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chance ; but it would have cost some 

 money. That is the hard thing to get, 

 especially if it involves vision. But we 

 must come to it ; we must come to it if 

 we are going to have the kind of men in 

 the future that we have had in the past. 

 We must keep the boy in love with the 

 soil. He must feel as the French peasant 

 felt who was fighting because that soil 

 that he loved was. his. There is some- 

 thing in the old story of Antaeus. You 

 reach down and touch the soil and you 

 get strength from it; you do not get it 

 from asphalt streets. One hundred and 

 fifty thousand boys have written asking 

 that they might have a chance at such a 

 farm, and we cannot give it to them. 



power ! power ! power ! 



Power ! Power ! We must have more 

 power ! I want all our streams that have 

 possibilities for power, from the James 

 all up to the Saint Lawrence River, con- 

 nected, the power developed in them, and 

 then a great channel, a stream of power, 

 circulated through those States. It can 

 be done ; it will be done some day. 



I make the appeal to women that they 

 fire the men with the ambition to make 

 this country what it can be. We have 

 done gloriously, but we must not stand 

 still. The way to stand off Bolshevism 

 is not to talk about it ; it is to do things 

 which show that in this nation there is 

 hope ; that we have possibilities ; that this 

 land is the best of all lands. 



Why? Because it is filled with a peo- 

 ple who have imagination and willingness 

 to work. We must stimulate those im- 

 aginations and keep at work. We can 

 stand off ideas of any kind, because we 

 can meet them with the one solid argu- 

 ment that Lincoln was so fond of ; he 

 always spoke of the argument of facts. 



These things that I have enumerated 

 are in America. And if a man has his 

 best chance here, then that man will be 

 proud of the traditions and the institu- 

 tions and the character of the people that 

 have made this country. That is true 

 Americanism. 



TO KNOW AMERICA IS TO EOVE IT 



Then, too, we must show to the people 

 around us that the principles that have 

 guided our fathers, the love of liberty 

 and the love of right and the sense of 



mercy and kindliness, are things that a 

 nation may express occasionally, but that 

 every one of us must express constantly. 



You cannot take the man from the 

 Balkans and the woman from Norway 

 and interpret America to them in strict 

 terms of abstract law, or in terms of 

 mountains of copper, or of miles of rail- 

 roads. You must interpret America to 

 them in terms of American life — the 

 beauty of American life, its dignity, the 

 generosity of our natures, our willingness 

 to be fair, our desire to help, our knight- 

 like qualities. 



To know America is to love it. For it 

 is a thing of life; it is growing, strug- 

 gling, climbing, stumbling. It is thinking 

 through its problems, groping through 

 them, living through them. Out of its 

 wealth in things of the earth and its 

 greater wealth in things of the spirit it is 

 making a new society, different from any 

 that is or that has been. 



We do not see what is going on. We 

 see but a phase, the tiniest segment of a 

 great circle. 



Under liberty and order men are stim- 

 ulated to their best, challenged to create. 

 The inhibitions of long-settled static so- 

 cieties are lifted and the possible man is 

 having his day. 



MEN DREAMING DREAMS 



So everywhere throughout this land, 

 away off in those remoter sections which 

 I have mentioned, as well as nearer by, 

 men are dreaming dreams. Some write 

 those dreams on paper, and some write 

 them on the mountain side in orchards, 

 or within the mountains in mining shafts, 

 or in the tall buildings of the cities, or in 

 safe docks for ships. 



Everywhere this new people in this 

 new land is doing something that is a 

 service. Boys in the sage-brush colleges 

 are writing poems, men are planning 

 books or novel mechanical devices. Girls 

 are preparing themselves for the study 

 of the sciences. Painters and sculptors 

 and chemists are proving themselves. 



They have the world to draw on; all 

 its richness is theirs by inheritance — the 

 color and warmth of the Mediterranean 

 peoples and the sterner, colder, more 

 steadfast stuff of the North. 



This is to be a new picture in the world 

 gallery. 



