We have passed through all the dangers of the navigation of the river.
I am delighted to be present.
I am very sure that the Speaker of the House...is charged with a deep responsibility in regard to this great question.
I mention you last because you are the most important.
It is a great pleasure to meet the people of St. Louis in this magnificent structure.
If you will give me a little quiet and a little time, I will bring that voice back from Texas.
That electricity can be most cheaply produced by water power.
There would seem to be no reason why we should change the mode of disposing of agricultural land.
We are on the eve of a great journey down the Mississippi River, and cursed be he who calls it a junket!
Let every project stand on its own bottom.
I like an optimist, and I like to sit next to one, and I like an optimist in a prince of the church, too.
I think we are going to find that possible in the spirit which, I may say without invidious implication, is present here to-night—the spirit...
The Bishop says you would like a little help.
I am going to say to you what comes out of my heart—that I thank you for your very cordial reception.
If they are not optimists, we ought to give up altogether.
With respect to the boll-weevil and the green fly, they come within the general welfare clause, and we are doing the best we can.
I congratulate the gentlemen of Dallas and of North Texas on their representative for this evening.
We have not taken the steps that ought to be taken, but which doubtless will be, following the model of the general Government by the State ...
