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DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
U. S. Senator John M. Gear
in, of Multnomah County.
Congress Chas. V. Galloway,
of Yamhill County.
Governor Geo. E. Chamber
lain, of Multnomah County.
Seerettary of State P. H.
Sroat, of Marion County.
State Treasurer J. D. Matlock,
of Lane County.
Supreme Judge T. G. Hailey,
of Umatilla County.
State Printer J. Scott Taylor,
of Klamath County.
Attorney-General Robert A.
Miller, of Multnomah County.
County Ticket.
State Senator Joseph E.
Hedges, of Oregon City.
Representatives
Henry D. Aden, Pleasant Hill
O. D. Eby, of Oregon City.
C. N. Wait, of Canby.
Judge Harvey G. Starkweath
er, of Oak Grove.
Commissioner J. T. Grace, of
Highland.
Sheriff R. B. Beatie, of Beaver
Creek.
Treasurer Robert Baker, of
Willamette.
Coroner Dr. C. H. Meissner,
of Oregon City.
Clerk H. F. Latourette, of
Oregon City.
Recorder William Shannon,
of Beaver Creek.
BROWNELL'S CIRCULAR LETTER.
Mr. Brownell is out with a circular
lotter claiming to be the originator of
about everything good that ever hap
pened to the people. Let's go through
this lotter.
You sayMr. B'ownell, that the
Seuate Jonrnal of.1901 at pages 45 and
40 shows that you secured the pas
sage of the initiative and referendum
resolution throogh the senate. It
shows nothing of the sort and you
know that you are making a wilful
and delibrate misrepresentation. The
Journal shows that yon and every
other member of the senate voted for
the resolution and you know, hb a
matter of fact, that you never did
anything more than this to sooure its
passage. Mori than this, yon fought
with all your piwer the doctrine of
the initiative and referendum whou
you made your campaign for the sen
ate 1898.
Yon eny you exposed the school
frauds, saving the district and com
mon scfrools of the hfate !il,0()0 iu one
lump. The trnth iR, a committee ap
pointed to investigate tlio hooks of
the school board discovered that ono
Davis whs a defaulter to the extent
of SHI, 000 and subsequently an at
tempt was made in the courts to ool
leet this amount from Davis' bonds
men, which attempt failed because
the stilt ute of limitations had run
against the claim and the amount wis
Jiover collected from Davis or his
bondsmen. It was, therefore, stolen
from the school tnud and when jou
say that yon saved it you speak falsely
from two standpoints : First, yon had
nothing to do with the matter further
than lending your influence to get one
member appointed on this iuves'igat
ing committee, mid second, tlio money
was never saved to the school fund.
You say vou put the contract rate
of interest down from 12 per cent to 8
per cent, and in this statement you
show that you do not even know what
the contract rate of interest is, or else
yon wilfully misrepresent it, In order
that your statement, may not mislead
someone who still believes in you, let
us say that the contract rate of inter
est, that is the interest. that one may
lawfully charge tiy iigreimoiit, is 10
Often The Kidneys Are
Weakened by Over-Wort.
Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.
It used to be considered that only
urinurv and bladder troubles were to be
traced to the kidneys,
but now modern
science proves Unit
nearly sill diseases
have their beginning
in the disorder of
these most important
organs.
The kidneys filter
and purity the blood
that is their work.
Therefore, when your kidneysare weak
oroinoror.ier, vouea.uiHu. sum, ,iowiaml (mt 0 mowbcr slould vote
quickly your entire body is at eeted and f ,t s ' rcsohuiou , ,
how every organ seems to fail to do ,t. , by K, t,ommeU(ini(,'
,f . , ,. , ,' ,, . . president at every session of the leu-
If you are sick or "eel badly," begin satura tll(lt pver 00I1V(IluViKfu
taking the great k, bu y remedy, Dr. le t W1)V ,
Kilmer's Swamp-Root because as ....-pressiou that this wa
K'ofi " xt'h' s rBa,n"n?n?", 1,1 r thi r
V ill convince anyone. a um:n,i'" ',-'
If von nrf Ri,.V- von ran iimfc no n,is. i
take by first doctoring your kidneys.
