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 of his State, a rail-splitter to become President of the republic; not because he was a clerk, a section hand, a farm boy or a rail-splitter, but because he developed body, mind and character sufficient to make him worthy of such responsibility.

All employes in this country, for their own sake and the good of posterity, should uphold the rights of person and the rights of property as sacred.

Women who are taking on the added duties of citizenship should be the last to encourage departures from the republic. As one who has consistently championed the cause of equal suffrage for twenty-four years and did it fearlessly when it was less popular than now, I have been chagrined during recent years at the manner in which some women have urged dangerous experiments and applauded the fallacies of the flattering demagogue. Women should remember that the republic was the first form of government under which they were permitted to enter colleges and universities and enjoy the rights of property and the rights of person.

Excessive and foolish legislation will not bring the millennium, nor can the government successfully assume the functions of the home, the school or the church. Women should be less