as a patent, and that was the first
thought of that." He went to Boston and applied for his patent, and
every one of you that has a rubber-tipped pencil in your pocket is now
paying tribute to the millionaire. No capital, not a penny did he invest
in it. All was income, all the way up into the millions.

But let me hasten to one other greater thought. "Show me the great men
and women who live in Philadelphia." A gentleman over there will get up
and say: "We don't have any great men in Philadelphia. They don't
live here. They live away off in Rome or St. Petersburg or London or
Manayunk, or anywhere else but here in our town." I have come now to the
apex of my thought. I have come now to the heart of the whole matter and
to the center of my struggle: Why isn't Philadelphia a greater city in
its greater wealth? Why does New York excel Philadelphia? People say,
"Because of her harbor." Why do many other cities of the United States
get ahead of Philadelphia now? There is only one answer, and that is
because our own people talk down their own city. If there ever was
a community on earth that has to be forced ahead, it is the city of
Philadelphia. If we are to have a boulevard, talk it down; if we are
going to have better schools, talk them down; if you wish to have wise
legislation, talk it down; talk all the proposed improvements down. That
is the only great wrong that I can lay at the feet of the magnificent
Philadelphia that has been so universally kind to me. I say it is time
we turn around in our city and begin to talk up the things that are
in our city, and begin to set them before the world as the people of
Chicago, New York, St. Louis, and San Francisco do. Oh, if we only
could get that spirit out among our people, that we can do things in
Philadelphia and do them well!

Arise, ye millions of Philadelphians, trust in God and man, and believe
in the great opportunities that are right here not over in New York or
Boston, but here--for business, for everything that is worth living for
on earth. There was never an opportunity greater. Let us talk up our own
city.

But there are two other young men here to-night, and that is all I will
venture to say, because it is too late. One over there gets up and says,
"There is going to be a great man in Philadelphia, but never was one."
"Oh, is that so? When are you going to be great?" "When I am elected
to some political office." Young man, won't you learn a lesson in the
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