The mild and the extraordinary eifeet of
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great
kidney remedv, is soon realized. It
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of the most distressing cases, and is sold
dniggists in t lty -lent (flt
bottles,
-1 - :
have a sample bottle nomeof swamp-Root
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bladder trouble. Mention this paper
when writing to Dr. Kilmer S: Co., liing
haniton, N. Y. Din't make any mistake,
but remember the name, Swainp-Kool,
Dr. Kilmer's Swinnp-Root, and the ad
dress, Binghumtou, N. Y., on every bottle,
bv al f,--'
HUU Ulltj-uwiia. Ni.tt, sin
ou mav
per cent and not 8 per cent, as yoa
say, but let ns ask yoo : If you had
power to put the i oetract rate of in
terest down to even 10 per cent an i
if you had power to make the legal
rate of interest, that is, a rate that
can be culllected where no amount is
specified by contract, down to 6 per
cent, why did you not do it as a mem
ber of the senate in the early 90's,
when the citizens of Clackamas
conuty, whom on profess to love so
well, were paying 10 per cent for
mortgape loans and almost as much
more in brokerage to get them. Why
did yoo wait until after the hard
times of the early 90'a were passed
and until after the necessity for it no
longer existed to enact such a law?
If you were so all-powerful, couldn't
you have got ground to this law be
fore the session of 1898? Yoo didn't
offend the large nionie.d interests by
passing such a law in 1898, when in
terest had come down from natural
causes, did you? Were you arlaid of
giving such offense if you should in
troduce such a bill iu the sesison of
1895? You didn't even introduce suoh
a bill tnen, did you? No, indeodl
You say you aided in amending the
i
WILLIAM SHANNON Recorder
homestead law protecting every head
of the family in the enjoyment of a
homestead that cannot be tageu for
debt. This state has had such a law
forty years before you ever blessed it
with your presence. You voted
against the 1500,000 appropriation for
the Lewis and Clark Fair. There has
never been such a revival of business
ana such general propserity in this
state as we are enjoying today, and it
is generally agreed by those iu a po
sition to know that onr prosperity
may bj attributed in a large part to
the advertising that the Lewis and
Clark Fail gave Oregon. You didn't
think about cutting do we. expenses by
dispensing with the 100 idle clerks
that legislators of your kind 'clamor
for at every legislative session, did
you?
Von say ycu voted against and op
posed the large appropriation for
maintaining four normal schools in
tha state. You have been in the sen
ate twelve years. Did you ever intro
duce a bill or suggest a measure- to
abolish these normal schools or any
one of them? You did not. On the
contrary, you have voted for appropri
ations for those schools, every two
years for twelve years, excoptmg the
hist session of the legislature, xou
stood iu with the rest of that gang of
po.iticians who have always made the
eloctiou of a United States Senator
the chief part of their business in the
legislature and you helped to vote
these normal school appropriations in
unnsiduratiou of the normal school
senators voting for your gang's choice
for United States Senator. Why did
you, twelve years iu the senate, have
to wait for Governor Chamberlain to
stop this log-rolling graft? You say
you su ported and aided in the pus
sago of eleven laws in the interests of
the laboring men of tlio Btate, who
work in. mills, factories, sawmills,
woodcamps and upon railroads. The
railroad laboring men will tie glad to
know that thure are eleven laws in the
Oregon statutes passed iu thoir favor.
Your statement would be more effect
ive it you would refer them to the
book and page where three such laws
can be found. You say yon killed
the bill that was ntroduoed iu the
legislature in the interest of the pulp
mills and largo lumber companies and
kept them from getting hold, by laws,
of the rivers ui:d streams of this state.
How was it that you killed the bill?
Were you the whole senate? The fa"t
is the bill was satisfactory to one
i lass of enterprise and not satisfac
tory to another and was, ns a mutter
of fact, not just to the people of the
state of Oregon. The Booth-Kelly
Lumber Company, the richest lumber
company in the state of Oregon, Jwas
opposed to the bill for roasous ot its
own, and you stood with tlio side
that was headed by Senator Booth, of
tins company, 'J lie part you took iu
this light may lime been actuated by
love of justice ami fair laws. Mil",
liouaire Senator Berth might shed
some light on this proposition. Vou
put it as a matter of personal com
mendation that the senate should rms
a resolution coiinneudmg your admin
istration as presuleut of the senate
!'""""' v ""M'i. "uiuuu-
ity that the seuate goes through wit
at the end of its every session.
