposes so clearly; who have had a nation's 

 agriculturists and scientists, business men and lawyers, attracted 

 to the big idea they evolved — that is the big thing here ; and 

 men that have that conception, and that can state it so clearly 

 as to challenge our admiration, are bound to succeed in this great 

 enterprise. I have no doubt that you men are not the kind of 

 patriots who just appear and make a noise, but you are the kind 

 of patriots who will persevere in this great task of making these 

 lands that God gave the people habitable for the poor and the 

 needy, and again restore this nation to a self-sufificient, self-sup- 

 porting, prosperous, glorious country that will be the leader of 

 your democracy for all time — if we are but true to our oppor- 

 tunity. I thank you. (Applause.) 



