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In every home, as I say that word I repeat it with reverence and I want 

 it to measure up to its fullest meaning, in every true home there is the 

 mother, and if, friends, it needs the highest intelligence, the highest 

 skilled labor, the highest cultivation to put an Oregon upon the waters,. 

 a war ship that shall do the best kind of service in meeting foes, in resist- 

 ing foes, how much more dbes it need an intelligent, living, skilled mother 

 in the home, that shall guide the destinies of immortal souls, not only 

 through this life, but into a life to come, to eternity. 



One of the greatest need© of th e hour today my friends is men whom 

 the spoils of office cannot buy; men who possess opinions and a will; men 

 who will not lie and' who are above self in public duty and private think- 

 ing, that is one of the greatest needs of the hour. 



I was intensely interested in the address of Col. Turner last night, 

 and he cast reflections, and he justly did, upon the Secretary of War, al- 

 though a personal friend of mine, and a man from our own State, my heart 

 went out, "O for a man who will not give political favor." I believe it 

 came right down to that, political favor to men unfit for the positions, sim- 

 ply to buy political influence, and thereby thousands of lives were lost. 



Friends I was impressed today, and I have gotten most of this address 

 since I came here, I was impressed today by something that was said about 

 your agricultural calling. I heard a paper read by Mr. Newman in regard 

 to something that he termed — I don't know as he gave it a term — the 

 higher education. I want to make a plea tonight that the boys from the 

 farms and the girls from the farms, and I believe it is just as much your 

 duty, to give your girls just as good opportunities' to fit them for their 

 work in life as it is you shall fit y our boys for their work in life. I know 

 that some of our best people are striving by every means in their power 

 that when boys and girls, men and women who are incarcerated in pris- 

 ons in the State, when they have their freedom again, that they shall be 

 self-sustaining. I make plea for every single girl that is born into this 

 world, whether from the farm or anywhere else, that she shall be a self- 

 sustaining creature and dependent upon no man for her bed and board and 

 her living. 



