This government cannot and shall not become a government either of a plutocracy or of a mob.

And think how absolutely the event has falsified the predictions of those men.

I am absolutely confident of the future, not only of this State, but of our entire country.

I am happy to say that during the last year or two the National Legislature has begun to realize its responsibilities in reference to Alaska;

The republics of antiquity and of the middle ages all failed and almost invariably because a bitter factional war began among them.

I earnestly hope that Congress will speedily provide for a delegate from Alaska,

Very few European races have exercised a more profound influence upon Europe, and none has had a more heroic history, than the race occupying the Scandinavian countries of the Old World.

Phenomenal though your growth has been, it has barely begun.

Stand just as quiet as possible; do not sway; just stand as quiet as possible.

I am anxious that our laws should be framed in the interest of those who intend to go there and stay there and bring up their children there and make it in very fact as well as in name an integral part of this Republic.

There is no other body of water in the world which confers upon the commonwealth possessing it quite the natural advantages that Puget Sound confers upon this State; and there is no other State in the Union, and I include all of them, which has greater natural advantages and a more assured future of greatness than this State of Washington.

I confess I am for the moment a little surprised at the aspect of so many of the Alaskan pioneers.

We do not know the cost, but we know it will be more than repaid ten times over by the result;

I am a pretty good Westerner; I am accustomed to seeing extraordinary growth, but what I have seen today has astonished me.

It is not open to you to say that you will or will not make that return as you choose.

We need to have built upon it the kind of life which will give to the citizenship of the community the chance of developing itself along the loftiest lines.

The spirit of class hatred is as base if it takes one shape as if it takes the other.

I do not believe that even you yourselves realize how great the future is that stretches before this country.