oln Day Proclamation, January 30, 1919
XXVII. Introducing Henry Cabot Lodge and A. Lawrence Lowell at the
Debate on the League of Nations, Symphony Hall, March 19, 1919
XXVIII. Veto of Salary Increase
XXIX. Flag Day Proclamation, May 26, 1919
XXX. Amherst College Commencement, June 18, 1919
XXXI. Harvard University Commencement, June 19, 1919
XXXII. Plymouth, Labor Day, September 1, 1919
XXXIII. Westfield, September 3, 1919
XXXIV. A Proclamation, September 11, 1919
XXXV. An Order to the Police Commissioner of Boston,
September 11, 1919
XXXVI. A Telegram to Samuel Gompers, September 14, 1919
XXXVII. A Proclamation, September 24, 1919
XXXVIII. Holy Cross College, June 25, 1919
XXXIX. Republican State Convention, Tremont Temple, October 4, 1919
XL. Williams College, October 17, 1919
XLI. Concerning Teachers' Salaries, October 29, 1919
XLII. Statement to the Press, Election Day, November 4, 1919
XLIII. Speech at Tremont Temple, Saturday, November 1, 1919, 8 P.M.

HAVE FAITH

IN

MASSACHUSETTS

I

TO THE STATE SENATE ON BEING ELECTED ITS PRESIDENT

JANUARY 7, 1914

Honorable Senators:--I thank you--with gratitude for the high honor
given, with appreciation for the solemn obligations assumed--I thank
you.

This Commonwealth is one. We are all members of one body. The welfare of
the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound
together. Industry cannot flourish if labor languish. Transportation
cannot prosper if manufactures decline. The general welfare cannot be
provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit
of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of
all. The suspension of one man's dividends is the suspension of another
man's pay envelope.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them. Laws must be justified
by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the
eternal foundation of righteousness. That state is most fortunate in its
form of government which has the aptest instruments for the discovery of
laws. The latest, most modern, and nearest perfect system that
statesmanship has devised is representative government. Its weakness is
the weakness of us imperfect human beings who administer it. Its
strength is that even such administration secures to the people more
blessings than any other system ever p