You say you have challenged your
political opponent in nearly every
speecn nun you nave made to show
) " rlJZrlT.J
. duriMl tw nf , ,.,,..,
senator ami ns chairman
Of thllt
committee you smothered
I every measure inimical to the rail-
p and your commit
lee never reported lavorahly a meas
ure referred to it that the railroads
wauted killed. When you became
president of the senate "in 13 you
apiHiinted aa chairman of the railroad
committee Johu Baud, of Baker coun
ty, a man who was as abject tool of
the railroads, jnst as yon had .been
before him. He ru for the congressi
onal iiomi nation this spring,' and the
labor vote of Portland thank the
Lord ! snowed him onuer so deep be
will never see out. So should it do
you.
You say that in the last four years
it hah cost the taxpayers of Clacka
mas oounty nearly $9000 for printing
and publishing delinquei.t tax lists
and a lew other things. This paper
received this year for publishing the
delinquent tax list, $156.50. Last year
it cost to publish the delinquent tax
list within a very few dollars of $240.
TliiB is the graft and lraud upon
the taxpayers of this county that you
promise to pass a law to abolish, and
you say that yosr threat to abolish
this enormous graft is the real cause
of the wilful and deliberate misrepre
sentation that has been done and is
boing done by the Oregon City
Courier and other newspapers who
want this 'graft out of the people.
That is to say. YOU ARB TOTALLY
UNABLE TO ARISE TO A PLAIN
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CHAS. V. CALLOWAY-Representa.
tive in Congress, 1st District.
WHERE IOU CAN CONCEIVE OF
ANY PUBLIO OK PKIVATE AO
TION OR EFFORT THAT IS NOT
ACTUATED BY THE EXPECTA
TION OF GRAFT OK'THE FEAR
THAT GRAFT WILL BE CUT OFF.
And herein as never before, you have
named your true measure.
Yon say you ' will repeal or amend
in a practical way, the present fire
permit law. From the manner in
which yon enumerate the things you
have done WHILE THE SENATE OF
OREGON SAT BY AND LOOKED
ON, one would iIiiuk that if you
wre opposed to this fire permit law
you could have prevented its passage.
You say yon will repeal or amend it
in a PRACTICAL way. Does that
PRACTICAL way mean in such man
ner as shall be satisfactory to the
large timber owners of the state?
These timher-owners weie at Salem
during the consideration of this law
with a long sack. Is it true, as has
been suggested, that at the next'E. Hedges, Mr.. Brownell's opponent
session of the legislature the longer
these timber-men's sack, the more
PRACTICAL will be your amend
ment of the fire permit ;law? And
talk about introducing or fighting
for a law to assess the railroads, that
are now assessed at $7000 a mile, at
$14,000 a mile, which you 6ay would
he somewhere hear fair and in pro
portion to what farmers. are assessed.
You have been in the senate for
tivolve years, during most ot which
time the railroad, to which yon refer,
instead of being assessed nt $1000 a
mile lias been assessed at about half
that sum. Did yoa not know then,
as well as you know now, that $14,
000 a mile would be somewlieie near
fair? Did you ever introduce andfight
for a law to raise these railroad as
sessments when it was about half
what it is now? When you were fixing
up such rank rot us this, bow many
out of the 5000 voters that you mailed
your , circular letter to did you expoct
to bo feeble-minded enough to be
deceived by this stuff?
Yon say: "Can you afford to turn
me down in face ot what I have
done," etc By this circular letter,
reekihg with falsehood , and misrep
reseniation, yoa have shown yourself
less worthy the support of deoent men
or of any kind of men that even your
career ot nislionor ;and deceit lias
shown yon. You appeal to tlio vot
ers to whom you send your circular
letter to not. beliovo everything that
they see about a man in the news
papers. Yon have never denied one
thing that has been said about you,
editorially 'or otherwise, in the Ore
gon City Courier If anything 1ms
heou said that you do not wish the ,
i people to believe, wl.y have you not!at
ui ,uu, m ... u yi;u .u.u-
mumcatiou or to private individuals !
denied it?
