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Thirty-Third Annual Meeting 
Motion seconded and unanimously carried, ballot so cast 
and officers declared duly elected. 
President: 1 want to introduce to you our worthy friend 
and president—to be—after this meeting, Mr. Root of Rhode 
Island. (Great Applause.) 
Mr. Root: Gentlemen, I think there are a great many here, 
if Mr. Clark had not pulled me up, who would not have known 
who Henry T’. Root was. (Noices—Not much.) 
Mr. Root: I will say that I was informed through one of 
our leading men on my first arrival here that my name would 
probably be mentioned in connection with the office of president. 
I tried to dissuade him from using it. I really felt that I was 
not the proper person to preside. I do not know personally a 
great many who are members of the society, and another thing, 
I have arrived at the allotted age of three score years and ten 
and think that the burdens of life should be taken easily; though 
I do not think this is a very burdensome office. Another thing, 
years ago I got tired of hearing declamations when I was a mem- 
ber of a good many societies, and I think it is a very poor policy, 
and I concluded that if I was ever nominated for an office I 
would not decline, and if the people who nominated me had 
made a mistake I would throw it back upon them. Now while 
I think that you could have done better, and while I know that 
you have paid a compliment not to me, but to Rhode Island, in 
that light I accept the position, knowing that it is a compliment 
to Rhode Island, with a great deal of pleasure. (Applause. ) 
President: I take great pleasure in introducing our newly 
elected vice-president. We know him out there in Michigan, 
and before you get through with him you will know him. 
Mr. Joslin: I really do not know what to say. This is a 
ereat surprise. I am practically a new man among you, al- 
though perhaps not new in the business in a sense, but I want 
to say to you that to be elected to an office of this kind in such a 
society as this is certainly an honor which I thoroughly appre- 
ciate, and I thank you most sincerely that you have taken it into 
your heads to do a thing of this kind. All I can say further is 
