of all lands
and holds out the gifts of freedom, and we at this time and upon
this occasion should renew our adherence to those policies which
have made us a great nation. The future is before us, and the
patriotism and self-sacrifice of those who made the country's
history so glorious should be an Inspiration to us for all
higher ideals of citizenship. Through the golden gates of
commerce pours an unceasing stream of immigration which must be
amalgamated with American ideas and American principles.

The battles of the past have been for freedom and liberty, and
the struggle of the future will be for their preservation, not,
however, by force of arms, but through the peaceful methods
which come through the education of our people. The declaration
which brought our Republic into existence has insured and
guaranteed that liberty of conscience and that freedom of action
which does not interfere, with the prerogatives or privileges of
a man's neighbors.

Capital and labor are the two great elements upon which the
prosperity and happiness of our people rest, and when,
therefore, aggregations of the one are met by combinations of
the other, it should be the aim of all to prevent the clashing
of these great interests. The products of toil are worthless
unless there be some means by which they can be substituted or
transferred for that which labor requires. The concrete form in
which these transactions are conducted is the money power or the
capital of the land.

Without work all of these fertile fields, these teeming towns,
would have been impossible; and without a desire to benefit and
elevate humanity, its onward progress would have been useless.
To work, to labor, is man's bounden duty, and in the performance
of the tasks which have been placed upon him he should be
encouraged, and his greatest incentive should be the knowledge
that he may transmit to his children and his children's children
a higher civilization and greater advantages than he himself
possessed.

Trade conditions which would permit to the toiler but a bare
sustenance, the bare means of a livelihood, would be a hindrance
to human progress, a hindrance not to be removed by all of the
maxims of the philosopher or the theories of the doctrinaire.

Promise without fulfillment is barren, but when you c