Next Monday is election day. It
the readers of The Courier will ox
cuse the wasto of space that this sub
ject has occasioned we will make this
tlio last offense. It is like shoot in
cherry birds with shells that cost six
hits a dozen wasting lots of powder
on very small game
WAGE-EARNERS AND FARMERS in his campaigns. His salary as State
MUST STAND TOGETHER. ; Senator is $120 a year. There is not
i another honest dollar to be made out
The men who labor for a daily wage of the office. Does he get back the
need and are gradually securing in ; immense sums he spends on his cam
Oregon legislation that tends toward j naigns? If so how? If he gets "graft"
the bettering of their condition. In-'out of the corporations he does some
telligent use of the ballot and nothing ! thing in the Legislature for them. Can
else will hasten the better day for the j
working man. To the men of this j
class, to whose notice ttiese lines may
come, let us speak honestly and rea-1
sonably. J
la the first place we must all agree i
that when labor makes a fight in the
legislature for a measure that it con
siders in its interest the opponents to
that measure nre the legislators who
represent large corporate Interests.
These corporate interests, the mills
and factories and railroads, are the
employers of labor. So it follows, as !
a rule, that the man who is closely
connected with these employers, . of
labor will not do the laboring man any
good in the Legislature.
A second proposition, which Is not
theoretical but a matter of experi
ence, is that such legislation favor
able to labor as has thus far been
secured has been gotten through men
in the legislature who represented ag
ricultural sections of the state. In oth
er words the legislator from the farm
ing community can nearly always be
depended on to favor legislation that
tends to establish a relation between
the employer and the employed where
in each has justice and neither can
gain an unfair advantage. There is a
natural bond of sympathy between the
agricultural element and the wage
earning element and this bond of
sympathy grows out of the fact that
both of these classes have to make a
common fight against the inclination
of organized capital to gain, in legis
lation, an unfair advantage over them.
Having In mind the foregoing, let
us consider the advisability of send
ing Geo. C. Brownell for a fourth term
to the Legislature. Without going in-
J. C. SAWYER-Justice, 4th District
to details to state the reasons why,
we all know that the agricultural sec
tions of Clackamas county do not want
him and will vote strongly against
him. He is depending on the commun
ities where there is a large labor vote
to overcome the Country majority
against him. Hence this appeal to the
working man to consider the true in
terest of labor and to vote with the
Country against the man who is real
ly and truly allied with the large cap
italistic institutions.
If you believe that Mr. Brownell
can be the representative of these in
stitutions and at the same time a loy
al supporter of the measures of legis
lation that would better the condition
of the'working man there Is no need
to consider the question further. But
if you believe Mr. Brownell when
he says he is not in any way connect
ed with these corporations then let
us look at that proposition in a rea
sonable way. In regard to the South
ern Pacific Co., when Oregon City
brought suit to determine the extent
of the Company's rights on Railroad
Avenue, Geo. C. Brownell was one of
the attorneys for the Railroad and J.
in the present campaign, was one of
the attorneys for Oregon City. When
one J. W. Wilson brought suit against
the same Railroad Company, Mr.
ELECT A DEMOCRAT
VOTE FOR BEATIE
AS COUNTY SHERIFF.
When Eli Maddock was Sher
iff the cost of the office to the
taxpayers was
$5478.72.
G. W. Grace's administration
cost the County
$3996.9.
The saving was
$1482.68.
J. J. Cooke's term of office
cost
$3674.82.
The saving over Maddock was
$1803.90.
The above statement was
published in the Oregon City
Courier October G, 1899. Fur
ther comment is unnecessary.
Brownell was attorney for the Com
pany. Mr. Brownell can not name
three cases to which this railroad
lias been a party in recent years in
which he has not assisted the head
Counsel of the Railroad Company to
the extent, at least, of taking part in
the selection of a jury. Mr. Brownell
.i.lmlrfpil in n repent sneech at Clacka-
maa tlint this mmnnnv had furnished.
nls request, more 'than a hundred
passes. He could have truthfully said
' ,,. . fhnnsn,, nn5SPS. nnd theSo
represented transportation of the val-
no ot thousands oi nouars. iow lei
your reason say whether Mr. Brownell
is affiliating with this Corporation.
He is more closely affiliated, if possi
ble, with the Oregon Water Power &
Electric Railway, and it would only
he consuming space needlessly to go
into details. '
I Mr. Brownell spends immense sums
that something possibly be in the in-
lorest of the laborer he loves so well.
