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plain people expect to drive dishonesty out of high places, for the 

 morality of high places comes from that in the lower walks of life. 

 It is not the complacent compromiser, but the clean fighter who 

 can move the world onward. Suppose that right here in this town, 

 or in Adams County there could be organized a body of men who 

 would swear to put patriotic feeling absolutely above party. These 

 men would denounce dishonesty at home or at Harrisburg. This 

 would not be done bitterly with meanness or malice, but on the 

 highest ground of patriotic duty. These men would organize and 

 vote absolutely only for clean and capable men, the best citizens 

 they could find. They would stand by this resolution, and by these 

 men through loss, ridicule or abuse. Do you know what would 

 follow; within a few years the great majority of the people of 

 Adams County would be solidly behind these men, and all over 

 Pennsylvania this county would have a political reputation equal to 

 that it now enjoys and will enjoy for apples. You would attract 

 attention from every political boss in the State, and you can gen- 

 erally measure the efforts of a man for really good citizenship by 

 the abuse he receives from the boss. There would be attempted 

 bribery, bulldozing, bluff, and personal abuse. If the men I speak 

 of would live through it all with courage and patience as Moses did, 

 as Lincoln did, as every great leader has done, Adams County would 

 be famous throughout the world, for it would give the world a 

 model for good citizenship and political life without graft, but with 

 business honor. I do not speak of the impossible. I am telling you 

 just exactly what will be done in some community and some county 

 in the future by just such a body of men as you can find here. 



And the good citizen must be steadfast. By that I mean patient 

 and enduring. One trouble with us all has been impatience with 

 the slow and the faltering. Those of us who have received the 

 blessing of competence or education or power, are like those men 

 who cannot make the younger generation understand, because we 

 have forgotten the language which may go with poverty, depres- 

 sion, lack of hope or of opportunity. I think our trouble is that 

 we ourselves out of our superiority cannot understand the real les- 

 son of growth or the obligation which we owe to society. 



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