the burden of, injustice and every attempt to rule by force,
and that there may be ushered in a reign of law, that will ease the weak
of their great burdens, and leave the strong, unhampered by the
opposition of evil men, the opportunity to exert their whole energy for
the welfare of their fellow men. Let war and all force end, and peace
and all law reign.

GIVEN at the Executive Chamber, in Boston, this twenty-eighth day of
October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen,
and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred
and forty-fourth.

[Illustration: Seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts]

By His Excellency the Governor.

[Illustration: signatures of Calvin Coolidge and Albert P. Langley]

_Secretary of the Commonwealth._

God Save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

CONTENTS

I. To the State Senate on Being Elected its President,
January 7, 1914
II. Amherst College Alumni Association, Boston, February 4, 1916
III. Brockton Chamber of Commerce, April 11, 1916
IV. At the Home of Daniel Webster, Marshfield, July 4, 1916
V. Riverside, August 28, 1916
VI. At the Home of Augustus P. Gardner, Hamilton, September, 1916
VII. Lafayette Banquet, Fall River, September 4, 1913
VIII. Norfolk Republican Club, Boston, October 9, 1916
IX. Public Meeting on the High Cost of Living, Faneuil Hall,
December 9, 1916
X. One Hundredth Anniversary Dinner of the Provident Institution
for Savings, December 13, 1916
XI. Associated Industries Dinner, Boston, December 15, 1916
XII. On the Nature of Politics
XIII. Tremont Temple, November 3, 1917
XIV. Dedication of Town-House, Weston, November 27, 1917
XV. Amherst Alumni Dinner, Springfield, March 15, 1918
XVI. Message for the Boston _Post_, April 22, 1918
XVII. Roxbury Historical Society, Bunker Hill Day, June 17, 1918
XVIII. Fairhaven, July 4, 1918
XIX. Somerville Republican City Committee, August 7, 1918
XX. Written for the Sunday _Advertiser_ and _American_,
September 1, 1918
XXI. Essex County Club, Lynnfield, September 14, 1918
XXII. Tremont Temple, November 2, 1918
XXIII. Faneuil Hall, November 4, 1918
XXIV. From Inaugural Address as Governor, January 2, 1919
XXV. Statement on the Death of Theodore Roosevelt
XXVI. Linc