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 THE WORLD'S FAMOUS ORATIONS

has popular government and popular industry ; for the effects of a generous civil liberty are not seen a whit more plainly in the good order, in the intelligence, and in the virtue of a self-gov- erning people, than in their amazing enterprise and the scope and power of their creative in- dustry. The power to create riches is just as much a part of the Anglo-Saxon virtues as the power to create good order and social safety. The things required for prosperous labor, pros- perous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three : first, liberty ; secondly, liberty ; thirdly, liberty — but these are not merely the same lib- erty, as I shall show you.

First, there must be liberty to follow those laws of business which experience has developed, without imposts or restrictions, or governmental intrusions. Business simply wants to be let alone. ["Hear, hear!"]

Then, secondly, there must be liberty to dis- tribute and exchange products of industry in any market without burdensome tariffs, without imposts, and without vexatious regulations. There must be these two liberties — liberty to create wealth, as the makers of it think best ac- cording to the light and experience which busi- ness has given them ; and then liberty to distrib- ute what they have created without unnecessary vexatious burdens. The comprehensive law of the ideal industrial condition of the world is free manufacture and free trade. ["Hear, hear!" A voice, "The Murrill tariff."]

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