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If The Educated And Influential Classes In A Community Either Practice Or Connive At The Systematic Violation Of Laws That Seem To Them To Cross Their Convenience, What Can They Expect When The Lesson That Convenience Or A Supposed Class Interest Is A Sufficient Cause For Lawlessness Has Been Well Learned By The Ignorant Classes?

I Cannot Always Sympathize With That Demand Which We Hear So Frequently For Cheap Things. Things May Be Too Cheap. They Are Too Cheap When The Man Or Woman Who Produces Them Upon The Farm Or The Man Or Woman Who Produces Them In The Factory Does Not Get Out Of Them Living Wages With A Margin For Old Age And For A Dowry For The Incidents That Are To Follow. I Pity The Man Who Wants A Coat So Cheap That The Man Or Woman Who Produces The Cloth Or Shapes It Into A Garment Will Starve In The Process.

I Have Never Been Able To Think Of The Day As One Of Mourning; I Have Never Quite Been Able To Feel That Half-masted Flags Were Appropriate On Decoration Day. I Have Rather Felt That The Flag Should Be At The Peak, Because Those Whose Dying We Commemorate Rejoiced In Seeing It Where Their Valor Placed It. We Honor Them In A Joyous, Thankful, Triumphant Commemoration Of What They Did.

Have You Not Learned That Not Stocks Or Bonds Or Stately Houses, Or Products Of The Mill Or Field Are Our Country? It Is A Spiritual Thought That Is In Our Minds.

The Disfranchisement Of A Single Legal Elector By Fraud Or Intimidation Is A Crime Too Grave To Be Regarded Lightly.