Do not misunderstand me.
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Remarks in Walla Walla, Washington
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I wish to say that the Progressive Party is making its appeal to all our fellow citizens without any regard to their creed or to their birthplace.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.
Every special interest is entitled to justice—full, fair, and complete—and, now, mind you, if there were any attempt by mob-violence to plunder and work harm to the special interest, whatever it may be, that I most dislike, and the wealthy man, whomsoever he may be, for whom I have the greatest contempt, I would fight for him, and you would if you were worth your salt.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.