Consult your reason.
Mr. Brownell promises laboring men
that if he be elected he will do gome-
thing for them in the Legislature. Has
he- done anything for labor in his V.
years' senatorial career that conflicted
with the wishes of the employers of
labor? If so, why should the "Port
land Labor Press," speaking editorial
ly of Mr. Brownell in the issue of
March 2d, last, say: "He plays the
game of politics with marked cards
arrf Is a corruptionist of the deepest
dye. Oregon has befcJi too long curs
ed wfC& such law-mal&ers as Brown
ell ; " and much more along this line. Do
you suppose this publication, run by
officers of the Portland Labor Unions
is mistaken about Mr. Brownell?
Mr. Brownell is a corporation tbol,
pure and simple. The farmers of
Clackamas, County finally know what
he is and they will have no more of
him. The wage-earners, in these last
12 years, should know what he is and
now is the time to dispose of him.
Any man who has lived In Clackamas
County two years knows that what Is
said here is an absolutely correct
statement of facts. You get what you
vote for. In the name of reason, don't
vote for corporation tools when you
know they are such and then complain
of capital's unfairness to labor.
THE
FELLOW-SERVANTS LAW.
This measure, passed at the legis
lative session of 1903, makes it pos
sible for employees of railroads to re
cover damages for injuries sustained
when the Railway company is re
sponsible for the accident, even if a
fellow-servant, that is, another em
ployee of the same road, is partially at
fault in the accident. Before the pas
sage of the law he injured person
could not recover damages if another
employee of the road was partially re
sponsible for his injury, This is the
loop-hole through which railroads and
other large employers of labor have
usually escaped payment of damages
for injuries to employees.
Mr. Brownell claims credit for the
passage of this law. Representatives
of the United Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers and the United Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen came
topregon City when Mr. Brownell
was making his campaign in 1902 and
stated in public addresses that had it
not been for Mr. Brownell's opposi
tion to this very measure in 1901, they
would have gotten it through the Leg-
toBjto te in the early stages of the
n . o .... 4.1 .u i irouuie.
en iu mo oeuuie iur moy nam utj was
the worst enemy that labdr ever had
in the Legislature. Mr. Brownell made
the laboring men the same old prom
ises of an eight-hour day that he had
been promising for more than eight
years and they believed in him and
said they would try him once more.
Same old result, nothing done but more
promises.
The next year after these represen
tatives of their unions were here the
Legislature, not with the aid but in
spite of the intrigue of Mr. Brownell,
passed the fellow-servants law.
Governor Geo. E. Chamberlain said
in his speech at Shlvely's Opera House
a few evenings ago, that he himself,
prepared the bill, working on it in his
spare time for several months, and
handed it to a member of the Legisla
ture from Southern Oregon who in
troduced it. That the very bill which
he prepared was passed with hardly
a change and that thi3 bill is the fellow-servants
law that passed the legis
lature. He ridiculed Mr. Brownell for
claiming credit for Its passage. Is
Mr. Chamberlain making false repre
sentations regarding the matter or is
Mr. Brownell?
The Senate Journal, page 390, shows
that the bill was introduced in the
lower house by a Representative from
Southern Oregon, passed the lower
house and came up to the Senate for
its action. That twenty-eight Sena-"
tors out of .the thirty members had
already voted in favor of the measure
when Senator Brownell, the last mem -
ber voting, voted for it. Had he vot-
ed against it the vote in the Senate
would have stood 29 for and one
against the measure. No one has
ever accused Mr. Brownell of keeping
out of the "band wagon after the
work is done.
The matter is not of importance at
this time except that it is just an ex
ample of Mr. Brownell's absolute disre
gard for the truth. We will refer Mr.
Brownell to the article published on
this page entitled "Roosevelt on Ly
ing." EARLY STAGE OF TROUBLE.
The campaign has already had an
amusing incident. In an effort to
make sentiment against his opponent,
Dr. Withycombe has made an attack
on Governor Chamberlain with refer
ence to the "Million Dollar" appropri
ation bill. The Doctor says the Gov
ernor ought to have vetoed it so, the
legislature would have corrected it.
