Remarks in Osawatomie, Kansas: The New Nationalism
08/30/1910
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It deserves, and should have, the widest possible distribution among the people.
The noncompetitive examination in a case like this is not only vicious, but is in effect a fraud upon the public.
We know now that our mineral resources once exhausted are gone forever.
We know now that our rivers can and should be made to serve our people effectively in transportation.