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Surely in speaking to the sons of the men who actually did the rough and hard and infinitely glorious work of making the great Northwest what it now is, I need hardly insist upon the righteousness of this doctrine.
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Roosevelt addresses the audience's connection to the pioneering legacy and the righteousness of hard work.
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