Unfortunately for the Doctor's theory
it develops that the passage of the
big appropriation bill was the last im
portant act of the late legislature,
and that the bill did not . reach the
Governor until three days after ad
journment. The date of its passage
was February 17th. After that it went
through the usual routine of engross-
PROSPERITY
.WW'. 'B
Dates from the first dollar saved. Per
haps the best reason for saving money
is, that practically nothing can be ac
complished without it. You must have
it to start you in business, to furnish
your home, to educate your children, to
protect you against sickness or misfor
tune, and to provide for j-ou a comfort
able, independent old age.
MAKE YOUR START TODAY.
DO IT NOW.
The
Bank of Oregon Ciiy
ment, etc., and was finally filed by
the chief clerk with the'Governor Feb
ruary 20th. This point the Doctor had
overlooked, a,nd his indescretion got
him Into the position of urging that
Governor Chamberlain should have
vetoed the bill before it was passed.
As a vetoer, Governor Chamberlain
has been a "cracker-jack" having in
a single term knocked out 29 bills car
rying several hundred thousands of
useless appropriations; but it has re
mained for Dr. Withycombe to as
cribe to the Governor the transcend
ent genius of being able to veto a
bill before the legislature had passed
it.
Chamberlain did exactly the thing
he onght to have done with the "Mil
lion Dollar" appropriation bill: Here
was the situation: The legislative ses
sion was expiring, and the monstrous
bill was stil! in the Senate with the
emergency clause attached, which
clause forbade the Deonle from bddIv-
'ing the referendum. The Governor
sent in a message that secured the
omission of the emergency clanse. He
could not veto the bill because it was
not then passed. He did, however,
secure omission of the emergency
clause, and thereby opened the way
for the people to show their disap
proval of the bill by Invoking the ref
erendum. Referendum it, they did,
and thereby showed their approval of
the Governor's action.
Dr. Withycombe's attack can only
result In a loss of votes to himself. He
is . the original and perhaps the only
man In Oregon to advance the idea
that it is the duty of a Governor to
veto a bill before the legislature has
passed it. His utterances on the sub
ject give rise to the query, will the
Doctor if elected Governor wait for
bills to become laws before he uses
the veto, or will he send in hla veto
messages while the members of the
two houses are still engaged in, the
solemn ' deliberations over measures.'
Perhaps it is his purpose if elected,
to handle the legislators in the same
way horses are handled, and that is
Justice Hailey of the Supreme Court
is the first and only member of that
Court from Eastern Oregon. His ap
pointment was generally approved by
the bar and the people of the state,
and his services upon the bench have
been satisfactory, and it is justly due
to him and Eastern Oregon from
whence he came that he should be
continued upon the bench.
Do you elect your lawyer or doc
tor because of his politics? If not, then
why elect a judge because of his poli
tics? Everybody concedes that Judge
Hailey of the Supreme Court Is able,
qualified and satisfactory, then why
not re-elect him?
ROOSEVELT ON LYING.
(Compiled by the N. Y. World from
the President's writings and speech
es.) The liar is no whit better than the
thief.
It puts a premium, upon knavery
untruthfully to attack an honest man
or even with hysterical exaggeration
to assail a bad man with untruth.
The man who with stern sobriety
and truth assail the many evils of our
times are the leaders.
The soul of every scoundrel is glad
dened whenever an honest man is as
sailed or even when a scoundrel is
; untruthfully assailed.
1 In the long run the most unpleasant
j truth is a safer companion than a
pleasant falsehood,
j You can pardon most anything In a
man who will tell the truth, because
you know where that man is; you
. know what he means.
If any one lies, if he has the habit of
untruthfulness, you cannot deal with
him, because there is nothing to de
pend on.
Truth-telling is a virtue upon which
we should not only insist in the1
schools and at home, but in business
and in politics just as much.
The business man or politician who
does not tell the truth, cheats; and
for the cheat we should have no use
in any walk of life.
We need in our public life, as in our
private life, the virtues that every
one could practise if he would.
I do not believe in a bluff. I feel
about a nation as we all say about a
man: Let him not say anything that
he cannot make good, and having said
it, let him make it good.
Nothing can make good citizenship
in men who have not got in them cour
age, hardihood, decency, sanity, the
spirit of truth-telling and truth-seeking."
We must have honest, fearless and
able administration a square deal
for every man great or small, rich or
poor.